CSPAN Washington This Week November 2, 2014
Im from new york and im a heathen from television. But in 1973 i was a young correspondent assigned to cover the white house and water gate and modestly i thought i brought with me a pretty good reputation as a political reporter in california. I had covered the rise of ronald reagan. In 1968 Eugene Mccarthy and Bobby Kennedy, the night that Bobby Kennedy was killed is seared in my memory, chicago and cesar chavez, the antiwar movement, the nixon fundraising apparatus. But in washington there was a lot of except six about whether i was skepticism about whether i was up for the job. After a mon...