Mark Halperin

Really not.

There were a couple of correspondents at ABC, a married couple who had been network correspondents for a very long time, Richard Threlkeld.

and Betsy Aaron, they had been longtime friends of my dad.

And they actually helped me get the job interview.

So they knew my dad.

But my dad used to have a button that said, almost famous person.

He's not super famous.

If you're interested in sort of the parts of history that he touched,

you know, he's famous and in Washington he was, but I was based in New York for most of my career, except for a brief time I was in DC.

Most of my colleagues had no idea.

And I didn't, there was no reason for me to flaunt it.

And again, the stuff my dad was sort of expert in and big in,

not typically the stuff that gets covered by the network news.

And then when I started covering politics in 91, when I got assigned to Bill Clinton, my dad really was not a big player, except in policy, in presidential politics.

Well, I play with my son, so that crowd's out next to everything.

Yeah, he's past LEGOs, though, thank goodness, because I'm not a huge LEGO guy.

You know, he's got lots of different interests.

Right now, we're doing very intense thumb fights.

And I invented a thing where you can take this finger and bring it around and say, rare double team, and use the other finger to bring him down.

we do a lot of thumb fights uh he just learned how to count in japanese so i'm very excited about that because i speak a little japanese took it took it for many years and only speak a little and um he loves comedy he loves music he loves sports so stuff with him separate from that uh you know if he's busy if he's doing something and i have free time um uh i still like sports not nearly as much as i used to watching professional college sports i do