Up to the Minute (CBS) - 2006-11-10 (partial) (Ed Bradley tribute)

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[0:00] Are they scamming Dr. Phil? The sting

[0:03] new Dr. Phil.

[0:07] >> The death of 60 Minutes correspondent Ed

[0:09] Bradley is a loss for all those who love

[0:11] a good story. His interviews and

[0:13] investigative reports are the product of

[0:15] years of experience, hard work, and an

[0:17] undying desire for the truth. Of course,

[0:20] here at CBS News, his death is a

[0:22] personal loss. Last night, CBS Evening

[0:24] News anchor Katie Kurrick gathered some

[0:26] of Bradley's co-workers at 60 Minutes to

[0:28] tell stories about Ed. Joining Katie

[0:31] were 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt,

[0:33] correspondents Lesie Stall and Steve

[0:34] Croft, and from Washington, Bob

[0:36] Schiffer. First of all, let me start by

[0:39] asking you, what made Ed Bradley such a

[0:42] terrific newsman?

[0:44] >> First of all, he was a terrific human

[0:46] being. And I think you have to start

[0:48] with that before you ever even begin to

[0:50] think what made him a great reporter.

[0:53] >> What do you think?

[0:54] >> Well, I agree totally with Don. It was

[0:56] his humanity, his compassion. Starting

[0:59] way back with those Cambodian boat

[1:01] people that we saw earlier where he

[1:03] stopped being a reporter. He could get

[1:06] things out of people because he I don't

[1:09] know, he just had a way of being honest

[1:12] about himself. He was so comfortable in

[1:14] his own skin. People relaxed with him.

[1:17] uh he he could touch you whether he was

[1:20] interviewing you or whether you were his

[1:21] friend

[1:22] >> or whether you were just watching

[1:23] >> or even if you were watching. I mean I

[1:26] want you to know Katie that all of us

[1:28] are just in terrible pain today. It's

[1:31] it's it's shattering.

[1:33] >> Steve,

[1:35] >> I think the thing that made him terrific

[1:36] was his presence.

[1:39] Um, there was a a dignity about him that

[1:42] could transform any situation and he was

[1:45] great for seizing the moment. The French

[1:47] have a word for it, sabo affair, which

[1:50] is the perfect mixture of style and

[1:53] substance and that was it.

[1:55] >> Bob Chaffer, tell us why you think he

[1:58] was such a fine journalist.

[2:00] >> Because he was Mr. Cool. He was the

[2:02] coolest person I ever met. Ed always

[2:05] knew what was hot before the rest of us.

[2:07] He knew what was not before the rest of

[2:09] us realized. He was this great observer

[2:12] of humanity, of human nature, and the

[2:14] American scene. So, I guess one reason

[2:16] he was such a good reporter, he knew the

[2:17] right questions to ask.

[2:19] >> Tell us some stories about Ed Bradley

[2:21] because you must have a million of them.

[2:24] >> Well, my favorite one was when he won

[2:25] the Paul White award. I introduced them

[2:28] to a thousand people at a lunch and I

[2:31] got up and I said, "I would like

[2:32] everyone in this room to know that I

[2:35] hired Ed Bradley because he's a member

[2:38] of a minority." And there was this gasp

[2:41] in the room. And soon as it calmed down,

[2:43] I said, "He's a great reporter. He's a

[2:47] great gentleman. And if that ain't a

[2:49] minority, I never heard of one." And I

[2:51] let it go at that.

[2:54] Um, I guess mine has to do with the

[2:56] troubles we had during the tobacco story

[2:59] fiasco

[3:00] >> and 60 minutes was just being torn

[3:03] apart. People weren't talking to each

[3:05] other. Maybe they talked, but they

[3:07] yelled when they talked

[3:09] >> and I we all thought we couldn't we

[3:11] weren't going to be able to survive. And

[3:13] Ed Bradley called us all to his

[3:16] apartment one day and he basically

[3:18] locked the door. He said, "We're not

[3:20] leaving here. you're prisoners until we

[3:22] solve this and we become civil back. We

[3:26] return to civility and get on with our

[3:28] show and he basically saved 60 minutes.

