For three-quarters of a century, NBC has invited politicians to weigh in on the problems of the day on Meet the Press. In truth, the legendary information talker — which turns 75 on November 6 — is now the longest-running program on American tv. The weekly interview present debuted in 1947, six months earlier than CBS Evening News, America’s second longest-running program.
Among its high-profile visitors, Meet the Press has hosted sit-downs with many U.S. presidents, together with John F. Kennedy, who known as the present the “51st state.”
And alongside the best way, this system has had a dozen moderators, beginning with the lady chargeable for creating the sequence (and the one lady to have sat within the moderator chair so far). Read on to see the timeline of moderators and particulars on each’s profession.
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