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Well, it did excite my interest in not being on the criminal side, i mean, put it that way. there was crime all around, and i had made up my mind early that i didn't want to be a cowboy, and i didn't want to be a fireman, ididn't want to be a crook, either. and that sort of much left me to go to the law, and i have focused on that ever since. after you graduated from harvard law school in 1943, you joined the us military and joined a battalion preparing for the invasion of france. what are your key recollections of that time? i enlisted wherever i could get into the army, and i was a buck priv...

I enlisted wherever i could get into the army, and i was a buck private, the lowest rain you can get, assigned to be in the artillery battalion. in that capacity, we landed on the beaches of normandy. france was occupied by the germans. the only to move the war forward, to get rid of the war was to defeat the germans. i sailed from lands end, the tip of england, across to omaha beach, which was still, er, had been cleared by the time i got there a bit, but there were many soldiers in american uniforms still lying in the sea, face down. there were many armoured vehicle still in the water, and w...

Night. we bring you what his perfect presidential kaed will look like. we start in libya tonight. richard engel is in benghazi tonight following all the developments. richard, the opposition has had a pretty good set of 48 hours. that's been clear, just watching your reporting. the progress that they made. what is the latest? where are they -- how successful have they been at pushing gadhafi's troops back? >> reporter: they've been very successful the last 48 hours because they didn't have to push gadhafi's forces anywhere. they had already been pushed out of the way, defeated or forced to d...