David Brooks

You know, it's your truth.

And if you do that, A, unless your name is Aristotle, you probably can't come up with your own moral philosophy.

I mean, most of us can't do that.

But second, we have no shared morality on which to decide what's right and wrong.

And with that, just basic shared standards of how a person should behave.

And there's been that loss of just assumptions of this is what a president does, this is what a president doesn't do.

Thank you.

And thank you, gentlemen.

We've been doing this for long times, back to the 20th century we were doing this.

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Viewers may not know that Robert and I are third cousins.

We learned from a DNA test.

And we grew up in the same housing project, Stuyvesant Town in Lower Manhattan.

And EJ and I have been joined at the hip for many decades.

And, you know, one of the things that...

I was a lucky break for me.

A lot of things were lucky breaks.

One, I had a grandfather who knew how to write.

And as I mentioned, my final column, love to write letters to the editor of the New York Times.

It was just so moving when I got this job to go from the kid he was in Lower East Side, going to City College, free college in New York, to working at the New York Times.