I didn't go to college. I followed in my Dad's footsteps, and at age 16, became a junior Reporter on a weekly suburban newspaper called the South London Press. Dad was a veteran British journalist honored by the London Press Club toward the end of his long life for "75 years brave journalism," from 1924 till 1999.

One of my Dad's greatest adventures in his life as a journalist was standing up for freedom of the press in a celebrated case involving an Admiralty clerk named John Vassall, who had been caught spying for Soviet Russia. Dad and a number of other Journalists were hauled before a tribunal that wanted to know the sources of the information in the stories they had been writing about Vassall.

"Tell us your sources, or go to jail," said the government. Each reporter refused to reveal their sources, because to do so would have been a betrayal of their journalistic ethics. But for some obscure reason, only my Dad and a colleague were actually sent to jail--for four and six months respectively. They became known worldwide as "The Silent Reporters."

You'll see from the above why respect for journalists and freedom of the press is bred in my bones, and why I am excited that Bob Woodward's new book, 'Fear: Trump in the White House' has now been published. Woodward, of course, is the veteran reporter who, together with Carl Bernstein, covered the Watergate scandal in 1973.

I don't want to get into politics. But I am passionately interested in truth, and integrity, and honor, and courage, the qualities that make up what we think of as character. For as the late Senator John McCain once remarked: "It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy."

I've only just started reading Mr. Woodward's book. But I can see that he is not only a good reporter and a good storyteller. He is, above all, doing his best to shine the light of truth in this troubled and confusing time in our nation.

As Nick Bryant, of the BBC, puts it in his review of Woodward's book: "I wonder how many journalists have arrived in Washington over the years dreaming of becoming the next Bob Woodward...Though his books are often sensational, he is the opposite of sensationalist. He's diligent, rigorous, fastidious about the facts, and studiously ethical. There's something almost monastic about his method...He's Washington's chronicler in chief."

I send you blessings and love, and if you have any thoughts on the above please do share.