- Graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1941. Received a Master's degree in journalism in 1942 from Columbia University.
- Was a news correspondent for CBS from 1944 to 1987.
- Was the first correspondent to broadcast news of the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972.
- Covered the Democratic and Republican conventions from 1948 to 1980 for CBS. Was also a Korean War correspondent for CBS, was CBS's White House correspondent during the Kennedy Administration, and co-anchored CBS' coverage of the Senate's Watergate hearings.
- He was the longest-serving moderator of CBS' Sunday morning current-affairs program, Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan (1954), 1969-1983. He was also a longtime political reporter for CBS News. He was with the network for 43 years.
- He made his first television appearance covering the 1948 Democratic Convention, the first convention to be televised.
- He traveled to Asia in 1949 with a 16mm camera and audio recorder, and provided CBS with its first sound-and-film reports from overseas. He covered the Korean War.
- He delivered the first broadcast report of the Watergate break-in in 1972.
- During the Korean War, he landed with UN troops at Inchon as a combat correspondent.
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