Virginia’s soon to be senior senator, Jim Webb, was interviewed on Sunday by Deborah Solomon of the New York Times Magazine, and while she didn’t get a lot out of him, she managed to get more than George W. Bush during his first interview with Webb. Solomon queried the sometimes terse senator about why he uses the word “fight” in his recent book titles—Webb responded that his publisher made him do it. She also grilled him about possible Democratic VP candidates—Webb said he hadn’t been asked, and that whoever it is should have experience holding elected office, describing his own run for senate in 2006 as “one of the most brutal things” that Webb, a Vietnam vet, has ever been through. When Solomon asks about his son, a Marine who served in Iraq, Webb responded, saying, “He’s good.” Which is a flowery, psychoanalytic description from a Henry James novel compared to his response to the president of the United States when he asked, “How’s your boy?” in 2006: “That’s between me and my boy, Mr. President,” Webb replied.
Jim Webb gives Solomon the full report on his son: "He’s good."