Flemming Awards 2020: Celebrating public servants Event Recap by
to recognize outstanding service;
to attract and recruit outstanding talent to the public service; and
to retain the “best of the best” in government service, for the benefit of the Nation at large.
The Arthur S. Flemming Award stands out among the more than 40 awards associated with government service. It has always been run entirely by the private sector, with financial support from major corporations. Apart from nominating candidates for the Award, government agencies have no involvement whatsoever. The Award brings no financial consideration. Its prestige is considered to be reward enough in and of itself.
Remembering Carl Stokes, a TV news and political pioneer
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The Untold Truth Of Tom Brokaw Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images
By Brian Boone/Feb. 1, 2021 12:27 pm EDT
The serious, sedate, and stately world of TV news was for years dominated by the serious, sedate, and stately Tom Brokaw. From 1982 to 2004, he informed millions of Americans of the important happenings around the country and around the world, five nights a week, as the host of the
NBC Nightly News. Also the managing editor of the popular news program, Brokaw was an old-school newsman and a journalist, and he made numerous news specials and documentaries, appeared on newsmagazine shows, and wrote several books on American history.
Veteran TV anchor Tom Brokaw, a fixture at NBC News for 55 years, is retiring from the network today.
Brokaw, 80, has made only a few on-air appearances on NBC and its cable news channel MSNBC in recent years, as he has been battling cancer. The former anchor of “NBC Nightly News” a seat he filled for 22 years has been a senior correspondent and occasional commentator since 2005.
“During one of the most complex and consequential eras in American history, a new generation of NBC News journalists, producers and technicians is providing America with timely, insightful and critically important information, 24/7,” Brokaw said in a statement announcing the move. “I could not be more proud of them.”
As a huge baseball fan, I find myself watching Ken Burns Baseball series with keen interest on the Major League Baseball (MLB) Network. The MLB Network has been airing segments of the series in recent days and I just can t pull myself away from the TV when it is on.
Such was the case during the holiday when I heard John Chancellor, the narrator of the program, mention how baseball in the years of 1910 to 1920 was blossoming and he went on to mention towns and their team names that were popular including the Quincy Crybabies. Who?
Obviously, my ears perked up and my immediate thought was he was referring to Quincy, Massachusetts and not Quincy, Illinois. So I did a little research and found that he was actually referring to our little river town in Illinois.
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