Andrea Mitchell, my crazy uncle, Truman and the Rethuglicans

Andrea Mitchell started out in Philly. I don’t know whether she’s from here, but she went to the University of Pennsylvania, started out on radio on WXPN and then was a reporter for the all news station KYW. My father's youngest brother was a reporter, first for the now long gone Evening Bulletin and then for KYW, where he introduced my dad to “Andi” Mitchell. This was in the ‘70s. I met her back then, and she hooked me up with this guy Rich Aregood who at the time among other things was the Daily News music critic. He was also the paper’s Editorial Page Editor or maybe became that later.

My uncle was once quite a heavy duty reporter. He was the Bulletin’s Science Page editor but before that was a reporter. One of the memories of my childhood was a front page pic in the Bulletin of him interviewing Nixon, I believe when he was vice president. He was ten years younger than my father, something of a boy genius and also quite insane. He had a nervous breakdown when I was a kid and my dad …