Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.
Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.
Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.
Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.
Roger Mudd, a probing TV journalist and network news anchor, dies at 93
Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
March 9, 2021
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Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon s profligate spending, whose interview with Ted 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.
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 Nixon in 1974.