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Amount of influence that you have with your column, with "special report," that you heart or see things that happened as a result of a column or statement? do you ever think about it? >> i think about it and i find it worrisome. the reason is that when i was totally unknown, i did anything i damn well please. >> comingas up, power players ad power hitters, from the all-star panel to the ballpark in eight minutes flat.

Blank. >> left it blank?el >> but if i had been the swingbl vote, i would have obviously haw voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. >> just a few months after the election, i wrote something called reagan doctrine. >> it was a time magazine column and it was provocative. for a while, he had praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of th...

I was pretty hard line on the soviets. its hard for people to believe now, but the democratic partypep had a very powerful wing that was very anti-soviet. >> but those democrats were aepr dying breed and charles krauthammer found himself agreeing more with president reagan than with his liberal readers. >> i ended up supporting almost every element of the reagan policy and boy, did we get reaction from our liberal readers. i wrote one editorial excoriated the nuclear freeze that caused? the larg...

Baseball. >> okay. this is unfortunate matchup. the only reason solano is in there, hes the back up catcher. he doesnt hit very well.t >> no, no, no. >> from time to time, charles writes about baseball. typically in a way that transcends the sport. take his column about rick ankiel, a 21-year-old pitching phenom who fell apart when picked to play a playoff game. with a huge audience e suddenly couldnt throw a strike. he never pitched the same again. but instead of quitting, ankiel went back down...