Bob Edwards Quotes
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
Edwards, Bob. Interview by Brian Lamb. Booknotes, C-SPAN, 23 May 1993.
Convicted terrorist Timothy McVeigh has requested the public televising of his execution.
Just quotation tells us something about Mrs. Roosevelt that is fascinating. Note that she tells us that she had her usual press conference. She typically had several press conferences a week. Before Mrs. Roosevelt, first Ladies did not have press conferences by themselves. She did almost wherever she went. She had more than the President did. And the presidents staff rarely knew what she was going to say. They found out about it in the next day’s newspapers. No first lady before or since then has ever had as much access to the press or as independent access as Mrs. Roosevelt.
This quotation illustrates the fact that at that time, individual citizens could legally conduct their own foreign policy in the name of the United States. Further, while a century later, wealthy Americans might pressure Presidents on policy issues by threatening to finance opponents or fund PACs to run ads against the administration’s positions, at that time they threatened to actually operate their own foreign policy. The President did not send a delegation on Ford’s ship, but Ford did. The Ford peace initiative collapsed in a fiasco. The great industrialist was way out of his expertise. Later, Congress passed laws prohibiting Americans from conducting their own diplomatic initiatives.
Robert Alan "Bob" Edwards is an American broadcast journalist, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He gained reputation as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, Morning Edition. Starting in 2004, Edwards then was the host of The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations. Those programs ended in September 2015. Edwards currently hosts a podcast for AARP.
