First, Katie Couric told Good Housekeeping her mother volunteered for Planned Parenthood and invested in condom interests when AIDS first hit the papers. Now MRC’s Brent Baker found Peter Jennings recalling a rather, well, liberal Thanksgiving with his dad back in Canada:
“I remember one year my father, who was a mischievous fellow, had somehow become embroiled in a row about the legalization of marijuana. This was more than 40 years ago, mind you. We had a fairly important government official as a guest. As a practical joke, my dad wrote ’smoke pot’ in cloves on the very large ham. I still give thanks for my father’s sense of humor.”