table of contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Depression Baby -- 2 Transition -- 3 The Journal Newsroom -- 4 Love and Marriage -- 5 Never a Slow Day -- 6 Civil Rights -- 7 The Professional Cream Skimmer -- 8 The War Correspondent, Military and the Media -- 9 Cuba and Colombia -- 10 Impeachments -- 11 Help From My Friends -- 12 The Editors of Destruction -- 13 The Standing Committee -- 14 Press Club Days -- 15 The National Press Building -- 16 The National Press Foundation -- 17 The Car Columnist -- 18 Religion and Politics -- 19 Admiration -- Epilogue Fortunate Son -- Appendices -- index -- Photos -- 1. The Aukofer family, circa 1955. -- 2. The Air Force Reservist. -- 3. Father Matthew Gottschalk, OFM Cap. -- 4.a. I receive the first scholarship awarded by the Milwaukee professional chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. -- 4.b. Another presentation of the 200 scholarship check at the Milwaukee Press Club. -- 5. This is a gag photo given to me by Journal Women's Section staffers Barbara Schmoll and Sandra Cota. -- 6. In May, 1964, driving a formula vee. -- 7. April 3, 1964. Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace leaves the Marquette campus. -- 8. Apr. 8, 1964. A Wallace rally in Milwaukee. -- 9. Dec. 9, 1965. Civil rights demonstrators. -- 10. June 9, 1965. Another school segregation protest. -- 11. June 30, 1965, Baraboo, Wis. -- 12. In The Milwaukee Journal newsroom, 1967. -- 13. June 19,1968. Covering the Poor People's Campaign at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. -- 14. May 11, 1969. The ignominious start of a scrambles, a motorcycle race on a dirt track. -- 15. May 29, 1974. I waylay James D. St. Clair. -- 16. January, 1978. I chat with Cuban President Fidel Castro. -- 17. As vice-president of the National Press Club in 1977. -- 18. January, 1978. Cartoon by The Milwaukee Journal's Bill Sanders. -- 19. a. At my 1978 inauguration party.

19. b. I take the mock oath of office from Mondale -- 19. c. I smoke the Cohiba cigar. -- 19. d. The Aukofer clan at the inauguration party. -- 20. Feb. 6, 1978. With Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt. -- 21. a. March 2, 1978. President Jimmy Carter speaks at the Press Club. -- 21. b. At the reception before the newsmaker lunch, Carter greets my partner and bureau chief, John W. Kole. -- 22. June 14, 1978. I welcome Morarji Desai. -- 23. Oct. 17, 1978. Broadway star Carol Channing with Sharlene. -- 24. Oct. 28, 1978. Benny Goodman and his sextet play a benefit at the Press Club. -- 25. a. Dec. 5, 1978. Vermont Royster of the Wall Street Journal greets Herblock of the Washington Post. -- 25. b. Royster gets the award. -- 26. 1980. I relax at the Tlaquepaque cantina on Garibaldi Plaza in Mexico City. -- 27. Aug. 13, 1980. Former Wisconsin Gov. Patrick J. Lucey. -- 28. Mar. 2, 1981. I demonstrate the intricacies of an Intertype machine to Leo Bernstein. -- 29. Aug. 26, 1983. With Coretta Scott King. -- 30. Mar. 20, 1984. An interview in the Oval Office with President Ronald Reagan. -- 31. October, 1984. At the Press Club with Joe Slevin and Arthur Wiese. -- 32. Christmas, 1985. Sharlene and I greet the Reagans at the White House. -- 33. May, 1985. With Henry Keys at the Press Club. -- 34. October, 1985. At the National Press Foundation's "Business Beat" conference. -- 35. April 12, 1986. An all-Marquette group. -- 36. December, 1987. NBC's David Brinkley. -- 37. August, 1990. A group of newspeople and Saudi Arabian officials. -- 38. August, 1990. I sit in at the command console on an AWACs surveillance plane. -- 39. September, 1995. With Admiral William P. Lawrence and John Seigenthaler. -- 40. With Bill and Hillary Clinton at the 1993 White House. -- 41. August, 1996. With portrait artist George Pollard of Kenosha. -- 42. 1998. George Pollard's portrait.

43. Dec. 10, 2001. I sit next to actress Goldie Hawn. -- 44. May 6, 2002. My head table partner is actress Raquel Welch. -- 45. Sept. 22, 2003. Former Sen. Gaylord Nelson's last major speech. -- 46. Nov. 19, 2003. I'm chairman of the Fourth Estate Dinner Committee when theaward goes to NBC's Tom Brokaw.