[3:32] >> He was our daddy.

[3:33] >> He he became our daddy that day.

[3:35] >> I don't think in the 20 years that I

[3:37] knew him I ever saw him lose his

[3:39] composure. I saw him lose his temper a

[3:41] couple of times, but I never saw him

[3:42] lose his composure. Um, you know, people

[3:46] try and tell reporters, you should walk

[3:48] with the people. Ed truly walked with

[3:50] the people. And I I remember a story

[3:52] that was told to me by one of his

[3:53] producers. They were trapesing through

[3:56] the jungles in Mexico or Central America

[3:59] um off to interview some gerilla leader

[4:02] and it was very hot and it was a very

[4:04] long walk and they were loaded down with

[4:06] all sorts of equipment to do the

[4:07] interview and one of the people in the

[4:09] crew either a count cameraman or a

[4:11] soundman was belly aching as all of us

[4:14] in this business uh are inclined to do

[4:17] from one time or another. And um Ed, who

[4:20] was carrying a lot of gear himself,

[4:22] walked right past the the crew member

[4:25] and grabbed the the camera or the tape

[4:28] recorder that was in his hands and just

[4:30] walked right on by him. Never said a

[4:32] word. And Ed was the star. He didn't

[4:35] have to carry anything if he didn't want

[4:36] to, but Ed always carried his load.

[4:39] >> When Leslie mentioned earlier that about

[4:41] the uh when he locked you all in his

[4:44] apartment, um

[4:45] >> That's right. It sounds as if he

[4:47] sometimes returned to his roots when he

[4:49] was a sixth grade teacher in

[4:50] Philadelphia, right?

[4:52] >> You know, I want I wanted to say one

[4:54] more thing. His office is right next to

[4:57] mine. And there were two things Ed loved

[5:00] that most people probably don't know.

[5:02] One is music. So, there was jazz always

[5:04] coming out of his office. So, you're

[5:05] trying to work and there's this great

[5:07] jazz going on.

[5:08] >> I know what the other one was.

[5:10] >> No, you don't. The other one is flowers.

[5:13] And Ed had a little bouquet of FL, not

[5:16] the garden. He has a garden. His office

[5:18] looks like a garden, but he would have a

[5:21] little bouquet of flowers delivered to

[5:23] his office once a week, every week.

[5:27] >> And more importantly,

[5:28] >> sitting there today.

[5:30] >> Yeah.

[5:32] >> And more importantly, he took the time

[5:35] to stop and smell them. There are a lot

[5:37] of people in this business that let the

[5:40] job rule their lives. It had had a real

[5:43] flare for living his life. He really

[5:45] enjoyed it and it's tragic that it had

[5:48] to be cut short.

[5:50] >> Bob Sheaffer, we we are hearing some

[5:52] great stories from from these folks,

[5:54] from his colleagues here at 60 Minutes,

[5:56] but do you have a favorite Ed Bradley

[5:59] story, Bob?

[6:00] >> I'll tell you the first thing I thought

[6:02] of today. U Katie, uh Ed loved children

[6:05] and he loved young people. He was a

[6:07] mentor to so many of them. But in 1988,

[6:11] it was the Republican National

[6:12] Convention was in New Orleans. My

[6:14] daughters were both teenagers at the

[6:16] time. And I asked him at the end of one

[6:19] evening, I said, "Would you guys like to

[6:20] go down and see what's going on on

[6:22] Bourbon Street?" They said, "Dad, I'm

[6:23] sorry, but we can't. Mr. Bradley is

[6:25] getting a group together to go see

[6:27] Little Feet." I didn't even know what

[6:29] Little Feet was. I found out later it

[6:30] was a band.

[6:31] >> He was a little hipper than all of you,

[6:34] I'm afraid. Right.

