George Robert Stephanopoulos is an American television host, political commentator, and former Democratic advisor.
43 Facts About George Stephanopoulos
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George Stephanopoulos rose to early prominence as a communications director for the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and subsequently became White House communications director.
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George Stephanopoulos was later senior advisor for policy and strategy, before departing in December 1996.
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George Stephanopoulos was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of Robert George Stephanopoulos and Nickolitsa "Nikki" Gloria.
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George Stephanopoulos's father is a Greek Orthodox priest and dean emeritus of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City.
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George Stephanopoulos's mother was the director of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America National News Service for many years.
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George Stephanopoulos was a sports broadcaster for 89.9 WKCR-FM, the university's radio station.
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George Stephanopoulos attended Balliol College at the University of Oxford in England, as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Master of Arts in Theology in 1984.
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George Stephanopoulos worked in Washington, DC, as an aide to Democratic Congressman Ed Feighan of Ohio.
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In 1988, George Stephanopoulos worked on the Michael Dukakis 1988 US presidential campaign.
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George Stephanopoulos has noted that one of his attractions to this campaign was that Dukakis was a Greek-American liberal from Massachusetts.
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George Stephanopoulos was, along with David Wilhelm and James Carville, a leading member of Clinton's 1992 US presidential campaign.
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George Stephanopoulos's initiatives focused on crime legislation, affirmative action, and health care.
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At the outset of Clinton's presidency, George Stephanopoulos served as the de facto press secretary, briefing the press even though Dee Dee Myers was officially the White House Press Secretary.
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George Stephanopoulos was regarded as a member of Bill Clinton's inner circle.
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George Stephanopoulos successfully sought to keep Jones' news conference off television.
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George Stephanopoulos called NBC journalist Tim Russert, CNN chairman Tom Johnson, as well as several others, whom he convinced to keep her conference off television.
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George Stephanopoulos was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident and driving with an expired license and license plates.
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George Stephanopoulos had made comments about her allegations that she had an affair with Bill Clinton.
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George Stephanopoulos accused Flowers of doctoring her taped conversation with Clinton to make her story look creditable.
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George Stephanopoulos resigned from the Clinton administration shortly after Clinton was re-elected in 1996.
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George Stephanopoulos's book covers his time with Clinton from the day he met him in September 1991, to the day George Stephanopoulos left the White House in December 1996, through two presidential campaigns and four years in the White House.
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George Stephanopoulos describes Clinton in the book as a "complicated man responding to the pressures and pleasures of public life in ways I found both awesome and appalling".
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In September 2002, George Stephanopoulos became host of This Week, and ABC News officially named him "Chief Washington Correspondent" in December 2005.
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When named to the position, George Stephanopoulos was a relative newcomer to the show, usurping longtime panelists and short-term co-hosts Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts who, for a few years, briefly replaced the longtime original host, David Brinkley.
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However, This Week beat Meet the Press on January 11,2009, when George Stephanopoulos interviewed president-elect Barack Obama.
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George Stephanopoulos acknowledged the legitimacy of the concerns over the order of the questions, but said they were issues in the campaign that had not been covered in previous debates.
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George Stephanopoulos accepted the new position and began co-anchoring GMA on December 14,2009.
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George Stephanopoulos announced on January 10,2010, that that would be his last broadcast as the permanent host of This Week.
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George Stephanopoulos signed a deal to stay with ABC until 2021 worth $105 million.
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On January 7,2012, George Stephanopoulos was the co-moderator of a debate among Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.
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George Stephanopoulos leads a new documentary unit for Disney's digital platforms and hosts four primetime hour-long specials on the ABC network annually.
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In 2009, George Stephanopoulos spoke at the annual Tri-C Presidential Scholarship Luncheon held at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel and praised Cuyahoga Community College.
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In 1994, columnist Jack Anderson reported that George Stephanopoulos signed an $835,000 commercial real estate deal consisting of a two-story apartment, including an eyewear retailer, with a below-market loan rate from a bank owned by Hugh McColl, who had been called by President Clinton "the most enlightened banker in America".
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George Stephanopoulos donated $25,000 in 2012,2013, and 2014, a total of $75,000, to the Clinton Foundation, but did not disclose the donations to ABC News, his employer, or to his viewers.
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George Stephanopoulos failed to reveal the donations even on April 26,2015, while interviewing Peter Schweizer, the author of Clinton Cash, a book which alleges that donations to the Foundation influenced some of Hillary Clinton's actions as Secretary of State.
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George Stephanopoulos agreed to drop out as a moderator of the scheduled February 2016 Republican presidential primary debate.
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George Stephanopoulos was the inspiration for the character of Henry Burton in Joe Klein's novel Primary Colors.
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George Stephanopoulos was used by Sorkin as the model for Rob Lowe's character, Sam Seaborn, on the television drama series The West Wing.
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George Stephanopoulos returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, in 2003, serving as the keynote speaker at Columbia College's Class Day.
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George Stephanopoulos is a Greek Orthodox Christian and has earned a master's degree in theology.
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George Stephanopoulos married Ali Wentworth, an actress, comedian, and writer, in 2001 at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on New York's Upper East Side.
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George Stephanopoulos announced on April 13,2020, that he had tested positive for COVID-19 but was asymptomatic.