Tex McCrary: Wars-Women-Politics, an Adventurous Life Across the American Century William Safire: ...I could never get him to write his memoirs before he died; the active octogenarian stubbornly said I won''t live my life with eyes on the rear-view mirror. But Chuck Kelly...interviewed him skillfully and often, and now we have an adventurer''s eye-view of McCrary''s little-known role in tempestuous times.