My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.