Al Eisele On His Last Convention

What a way to write finish to my career as a journalist, by covering the Republican National Convention in the city where I got my first reporting job more than four decades ago, after doing the same at the Democratic Convention in Denver, both of which figure to be as historic as the first two I covered in 1968. …

That’s why it will be hard for me to hang up my press credentials after the 2008 election, and start my next career, which is still undefined but will center on teaching and writing books, starting with an updated version of “Almost to the Presidency,” my 1972 dual biography of two Minnesota political giants, Hubert Humphrey and Sen.