Don’t you think should be accountable to the American people?"

Stahl responded (viaMetro).

Stahl is probably one of the most decorated journalists of her time.

Lesley Stahl

“I’m a very slow walker, and his pace was slower than mine,” Stahl recalls.

Latham was subsequently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and Stahl has been supporting him ever since.

“From the very beginning, boxing had a dramatic, positive effect on Aaron.

Lesley Stahl and Aaron Latham

He goes religiously, twice a week,” she says.

In an excerpt published byBrightly, Stahl writes: “Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose.

The change was so big and granular and unexpected, I wanted to understand it.

Lesley Stahl

Does it happen this way to all grandmothers?”

The result is her book,Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting.

“People have said to me, “Are you nuts?

Lesley Stahl

Writing a book about being a grandmother?

Telling everyone you’re that old?”

“The implication is that admitting you’re an LOL is self-destructive.

Did you know that LOL has two meanings?

Which is funny because Lolly is what my grandchildren call me.”

“One thing I found out early is that most grans are besotted.

Having grandchildren is why they say old people are happier than young people.