I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished. Tom Brokaw More Quotes by Tom Brokaw More Quotes From Tom Brokaw I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. Tom Brokaw marriage stars success world 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 me car family mother What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty. Tom Brokaw good uncertainty patient world In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war. Tom Brokaw day storm time war I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9. Tom Brokaw down high-school feet school When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. Tom Brokaw small-towns read small mockingbird I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong. Tom Brokaw wrong say go hard
