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American announcer

Sam Donaldson
ABC News Master White House Correspondent
In office 1998–1999
Preceded by	John Donvan
Succeeded by	Terry Moran
In role 1977–1989
Preceded past	Tom Jarriel
Succeeded past	Brit Hume
Personal details
Born	Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. (1934-03-xi) March 11, 1934 (age 87) El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Patricia Oates ​ ​ (m. 1954; div. 1962)​ Billie Kay Butler ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1980)​ Janice C. Smith ​ ​ (m. 1983; div. 2014)​ Sandra Martorelli ​ (grand. 2014)​
Children	4
Occupation	Announcer; goggle box news pundit; panelist for ABC News At present

Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. ^[1] (born March 11, 1934) is an American quondam reporter and news anchor, serving with ABC News from 1967 to 2009. He is best known as the network's White House Contributor (1977–1989 and 1998–99) and as a panelist and later on co-anchor of the network's Sunday program, This Week.

Early life and career [edit]

Donaldson was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of Chloe (née Hampson), a school teacher, and Samuel Donaldson, a farmer. He grew upwardly on the family subcontract in Chamberino, New United mexican states, which his begetter had bought in 1910, ii years before New Mexico was admitted to the Spousal relationship.

He attended New United mexican states Military machine Found and Texas Western College (at present known as University of Texas at El Paso), where he served as station manager of KTEP, the campus radio station, and joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity.^[2] From 1956 to 1959, Donaldson served on active duty as an arms officeholder in the United states Regular army, attaining the rank of Captain (USAR). While on active duty in 1958, Donaldson was one of the war machine observers of an atomic test in the Nevada testing grounds when an atomic device, with a yield roughly equivalent to the bombs dropped on Japan, was detonated three m yards abroad from the slit trench protecting the observers.

Following armed services service, Donaldson was hired by KRLD-Goggle box (now KDFW-TV), the and so-CBS television affiliate in Dallas, Texas. After a yr, he resigned and moved to New York City to await for a job in circulate news. He failed to get 1.

He was hired by WTOP-TV (currently WUSA-Idiot box) in Washington, D.C., in February 1961. He covered both local and national stories, including the Goldwater presidential campaign in 1964, the Senate debates on the civil rights bill in March 1964, and the Medicare bill the following year. He anchored the half-dozen:00 pm Saturday and Sunday evening newscasts, with John Douglas doing the weather forecasts.

ABC News [edit]

Donaldson was hired past ABC News every bit a Washington contributor in October 1967. He covered the two major party political conventions in 1968 and in 1969 began anchoring the network'due south 11:00 pm Sat and Sun newscasts.

In 1971, Donaldson covered the Vietnam War for ABC News. He was ABC'due south main Watergate correspondent in 1973–74, roofing the trial of the Watergate burglars, the Senate Watergate hearings and the House Judiciary Committee'south impeachment investigation of President Nixon.

Donaldson covered Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign and became the network's White Firm Contributor in Jan 1977, a post he held until January 1989. Ane of his most widely remembered questions during his tenure at the White House came during the Reagan administration: "Mr. President, in talking most the continuing recession tonight, yous have blamed mistakes of the past, and you accept blamed the congress. Does any of the blame vest to you?" To which Reagan retorted: "Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat!"

Donaldson appeared as a panelist on the Dominicus forenoon television program This Week with David Brinkley from its inception in 1981 and after Brinkley's retirement in 1996 co-anchored the This Week program with Cokie Roberts until the 2 were replaced in September 2002 by George Stephanopoulos. He still occasionally serves as a panelist on This Calendar week.

Donaldson anchored the ABC Dominicus Evening News from its inception in 1979 until Baronial 1989.

Donaldson co-anchored the network'south mag program Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer from 1989 to 1999. I of his reports featured a Nazi Gestapo officeholder named Erich Priebke who had escaped to Argentina afterwards World State of war II. Donaldson's team located Priebke in 1994, and Donaldson interviewed him on a street in Bariloche, Argentina, about his office in the execution of 335 Italian civilians on the straight orders of Adolf Hitler in the caves outside Rome.^[three] When the study aired, Italy demanded Priebke'due south extradition and Argentina eventually complied. Priebke was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for his crimes.^[4]

In 1990–91, Donaldson covered the Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Tempest) and co-anchored Primetime Live from Kuwait City two days after the Iraqi troops were forced out.

