FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950–June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist
and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's
Meet the Press. He was a Senior Vice President at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and
also hosted the eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program Tim Russert.
He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert
covered several presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal
survey on the NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time Magazine
included Russert in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.
Russert was posthumously revealed as a thirty-year source for the columnist Robert Novak.

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