Before the Colors Fade
Before the Colors Fade
ISBN: 9780394504803
定价: 115.00
内容简介
I AM THE CORRESPONDENT who worked for both Fred
Friendly and Roone Arledge, which is a little bit like
having served under both Napoleon and Custer. I came east
in the summer of i956 to join CBS News, spent seven and a
half years at ABC, and in the fall of I98I I am back with
CBS News. At this point in time, to steal a phrase from
John Dean, I am still working, still, by most medical
standards, reasonably non-senile. I have done and can do
every job in television news except to be an executive like
Friendly or Arledge, and I came close to that once. I have
interviewed Orval Faubus and Leila Khaled, the Palestinian
terrorist, and the Duke of Windsor, and an obnoxious Indian
named Krishna Menon. I knew Dwight Eisenhower and
Lyndon Johnson well, John Kennedy not well, and Richard
Nixon as well as I wanted to.
Those random notes are intended to be like the opening