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Champion of liberty award from the Goldwater Institute among many, many others. . 1986, the wall street journal called him perhaps the most powerful journalist in america and the Chicago Tribune has dubbed him americas leading poet of baseball. For me, three things stand out above and beyond his innumerable intellectual contributions and accolades. First is his television fame. I refer here not to fox news or his incredible run on the abc sunday talk show this week, although i must say i learned a lot about how to think like a lawyer from watching him on that show on sundays in the 1980s and 9...

Meeting. And i had the luxury of time, two fulltime assistants. We looked at all the contemporary coverage of the pardon, got all the memoirs, got the legal memos from the ford library. I kept going back to interview ford. And to try to piece together what happened. I interviewed him in colorado a number of times, where he had a home, and many times at his main home at rancho mirage, california. I remember the last interview asking him, why did you pardon nixon . He said, you keep asking that question. I said, but i dont think youve answered it. And then he said, astonishingly, ok, im going to...

And obama said im sympathetic to this. He said go read my nobel prize acceptance speech. I had seen the nobel prize acceptance speech. Ever seen something and read it and not understood it . Well, it happens to me too often. So i went home and got out the speech. And there, in plain english, obama says, yeah, wars sometimes necessary, but then he said it is always an expression and manifestation of human folly. And i realized at that point he just does not like war. And the problem is, when you are involved in a war as commander in chief, youve got to really be tough. A couple of years ago, i ...

It was exactly in the tradition of my brothers book profiles in courage. And then gerald ford got up and talked about partial vindication. I remember watching this and thinking here i was convinced it was an act of maximum corruption, that the pardon was. And then it is examined many years later, dispassionately. And what looked like corruption actually is an act of courage. And that is sobering for somebody in my business. You can say, oh, yeah, this is the following this war made no sense. This was a good war and so forth. And the decades go by and it may look quite differently. Jimmy carter...

Welcome to the cbs overnight news, im elaine quijano. Hermine gaining strength and threatening to become a hurricane. The slowmoving system already killed at least two people including a homeless man hit by a falling tree in florida and a truck driver blown off the road in North Carolina. Storm warnings and watches are posted along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to massachusetts. Our correspondent is on the jersey shore. Reporter after mowing through florida as a hurricane, Tropical Storm hermine chewed the coast of georgia and carolina saturday bringing heavy rains and punishing wind....