[His wife, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, and event planner Carolyn Peachey were chatting about his pending retirement in January.] You know, he's not going to have a car, ... He hasn't driven for 18 years. |
All Eyes on Washington. |
Frankly, I don't think it was luck. I must have made 100 phone calls. |
He likes to be challenged by intelligent people. |
He spent his entire adult life trying to understand how the economy is organized, and he's not going to stop now. |
He thought the whole thing was so funny. |
I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all. |
I was stricken. I think that was his honest response, unfiltered by the conventions of Washington and the corridors of the Senate. |
It hurts all the time, as anyone with a torn rotator cuff knows. |
It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies. |
Jesse Helms looked at me, smiled and said, 'That's good,' |
On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12, |
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter. |
Talking Back...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels |
the White House pit bull. |