A biography for Norman Learhasn’t been written yet.
“Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.”
“I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.”
“Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.”
“I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.”
“That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.”
“So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.”
“Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.”
“When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.”