Posted on 03/10/2021 7:02:21 AM PST by Red Badger
Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who eported on the Pentagon’s profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator’s White House prospects and who briefly shared the anchor job at his onetime rival, NBC News, died March 9 at his home in McLean, Va. He was 93.
The cause was complications from kidney failure, said a son, Jonathan Mudd.
Mr. Mudd spent almost 20 years covering Capitol Hill, political campaigns and corruption scandals for CBS News. He did special reports on the Watergate scandal and its fallout, including the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.
His 1979 interview of Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was credited with crushing the senator’s presidential ambitions just as he was preparing to challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic nomination.
Too bad these guys never spilled the beans about their coworkers like lifelong naked globalist Walter Cronkite or Dan Ratherbiased who repeated made up news (he guessed that JFK was dead and was the first one to run with the forged Bush National Guard memos).
Wow, I remember in 1967 doing a speech class spoof on “Mudd and Concrete”.
Some may not know that “His name is Mudd” comes from Dr. Mudd, convicted of aiding John Wilkes Booth in his flight after the Lincoln assassination. Roger Mudd was a staunch proponent of his forebear’s innocence. Alas, Dr Mudd was guilty as sin and rightly convicted, though later commuted or pardoned )I do t remember which) when he selflessly exposed himself to yellow fever treating fellow prisoners stricken at the facility where he was imprisoned.
For this we can be thankful..................
Growing up, I have a generally positive memory of Roger Mudd.
The guy who made an impression on me as a kid was CBS Morning News anchor Hughes Rudd. At the time, it was like watching my granddad read off the news. He often had a wry, “can you believe that __?”, style of delivery.
Nowadays, you won’t find guys like them anchoring the news or doing features. Even their names aren’t telegenic enough.
Roger Mudd wasnone of “these guys!” He had a blemish free record and was one of the last real standup journaist who never injected his opinion into the national debates like Severied, or Cronkite or Blather. Roger quit the buisness when he saw the news turning into entertainment than real news. I would rather listen to him than Conkrite anyday.
Most people are aware of ugly remarks by coworkers. Mudd never heard anything from them “off script”?
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