Word: fatherness
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...father, who had worked in both the travel business and publishing, said, ‘Oliver, since you're organizing these charter flights, why don’t you make a guide book for the students on these flights?' So I made a pamphlet in 1960,” said Koppell...
World affairs have been a constant presence in Mika Brzezinski's life since she was a young girl. Her father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was the powerful National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter. She spent her young adulthood behind or in front of TV cameras, working her way up as a broadcaster on ABC, Fox and CBS, where she worked as an anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent. In 2006, however, she was unceremoniously (and very publicly) let go for reasons she says she still doesn't understand. Brzezinski is currently the co-host of the MSNBC show Morning Joe, with...
...Your father at that point was National Security Adviser. How much did you understand about that? I understood he had one of the most important positions in the country when it came to the security of our country and the direction of our country. But beyond that, I was just a kid trying to grow up. It did become the norm that our time together - and I put that in quotes - would be on Air Force One, or in Tunisia, or in China, or at Camp David, because he was so incredibly busy. I mean, this...
...knew early that you wanted to be on TV. How old were you when that first occurred to you? Between the ages of 14 and 16, I started catching the news bug. I had watched my father get interviewed on television and always found it to be fascinating. Not necessarily what he was saying, which I think he assumed I was, but by the process. I just knew it was what I was going...
...consternation over the failure to identify Abdulmutallab before he boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. After all, the official says, an August CIA intercept of a phone conversation in Yemen caught extremists speaking of a Nigerian preparing a strike. And more recently, Abdulmutallab's own father alerted the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, of his concerns that his son's radicalization made him a security threat. Even as Abdulmutallab allegedly put his plot into motion, the official says, details of his movements should have set off alarm bells in various places. Abdulmutallab had recently been to a notorious...