Talking about octogenarians, here’s one that I really like and who always has something interesting to say: Walter Cronkite. Walter in an interview yesterday on “embedded correspondents”:

What we didn't -- my gosh, of all of the important -- important events of our time, when the president orders the American boys and girls into action somewhere, there's no more serious time for us to be shut out of all information. We're not only entitled to know what our boys and girls do in our name, it's our duty to what boys and girls are doing in our name in case of what they are doing in our name is not what we want them to do. We should have a voice in them.