Roger Mudd

On his early years and influences; on enlisting in the Army; on attending college and graduate school in history; on working in the newspaper world and becoming news director at radio station WRNL

On his broadcast voice; on transitioning to television news; on Howard K. Smith hiring him at CBS News; on Walter Cronkite getting hired at CBS and his competition at NBC; on trying to get pieces onto Cronkite's show and Cronkite killing a story on Ronald Reagan

On the process of reporting at CBS in the 1960s; on reporting on and writing broadcasts on the Civil Rights Movement

On the access he was granted to Congress; on covering Washington D.C. in the 1970s

On covering JFK's assassination and the Cuban Missile Crisis

On covering Bobby Kennedy's Presidential bid and standing next to Ethel Kennedy when Bobby was assassinated

On CBS coverage of the Vietnam War and Watergate; on "Teddy" a CBS documentary on Ted Kennedy; on "the Roger Mudd Question" - so-named when he asked Ted Kennedy why he wanted to be President

On "The Selling of the Pentagon" documentary for CBS Reports; on working with CBS' Fred Friendly; on filling in for Walter Cronkite as anchor of CBS Evening News; on Cronkite's retirement and Dan Rather replacing Cronkite as anchor

On leaving CBS for NBC to become Chief Washington Correspondent; on co-anchoring the news with Tom Brokaw

On leaving the NBC co-anchor position; on moderating Meet the Press; on working on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour

On teaching a seminar on Politics and the Press at Princeton University; on teaching at his Alma Mater

On his affiliation with the History Channel; on then-current projects and the Roger Mudd Ethics Center; on his view of ethics in journalism

On where he was on 9/11; on covering Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign; on writing a book about the Washington News Bureau: "The Place to Be"

On what TV news owes to the public; on advice to aspiring broadcast journalists; on how he'd like to be remembered