[6:36] >> Absolutely. Um, uh,

[6:39] can you tell us a little bit more about

[6:41] Ed Bradley, the person, because you all

[6:43] were privileged enough to really spend

[6:45] time with him and get to know him.

[6:47] Something that we'll never know or

[6:49] necessarily read about.

[6:51] >> Well, most of it showed up showed up on

[6:55] the air. When he did George Burns after

[6:59] Gracie Allen died, there was a moment

[7:03] George Burns took Ed Bradley up to

[7:06] Forest Lawn to introduce him to Gracie

[7:09] Allen in her tomb. And he stood there

[7:12] and he said, "Honey, this is Ed Bradley.

[7:17] We're going to be working again. He's

[7:19] going to put us on 60 Minutes." I choked

[7:21] up.

[7:22] that I I think I I tears in the in the

[7:26] screening room.

[7:28] I watched him. He had a way of bringing

[7:32] out the best in everyone. He did it

[7:34] whether it was Derek Jeter, Muhammad

[7:37] Ali,

[7:38] George Burns,

[7:40] >> Lo Horn. I mean, I mean, Leo I we always

[7:44] thought he was going to run away with

[7:46] Leo when it was over, but

[7:49] he um

[7:51] it's very diff difficult to sort of

[7:54] quantify Ed Bradley. He just was he was

[7:58] Ed Bradley and almost that's almost

[8:00] enough.

[8:02] >> Well, Don Hwitt, Leslie Stall, Steve

[8:04] Croft, and Bob Schiffer in Washington,

[8:07] thanks so much for sharing your memories

[8:09] with us. Uh we I know that everyone

[8:12] watching really appreciates it,

[8:14] especially on such a sad day for all of

[8:16] you and all of us as well.

[8:19] >> Ed Bradley was just 65 years old. He

[8:22] leaves behind his wife, Patricia

[8:23] Blanchett, and a body of work that

[8:25] stands as a monument to his

[8:26] professionalism. We'll be right back.

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[8:42] >> Less than 6 hours after the accident,

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[8:47] >> Well, I put on some tangerine lip gloss

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[8:51] >> Geico service turned out to be the best

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[11:08] >> It's 51 past the hour. Top stories and

[11:10] up to the minute. Democrats acknowledge

[11:12] there's a long list of challenges

[11:14] awaiting them when they take control of

[11:15] Congress in January, but insist they

[11:18] will deliver results. Today, President

[11:20] Bush meets with Nevada Senator Harry

[11:22] Reid, soon to become majority leader of

[11:24] the Senate. The first ever estimate of

[11:26] civilian deaths in Iraq is put at

[11:29] 150,000. Iraq's government says it based

[11:32] the number on the roughly estimated 100

[11:34] bodies a day that were brought to morgs

[11:36] and hospitals. And he's being remembered

[11:39] as a journalist journalist. Longtime CBS

[11:41] News reporter and 60 Minutes

[11:43] correspondent Ed Bradley dies of

[11:45] complications of leukemia. He was 65

[11:48] years old.

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[17:11] seems Americans weren't the only ones

[17:13] watching the election returns. Reports

[17:15] from nations near and far have had

[17:17] reactions ranging from disappointment to

[17:19] jubilation over a change in power in

[17:21] Washington. Said Bole tells us in this

[17:23] morning's comment from London. Perhaps

[17:25] it will bring a change in the weather as

[17:27] well.

[17:28] >> There used to be just down the sidewalk

[17:30] a sad old man with a sad old sign which

[17:33] he carried aloft in silence. It read,

[17:37] "The end of the world is nigh." Now,

[17:40] maybe there are some Republicans around

[17:42] this morning who know what he was

[17:43] talking about. But for us Brits, the end

[17:46] of the world is beginning to look too

[17:47] real for comfort. We're just recovering

[17:50] from reading a vast British government

[17:52] report. 700 apocalyptic pages of it,

[17:55] warning of what will happen if we don't

[17:57] go green. We have to stop burning fossil

[18:00] fuels, buzzing about in airplanes,

[18:02] wasting precious resources, doing all

[18:04] those spend thrift things that make life

[18:06] half bearable. We have to stop or else

[18:09] we're doomed. Caput. If that doesn't

[18:12] make you go green, what will? Taxes.

