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Roger Mudd, Veteran Newsman for CBS and NBC, Dies at 93

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Roger Mudd, the Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No.

1 network anchorman — not that he wanted that, anyway — has died. He was 93. Mudd diedTuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia, his son Jonathan Mudd told The Washington Post.

Mudd joined CBS News in 1961 and served as a congressional and national affairs correspondent and as a regular substitute for Walter Cronkite on theCBS Evening News.

When the famed anchorman retired and Dan Rather was selected to replace him, a humiliated Mudd exited in 1980 for NBC, where he was chief Washington correspondent, then co-host of theNBC Nightly Newswith Tom Brokaw for a little more than.

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