What important things did we learn from the commander-in-chief today with respect to, uh, NATO and American intentions with respect to the bombing and, and how they see it proceeding?

Charles, I think the reason President Clinton did this interview with CBS News today was that he wanted to communicate, first of all, to the American people, secondly, to the NATO allies, and thirdly, perhaps most importantly, to Milošević and his, uh, people, uh, his resolve, President Clinton's resolve.

I think that was number one.

Uh, you know, he's aware that he has a reputation of, in the end, maybe playing a little soft.

Maybe he can, in Washington terms, quote, "de-roll from time to time." He wanted to knock that right in the head.

He talked about resolve.

He talked about determination.

When you look at the mindset with the president, do you get any feeling about what they do if the bombing does not work?

When you came to CBS, were you CBS Radio or were you CBS Television at first?

Well, at that time, I came to CBS News first in 1962, and radio and television were both still big inside the network and outside the network.

When I came in 1962, the television news revolution, which began after the assassination of President Kennedy, had not yet fully taken hold.

In 1962, most people still got most of their news either from newspapers or from radio.

But television news was exploding and, with stories such as the Civil Rights Movement of Dr. Martin Luther, Luther King, uh, the building situation in Vietnam.

Television, during the '60s, came to overwhelm both newspapers and radio as the place where most people got most of their news.

But when I first came to CBS News, it was still accepted that m- many, many people, perhaps most people, still got at least the headlines of the news from radio.

How should CBS News Radio be remembered?

And 10-year-old Dan Rather traveled the world on that magic carpet.

I had rheumatic fever as a child, so I was confined to bed, and yes, I was almost, I would say, riveted to the radio because it was my constant companion.

Edward R. Murrow had left CBS just a year before Dan arrived, but the standard he and his colleagues set remained a benchmark throughout the news division

All of them could write well.

You didn't work for Murrow if you couldn't write well, and this put him in conflict sometimes with the people who ran the network.

They didn't think that some of these correspondents had voices for radio.

When I would read, say, a Charlie Herold or Collingwood script, I would say to myself, "Dan, you've got to make yourself a better writer, and you better do it in a hurry, or you're not gonna be around here."