Anticipation indeed filled the air as we raced north on Highway 395 into the last twilight of summer. Carly Simon’s evocative voice booming through the speakers scored the moment perfectly as the setting sun framed the edgy peaks of the Sierra Nevada range.
No matter your politics, or your views of American leadership in the late 1960s and ‘70s, one man was bigger than life, traversing the globe to negotiate the precarious balance between peace and conflict. Henry Kissinger remains a polarizing figure to many. But make no mistake, in less than a decade, this diplomat who served as U.S.
My hero has passed. Vin Scully, a voice like no other, a constant in my life since the 1960s, passed away today at 94. Sitting as I do most summer nights watching Dodger baseball when the news crawled across the bottom of the TV screen a short while ago.
