Veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in June, 1964. He has been the senior White House correspondent for CBS since January, 1993.
He attended Loyola University Chicago, where he received a bachelor's degree in the humanities. He dropped out of Chicago-Kent law school when he was hired by a Milwaukee TV station. After gaining broadcast experience, he won a journalism fellowship to Columbia University and then joined CBS News.
He adopted his first wife's four sons (Patrick, Michael, Daniel & Christopher), whose father, Jules Pierre Orteig Jr., had died of a heart attack in 1960.