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Mudd left the "NewsHour" in 1992 to teach journalism at Princeton University, describing the offer to teach at the Ivy League school as simply too appealing to turn down. He hosted a number of reports on American history and education, including "Learning in America: Schools That Work" and "The Wizard: Thomas Alva Edison." In five years on "NewsHour," Mudd served as a senior correspondent, essayist and occasional anchor. His departure had been rumored since he sharply criticized NBC News for canceling the newsmagazine show "1986," which he co-anchored with Connie Chung.
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Tom Brokaw, center, with Roger Mudd, left, and John Chancellor on NBC News' election night desk in 1980.īut when he left NBC, he said management viewed news as "a promotable commodity" rather than a public service. In addition, he co-anchored NBC's "Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw for a year before Brokaw went solo in 1983, and for a time co-hosted "Meet the Press," the Sunday morning interview show. It was then that Mudd jumped to NBC as its chief Washington correspondent. Cronkite had backed Rather because he didn't think Mudd had enough foreign experience.
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Mudd spent a fair amount of time in the "CBS Evening News" anchor chair, substituting for Walter Cronkite when he was off and anchoring the Saturday evening news broadcasts from 1966 to 1973.īut he lost out to Dan Rather in the competition to succeed Cronkite as the news anchor at CBS when Cronkite retired in 1981. It was enough to prompt New York Times columnist Tom Wicker to give Kennedy the "Safire Prize for Nattering Nabob of the Year." Carter went on to win the nomination for a second term, only to fall to Ronald Reagan in the general election.Īs Mudd told viewers: "On the stump Kennedy can be dominating, imposing and masterful, but off the stump, in personal interviews, he can become stilted, elliptical and at times appear as if he really doesn't want America to get to know him." And I would basically feel that it's imperative for this country to move forward, that it can't stand still, for otherwise it moves backward." We're facing complex issues and problems in this nation at this time but we have faced similar challenges at other times. "Well, I'm, uh, were I to make the announcement to run, the reasons that I would run is because I have a great belief in this country. Kennedy was unable to give a focused answer or specify what he personally wanted to do. In an April 2008 interview on the "NewsHour," he said he "absolutely loved" keeping tabs on the nation's 100 senators and 435 representatives, "all of them wanting to talk, great access, politics morning, noon and night, as opposed to the White House, where everything is zipped up and tightly held." He wrote a memoir, "The Place To Be," which came out in early 2008, and described the challenges and clashing egos he encountered working in Washington, where among other things he covered Congress for CBS for 15 years. When he joined Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer's show in 1987, Mudd told The Associated Press: "I think they regard news and information and fact and opinion with a reverence and respect that really is admirable." His career coincided with the flowering of television news, the pre-cable, pre-Internet days when the big three networks and their powerhouse ranks of reporters were the main source of news for millions of Americans.īesides work at CBS and NBC, he did stints on PBS's "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" and the History Channel. He was 93.ĬBS News says Mudd died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia.ĭuring more than 30 years on network television, starting with CBS in 1961, Mudd covered Congress, elections and political conventions and was a frequent anchor and contributor to various specials. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president, has died. Roger Mudd, the longtime political correspondent and anchor for NBC and CBS who once stumped Sen.