As president of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, the late Richard S. Salant launched the first 30-minute Evening News, CBS Morning News, and 60 Minutes, and established high standards in his profession. This first-person account, assembled and edited during the years since Salant's death in 1993, is a history of broadcast journalism, an inside story of the politicians and journalists who shaped America's recent history, and an alarm about the erosion of standards in broadcast journalism.