George Edward Herman (January 14, 1920 – February 8, 2005) was a veteran
CBS journalist. He was a correspondent for more than 40 years, 15 of them as the moderator of ''
Face the Nation''.
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Biography
Herman was good friends and roommates with
Walter Lippmann, graduated from
Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1941, and received a master's degree in journalism in 1942 from
Columbia University.
He first worked for the New York classical music station
WQXR, which was gaining a reputation for news since hiring reporter and commentator
Quincy Howe. He left the radio station when it was purchased by ''
The New York Times'' and applied to
Paul White, director of
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and a member of the Columbia University faculty.
Herman traveled to Asia in 1949 with a 16mm camera and audio recorder, and provided CBS with its first sound-and-film reports from overseas. He was CBS television correspondent during the
Korean War before returning to the United States as CBS
White House correspondent for the
Eisenhower and
Kennedy
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administrations. He made several appearances as an interviewer during the 1950s on the news show, ''Longines Chronoscope'' with
Larry LeSueur. Herman was also the first reporter to broadcast coverage of the burglary of the headquarters of the
Democratic National Committee
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in 1972.
He was a long-standing moderator for the ''
Face the Nation'' program and interviewed hundreds of politicians and celebrities, including
Ayatollah Khomeini
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of
Iran and
Muhammad Ali
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. He also made regular appearances on the ''
CBS Evening News'' as a correspondent. Herman died February 8, 2005, at age 85.
References
1920 births
2005 deaths
Dartmouth College alumni
CBS News people
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
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