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Christine Brennan: A Writer’s Writer
There are writers. And then there are writers. I’m a writer. Most who sit at a computer, whether they’re a monthly blogger in Kansas or a twice-weekly columnist for a major newspaper in New York City, rarely rise to the level of italics. However, when we’re discussing, say, Mitch Albom or Michael Wilbon – they’re writers. That class of writer is [...]
Jay Wilkinson: Dear Jay, Love Dad (audio)
Bud Wilkinson was one of the most prolific college football coaches of all time. With a record of 145-29-4, three national championships, 14 Big 8 championships and inclusion into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969, he did for Oklahoma football what John Wooden did for UCLA basketball and Bear Bryant did for Alabama football. The [...]
Andrew Young on Martin Luther King, Jr. (audio)
Andrew Young was there. In Birmingham, in Selma, in Memphis… he was there. He watched history in the making. Thinking about him over the years, that’s what I’d say when his name would come up in discussion. Shortly before Mr. Young came on my program I told a WDAY colleague, “Andrew Young is a connection to [...]
Clint Hill: Before, During and After November 22, 1963 (audio)
Clint Hill is a native of Larimore, ND, born in 1932. 17 days after his birth he was dropped off at the North Dakota Children’s Home. Growing up in Washburn, ND, he later attended and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Shortly thereafter he enlisted in the Army and was selected for Army Intelligence School. After graduating, [...]
Bob Woodward: Watergate, Belushi, Obama and More (audio)
About the time I entered high school in suburban Philadelphia, a young reporter for The Washington Post named Bob Woodward, working with Carl Bernstein, began reporting on the Watergate scandal. They turned the political and journalism world upside down with what turned out to be perhaps the greatest journalistic effort in history. Catching up with Bob we [...]
Jeffrey Sachs: The Price of Civilization (audio)
Jeffrey Sachs is widely considered to be the leading economist in the world. Twice he’s been Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and was named to the TIME Magazine 100 list of most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2005. A New York Times bestselling author, we had a chance to catch up [...]
Women: The Power that Transforms
Let me get this out of the way right at the top: I’ve been together with my wife 19 years with this July marking our 15th wedding anniversary. I could not be a happier married man. I have two healthy, beautiful daughters… ok, you’re thinking there’s a “but” coming. There is, though it has absolutely [...]
