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I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.

~Tom Brokaw

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In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.

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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

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The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

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I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

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In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers.

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You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

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The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.

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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.

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I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 6th, 1940

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