Sam Donaldson
Sam Donaldson
Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson, Jr.is an American reporter and news anchor, serving with ABC News from 1967 to 2013. He is best known as the network's White House Correspondentand as a panelist and later co-anchor of the network's Sunday program, This Week...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 March 1934
CityEl Paso, TX
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At the end of that year I was promoted to sergeant. Only five or six of us got promoted to sergeant for our final year in high school.
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But a distinctive voice is important. I don't think I realized this as a young kid, but I do remember listening to those voices.
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Women couldn't be on television, ... They could bring you coffee or something. She's so dumb she didn't know that.
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We understand the investigation is continuing, and we have been asked by authorities not to comment further at this time.
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Whereas at ABC I was anchoring some of their programs, some of their specials, immediately, because there wasn't that much competition.
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He can take a story, compress it into nine or 10 words, and have a greater clarity and punch then when I write two paragraphs.
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I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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My wife, Jan, and I are shocked by the apparent triple homicide that took place on our ranch in Hondo, New Mexico, sometime over the Fourth of July weekend while we were away in Santa Fe,
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I knew early on that the news business was right for me. I enjoyed it, it was fun. If I thought it was work, I might not have done it.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.