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
The terror warnings from the highest levels of the federal government tonight are just-
Yesterday they had to operate and remove part of the skull cap to relieve some of the swelling.
We had hoped that he would be here so that we could have a reunion tonight ? a celebration.
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades, ... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
Obviously, it's very gratifying, ... It's especially pleasing to be able to share this with a lot of people who have been through some long, dark days here and now have emerged into the sunlight.
Tom Broderick in so many ways embodies the best qualities of his generation. He was gravely wounded, but once he got over the initial understandable anger, he set out to be the best husband, father, businessman, and citizen he could be ? sight or not sight.
We all made each other better at what we do. And we had a common DNA, if you will: We were all reporters first and anchors second.
There has been some research, by the way, that shows that, as people are coming up into their parenting ages, they gravitate back to the evening news.
For example, ... your lead for tonight might be, Flashing their characteristic intelligence and brilliance, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather...
David and I have actually talked about this.
It makes it all the more poignant because of the absence of our colleague Peter Jennings. We had hoped that he would be here tonight so we could have a reunion, a celebration.
This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.
We were competitive, but we were always bound by a shared devotion to being reporters first.
My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.