[18:15] Probably. It's already started. The

[18:16] mayor of London wants to charge

[18:18] motorists who use gasg guzzling SUVs

[18:21] thousands of dollars a year just for

[18:23] driving into the city center. Unlike

[18:26] you, we have pretty well run out of oil.

[18:28] We stopped mining and burning our own

[18:30] homegrown coal years ago because it was

[18:33] too dirty. were forced to pay high

[18:35] prices to some rather dodgy suppliers

[18:38] like Russia these days. And just when

[18:40] we'd finished digesting one huge report,

[18:43] along came another equally pessimistic.

[18:46] This time telling us to stop eating fish

[18:48] or there won't be any left. You see, the

[18:50] fishermen are catching too many fish in

[18:52] this part of the world and there aren't

[18:54] enough sustainable stocks to ensure

[18:56] Yeah, okay. Why bother? You've heard it

[18:57] all before, but you get my drift. Today

[19:00] is Friday. On Friday, Britain tucks into

[19:03] an unhealthy diet of fish and chips

[19:05] fried in batter and served with mushy

[19:08] peas. Forget it in future. And as the

[19:11] weather gets worse, one of the nation's

[19:13] biggest power companies has just issued

[19:15] advice to customers who can't afford to

[19:17] turn up the heating. Don't let Junior

[19:19] freeze, they say. Put him to bed in

[19:21] gloves and scarves and socks and a

[19:24] woolly hat over his head. It is getting

[19:26] seriously grim over here. Christmas is

[19:28] coming, but the Norwegians who supply

[19:30] most of our Christmas trees are

[19:32] suffering crop failures because of

[19:34] climate change. Now the price of a tiny

[19:36] spruce is heading as high as that hole

[19:39] in the ozone layer. So spare us a dime

[19:42] and paint up a sign too. The end of the

[19:45] world may well be nigh. This is Ed Bole

[19:48] for CBS News in London.

[19:51] >> Thanks for joining us this half hour.

[19:53] This is CBS News Up to the Minute.

[19:57] CBS News.

[19:58] >> Funny man Dave Barry on his new

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[20:00] >> Good Morning Northwest. Biden 7 a.m.

[20:07] >> Now on CBS News Up to the Minute,

[20:09] >> we've made history. Now we have to make

[20:11] progress. And I love

[20:12] >> old adversaries come together as a new

[20:15] political reality dawn in Washington.

[20:18] >> And I don't think that you need a lot of

[20:21] movement and graphics to tell a good

[20:23] story. You need some good storytellers.

[20:26] the same as it.

[20:27] >> And one of the greatest storytellers of

[20:28] them all, our own Ed Bradley has died.

[20:31] >> Ed Bradley, CBS News, the White House.

[20:44] >> Good morning from CBS News headquarters

[20:46] in New York. This is Up to the Minute.

[20:48] I'm Meg Oliver. The new face of the

[20:50] United States Senate gets his chance to

[20:52] sit down with President Bush today.

[20:54] Nevada Senator Harry Reid, soon to

[20:56] become majority leader of the Senate,

[20:58] has a lunch date at the White House. A

[21:00] triumphant Reed got the invite after the

[21:02] final contested Senate battle gave

[21:04] Democrats control of both houses of

[21:06] Congress.

[21:06] >> Well, let me tell you this. The

[21:08] election's over.

[21:10] >> It's time for a change.

[21:14] >> Yesterday, it was Nancy Pelosy's turn in

[21:16] the Oval Office. CBS's Drew Levenson

[21:19] reports.

[21:20] They're political opposites, but

[21:22] President Bush and future House Speaker

[21:24] Nancy Pelosi were all smiles after a

[21:27] White House lunch. On the menu,

[21:29] bipartisanship.

