Summary
Well I did, as you know. But I've been hanging around for 40 years, waiting for this moment, and now that he's done the decent thing at last, he's done it too late. [Alistair Cooke] is retiring in his 96th year, but dear God, by now I'm 77 myself.
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The President Steps Down
About 40 years ago, when I was in the brash prime of my life, I came to the conclusion that I was the right person to succeed Alistair Cooke as author of BBC Radio 4's Letter from America.
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