We got wonderful seats and went to the Inaugural Ball. Then I got to know Harry Truman. One of the pieces that I like best is about the first Nixon inauguration. There was a sense of skill here, a wonderment that the dark-skinned lady in charge of the sizzling grill knew precisely what she was doing every single moment with her patties of meat. That to me is America.
People get up every day and do their jobs.
It was fabulous just to watch somebody do their job. Life isn't Sam Donaldson, George Stephanopoulos, punditry. Life is work. People doing their jobs. I wrote about both the Democratic and the Republican conventions in 1952.