- Veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in June, 1964. He has been the senior White House correspondent for CBS since January, 1993.
- He attended Loyola University Chicago, where he received a bachelor's degree in the humanities. He dropped out of Chicago-Kent law school when he was hired by a Milwaukee TV station. After gaining broadcast experience, he won a journalism fellowship to Columbia University and then joined CBS News.
- He adopted his first wife's four sons (Patrick, Michael, Daniel & Christopher), whose father, Jules Pierre Orteig Jr., had died of a heart attack in 1960.
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