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" People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. "
Tom Brokaw
Beginning
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Right
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" My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing. "
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" When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials. "
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" I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions. "
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" Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?' "
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" The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved. "
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" Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters. "
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Earth
Three
" There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins. "
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" In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise. "
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Way
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" In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers. "
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" I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life. "
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" In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private. "
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" I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South. "
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