Rodney

My heroes are people whose honesty carried them to uncomfortable conclusions, and then acted on them anyway. Earl Warren, the Republican governor of California who became supreme court chief justice and championed the rights of minorities and the individual, despite the opposition of his own parties; Everett Koop, conservative surgeon general under Reagan who promoted condom usage as the most realistic way to fight AIDS despite opposition from the administration and conservative allies who were pushing absintence as the only strategy. Nobody currently in national politics holds a candle to either of those two.

Oh yeah, and Walter Cronkite. Definitely Uncle Walter. I always trusted him, and he never let me down. You all under the age of 40 or so have no idea what Cronkite meant to America back in the '60s and the '70s.