In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
“postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