In 1991, he concluded the ABC News NIGHTLINE broadcast to announce the dissolution of the Soviet Union with playing the Anthem of the Soviet Union and a video of the last Soviet Kremlin Flag lowered and the Raising of the Russian Tricolor, including the resignation of Gorbachev equally President of the USSR.

In August 1992, Donaldson and his producer David Kaplan went to Sarajevo on assignment. On the fashion into town from the airport, Kaplan, riding in a 2d vehicle, was shot to death by a sniper. That night from Belgrade, Donaldson, co-anchoring the program Primetime Alive, reported on Kaplan's death.

In Jan 1997, Donaldson was once over again assigned to the White House as the network'due south chief correspondent in that location and served until mid-1999. He covered the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment of President Clinton.

In 2002, Donaldson anchored the first regularly scheduled U.S. news broadcast on the Internet and, in later years, hosted the ABC News Now "Politics Live" circulate.

On August 2, 2006, during the last White House Press conference in the briefing room earlier undergoing major renovations, Donaldson shouted, "Mr. President, should Mel Gibson be forgiven?", referencing reports of the actor/producer'south declared anti-Semitic remarks. President George Due west. Bush laughed and looked up to meet who had asked the question. Bush joked, "Is that Sam Donaldson? Forget information technology ... you're a 'has-been'! We don't have to respond has-beens' questions."^[five] Donaldson replied, "Amend to have been a has-been than a never-was."^[half-dozen]

With the exception of the Republican convention in Baronial 1992, Donaldson covered every major political party convention from 1964-2012, until he retired from ABC in 2013.

Donaldson was voted Best White Firm Correspondent in 1985 by readers of the Washington Journalism Review and Best Television Correspondent in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989 by readers of the same magazine. Amid his other awards are four Emmys, 3 Peabodys, the Edward R. Murrow honor 1997 (WSU), the Paul White award (RTNDA 1998), and he and his wife Jan were among those named as "Washingtonians of the Year" past Washingtonian Magazine in 2002.

Federal Aid scandals [edit]

Mohair subsidies [edit]

In 1995, the struggle in DC over whether to cut the growing deficit touched announcer Sam Donaldson directly. Bruce Ingersoll, award-winning announcer for the Chicago Lord's day and Wall Street Journal, published a column entitled "As Congress Considers Slashing Crop Subsidies, Flush Urban Farmers Come Under Scrutiny", where he named Donaldson as ane of the wealthy, absentee beneficiaries of Federal subsidies, the "3rd largest recipient" of Federal funds in his area.

During the argue in Congress over whether to cutting "pork", this article was read into the record,^[7] and Donaldson was chastised by Senator Al D'Amato to "Give the coin back", a phrase repeated multiple times in his floor speech and elsewhere.

At that place were claims that Donaldson received as much as ane 1000000 dollars in subsidies.^[viii] The real number turned out to be effectually $188,000,^[9] but the scandal of a millionaire receiving money for a farm on which he was "absentee" still got significant public coverage^[ten]

The subsidy was held up every bit a sign of how meaningless much of the pork was, every bit the Federal authorities had stopped using mohair for uniforms in 1960, after only seven years of subsidies, but was still subsidizing its product over 3 decades later on, and plain giving out coin to people other than "poor family farmers". Even the Department of Agriculture was on record every bit wanting the program concluded.^{[11] [12]}

Donaldson initially refused to comment, just somewhen defended himself by describing the mohair subsidy as "built into the price of sheep", and claimed he had "argued confronting subsidies for years" and was glad when the programme was finally "killed", though in fact mohair subsidies connected all the mode to 2012.^{[13] [14]}

Pest control [edit]

Only a year later, Donaldson was embroiled in another Federal assistance scandal. While still receiving Federal mohair subsidies, it was revealed that he was also using Federal resource to impale prairie dogs, bobcats, foxes, and coyotes on his ranch.^{[xv] [16]} His farm was reported to have used the USDA's Fauna Impairment Control agents 412 times in only 5 years^[17] This sparked outrage among both deficit hawks and creature rights activists.^[18]

