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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If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
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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.