Sam Donaldson is best known as the network's White House Correspondent and as a panelist and later co-anchor of the network's Sunday program, This Week.
24 Facts About Sam Donaldson
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Sam Donaldson grew up on the family farm in Chamberino, New Mexico, which his father had bought in 1910, two years before New Mexico was admitted to the Union.
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Sam Donaldson attended New Mexico Military Institute and Texas Western College, where he served as station manager of KTEP, the campus radio station, and joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
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From 1956 to 1959, Donaldson served on active duty as an artillery officer in the United States Army, attaining the rank of Captain.
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Sam Donaldson was hired by WTOP-TV in Washington, DC, in February 1961.
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Sam Donaldson covered both local and national stories, including the Goldwater presidential campaign in 1964, the Senate debates on the civil rights bill in March 1964, and the Medicare bill the following year.
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Sam Donaldson anchored the 6:00 pm Saturday and Sunday evening newscasts, with John Douglas doing the weather forecasts.
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Sam Donaldson was hired by ABC News as a Washington correspondent in October 1967.
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Sam Donaldson covered the two major party political conventions in 1968 and in 1969 began anchoring the network's 11:00 pm Saturday and Sunday newscasts.
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In 1971, Sam Donaldson covered the Vietnam War for ABC News.
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Sam Donaldson covered Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign and became the network's White House Correspondent in January 1977, a post he held until January 1989.
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Sam Donaldson covered the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment of President Clinton.
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Sam Donaldson appeared as a panelist on the Sunday morning television program This Week with David Brinkley from its inception in 1981 and after Brinkley's retirement in 1996 co-anchored the This Week program with Cokie Roberts until the two were replaced in September 2002 by George Stephanopoulos.
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Sam Donaldson's team located Priebke in 1994, and Sam Donaldson interviewed him on a street in Bariloche, Argentina, about his role in the execution of 335 Italian civilians on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler in the caves outside Rome.
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Sam Donaldson anchored the ABC Sunday Evening News from its inception in 1979 until August 1989.
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That night from Belgrade, Sam Donaldson, co-anchoring the program Primetime Live, reported on Kaplan's death.
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In 2002, Sam Donaldson anchored the first regularly scheduled US news broadcast on the Internet and, in later years, hosted the ABC News Now "Politics Live" broadcast.
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Only a year later, Sam Donaldson was embroiled in another Federal aid scandal.
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Sam Donaldson's farm was reported to have used the USDA's Animal Damage Control agents 412 times in only 5 years.
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Sam Donaldson has been married to Sandra Martorelli Sam Donaldson since December 2014.
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In 1995, Sam Donaldson had a melanoma removed from a lymph node.
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Sam Donaldson operates a family cattle ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
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Sam Donaldson is currently a member of the Board of New Mexico First, the State's bi-partisan booster organization, and the Ford Theater Advisory Council.
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On December 1,2012, Sam Donaldson was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Lewes, Delaware.