The HBS Club has invited us to Lunch with Sam Donaldson
Exclusive Lunch with Sam Donaldson
The HBS Club of Washington invites you to this exclusive lunch with Sam Donaldson. Tickets are limited so get yours now!
Who: Sam Donaldson
When: Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Time: 12 noon-2:00 PM
Where: National Press Club
Cost: $45 HBS and HCW Club members and guests; $55 non members
Please contact the club administrator at hbsclub@erols.com.
Biography of Sam Donaldson
Sam Donaldson, a 44-year ABC News veteran, served two appointments as chief White House
Most recently, Mr. Donaldson hosted the show Politics Live on ABC News Now, the ABC News
From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Donaldson also hosted SamDonaldson@abcnews.com, the first regularly
On PrimeTime Live, Mr. Donaldson covered breaking news events, reported on a wide range of
Mr. Donaldson also reported from Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1989 as part of an hour-long, award-
During the 1997-98 season, Mr. Donaldson co-anchored a special edition of PrimeTime Live with
Mr. Donaldson was also the anchor of World News Sunday for ten years (1979-1989) and a
Mr. Donaldson has covered every national political convention since 1964 with the exception
In 2008 Mr. Donaldson received the AFTRA Media and Entertainment Excellence Award as well
As a college student, Mr. Donaldson began his career in broadcasting at the age of seventeen
Born in El Paso, Texas, Mr. Donaldson received his Bachelor's degree from Texas Western
Mr. Donaldson served on active duty with the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1959, rising to the rank of
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correspondent for ABC News from January 1998 to August 1999 and from 1977-1989, covering
Presidents Carter, Reagan and Clinton. Mr. Donaldson also co-anchored PrimeTime Live with
Diane Sawyer from August 1989, until it merged with 20/20 in 1999. He co-anchored the ABC
News Sunday morning broadcast, This Week With Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts, from
December 1996 to September 2002. From October 2001 to May 2004, he hosted The Sam
Donaldson Show -- Live in America, a daily news / talk radio program broadcast on ABC News
Radio affiliates across the country. In the three-hour show, Mr. Donaldson tackled the day's top
stories and important issues - taking comments from newsmakers, engaging listener calls and, of
course, inserting his own unique experience and opinion.
digital network.
scheduled internet webcast produced by a television network. On it, he interviewed former
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and George Bush, along with such diverse personalities
as actor Sean Connery, comedian Janeane Garofalo, tech company CEO Jeff Bezos, and sports
great Willie Mays.
topics, and conducted scores of timely interviews with newsmakers -- including President Clinton,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first primetime interview with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin
Powell and the first primetime interviews with George W. Bush when he ran for Governor of
Texas and when he ran for president.
winning PrimeTime Live investigation of the Pan Am 103 bombing. And in June 1997, along with
Diane Sawyer, he co-anchored a special edition of PrimeTime Live dedicated to the mystery of
TWA Flight 800, which exploded shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy airport in New York
the year before.
Judd Rose, in which the two men shared their personal experiences with cancer.
regular interviewer on "This Week with David Brinkley" from the program's inception in 1981 until
Mr. Brinkley retired in 1996. Since joining ABC News in 1967 as Capitol Hill correspondent, Mr.
Donaldson has covered many major news stories, including the Vietnam War, Watergate, the
House Judiciary Committee impeachment investigation in 1974 and the Gulf war in 1991. Two
days after the Gulf war ended, he co-anchored a special edition of PrimeTime Live from Kuwait
City.
of the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. He reported on the presidential campaigns of
Senator Barry Goldwater, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator Hubert Humphrey, President
Jimmy Carter, President Ronald Reagan and Governor Michael Dukakis. He also reported as
an eye-witness on Spiro Agnew's no contest plea in a Baltimore courtroom that forced Agnew's
resignation from the Vice Presidency.
as the RTNDA Paul White Award. In 1998 Mr. Donaldson received the Broadcaster of the Year
Award from the National Press Foundation. The Washington Journalism Review named him the
Best Television White House Correspondent in the Business in 1985 and the Best Television
Correspondent in the Business in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989. Mr. Donaldson has won many
other awards, among them four Emmy Awards and three George Foster Peabody Awards.
by working for local radio stations in El Paso, Texas, and has enjoyed reporting on the radio ever
since. An eye-witness to the shooting attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life in 1981, Mr.
Donaldson delivered the first report on any broadcast medium of that event on the ABC Radio
network.
College and did graduate work at the University of Southern California. His 1987 autobiography
Hold On, Mr. President was an international bestseller.
Captain, USAR. After resuming his broadcasting career at KRLD-TV in Dallas in 1959, he joined
WTOP-TV in Washington, DC in 1961, where, along with local and regional news, he covered
such national stories as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, President Kennedy's funeral in 1963,
passage of the Civil Rights Act in the Senate in 1964 and Senate hearings on the Vietnam war in
1965. He also anchored the station's weekend news broadcasts, and produced and moderated a
weekly interview program. Mr. Donaldson joined ABC News in 1967.