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"he quite simply willed himself omto accomplish things that most people would see as impossible. that was a great lesson of his example. to build the life that you want, that you intend. don't be defined by what life throws at you, and youth cannot control. except to the hand you are dealt with grace, and then go on to play that hand as joyously and industriously, and vigorously as you can." >> bret: like his father, daniel attended harvard and oxford, and stanford too. he has work to stands in hollywood, silicon valley, and government, but putting his life on hold to care for his dad finished...

♪ >> bret: when charles krauthammer died last summer, daniel krauthammer inherited the job of completing the book his father left unfinished. charles 'previous book "things that matter" was a huge best seller. the point of it all would be the final word from the influential writer and commentator. daniel wondered if he was up to the task. >> the point of i -- "the point of it all" started as his next collection, he also had a book on foreign policy in big nideas he was working on. those two projects he was moving away with when his health crisis struck. but as things were getting better, and...

Was nice, and then when he was one, i wrote one on his first birthday. and then i realized i am never going to do this again. this is using him, this is going to be his vision of his self through my eyes. and i simply won't do it. so rather than a reference to him here or there, i never wrote about them again, ever. two things in 28 years. i'm not a touchy, feeley guy. that's probably why i quit psychiatry. if you are not in the feelings and emotions and all the back story, then you ought to be doing something else. >> bret: you see that we had to cut the camera in the middle, hbecause he did ...

Colors in the right place. each time he moved one, a peace move. because the book is so expensive and cover so many topics. everything from baseball, chess, politics, life, fatherhood. it all needed to have an underlying tissue and core that ran through the whole thing. >> bret: daniel explains the court in the introduction to "the point of it all." >> "what is the point of it all, our life, the existence appeared are vast complex of humanity. politics should not say. keeping politics out of it was the point of my father's life work. individuals must find their own meaning." >> bret: he did no...

Charles krauthammer making his point. our friend and colleague passed away six months ago leaving behind his wife robin and sonav daniel. charles had been working on a book called the point of it all. he asked his son to finish it. i was surprised at how the book begins considering it is a topic charles did not want to talk about when i interviewed him a few years back. is there a way that we can talk about your family and being married, you are happily married, you have a kid. you don't want to do that at all? >> it is an interesting topic, but i have never done it. 2 million words, and you d...