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2 unusual facts about Roger Mudd


Roger Mudd

In the late 1950s, Mudd moved to Washington, D.C., to become a reporter with WTOP News, the news division of the radio and television stations owned by Post-Newsweek.

In his memoir The Place to Be, Mudd describes an incident from his first day at WRNL in which he laughed hysterically on-air after mangling a news item about the declining health of Pope Pius XII.


SP 3-125: Presidential Address Announcing His Intention to Resign the Oval Office

This book only provides Roger Mudd from CBS News as an example of someone who disliked the speech.


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