[21:30] >> The Congresswoman's party won,

[21:34] but the challenges still remain and

[21:36] therefore we're going to work together

[21:38] to address those challenges in a

[21:39] constructive way.

[21:40] >> Pelosi says together they can get

[21:43] results. I look forward to working in a

[21:45] a confidencebuilding way with the

[21:47] president, recognizing that we have our

[21:49] differences.

[21:50] >> Those differences include the war in

[21:52] Iraq and how best to fight terrorism.

[21:54] The Democrats are hoping they can make

[21:56] good on the promises they made to voters

[21:58] now that they're in control of both the

[22:00] House and the Senate. The Democrat

[22:02] Senate takeover was made official in

[22:04] Virginia. Jim Webb defeated incumbent

[22:07] Republican Senator George Allen in a

[22:09] race that had been too close to call.

[22:11] Likely Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

[22:13] led a celebration outside the capital.

[22:16] >> This time for New Direction has given us

[22:18] an opportunity, a chance to prove to the

[22:20] American people that we can work with

[22:23] the Republicans.

[22:24] >> Long-erving Democrats will now head

[22:27] powerful congressional committees and

[22:29] shape new agendas. On the House Ways and

[22:31] Means Committee, Republican Bill Thomas

[22:34] will be replaced as chairman by Democrat

[22:36] Charles Wrangler. Wrangle says he's not

[22:38] ruling out tax increases. And in the

[22:41] Senate, Arlland Spectre is out and

[22:43] Patrick Lehey is in as chairman of the

[22:45] judiciary committee, making it tougher

[22:48] for the president to push through a

[22:49] conservative Supreme Court nominee. But

[22:51] no one expects it to be smooth sailing

[22:53] for the Democrats. Senate Republicans

[22:56] can filibuster and the president has the

[22:58] option to veto legislation. Drew

[23:01] Levenson, CBS News, Washington.

[23:04] >> There's another casualty this morning of

[23:05] the GOP blood bath at the polls. Ken

[23:07] Melman, chairman of the Republican

[23:09] National Committee, will reportedly step

[23:11] aside in January, shortly before the new

[23:14] Democratically controlled Congress is

[23:15] seated. Melman, a longtime protege of

[23:18] White House political director Carl Ro,

[23:20] was the architect of the GOP's failed

[23:22] election strategy. Soon to be former

[23:25] Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke

[23:27] at length for the first time since being

[23:28] fired by President Bush. Before a group

[23:31] of college students, Roosevelt came as

[23:33] close as has ever come to admitting the

[23:34] US occupation of Iraq is in trouble.

[23:38] >> Combat operations were an enormous

[23:40] success. It is clear that in phase two

[23:43] of this, it has not been going well

[23:45] enough or fast enough.

[23:47] >> Rumsfeld will remain in his post until

[23:50] his replacement is confirmed by the

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[23:54] pulling a house brand painkiller off its

[23:56] shelves after the FDA warned about

[23:58] possible metal fragments inside the

[24:00] pills. CBS's Cynthia Bowers has more.

[24:04] A major maker of generic acetto menopen,

[24:07] which was sold to dozens of bigname

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[24:12] bottles of the popular painkiller after

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[24:26] >> The recall today is the 33rd recall that

[24:29] this company has had since 1998.

[24:31] >> The FDA, which posted the recalled batch

[24:33] numbers and the stores involved on its

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[24:37] is remote.

[24:38] >> Cynthia Bowers, CBS News, Chicago.

[24:42] A giant of television news and a good

[24:44] friend to many of us here at CBS.

[24:46] Longtime correspondent Ed Bradley has

[24:48] died. He was 65 years old and suffering

[24:51] from leukemia had left this world

[24:53] surrounded by family, friends, and

[24:55] colleagues. Leslie Stall has his story.