This was actually brought to light by Donaldson'south own demands for more Federal money. He claimed to have lost a number of sheep to predators despite the heavy use of Federal resources, and therefore wanted Federal coin to pay for his losses: "The government helps ranchers and farmers and businesses of all kinds. If it'southward in beingness and I am eligible to utilise it, I'll employ it."^[xix]

In an interview, Donaldson said of the beast rights complaints:

What are we going to do about the coyotes, that are eating the lambs like there's no tomorrow? They're eating and so many lambs, I thought the other twenty-four hours I'd put out some mint jelly, in case they want it with their mutton. Every time I say this, the conservationists and the people who honey animals just jump all over me. "What? A coyote is a predator and has a right to live." Yes, they have a right to live, I'1000 all for that, but they're eating my lambs, folks. I merely put it to you, doesn't the lamb accept a right to live? "Yeah, merely you're going to sell the lamb and they're going to impale the lamb for the money." That's right. If yous're going to be in the sheep ranching business organization, you have to try to get rid of the coyotes. Otherwise, you lot're not going to stay in the ranching business.^[20]

Career timeline [edit]

• 1961–1967: Reporter/Anchor WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C.
• 1967–1977: ABC News Capitol Hill Correspondent
• 1977–1989, Jan 1998 – August 1999: ABC News Chief White Business firm Contributor^[21]
• 1979–1989: Earth News Sunday anchor^[21]
• 1981–1996, 2002–2013: This Week panelist^[21]
• August 1989 – 1999: Primetime Live co-anchor^[21]
• November 1996 – September 2002: This Week co-moderator^[21]
• 1998–2000: xx/20 anchor^[21]
• 1999–2001: Sam Donaldson ABCNews.com host^[21]
• October 2001 – May 2004: The Sam Donaldson Prove -- Alive in America host^[21]
• May 2004 – Feb 2009: "Politics Live" anchor, ABC News Now
• February 2009: Retired from ABC News^[22]

Accolades [edit]

• 1996: Aureate Plate Award of the American University of Achievement^{[23] [24]}
• 1997: Edward R. Murrow Honor, Washington State University
• Various: Iv Emmy Awards
• Various: Three Peabody Awards
• 2000: DuPont Award
• 2008: Paul White Award, Radio Tv Digital News Association^[25]
• 2019: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Academy of New Mexico

Personal life [edit]

Donaldson has been married to Sandra Martorelli Donaldson since Dec 2014. They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Donaldson's union to January Smith ended in divorce in 2014.

Donaldson has iv children from previous marriages: Samuel 3, Jennifer, Thomas, and Robert Donaldson.

In 1995, Donaldson had a melanoma removed from a lymph node. Since then, he has been an active supporter of cancer research.^[26]

Donaldson operates a family unit cattle ranch in Lincoln County, New United mexican states. On July 5, 2004, iii members of the ranch foreman'southward family unit were institute murdered. Cody Posey, a xiv-year-old and sole remaining survivor of the family unit, was arrested and charged with the murders and subsequently convicted and sentenced to juvenile detention until historic period 21. On Oct 8, 2010, Cody Posey was released.^[27]

Donaldson appears in the 2008 political documentary nearly Lee Atwater, entitled Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. In the film, he says, "An operative never comes and says, 'hither is a story I'd like you to run for me, but just in private conversation, did you know this about then and so, nosotros're notwithstanding checking it heed you, simply, but it's probably going to plough out to be true.' Well, you don't want to be beaten by your contest and expect until they announce information technology. They put it on the conveyor belt and you but run it out."

Donaldson is a past fellow member of the board of directors of the Library of American Broadcasting, the American Academy of Achievement boards; the past president of the informational lath of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and chairman emeritus of the advisory lath of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. He is currently a member of the Lath of New United mexican states Showtime, the Land's bi-partisan booster organisation, and the Ford Theater Advisory Council.

