Otis Chandler

The paper had been quite conservative, and it was Nixon's paper, you know, and yet clearly it was becoming a much better paper.

Otis Chandler was the best publisher the paper ever had.

He picked a couple of very good editors to work with, Nick Williams and then Bill Thomas, who for my money was the best editor around.

And they said, we want you to do what you do.

And, you know, the 11th Commandment, Republican candidates, and then out of nowhere, he says, but, you know, being older, do you think at Ronald Reagan's age, will he be able to withstand the pounding you get from a reporter like Robert Scheer, who blah, blah, blah? You know, everybody in the room is startled, you know, and I said, oh, you know, Jesus.

And then another question came up a few questions later like that where he, in a gratuitous way, dragged me into it.

And so as we were filing out of this room, Otis Chandler, you know, came up to me, put his arm around me.

He was taller than I am.