General Discussion

He was on right before dinner time at our house. When we kids were old enough, we were supposed to listen to him because we knew we might be asked questions about what he talked about that evening during dinner. Our parents, particularly our dad, wanted to be sure that we knew what was going on in the world. We sort of followed that tradition with our kids, having the TV news on either before or during dinner, usually Walter Cronkite/Dan Rather. I knew early on that at least the middle one was paying attention when I was hearing his prayers one night around Christmas and he prayed for "the kids in Poland to have a nice Christmas". (This was 1981, I think, and times were really tough there.)