May 1972 News Today

A new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kissandtell. Its a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prizewinning columnist. Or maybe its more than that. Are you decoding my book . I am decoding it right now. Like its entirely about me. [ laughs ] but its all written in hieroglyphics. Well, its not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. Lets start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. And in there, the first column is really...

And loud. >> i accept what you say as long as you put in the role of technology. but youve set up something that i just want to read in our closing moment. my favorite column, among the 6,000 youve authored and i think ive read most of them begins -- doesnt begin. but contains this, the day after john was born, a doctor told johns parents that the first question for them is whether they intended to take john home from the hospital, nonplussed, they said they thought that is what parents do with ...

♪ >> welcome back to "fox news reporting." so far, youve met the young charles krauthammer, harvard medicine, class of 75. his life seemed to be going according to plan, but then no life ever really does. this snapshot was taken in may 1972. it shows a strapping 61" charles krauthammer standing on the beach. its the confident smile of a young man well on his way to making it -- smart, athletic, handsome, driven, the future all his. >> that was spring break in my first year in medical school. i...

♪ >> welcome back to "fox news reporting." so far, youve met the young charles krauthammer, harvard medicine, class of 75. his life seemed to be going according to plan, but then no life ever really does. this snapshot was taken in may 1972. it shows a strapping 61" charles krauthammer standing on the beach. its the confident smile of a young man well on his way to making it -- smart, athletic, handsome, driven, the future all his. >> that was spring break in my first year in medical school. i...

♪ >> welcome back to "fox news reporting." so far, youve met the young charles krauthammer, harvard medicine, class of 75. his life seemed to be going according to plan, but then no life ever really does. this snapshot was taken in may 1972. it shows a strapping 61" charles krauthammer standing on the beach. its the confident smile of a young man well on his way to making it -- smart, athletic, handsome, driven, the future all his. >> that was spring break in my first year in medical school. i...

The announcement i shall now read is being issued simultaneously in peking and in the united states. the premier, on behalf of the government of the peoples republic of china, has extended an invitation to president nixon to visit china at an appropriate date before may, 1972. president nixon has accepted the invitation with pleasure. ♪ >> every two decades, the president of the united states has been presented to the chinese people as the arch enemy. personification of hated capitalism and im...

♪ >> welcome back to "fox news reporting." so far, youve met the young charles krauthammer, harvard medicine, class of 75. his life seemed to be going according to plan, but then no life ever really does. this snapshot was taken in may 1972. it shows a strapping 61" charles krauthammer standing on the beach. its the confident smile of a young man well on his way to making it -- smart, athletic, handsome, driven, the future all his. >> that was spring break in my first year in medical school. i...

♪ >> welcome back to "fox news reporting." so far, youve met the young charles krauthammer, harvard medicine, class of 75. his life seemed to be going according to plan, but then no life ever really does. this snapshot was taken in may 1972. it shows a strapping 61" charles krauthammer standing on the beach. its the confident smile of a young man well on his way to making it -- smart, athletic, handsome, driven, the future all his. >> that was spring break in my first year in medical school. i...

He was the prototypical nixon loyalist. make him fbi director? its no wonder democrats at the time were a little uneasy about his appointment as acting fbi director, may 1972 since the president made the announcement he didnt need to be confirmed. quote, mr. gray will serve until after november 7th according to the white house because the president doesnt want the appointment to become involved in partisan politics in an election year. wouldnt want it to be at all political so were going to appo...

He later works at the civil division at the department of justice. he had a ton of nixon administration jobs but he was a close personal friend of president nixon. he was the prototypical nixon loyalist. make him fbi director? its no wonder democrats at the time were a little uneasy about his appointment as acting fbi director, may 1972 since the president made the announcement he didnt need to be confirmed. quote, mr. gray will serve until after november 7th according to the white house because...