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Paul Harvey Aurandt (born " segment. His listening audience is estimated at 22 million people a week. Paul Harvey likes to say that he was raised in radio newsrooms. The most noticeable features of Harvey's idiosynchratic delivery are his dramatic pauses, quirky intonations and his folksyness. A large part of his success stems from the seamlessness with which he segues from his monologue into reading commercial messages. He explains his enthusiastic support of his sponsors as "I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is." CAREER Harvey was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Harvey made radio sets as a boy. In 1932 , at a high school teacher’s suggestion, he started working at KVOO/Tulsa. There he helped clean up and eventually was allowed to fill in on the air, reading commercials and news. Later, while attending the University Of Tulsa , he continued working at KVOO as an announcer, and later as a program director. Harvey spent three years as a station manager for a local station in Salina, Kansas . From there, he moved to a news casting job at KOMA in Oklahoma City , then moved on to KXOK, in St. Louis , where he was Director of Special Events as well as working as a roving reporter. In 1940 , Harvey moved to Hawaii to cover the U.S. Navy as it concentrated its fleet in the Pacific. He was returning to the United States from assignment in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor . Harvey then enlisted in the Army Air Corps , where he served until 1944 . According to his official Army Air Corps Military Personnel Record, his term in the military lasted from December 1943 to March 1944 - about 14 weeks. (The November 7 , 1978 , issue of '' Esquire '' magazine has an exposé of sorts on Harvey, including how he came to drop his last name of Aurandt: briefly, he stole an airplane and was discharged from the Army Air Corps on Section 8, mental illness charges.) After leaving military service, Harvey moved to Chicago , where in June 1944, he began broadcasting from the ABC affiliate WENR. He quickly became the most popular newscaster in Chicago. In 1945 , he began hosting the postwar employment program ''Jobs for G.I. Joe'' on ABC affiliate WENR. Harvey added "The Rest of the Story" segments to his newscasts in 1946 . The spots became their own series in 1976. In 1951 , the ABC Radio Networks carried Paul Harvey's show ''News and Comment'' coast-to-coast and it has continued ever since. At that time, America was at the height of the . Eventually, a Grand Jury cleared him of all charges. During the late 1960s through the early 1980s , there was a televised, five-minute editorial by Paul Harvey that local stations could insert into their local news programs, or show separately. On May 10 , 1976 , ABC Radio Networks spun off ''The Rest of the Story'' as a separate series which provided endless surprises as Harvey dug into the stories behind the stories of famous events people. Harvey's son, a concert pianist, helped write the show. In late 2000, Harvey signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with ABC Radio Networks. A few months later, he was off the air after damaging his Vocal Cords . He returned in late August 2001. Paul Harvey News has been called the "largest one-man network in the world", as it is carried on 1200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations around the world and 300 newspapers. His broadcasts and newspaper columns have been reprinted in the Congressional Record more than those of any other commentator. Harvey's ''News and Comment'' is streamed on the World Wide Web twice a day. AWARDS He has been named Salesman of the Year, Commentator of the Year, Person of the Year, Father of the Year, and American of the Year. He has been elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Hall Of Fame and Oklahoma Hall of Fame and appeared on the Gallup Poll list of America's most admired men. In addition he has received eleven Freedom Foundation Awards as well as the Horatio Alger Award . In 2005 , he was bestowed the Presidential Medal Of Freedom , the United States ' most prestigious civilian award, by President George W. Bush . FAMILY When Paul Harvey was 3, his father, Harry H. Aurandt, a police officer with the Tulsa Police Department, was gunned down while trying to arrest a suspect. Harvey is married to Lynne Harvey (''née'' Cooper) of St. Louis. When Harvey working at KXOX he met Lynne Cooper when she came to the station for a school news program. Harvey invited her to dinner, and proposed to her after a few minutes of conversation and from then on called her Angel. A year later she said yes. Lynne Harvey is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is a former school teacher. Harvey himself was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha at Culver-Stockton College in Missouri. They have one son, Paul Aurandt Jr. , who goes by the name Paul Harvey Jr., and assists his father at "News and Comment" and "The Rest of the Story" and frequently fills in for his father during broadcasts. Paul Harvey Jr. sounds more and more like his father. In the near future, one will not be able to distinguish who is who, thus ensuring a smooth transition when Paul Havey passes away leaving his son as — the rest of the story. CATCHPHRASES AND QUOTES
Controversial Quotes In a 2005 monologue, the U.S. response to the World Trade Center Attacks prompted Harvey to wax nostaglic. ::: Winston Churchill was not here to remind us that we didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy. So, following the New York disaster, we mustered our humanity. We gave old pals a pass, even though men and money from Saudi Arabia were largely responsible for the devastation of New York and Pennsylvania and our Pentagon. We called Saudi Arabians our partners against terrorism and we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in our silos. Even now we’re standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive, because we’ve declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies -- more moral, more civilized. Our image is at stake, we insist. But we didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving Smallpox infected blankets to native Americans. Yes, that was Biological Warfare ! And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous. And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. So it goes with most great nation-states, which--feeling guilty about their savage pasts--eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy. BOOKS
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