my husband is ben bradlee who's the former editor of the "washington post" who wrote a book called "a good life: newspapering and other adventures. when quinn decided to write his book being learning disabled he decided to write "a different life: growing up learning disabled and other adventures" and it really tells the story of quinn growing up starting with when he was born. a lot of that part comes from what we have told him but his reactions to his life as he saw it and his perceptions. quinn was born with a hole in his heart 27 years ago last week. and he went into heart failure when he was a month old. and when he was three months old he had open heart surgery and nearly died. and then it just seemed like nothing went right. every time we'd turn around there was something wrong. i mean, he couldn't talk properly. and then -- then he developed epilepsy and then he was learning disabled and had to go to a special school when he was 4. when he was 8 we were told by a doctor that he would basically after testing him that he would have no life at all. that he would never go to high

so i beg to ben bradlee, the bureau chief, not to use the story, saying it was out of character. was, maybe it wasn't. but he was not having it, so they wrote the story, saying, "i am the greatest pork chop a takeoff on mohammed ali -- "i am the greatest," a takeoff on muhammad ali. we were referred to as the odd couple. he was an upper-class wasp. he grew up with the governors, he went to boarding school, and he was in the georgetown social circuit, and i came from a jewish immigrant family. i did not ever travel in his social circles. so socially, we came from quite different worlds. >> you cite some oral history that you saw for the first time in 2004-2006, when you were writing the book, of things you did not know about evans when you were working together. part of it was the relationship he had with the kennedys. >> it was his relationship with bobby kennedy. the meetings he had that i did not know about, things kennedy had told him. by never told me about it. he told me the oral history when he was interviewed about it in the 1970's. >> what was your reaction? >> i was surp

so i big ben bradlee, who was then the bureau chief -- "newsweek" washington bureau chief -- not to use the stories. i said it was out of character. maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. but he wasn't having any of it, he ran the story. and they referred to me as i am the greatest as a takeoff on muhammad ali. c-span: rowlie evin astana in 2001, march 23rd, 2001. what was the difference between you to ask people? >> guest: well, we were just the -- the chapter in the book is referred to as odd couple. and rowlie balls upper-class cutty sarks -- wasp. he grew up with governors, went to boarding school, and was in the georgetown social circuit. and i came from a jewish immigrant family and certainly will small -- didn't ever travel in his social circle. so we were -- socially we came from really quite different worlds. c-span: your site some oral histories that you saw for the first time in 2004, 2006 -- >> guest: when i was writing the book. c-span: -- when you were writing the book, of the things that you didn't know about rowlie evans back when you were working together. and part of it was re