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...that the speech acknowledged. It was a time for poetry in the affairs of the country, a moment to show spirit and feeling and to soar, rather than to list and explain and justify. Perhaps Kennedy knew that this was the declaration of purpose he never spoke for Roger Mudd last November when the CBS interviewer asked him why he wanted to be President, and also perhaps a belated acknowledgment that the nation and the world are changing and he must change with them...
...Roger Mudd learned the news only moments before it was officially announced last February: Dan Rather, the handsome, rat-a-tat-tat 60 Minutes correspondent, had been chosen to succeed Walter Cronkite as anchorman on the CBS Evening News. Until that instant, Mudd, 52, had been sure that the job would eventually be his. He had, after all, been filling in for Cronkite on weekends and vacations since the late '60s. Stunned and humiliated, Mudd took a paid leave of absence and in June began talking to rival networks ABC and NBC. "I have regarded myself as a news...
...Mudd finally made his move last week. He signed with NBC as "chief Washington correspondent," and there was speculation that he would succeed John Chancellor as anchorman, perhaps as early as next year. Said Chancellor: "I think I will stay beyond the elections, but I don't know how long." One knowledgeable correspondent sized up NBC'S anchor situation this way: "What [News President William] Small has in mind is keeping Chancellor on if he wants to stay and betting that Chancellor will catch up in the ratings with CBS when Cronkite goes. If he doesn...
...offered Mudd an evening news anchor position in New York (joining those in Washington, Chicago and London), but he did not want to leave his native Washington, where he has worked in television for 24 years. Indeed, Mudd's professional reputation rests almost entirely on his reporting in the capital, a fact that seemed to hurt him in comparisons with Rather, who has done tours in London, Viet Nam and Washington. Says Washington Star Political Writer Jules Witcover: "Among the writing press covering politics, Mudd is considered the top broadcast reporter. He's the one guy who really...
...Mudd should help in more substantive ways. He has a wry sense of humor, and some of his better pieces have poked gentle fun at the foibles and failings of American politics and its practitioners. His interview with Senator Edward Kennedy last fall caught the candidate at his inarticulate worst and is possibly the most important work of political journalism of the entire campaign. On-camera, Mudd is soothing if somewhat stolid. For viewers who like someone more neutral than the electrifying Rather, Roger Mudd may some day be the man of the evening half-hour...