Isuspect I’m not alone in dating my passion for politics and public service, law and journalism to watching the Senate Watergate Committee hearings as a teenager. While glued to New York’s public Channel 13 during the spring and summer of 1973, I certainly didn’t realize how remarkable it was that such “gavel to gavel” coverage was even on public TV. A half dozen years later, that passion led me to a summer internship at WNET, working for what was then known as The MacNeil/Lehrer Report , with the same two anchors as those historic Watergate hearings. One floor away was Bill Moyers, whose insightful commentary on that unfolding Nixon scandal had also inspired me as a teenager.

It was a career-defining experience that also led me to a novel senior history thesis topic. I learned from R

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