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Tom Brokaw
Profession : Journalist
Birth : February 6, 1940
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I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!
Tom Brokaw
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 different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.
Tom Brokaw
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
Tom Brokaw
We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
Tom Brokaw
Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.
Tom Brokaw
In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others.
Tom Brokaw
I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.
Tom Brokaw
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.
Tom Brokaw
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.
Tom Brokaw
My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.
Tom Brokaw
My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.
Tom Brokaw
During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.
Tom Brokaw
In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.
Tom Brokaw
Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.
Tom Brokaw
The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.
Tom Brokaw
When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?
Tom Brokaw
Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.
Tom Brokaw
Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.
Tom Brokaw
You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love.
Tom Brokaw
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.
Tom Brokaw
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