Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, also known as Robin MacNeil, is a Canadian American novelist, and former television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth19 January 1931
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
boston children wife
I have children in Denver, Boston and London, England; and my wife and I have been to see all of them; and they to us in New York.
manners certain diplomacy
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
rivers growing language
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
uplifting children heart
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
retirement new-york thinking
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
pundits wanted
I never wanted to be a pundit.
luxury play able
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
commitment years lasts
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
country few invested realized
But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.