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Tom Brokaw

American Journalist

Born: Feb 6, 1940

Family Life Me People Political You

Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

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

Work Hope Day Post Better School Mother Father College Earned Local High Post Office High School No Hope Ten Had Hour She Doing Dollar Than Office Graduated Sixteen Grain Cents Working Who Nearby Elevator Her

In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private. Tom Brokaw

Man He Also Ford Private Public

You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love. Tom Brokaw

Love You Will Google Fall Get Alert

In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise. Tom Brokaw

Peace Dog Will President Way Promise Obama Critics Admirers One-Way About Nobel Nobel Peace Prize Him Another Continue His Accomplishments Prize Ceremony Doubts Even Oslo

Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck. Tom Brokaw

Construction Sorry White Say Pretty Had Towns Because Redneck Came Were South Lot Them Workers Who Lived Number

As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness. Tom Brokaw

Women Light Debate Girl Three Parents Young Living Society Late Seventies About Rising California How Females Dialogue Commentary Sixties Place Help Aware Level Consciousness Early Raise Raised

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters. Tom Brokaw

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men. Tom Brokaw

Age Women Equality School Men Gender Our Kindergarten About Rising Area Daughters Through Throughout Take School Years Mostly Coming Coming Of Age Were Years Graduate Graduate School Places Reserved Consciousness Starting

In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less. Tom Brokaw

Doctor Father Job Television Station Tell Week Could Had Feel Because Making Dollars Salary Get Reporter Less Omaha

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. Tom Brokaw

You Kiss First Universe Guided Poets Mysterious Emotion First Kiss Still Condition Effort Unending Essential May Human Irreplaceable Artists Psychiatrists Cannot Human Condition Engines Describe Search Search Engines Compete Biologists

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s. Tom Brokaw

Gay Strong Word Feeling National Own Sense Later Liberation Strong Feeling My Own Attraction Got Truest Movement Really

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. Tom Brokaw

People Beginning Doubt Moral Far Far Right Certitude Right

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