George Herman began his broadcasting career during World War II, starting at CBS in 1944 as a news editor. His first story was about the Japanese offer to surrender. He went on to cover the Korean War and was a White House correspondent during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Herman had an interesting journey to broadcasting -- he started out with a Bachelors degree in mathematics and speaks trigonometry as easily as journalism.

Robert Trout began his broadcasting career here in Washington, D.C., in 1931. He went on to anchor CBS broadcasts during World War II, including the London blitz and D-Day. He coined the phrase "fireside chat" for President Roosevelt's radio talks to the nation. Later, Trout anchored coverage of FDR's funeral.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr has contributed his commentaries to NPR^® for more than 20 years. He recently received the Dupont-Columbia University Gold Baton "for exceptional contributions to Radio & Television Reporting and Commentary." He covered the McCarthy hearings in 1953 and the Clinton impeachment hearings in 1998. He observed the Eisenhower-Krushchev meeting in Geneva in 1955.

Dan Schorr's 20-year career as a foreign correspondent began in 1946. Having served in Army intelligence in World War II, he wrote from western Europe his own accounts of postwar construction, the Marshall Plan and the creation of the NATO alliance. He interviewed Fidel Castro and watched the Berlin Wall go up. In 1972, Schorr found himself a part of his own story when his name turned up on Nixon's "enemies list."

Listen as All Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer leads a discussion about history, about conflicts and how our lives have changed with a group of people who have been in the business of observing these things for themselves during the last century.

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