The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
