John Chancellor and NBC Nightly News say goodnight -- and goodbye -- to David Brinkley as he departs for, eventually, ABC.
Just before leaving regular TV duties for good in 1996, Brinkley would -- unaware that the camera was still on during Election Night coverage -- speak great truth about the Clinton Administration after a colleague asked him what he thought of the president's re-election:
"The next four years will be filled with pretty words, and pretty music, and a lot of goddamn nonsense!"
Those are what you call timeless words, able to be applied broadly to presidencies, no matter of which political stripe.
