14 Facts About Susan Page

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Susan Lea Page was born on February 12,1951 and is an American journalist and biographer, and the Washington DC Bureau Chief for USA Today newspaper.

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Susan Page began studying oboe in the third grade and played it in the school orchestras throughout her public school education.

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Susan Page was the editor-in-chief of her high school yearbook, The Hoofbeats, and served as a reporter and editor for her high school newspaper, The Stampede.

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Susan Page considered attending music school, but ultimately decided to pursue journalism at Northwestern University.

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Susan Page has covered seven White House administrations and eleven presidential elections, and interviewed ten presidents.

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Susan Page founded and hosts an award-winning video newsmaker series for USA Today, "Capital Download".

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Susan Page appears frequently on cable news networks as an analyst and often guest-hosted The Diane Rehm Show, which was syndicated on National Public Radio.

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Susan Page was the first woman to serve as music chairman of the Gridiron Club show and was president of the club in 2011, the oldest association of journalists in Washington.

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Susan Page was president of the White House Correspondents Association in 2000.

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Susan Page served as chairman of the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Awards and has twice been a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes.

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Susan Page was selected as the moderator of the 2020 vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, which took place on October 7,2020 in Salt Lake City.

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Susan Page attracted scrutiny over her journalistic ethics when investigations revealed she had hosted off-the-record events for Trump administration officials like CMS Administrator Seema Verma.

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Susan Page is a frequent panelist on Fox News Sunday, This Week on ABC, Washington Week on PBS, and Meet the Press on NBC.

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Susan Page has won several awards for her work, including the Merriman Smith Memorial Award, the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, the Gerald R Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Washington Correspondence.