Peter Jennings is a nice person. I met him a few times in the late 1980s, when he hired me to do some work for ABC News when his friend journalist Charles Glass was kidnapped in Beirut. I was even sent to Beirut to look for him. These were crazy times, and I had short hair and a moustache--some of you have seen that picture of me. The people at the Pan Am counter at Dulles Airport would not even let me board the plane, until Jennings called them. I am not his friend and have not been in touch with him, and I am sure that he does not even remember me. But I thought about him as I read about his illness. This is somebody who worked for mainstream media and yet tried very hard to cover foreign news fairly and adequately. He did not always succeed. I remember that I was very impressed with the way he treated fellow workers in the network. That is very important for me. I also noticed that the book shelves in his office were filled with books on the Middle East. He also knows the Arab world very well, and even dated Hanan `Ashrawi when she was a student in Beirut, and he was a reporter in Beirut. You did not know that, did you? He was hated by the New Republic, and that in itself made him valuable.