It goes back to your jelly pad when you are 8 years old and you print your own newspaper for your friends and in school. I guess when I started out...

Let's put it this way: Journalists are writers, but not all writers are journalists. I use the distinction because the word journalism contains the...

It's hard to remember what my motives were. I guess I liked to write. I like to toy with words. I remember when I was in high school, I used to write...

I had been in the Army during the Second World War so I had something like three or four years of GI Bill coming to me. Those were the days when the...

I felt that television could do a lot of things in telling a story. You can't really dramatize certain events in words in the same way you could do...

There's a limited attention span, I think, on the part of the viewer for an analysis of what's going on inside that room, but you can do that in a book....

The idea of the television series was proposed to me by Lawrence K. Grossman, who was then the president of Public Broadcasting, in a rather nice setting....

I started going out there in the '50s, so I was there from the '50s and then even in fact for the television series and the book went back in the early...

The idea of the series started first, yes. Then I did the book actually along with the series. It wasn't as if I wrote the book and then the series...

You want to get a handsome advance, if you can, although it's not a way to make money. Working on these things, you could be a teller in a bank and...

It's every step of the way. First, you organize. You plan what you're going to do, and you know perfectly well as you start it, when you've got a grasp...

Interviewing people is fun in many ways, especially if you have time to do it, and you can let it spread out a bit, and you can help the person you're...

I don't know any writer who thinks that writing is fun. It's hard work, and the way I do it is just as if I'm doing any other job. I get up in the morning...

I'm not an academic, and I don't want to throw 24 volumes at people. I assure you that I had enough material to do a 24-volume account of this story,...

. The Vietnam book was published in late '83; it's still on the shelves. It's being used in schools along with the television series, and I must say...

Don't forget that it's interesting about Vietnam, that is, that you have a whole generation of Americans who lived through it, either veterans of the...

Who's this gentleman?

As a journalist are you driven to transfer information, or do you find yourself having a strong point of view at this point in your life and you want...

Again, going back to Vietnam, because the results in this one it's too early to tell, but on Vietnam I found myself denounced by the extreme left and...

That's Arthur MacArthur, who was a general at the turn of the century in the Philippines and one of the early American commanders and the father of...

He was there at this early period. After we had landed in the Philippines, we defeated the Spanish" as I said, Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet in seven...

He explained afterward to a group of Methodist clergymen that he could not make up his mind, but he said he paced the floor of the White House night...

This is a classic picture. Who is this?

When he was there, how many Filipinos were there?

Another factor of course was to bring an area of 8 million people into the union would have made it the biggest state in the union. It would have been...

That is President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing into law in 1935 the legislation that turned the Philippines into a commonwealth and also, more importantly,...

The man with the straw hat is Douglas MacArthur, then the military adviser to the Philippine commonwealth government. He had been chief of staff in...

What impact did Gen. MacArthur have on what we know today as the Philippines?

In 1944 as he fought his way up through the Pacific, he approached the Philippines, and there was a big debate in Washington among the strategists of...

How much time did you spend around him?

We remember the names of the famous generals like Omar Bradley or Maxwell Taylor or Matthew Ridgway or George Patton because Eisenhower gave them publicity....

From my own brief experience with him, MacArthur tended to deliver speeches. Maybe this was because it was late in his life. He talked himself out;...

That's Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Marcos" Marcos was the president of the Philippines" with Lyndon Johnson on a visit to Washington in 1966. Lyndon...

That's Richard Nixon with the Marcoses, and to the right is Pat Nixon. They didn't get along very well. Nixon, whatever you may think of him, was sensitive...

There are very few peoples in the world that I've encountered who were as hospitable and genuinely warm as the Filipinos are, especially toward an American....

The book and the television series that we produced, we had to go out with the Filipino communists into their areas, and they're just as friendly and...

That is President Corazon Aquino" Cory, as we call her" delivering a speech to the joint sessions of Congress in September 1986 about six or eight months...

She said" and she's not a woman to dissimulate" she said in her speech before Congress that the three years that she was in exile in Boston, from 1980...

United States. When you get down into the villages, it's very rare that you don't find somebody who's got a cousin in San Diego or an uncle in Cleveland....

Let me put it in terms of what I would like to see rather than looking into my clouded crystal ball and predicting what in fact will happen. In terms...

This is what the cover of the book looks like. Stanley Karnow is our guest. The title is In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. How much...

We have a society that we like to think is based on civic virtue, on impersonal institutions. Philippine society is based on personal relationships;...

Right.

That's right.

I started out as a reporter in Paris in 1950 and worked there as a correspondent for Time magazine, had some interludes back at Harvard as a Nieman...

But Asia always interested me, not that I had any special knowledge. As I said, I had been out there during the Second World War, but I was just a GI...

How many years did it take you to write this book about the Philippines?

How much videotape or film shooting did you have to do for your PBS series?

Did you do all the interviews yourself?

What are you going to do with those hours and hours of interviews that never got into the what is it? three hours of documentary on PBS.

You've worked for the Saturday Evening Post, NBC News, the Washington Post. You were an associate editor of the New Republic. Which of those did you...

Being able to write long pieces for the late and lamented old Saturday Evening Post was particularly satisfactory, but on the other hand working for...

What do they do?

From what you've learned as a reporter and a journalist and a writer and a television producer, if somebody made you secretary of state what are some...

We beef about the Japanese and their trade problems. They've got a legislature, they've got political parties, they've got pressure groups and vested...

Next project for Stanley Karnow?

Here's the book, In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. Stanley Karnow is the author, and he's been our guest for the last 60 minutes. Thank...