her invite outside join him when he became director of usia in the kennedys a, and the most poignant response you said you needed to carry on his work in journalism and you did. and in fact, the book begins and ends with murrow if have you consciously felt this sense of irony, being their hand-picked, hand-select as the final laster day murrow boy? >> guest: that is a question i can answer from the current vantage point. i can answer now because i'm able to look back. at the time it was happening, i knew that he was special, he was for me an idol. i listened to his 7:45 newscast every night. i watched his broadcasts. his broadcasts bringing down senator mccarthy, who was one of the most historic pieces of the television news i've ever seen, or perhaps there ever was. i was filled with admiration for what this man was able to do and did. but at the time it was happening, i was not able fully to appreciate the impact he would have on me and many, many, many thousands of messed that have come along over the decades. wherever you are today, you will bump into a journalist who knows about