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
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.
In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.
I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.
I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.
A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try to contemplate how I wanted to live the rest of my life,
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
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.