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
Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.
My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.
I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.
I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles?
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
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...