TV news is not very instructive.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

This is exciting news, as yet I have not met Simon but looking at his track record I am sure he will be a good asset to our team. The Atlantic Series is an extension of my dream to build Team Australia into a strong racing franchise.