[24:58] >> Ed Bradley was a reporter of

[24:59] extraordinary range. Whether grilling

[25:02] the mass murderer of Oklahoma City,

[25:04] >> you realize that most people in this

[25:06] country think you're responsible for the

[25:08] bombing. Correct.

[25:09] >> Correct.

[25:09] >> Right. or getting a legend to drop his

[25:12] guard.

[25:13] >> Go ahead.

[25:16] >> Sounds seen as harmony.

[25:20] >> We call them Bradley moments.

[25:22] >> I've read somewhere that you wrote

[25:24] Blowing in the Wind in 10 minutes. Is

[25:25] that right?

[25:27] >> Probably.

[25:28] >> Nobody did it like Ed. He had style,

[25:31] originality, heart.

[25:34] >> I can see the tears in your eyes.

[25:36] >> Oh, look at this. I like it. It's very

[25:38] personal for me. His nickname around

[25:40] here was easy, Ed.

[25:42] >> He made it look effortless, as someone

[25:44] said, like he wasn't really working.

[25:47] >> Yeah, this is neighborhood.

[25:48] >> Yeah.

[25:48] >> Ed Bradley was raised by his mother in

[25:50] Philadelphia. He was a high school

[25:52] athlete and after college taught sixth

[25:55] grade in an elementary school, but he

[25:57] quickly moved into reporting, first on

[25:59] radio. After a stint in Paris, he went

[26:02] to Saigon for the story that would put

[26:05] him on the map and almost kill him,

[26:07] Vietnam. People were moved from Vietkong

[26:11] areas into towns controlled by the

[26:13] government. And all of a sudden, I heard

[26:15] this terrific noise.

[26:20] >> In a split second,

[26:23] when that mortar round landed behind the

[26:26] armored personnel carrier where I had

[26:28] been standing and exploded, when it hit,

[26:31] it blew me in the air and I hit the

[26:33] ground. It's a law of chance. If I had

[26:36] had not moved to sit on the side, I

[26:38] would have been dead.

[26:39] >> A signature moment in his life and

[26:41] career came with the crisis of the

[26:43] Vietnamese boat people. Ed couldn't

[26:45] stand by and just be the correspondent.

[26:48] >> Only a few fishermen helped the boat

[26:50] people ashore.

[26:52] We joined Ed.

[27:07] Ed specialized in first first

[27:10] Africanamean White House correspondent

[27:12] for a network.

[27:14] >> Ed Bradley, CBS News, the White House.

[27:16] >> He was a man who broke down racial

[27:18] barriers and became a role model for

[27:20] young African-Ameans.

[27:22] >> And too often in this country, we are

[27:24] judged by the color of our skin and not

[27:27] by the content of our character. Um, so

[27:30] the pressure is there. It's been there

[27:31] every day of my life. He joined 60

[27:34] Minutes 25 years ago and described his

[27:36] approach to the job as a very simple

[27:38] one.

[27:39] >> And if I'm talking to you for however

[27:42] long it takes, I'm yours.

[27:45] >> He's my husband.

[27:48] >> And you still love him?

[27:50] >> I love him. Yes.

[27:51] >> And I'm going to listen and I'm going to

[27:53] ask and I'm going to do what I have to

[27:55] do to get the story.

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[30:08] her about.

[30:10] >> Will she come out and talk to us?

[30:12] >> Why don't I just hear you?

[30:13] >> Tell me again.

[30:14] >> No, she won't.

[30:16] >> No, you're back.

[30:18] >> I'm back.

[30:19] >> I said goodbye.

[30:20] >> Goodbye.

[30:21] You leaving?

[30:22] >> No, I'm good.

[30:24] >> A journalist journalist this morning,

[30:26] we're remembering our colleague Ed

[30:27] Bradley who died yesterday of

[30:29] complications of leukemia. If you

[30:31] watched any of Ed Bradley's interviews

[30:33] from his more than 25 years on 60

[30:35] Minutes, you know, he wasn't afraid to

[30:37] ask tough questions or go to tough

[30:39] places to get the answers. He was truly

[30:41] a trailblazer for all journalists and

[30:43] particularly for journalists of color.

