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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his jo...

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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David Brinkley

Journalist

Born: 1920-07-10

Died: 2003-06-11

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.More