I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

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