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...Russert is a Buffalo, New York, native—but, as Managing Editor and Moderator of Meet the Press and a political analyst for NBC Nightly News and the Today show, he’s no stranger to Washington politics...
...fact, in 1976 he landed a job on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s campaign in his bid for the U.S. Senate seat from New York. The Catholic son of a sanitation worker and a truck driver, Russert had already worked his way through John Carroll University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law as a sometime cab driver and pizza...
...before heading to NBC news, Russert got an inside view into the executive and legislative branches of government working as “counselor in the New York Governor’s office in Albany in 1983 and 1984 and a special counsel in the United States Senate from 1977 to 1982,” according to the NBC website...
...Today, Russert credits his political experience for providing him with the insight to formulate the incisive questions that typify his approach on Meet the Press...
...distinct advantage I have, I know what goes on inside the closed doors journalists stand outside of,” Russert told the Columbia Journalism review in 1992. “When I’m interviewing someone, I know what exercise they’ve gone through, what points they’re trying to make, what questions they’re trying to avoid...