Awards & Recognition
★Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014) - America's highest civilian honor
★Multiple Emmy Awards including Lifetime Achievement Emmy
★Two Peabody Awards
★Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
★French Legion of Honor (2016)
★Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award
★Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee (2006)
★George Catlett Marshall Medal from Association of the U.S. Army
Notable Facts
→Anchor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982-2004), most trusted news personality in America
→Only person to host all three major NBC programs: Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press
→Author of bestselling book 'The Greatest Generation' (1998) and six other bestsellers
→First English-language journalist to report live from Berlin Wall fall in 1989
→Received Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2014
→Currently serves as NBC News Special Correspondent after 55-year career
→Born in South Dakota, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from University of South Dakota