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Tom Brokaw
American
Journalist
Born:
Feb 6
,
1940
Family
Life
Me
People
Political
You
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw
Life
Good
Me
You
Change
World
Degree
Think
Change The World
Good Life
Ticket
Alternative
Educated
May
Graduation
Ask
Your
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
Tom Brokaw
Depression
Great
Generation
First
Everything
Great Depression
Jobs
Shared
Greatest
Greatest Generation
Clothing
Formed
Meals
My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.
Tom Brokaw
Hope
Me
Class
Strong
Political
Country
Differences
Gone
Critical
Critical Mass
Would
About
Seem
Civility
Mass
Importance
Most
Call
Does
Dialogue
Left
Begin
Political Spectrum
Across
Professional
Believes
Right
Spectrum
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
Tom Brokaw
Life
Depression
Time
Great
Age
Everyday Life
Sacrifice
Enough
Everyday
Great Depression
Dream
Would
Easy
About
Economic
Unrelenting
Fade
Came
Were
Been
Conditions
American
American Dream
Deprivation
Grandparents
Your
Away
Grave
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
Tom Brokaw
Culture
Financial
Too Much
Become
Lost
Greed
Society
Too
Our
Way
Excess
Allowed
Absorb
Consumption
Became
Pillars
Moderation
Much
Twin
Utterly
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.
Tom Brokaw
Old
College
Spirit
Part
Adventurous
Midwest
Across
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
Tom Brokaw
Work
Together
People
Political
Our
Everywhere
System
Folks
Main
Main Street
Go
Wall
Wall Street
Political System
Happened
Work Together
Ask
Washington
Why
Street
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
Tom Brokaw
Great
Me
Rights
Memory
Courage
People
Doctor
Dark
Light
Doctors
Young
Interviews
Those
Memorable
Borders
Folks
Kinds
Civil
Somalia
Civil Rights
Leaders
Tent
Town
Names
Know
Most
Operating
Without
South
Linger
Walked
Working
Your
Showing
Whose
Night
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
Success
Marriage
World
Stars
Books
Presidents
Super
Best-Seller
Super Bowls
Generals
Had
Long-Running
Bowls
Industry
Rock
Rock Stars
Been
Front
Lists
Famous
Movie
Movie Stars
Games
Series
Seats
Row
World Series
Olympic
Olympic Games
Royalty
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
World
Cancer
Patient
Uncertainty
Learned
Parts
Deal
Diagnosis
Quickly
After
Many
Good Deal
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
War
Time
Day
Political
Calm
Before
Innocence
Summer
Seems
Both
Unsettling
Over
Like
Also
Retrospect
Climate
Still
Cultural
Ferocious
American
Storm
Which
Midwest
Vietnam
Early
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
School
Down
High
High School
Feet
Bang
Six
Then
Played
Basketball
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
Tom Brokaw
Words
Brilliant
Country
Few
Broadcast
Say
Crisis
Triumph
Could
David
Writer
Journalism
Hear
Tragedy
Times
Modern
Icon
Who
Needed
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
Watergate
Unknown
Say
Pretty
Part
Wrong
Well
Because
Came
Go
West
Covering
Did
Hard
Washington
Started
I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.
Tom Brokaw
Education
History
Science
Political
Economics
Big
Understanding
Liberal
Liberal Arts
Those
Except
Write
Journalism
Schools
Learn
Around
Big Fan
Political Science
Arts
Arts Education
Fan
Then
Organized
Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.
Tom Brokaw
Culture
Doctor
Language
Enter
Ancient
Visitor
Temple
Mysterious
Hospital
Most
Were
Office
Common
Representing
Patients
We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.
Tom Brokaw
World
Three
Become
Nation
Live
Too
State
Our
Vocabulary
Attacks
Part
Islamic
Terror
Iraq
Familiar
America
Afghanistan
Where
Which
Against
Wars
Al-Qaeda
John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
Tom Brokaw
Man
Political
Thought
Rest
Single
Gone
Define
Would
John
John F. Kennedy
Had
Ideal
Days
Single Moment
Senseless
Moment
Suddenly
Kennedy
Violence
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
Tom Brokaw
News
Political
Internet
Think
Dan
Dan Rather
Jihad
Kind
Rather
Outrageous
Highly
Going
Quite
Against
Inappropriate
Across
Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
Tom Brokaw
Percent
Cable
Audiences
American
American Audiences
Now
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
Tom Brokaw
Day
Events
End Of The Day
Big
Kind
Give
Put
Context
End
Form
Them
Deserve
Coherent
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Tom Brokaw
Today
News
Family
People
Young
Military
Think
Way
More
Part
Attention
Because
Issues
Lot
Friends
Young People
Paying
Now
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
Tom Brokaw
Best
People
Obligation
Important
Young
Our
Those
Network
Remains
Piece
Make
Sure
How
Fit
Where
Young People
Capitalize
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
Tom Brokaw
Good
Business
Fickle
TV
Only
Contract
Length
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
Tom Brokaw
Three
Style
Our
Seemed
Had
He
Prince
Timeless
Us
Peter
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
Tom Brokaw
Changing
Way
Churches
Worships
Has-Been
Attendance
Traditional
Been
Decades
America
Movement
While
Declining
Evangelical
Growing
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