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" But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent. "
Sam Donaldson
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" But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. "
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