Now I've Heard Everything

In the years immediately following World War II, one of America's most popular entertainers was a young singer named Margaret Whiting. She estalished herself as a top performer on radio and TV as well as in the recording studio. In this 1987 interview Whiting reflects on her life and career. Get It Might As Well Be Spring by Margaret Whiting As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns...

For 21 years, starting in 1966, through five administrations, Swiss-born Henry Haller was the White House executive chef . In this 1987 interview Haller reveals what it's like feeding a First Family -- and how the kitchen staff handles a new administration. Get The White House Family Cookbook by Henry Haller As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may...

In 1966, Marvin Miller – an economist by training – was elected executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. By the time he retired 16 years later, Miller had helped transform not just the players association but the entire professional sports industry. In this 1991 interview Miller recaps his accomplished labor union career. Get A Whole Different Ballgame by Marvin Miller...

In 1933, a three-yearold boy, his older sister and their mother moved in with the boy’s grandparents – who had a very large house in an important city. Curtis Roosevelt was that young boy. His grandparents were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just recently moved into the White House themselves. In these interview highlights from 2008 and 2010 Curtis Roosevelt recalls his unique childhood e...

A number of countries require national service from their young men, and Israel from its young women as well What should the US? In this 1990 interview conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. makes the case for a year of national service as a way for young Americans to demonstrate their gratitude for our civil liberties. Get Gratitude by William F. Buckley Jr. As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Hea...

For 40 years a modest family-owned business has been supplying folks in Washington DC with the treat no one dislikes – chocolate. It was started in 1984 by sisters Frances and Ginger Park, daughters of a Korean immigrant. And their story is as appealing as the morsels they sell at their store, called Chocolate Chocolate. In this 2011 interview Ginger and Frances recall how they got into the busine...

In 1943 a 20-year-old model from New York was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS to be a spy in Europe. Thus began the espionage career of Aline Griffith, later the wife of a Spanish aristocrat. In this 1988 interview Aline, Countess of Romanones recounts her recruitment and training as a spy. Get The Spy Wore Red by Aline, Countess of Romanones As an Amazon Associate, Now I've...

One of the leading contenders for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination was Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy. His anti-Vietnam War position resonated with a large segment of Americans. In this 1987 interview McCarthy talks about his political memoir, Up 'Til Now, and what went wrong for his campiagn in '68. Get Up 'Til Now by Eugene McCarthy As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything...

Commercial radio in its infancy was a novelty, and it took years for the medium to realize its full potential as an essential part of American life. Ed Bliss joined CBS radio in 1943, and over the next 25 years worked alongside Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, among others, to shape the directio of broadcast journalism. In this 1991 interview Bliss reflecs on how readio and TV news evolved. G...

It's been 47 years since the king died. Elvis Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis on August 16,1977 at the age of 42 . Among the utterly devastated were those closest to Elvis, including his family, and his longtime hairdresser and confidante Larry Geller. In this 1989 interview Geller reveals things Elvis told him during their long friendship. Get If I Can Dream by Larry Geller As an...

It was this week 55 years ago – starting on August 15, 1969, to be exact – that organizers put on what they called an “Aquarian Exposition” in White Lake, New York. It came to be known simply as Woodstock. Elliot Tiber and his family operated a small, rundown motel in Bethel, New York. And Elliot also owned a permit to hold a music festival. In this 1994 interview Tiber explains how Woodstock may...

In her anger and grief after the death of her 13-year-old daughter in 1980, Candy Lightner formed a group which she dubbed Mothers Against Drunk Driving. And it quickly grew into a powerful grassroots campaign to force states to stiffen the penalties for drunk or impaired driving. She later wrote a book about grief and death, called Giving Sorrow Words. In this 1990 interview Lightner offers compa...

50 years ago today Richard Milhous Nixon made U.S. hisory by becoming the first, and so far only, president to resign from office. In this 1991 interview, renowned Nixon biographer Stepheh Ambrose explains why the resignation had to happen, but also what the unforeseen ramifications were for the countfry. Get Nixon: Ruin and Recovery by Stephen Ambrose As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everyt...

