We had hoped that he would be here so that we could have a reunion tonight ? a celebration.

We were very, very fortunate tonight.

We have a shot to make the playoffs, which is where we hoped to be. Looking back at early November, I thought we had some talent, but it was the same old question as every year, will they come together?

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

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.

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.