[30:45] He was the first black white house

[30:47] correspondent and perhaps the most

[30:48] honored and respected journalist of

[30:50] color anywhere. He was also the

[30:52] recipient of a lifetime achievement

[30:54] award from the National Association of

[30:55] Black Journalists. Brian Monroe is the

[30:58] president of the NABJ and joins us from

[31:00] our Chicago station WBBM TV this

[31:03] morning. Good morning, Brian.

[31:04] >> Good morning, Meg.

[31:05] >> Why was Ed Bradley so successful?

[31:08] Well, he was able to bring a uh a high

[31:12] level of professionalism and quality to

[31:15] the stories he brought, but he also

[31:17] mixed in with that, you know, obviously

[31:19] fine, great, strong research and

[31:21] homework and hard work. Uh, but as as

[31:24] some of you know, uh, Ed was a great

[31:25] jazz fan. And I think he brought his j

[31:28] his love of jazz to his journalism. He

[31:30] brought it to his journalism because he

[31:32] was uh not afraid to improvise, not

[31:34] afraid to be spontaneous when he's on

[31:37] those tough interviews or to go with the

[31:39] story whatever wherever the story led

[31:41] him. And that that spirit really

[31:43] inspired me and and thousands of

[31:45] journalists around the country.

[31:46] >> What was it like when you honored him

[31:47] with the Lifetime Achievement Award? A

[31:49] lot of his colleagues remember him as

[31:50] being charismatic. A lot of people say

[31:53] he was pretty cool. He had that earring.

[31:55] What was it like for you?

[31:57] Well, he uh we actually sat and had

[31:59] dinner that evening and reminisced on

[32:01] the first time uh we had met almost 20

[32:03] years ago in 1989 when I was this this

[32:06] uh little uh kid coming out of college

[32:09] uh in journalism and approached him at

[32:11] an NABJ convention in New York and um he

[32:14] was sitting there having a drink and I

[32:16] came up to the to the bar nobody was

[32:17] talking to him and he said sit down

[32:19] let's talk and and we spent 15 20

[32:21] minutes together and really just opening

[32:23] up uh himself and his life and he was

[32:25] very curious and That same person who

[32:27] was 20 years ago was just as real when

[32:29] we honored him last year at NABJ with a

[32:31] lifetime achievement award. He was

[32:33] authentic. He brought all of himself to

[32:36] work each day and was not uh did not

[32:39] have to compromise who he was as a black

[32:42] journalist, as a black man, as a

[32:44] sophisticated, classy, cultured um uh

[32:48] journalist who grew up in Philadelphia.

[32:50] Well, Brian, as you mentioned, he's

[32:51] being remembered for being a terrific

[32:53] journalist, but also as a trailblazer

[32:54] for African-Americans. What did it say

[32:56] to African-Americans when they saw him

[32:58] reporting from the front lawn of the

[32:59] White House in the 70s?

[33:01] >> Well, it it was just a a sense of of

[33:04] inspiration. I remember, you know, when

[33:06] I was a young journalist and even in

[33:08] high school and college, uh, turning on

[33:10] the television and seeing him come on,

[33:11] uh, Sunday nights on 60 Minutes or when

[33:13] he was doing, uh, the White House or

[33:15] when we fill in on the six the CBS

[33:17] evening news and looking up to him and

[33:19] saying, "Wow, I could do that. I could I

[33:22] could try to be like him." And for me

[33:25] and for thousands and thousands of other

[33:27] journalists, not just black journalists,

[33:29] but journalists around the country, uh,

[33:31] looking at him and seeing him, uh, take

[33:34] his approach with class and style was so

[33:36] inspirational.

[33:37] >> He was an exceptional interviewer. What

[33:39] do you think made him stand apart?