William Cohen was white, Jewish, Republican. Janet Langhart was black, Christian, and Democrat. Yet somehow they've endured as a couple since the 1990s. In this 2007 interview the Cohens atalk about thier "opposites atrtract" marriage and how it's lasted. Get Love in Black and White by William Cohen & Janet Langhart As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases....

Back in 1997 a young dyslexic sales and marketing executive, temporarily employed as a bartender, turned his frustration with "politics as usual" into his first book, a self-published political thriller called Term Limits It got only lukewarm reviews – some even hated it. But readers ate it up. and Vince Flynn’s professional writing career was launched. In this 1998 interview Flynn recounts what i...

Millions of people say they have had a near-death experience, a term coined by Dr. Raymond Moody in 1975. But questions abound. What exactly happens during a near death experience? Some people have one and others don't? And why do some people choose to come back? In this 1988 interview Dr. Moody addressesthose and other critical questions about NDE. Get The Light Beyond by Raymond Moody As an Amaz...

The entry of Vice President Kamala Harris into the 2024 presidential race has energized and invigorated millions of American women. Could it be the culmination of a societal shift that some people saw coming thirty or more years ago? In 1993 author, speaker, and political candidate Marianne Williamson wrote about the changing landscape of American society in a book called A Woman’s Worth, in which...

For three years, back in the late 1980s, Jack O’Donnell worked for Donald Trump. O’Donnell rose from senior vice president at the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City to, eventually, president of that enterprise. In this 1991 interview O’Donnell recalls his front-row seat into how Donald Trump operates. And what he saw was a shrewd deal maker, a not so great manager, and someone who is motivated al...

Forty years ago9 in Los Angeles one such hero was track and field star Al Joyner. He won the gold medal in the triple jump, with a leap of an incredible 56 feet 7 and a half inches. And in 1987, he got another gold, a wedding ring when he married track star and fellow Olympic gold medalist Florence Griffith, who became known as FloJo. She wrote a book, Running For Dummies, in 1998 but died before...

Back in 1995 in London, a teenager was out shopping one day when a stranger tapped her on the shoulder. That stranger was a modeling scout, and before long, that teenager was signed as a professional model. And it wasn’t long after that that Alek Wek was seen on covers of major international magazines. She was MTV’s Model of the Year in 1997. But what makes her story even more incredible and extra...

When the history of digital media is written, one name will figure prominently: Los Angeles-born and raised would-be comedian Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart was instrumental in developing the Drudge Report and the Huffington Post, and ultimately Breitbart News. In this 2011 interview Breitbart talks about his book Righteous Indignation. Get Righteous Indignation by Andrew Breitbart As an Amazon Assoc...

This weekend marks 55 years since human beings first set foot on the surface of the moon The Apollo 11 mission put astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon Good 3rd crew member, Michael Collins, remained in the orbiting And module . It was the fulfillment of an ambitious goal set at the beginning of the 1960s by President John F Kennedy . At the heart of it all was a brilliant aerospa...

Edna Buchanan joined the Miami Herald in 1973, working the police beat. And she was good at it. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for her reporting. By the late 1980s, she had turned to fiction writing, The real life stories she had covered became the raw material for her fiction. And it turned out she was really good at that, too. Many of her books became best sellers, and a couple were turned i...

It was 25 years ago tomorrow, July 16, 1999 that a small plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard took the lives of 38-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr.. his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. At the time of his death Kennedy was struggling to keep his magazine, George, afloat. Richard Bradley was one of the original editors at George in 1995, and by 1999 was the magazine’s executive...

Sixty years ago, convening in San Francisco, Republicans nominated firebrand Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater as their party's nominee against incumbent Democrat Lyndon Johnson. But ,many Republicans in 1964 saw Goldwater as too extreme. And Goldwater himself didn't do much to calm those concerns, with his acceptance speech. After being trounced by LBJ that fall, Goldwater remained in the Senate fo...