Brian Williams in 2004: ‘My Biggest Worry Is that a Fact Will Get By Me’

‘... that there will be a fact in the ether, as you speak of, out there that I won’t know about — I hate that feeling’

"I never worried about my reading. I read every night for hours. I've always read. I've made a deal with myself at age 40 never to let the day go by without finishing that day newspaper, usually The New York Times. When I come back from vacation it's not often to tell the person who's brining in the papers in our house to -- that we -- it's not uncommon rather to save them all. And I will sit down and get through every newspaper. It's just a thing that I have. My biggest worry is that a fact will get by me. That there will be a fact in the ether, as you speak of, out there that I won’t know about. I hate that feeling.”

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