Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw
Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author, best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He is the author of The Greatest Generationand other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He is the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth6 February 1940
CityWebster, SD
CountryUnited States of America
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
I like Washington a great deal. I enjoyed living there. But then I've enjoyed living almost everywhere I've ever been. I just find that it's a different menu wherever you go.
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.
Yesterday they had to operate and remove part of the skull cap to relieve some of the swelling.
This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.