[33:42] >> Well, part of it was his style and his

[33:44] uh, he was very approachable and very

[33:47] easygoing. whether he's interviewing

[33:49] Lena Horn or Tiger Woods, he made the

[33:52] interviewee feel at ease, but at the

[33:55] same time, he was not afraid to to bring

[33:58] bring the tough stuff on those tough,

[34:00] hard-hitting interviews and confront the

[34:02] folks who needed to be confronted. Um,

[34:04] but even when he did that, he did it

[34:06] with a sense of class.

[34:08] >> What will future African-American

[34:09] journalists and all journalists for that

[34:11] matter learn from Ed Bradley's legacy?

[34:14] Well, I I think again it's it's that you

[34:16] can be an an authentic human being that

[34:20] you can bring yourself all of yourself,

[34:22] whether it's a love of jazz or a love of

[34:24] skiing um or an involvement in the in

[34:26] the community. You can bring that to the

[34:28] table. You can bring that to work as a

[34:30] journalist. You don't have to

[34:31] compromise. You don't have to uh feel

[34:34] that you have to bury that part of

[34:35] yourself to tell the story of America

[34:37] and tell the story of the world. And uh

[34:39] that's what I'll remember with Ed

[34:40] Bradley.

[34:41] >> All right. And who do you think is out

[34:42] there now that will be carrying his

[34:44] torch on?

[34:46] >> Oh, oh my goodness. I think with the the

[34:48] the nearly 4,000 members of NABJ and the

[34:51] 10,000 members of the the Unity

[34:52] journalist organizations around the

[34:54] country, um, all of us and and

[34:56] journalists really around the world look

[34:58] at the legacy of Ed Bradley and know

[35:01] that, you know, I only

[35:04] if only we could uh have onetenth of his

[35:07] dial. I remember at that uh that event

[35:10] in DC where we honored him with Lifetime

[35:12] Achievement Award. Um we had a very

[35:15] formal black tie. Uh but afterwards we

[35:18] put some musical on. The young folks

[35:19] went out on the dance floor and started

[35:20] dancing and and we thought thought Ed

[35:22] would be tired, want to go to go to bed,

[35:25] but he was out there on the dance floor

[35:26] with everyone else cutting a rug.

[35:28] >> All right, Brian Monroe, president of

[35:29] the National Association of Black

[35:31] Journalists. Thank you so much this

[35:32] morning.

[35:33] >> Thank you.

[35:35] Among the many of us here at CBS who

[35:37] looked up to Ed Bradley is CBS News

[35:39] national correspondent Byron Pittz.

[35:41] >> I knew Ed Bradley. We weren't really

[35:43] friends. He was more like a father. And

[35:46] in this world for people who look like

[35:48] me, father figures are a very big deal.

[35:51] I remember the first time I saw Ed on TV

[35:54] in the water with those women and

[35:56] children. That story hit me the same way

[35:59] it probably hit a lot of African-Amean

[36:01] children in the 1970s. Wow. There's

[36:04] someone on TV who looks like me. And

[36:06] today, there are thousands of

[36:08] journalists working hard because Ed

[36:10] Bradley showed us you can do this.

[36:12] Tonight and tomorrow night and for days

[36:14] thereafter, I will thank the good Lord

[36:16] Ed Bradley lived and that we all had a

[36:19] chance to learn from him. I promise, Ed,

[36:22] we did.

[36:30] >> Go ahead. I'll be right there.

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[39:06] >> It's 19 past the hour. Top stories and

[39:08] up to the minute. Democrats acknowledge

[39:10] there's a long list of challenges

[39:12] awaiting them when they take control of

[39:13] Congress in January, but insist they

[39:16] will deliver results. Today, President

[39:18] Bush meets with Nevada Senator Harry

[39:20] Reid, soon to become majority leader of

[39:22] the Senate. The first ever estimate of

[39:24] civilian deaths in Iraq is put at

[39:27] 150,000. Iraq's government says it base

[39:30] the number on the roughly estimated 100

[39:32] bodies a day that were brought to morgs

[39:34] and hospitals. And he's being remembered

[39:36] as a journalist journalist. One time.