Roger Mudd was a broadcast journalist well known for credits including hosting “Meet the Press” and co-anchoring “NBC Nightly News.”Mudd’s national career started at CBS News in 1961, where he was weekend anchor for “CBS Evening News” and sometimes substituted for anchor Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) on the program’s weeknight broadcasts.
Mudd left CBS in 1980 – when he lost the chance at the weeknight anchor spot to Dan Rather – and moved to NBC News, where he was co-anchor on “NBC Nightly News,” “American Almanac,” and “1986,” as well as hosting “Meet the Press.” In later years, Mudd became a correspondent for “The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour” and a primary anchor for the History Channel.Among the best remembered moments of Mudd’s career was.
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