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Post. solve hit a double the first time out. >> how many people have you heard of who become giants of journalism just by sending a piece to a magazine like the new republic. that's what charles did. >> then i went through another stage. i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale. i joined him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking about the job. he said, you know, he mentioned the third speech writer had quit. i thought well, i migh...

Law. there was this one psychiatrist who was charles. and we arranged for him to come to lunch. >> so i went down to see mike. he interviewed me and he said can you show me a writing sample i said unfortunately i can't. i have never written anything. when i was a psychiatrist, and you discharged a patient you write a discharge summary. the first time did i a discharge summary it came out looking like it was written in chinese. i had to rewrite the whole thing. after one or two or three or four. i would dictate, this is 3,000 words in one go. as long as i had it in my head where i was going wit...

Time out. >> how many people have you heard of who become giants of journalism just by sending a piece to a magazine like the new republic. that's what charles did. >> then i went through another stage. i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale. i joined him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking about the job. he said, you know, he mentioned the third speech writer had quit. i thought well, i might be interested. i said well, maybe...

I had begun to change. >> what happened? >> empirical evidence. as a doctor, i'd been trained in empirical evidence. i mean, if the treatment is killing your patients, you stop the treatment. and i began to look and to read and to think about whether the view i had of a social democratic society like they had in europe was the right way, and i sort of -- i moved gradually to the idea of a more limited society, smaller government. >> by that time, krauthammer's world was really falling into place. in 1985, his son daniel was born. two years later, krauthammer won the biggest honor in print jour...

And then by the end of the '80s, i had begun to change. >> what happened? >> empirical evidence. as a doctor, i'd been trained in empirical evidence. i mean, if the treatment is killing your patients, you stop the treatment. and i began to look and to read and to think about whether the view i had of a social democratic society like they had in europe was the right way, and i sort of -- i moved gradually to the idea of a more limited society, smaller government. >> by that time, krauthammer's world was really falling into place. in 1985, his son daniel was born. two years later, krauthammer wo...