 I was one of those weird people in sixth or seventh grade. I don't know why. I just decided I wanted to be a journalist or wanted to be a writer. I think in high school I started reading the great books about biographies about presidents. I started reading about the great campaigns of 1960 and 1968 and just sort of really got into politics. And then at some point I switched and decided I wanted to be a reporter in Washington, but I wanted to cover companies and industry and less presidential politics.