David S. Broder
Born	September 11, 1929 (1929-09-11) (age 77), Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States.
Occupation	Journalist, Columnist, Teacher, and Writer.
Spouse	Ann Creighton Collar

David S. Broder (born September 11, 1929) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, television talk show pundit, and university professor. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois.^[1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 283 × 301 pixelsFull resolution (283 × 301 pixel, file size: 67 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Screenshot image of journalist David Broder in a C-SPAN television program discussing media issues. ... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chicago Heights is a city located in Cook County, Illinois. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... “Instructor” redirects here. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Authorship redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Chicago Heights is a city located in Cook County, Illinois. ...

Currently, he writes a political column for the The Washington Post twice a week and teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ...

Biography

Education

Broder received a A.B. in 1947 and a A.M. in 1951, both in Political Science, from the University of Chicago. A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political Science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behaviour. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

He served in the United States Army from 1951-1953.^[2] The United States Army is the largest and oldest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ...

Career

Before joining the Post in 1966 he worked at the New York Times, Congressional Quarterly, the now defunct Washington Star and the Pantagraph in Bloomington, Illinois. Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Congressional Quarterly (CQ) produces a number of publications that report primarily on the United States Congress. ... The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1982. ... United States Illinois McLean 22. ...

Today, the longtime columnist is informally known as the "Dean" of the Washington press corps and the "unofficial chairman of the board" by national political writers. For many years he has appeared on Washington Week, Meet the Press, and other current affairs television programs.^[3] Washington Week in Review (also known as Washington Week) is a public affairs program on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). ... Meet the Press (MTP) is a weekly television news show produced by NBC. It started as a radio show in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press, originating from WRC-AM in Washington. ...

Unlike many younger commentators, Broder appears to eschew partisanship and ideological crusades. Broder has been called "relentlessly centrist" by The New Yorker's political commentator Hendrik Hertzberg.^[4] The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... Hendrik Hertzberg is an American journalist and author. ...

Broder won his Pulitzer for commentary in 1973 and has been the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and since. He is the author of several books about contemporary politics. Pulitzer may refer to: Joseph Pulitzer, a U.S. newspaper publisher and journalist Roxanne Pulitzer, society diva Pulitzer Prize, an annual U.S. journalism award Pulitzer, Inc. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...

In 1990, Broder received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Elijah Parish Lovejoy November 9,1802 – November 7, 1837), the son of Daniel Lovejoy, a Congregational minister, was an American minister and journalist who was murdered for his abolitionist views. ... Doctor of Laws (Latin: Legum Doctor, LL.D) is a doctorate-level academic degree in law. ... Colby College, founded in 1813, is one of the United States of Americas oldest independent liberal arts colleges. ...

In 2001, Broder became a tenured, full professor at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism while continuing writing full time at The Washington Post. He generally teaches one class a year on politics and the press. This class meets at the Post. Merrill College Dean, Thomas Kunkel, described Broder as the nation's "most respected political journalist" when he announced Broder's hire. Broder has also taught at Duke University (1987-1988).^[5] Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. ...

David Broder and Karl Rove

David Broder is seen by many as a supporter of controversial George W. Bush political adviser Karl Rove. In a 2003 column, he wrote "I like Karl Rove. In the days when he was operating from Austin, we had many long and rewarding conversations. I have eaten quail at his table and admired the splendid Hill Country landscape from the porch of the historic cabin Karl and his wife Darby found miles away and had carted to its present site on their land." ^[6] Later, in 2006, he declared that several "publications owe Karl Rove an apology" over their reporting on Karl Rove's alleged role in the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame ^[7]. He has also been a vocal critic of Congressional hearings concerning the firing of eight US Attorneys in 2007^[8], hearings which focused on Karl Rove. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush until the end of August 2007. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Valerie E. Wilson (born Valerie Elise Plame April 19, 1963, in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency officer who held non-official cover (NOC) status prior to the public disclosure of her classified covert CIA identity in a syndicated American newspaper column. ... Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush until the end of August 2007. ...

In a column marking Rove's resignation, however, he wrote: "It is hard to generate much sympathy for someone as unrepentant as Rove, someone who at most acknowledges that his party is "a little bit behind the curve" when it comes to the voters. One listens in vain for any sign that a decade at the center of the political-government structure has dented the sublime self-confidence of the influential White House strategist, and all one hears are the echoes of an isolated, insulated presidency."

All of this has led some observers to question his impartiality with regard to the George W. Bush administration and Karl Rove in particular. ^{[9] [10]} George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush until the end of August 2007. ...

Books

He is author or co-author of six books:

• The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point with Haynes Johnson (Little, Brown and Company, 1996).
• The Man Who Would be President: Dan Quayle with Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, 1992).
• Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the News is Made (Simon & Schuster 1981).
• Changing of the Guard: Power and Leadership in America (Simon & Schuster, 1980).
• The Party's Over: The Failure of Politics in America (Harper and Row, 1972).
• The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P. with Stephen Hess (Harper and Row, 1967).

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Awards

• Honorary Doctor of Political Science, DePauw University, May 18, 2003.
• National Press Foundation's Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award, 1993.
• White Burkett Miller Presidential Award in 1989.
• 4th Estate Award from the National Press Club, 1988.
• Pulitzer Prize: for Distinguished Commentary, 1973.
• National Society of Newspaper Columnists Lifetime Achievement Award.^[11]

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Quotes by and about

• On Bush and Blair: “History will record that both of them saw the threat to the West posed by terrorism and responded courageously.” [1]
• "Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." (Stolen from Douglas Adams)
• "[The] way we cover news is to dig for facts in hopes that they will yield an approximation of truth."^[12]
• "He came in here and he trashed the place, and it's not his place."--Broder, on Bill Clinton.^[13]
• "Broder, of course, is a gasbag."--Paul Begala.^[14]
• "We cannot yet calculate the political fallout from Hurricane Katrina and its devastating human and economic consequences, but one thing seems certain: It makes the previous signs of political weakness for Bush, measured in record-low job approval ratings, instantly irrelevant and opens new opportunities for him to regain his standing with the public." ^[15]

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Selected articles

• "Independence Days," WAPO, September 21, 2006, page A25.

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References

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Exterior links

• Broder column in the Washington Post.
• David Broder archive at Media Matters.