On Dec 1, 2012, Donaldson was arrested for driving under the influence of booze^[28] in Lewes, Delaware.^[29] Charges were dropped on Friday, November viii, 2013, by a Delaware guess, citing lack of probable crusade for the abort.^[30]

References [edit]

1. ^ "Sam Donaldson Biography (1934-)". www.filmreference.com.
2. ^ "KTEP history". Archived from the original on January 12, 2008.
3. ^ Samuels, Shimon (May 15, 2020). "The SS and the Vatican". The Jerusalem Post . Retrieved September 2, 2020.
4. ^ Smale, Alison (Oct 11, 2013). "Erich Priebke, Nazi Who Carried Out Massacre of 335 Italians, Dies at 100". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
5. ^ "President Visits White Business firm Printing Conference Room Prior to Renovation". The White House - President George W. Bush. August 2, 2006.
6. ^ Loven, Jennifer (Baronial 2, 2006). "Bush Makes Concluding Telephone call at Briefing Room". The Washington Post.
7. ^ "Congress.gov - Library of Congress". www.congress.gov.
8. ^ "Policy Today". www.policytoday.com.
9. ^ "Our Almost Contempo Stories". EWG. Archived from the original on Jan 29, 2013.
10. ^ "Sam Donaldson Gets Farm Subsidies". The Seattle Times. Washington. Associated Press. March 18, 1995.
11. ^ "USDA01: Terminate the Wool and Mohair Subsidy". Department of Agriculture.
12. ^ "1994-07-21 NPR Accompanying Report: Section of Agriculture". Clinton Presidential Materials Project White Business firm Virtual Library. September 1993.
13. ^ "Will the Republicans Really Cut This Time?". Archived from the original on June 2, 2013.
14. ^ Cogan, Marin (June 10, 2010). "Mohair subsidies go reps' goats". Politico.
15. ^ Hightower, Jim (September 6, 1996). "Sam Donaldson: Welfare for the Rich". Archived from the original on April 27, 2015.
16. ^ Peterson, Anna. "Sam Donaldson, authorities should shape up (letter to the editor)". The Gainesville Sun – via news.google.com.
17. ^ "Aerial wildlife killers should exist grounded". Deseret News. April 15, 1998.
18. ^ Massey, Barry. "Ranchers aren't the only ones using federal program to impale predators". Arizona Daily Sun. Associated Press.
19. ^ Speers, Westward. (August 13, 1996). "Predators Preyed; Donaldson Wants To Be Paid". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015 – via articles.philly.com.
20. ^ "Sam Donaldson interview". Academy of Achievement. Sun Valley, Idaho. p. 9. Archived from the original on May 17, 2008.
21. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "News Correspondents: Sam Donaldson". ABC Medianet. Archived from the original on Nov 23, 2008.
22. ^ Kurtz, Howard (Feb 16, 2009). "Sam Donaldson Fix to Retire Side by side Week From ABC News". Washington Post.
23. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
24. ^ "Bob Woodward Biography and Interview Photograph". 2003: 4 members of the Gilded Plate Awards Council of the Academy of Accomplishment discussed journalism with the delegates and members at the International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C.: Sam Donaldson of ABC News, Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post, and Mike Wallace of CBS' lx Minutes.
25. ^ "Paul White Award". Radio Boob tube Digital News Clan. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
26. ^ "Sam Donaldson Interview". Academy of Achievement. June 28, 1996. Archived from the original on May 17, 2008.
27. ^ Springer, John (Apr 29, 2006). "Teen killer Cody Posey spared prison house, sentenced to juvenile center". Courtroom Telly. Archived from the original on Dec 1, 2008.
28. ^ Sam Donaldson Busted for DUI, TMZ, December xix, 2012.
29. ^ Ross, Robyn. Sam Donaldson Arrested, Faces DUI Charges, December 19, 2012.
30. ^ "Sam Donaldson DUI charge dismissed". Christian Science Monitor. Georgetown, Del. Associated Press. November nine, 2013.

Further reading [edit]

• Donaldson, Sam (1987). Hold On, Mr. President! . Random House. ISBN0-449-21520-2.
• Schmitt, Marker (March 2006). "Straight Line Projections". The Decembrist.

External links [edit]

• Sam Donaldson at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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Preceded past Tom Jarriel	ABC News Chief White Firm Correspondent 1977–1989	Succeeded by Brit Hume
Preceded by John Donvan	ABC News Chief White House Correspondent 1998–1999	Succeeded past Terry Moran
Preceded past David Brinkley	This Week moderator Nov 17, 1996 – September eight, 2002	Succeeded by George Stephanopoulos

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