Bill Plante
Bill Plante
/ CBSBill Plante has been a CBS News White House correspondent during the administrations of Ronald Reagan (beginning in 1981), Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. During the administration of the first President Bush, he was CBS News' State Department correspondent (1989-92). Plante's reports are seen regularly on "CBS This Morning," where he is senior White House correspondent, and the "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley."
Plante has been based in CBS News' Washington bureau since December 1976. He has covered every Presidential campaign since 1968. Before his first White House assignment, he covered general and off-year elections, including the national political conventions. In 1968, he reported on the campaigns of Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon. During the 1972 campaign, Plante's assignments included covering candidates George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. In the summer of 1976, he covered Jimmy Carter and then, in the fall, Walter Mondale's vice presidential campaign. Plante was a floor reporter at the 1988 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
During the Reagan presidency, he covered the President's activities and major overseas trips, including the historic summit meeting in Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev. Plante was part of the CBS News team that received a 1986 Emmy Award for coverage of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit at Reykjavik, Iceland. He also covered Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign and was part of the CBS News team that won an Emmy Award for its coverage.
At the State Department, he covered Secretary of State James Baker's trips to the Middle East, both before and after the Gulf War; the changing U.S.-Soviet relationship during that period; and the 1991 Middle East peace talks, among many others.
He served as anchor of the "CBS Sunday Night News" (1988-95).
Plante's reporting has not been restricted to politics, however. He covered the fall of Skylab and Pope John Paul II's visit to the United States, both in 1979. Earlier that year, following the Shah's departure from Iran, Plante reported on the revolution in that country and was one of two American journalists to cover a revolutionary trial in Teheran. He was the reporter on a 1977 five-part series examining America's criminal justice system for the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite."
Plante served as a correspondent in the Chicago bureau (1966-76) after he joined CBS News in June 1964 as a New York-based reporter/assignment editor. During that time, he served two of his four tours of duty in Vietnam, reporting on the bombing strikes over North Vietnam, the Vietnamization and pacification programs in the south and the fall of the governments in Vietnam and Cambodia. Plante also covered the civil rights movement in Mississippi and Alabama, including Dr. Martin Luther King's historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
Plante's recent White House coverage includes the first trip by a U.S. President to Myanmar (Burma) by President Obama, in addition to his trips to Indonesia and Korea. Additionally, he reported on the recent fiscal cliff negotiations, the sex scandal involving Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Obama while attending a summit in Cartagena, Colombia, and the 40th anniversary of Watergate. Plante also provided the first-ever look inside the exclusive Washington, D.C. hideaway that serves as a hotel for former presidents and interviewed astronaut John Glenn on the 50th anniversary of NASA's launch of Friendship 7.
In addition to his White House coverage, Plante recently returned to Selma, Ala. in March 2012 to cover a commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King's historic march. He also interviewed former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn on the 50th anniversary of the nation's first orbital flight.
He has received many major broadcast journalism awards. In addition to Emmy Awards for his coverage of the death of Princess Diana, the Reagan-Gorbachev summit and Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign, he won an Emmy for his investigative report on the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" (1972). Plante's international work was recognized with a 1971 Overseas Press Club Award for his reports on the India-Pakistan War, and a second in 1975 for Best Radio Spot News Reporting for his coverage of the fall of the South Vietnam and Cambodian governments and evacuation of American personnel.
He was born in Chicago. Plante was graduated from Loyola University in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in humanities, and he studied political science at Columbia University (1963-64). He and his wife, Robin Smith, an award-winning independent documentary producer, live in Washington, D.C. Plante has six sons.
1) LYING ABOUT THE PHYSICS THAT GOVERNS A PLANET, SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS "THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT", AKA GLOBAL WARMING HAS PLANET ON TRAJECTORY TO BECOME UNINHABITABLE. GOP WILL MURDER BILLIONS OF PEOPLE. COMBINED DAMAGE 2012 ALREADY IN THE BILLIONS, WILL BE TRILLIONS BY 2020 FROM SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS, CROP FAILURES, AND SEA LEVEL RISE. $52 BILLION IN SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS IN U.S. 2011, $200 BILLION WORLDWIDE WILL BE TRILLIONS 2020. MAY 31, 2012 GREENLAND READING 400 PARTS/MILLION, PLANET ONLY TOLERATES 350 PARTS/MILLION. 10xTHE CARBON IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS TRAPPED IN MELTING PERMAFROST, PLUS EXTENSIVE METHANE LEVELS, PUT PLANET OVER A CLIFF AS THESE GASES DO A MASSIVE DUMP INTO THE ATMOSPHERE. METHANE, LIKE WATER, IS A HEAT SINK, 23X AS STRONG LATCHING ONTO THE ATMOSPHERIC HEAT. OCEANS GRAB 94% OF THE HEAT, THE HEAT DRIVES MOISTURE OFF THE OCEANS MAKING ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE, CREATING MORE SEVERE STORMS. HEAT MELTS THE PERMAFROST, ALL GLACIERS, AND POLES. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DAMAGE FROM SEA LEVEL RISE IN NORFOLK, VA 2012 WILL BE TRILLIONS 2020 AS 6 OTHER US CITIES BEGIN FLOODING. GOP WILL KILL BILLIONS OF PEOPLE, WITH TRILLIONS IN DAMAGES. NPR AND PBS HAS COVERED THIS EXTENSIVELY ON SCIENCE FRIDAY 1-22-2011, 3-4-2011, 10-21-2011, NEED TO KNOW--2-25-2011, 6-24-2011, PRI 3-8&3-9-2011,12-5-2011 "STORMY FORECAST", NOVA-- "SECRETS BENEATH THE ICE--THE MELTING OF ANTARCTICA" GETTING THE PLANET TO 50 FEET SEA LEVEL RISE BY 2100, HOT: THE NEXT 50 YEARS BY HERTSGAARD, STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN BY DR. JAMES HANSEN, SCIENCE AS A CONTACT SPORT BY DR. SCHNEIDER, BOILING POINT AND THE HEAT IS ON--DIRTY FOSSIL FUELS DISINFORMATION GAME BY ROSS GELBSPAN, THE CLIMATE WAR--DIRTY FOSSIL FUEL'S DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND CORRUPTION BY ERIC POOLEY, FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT, 350.ORG, SKEPTICAL SCIENCE.COM, DE-SMOG BLOG
2) KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE--PUTS PLANET OVER A CLIFF 2015, SPEWING 70% MORE POLLUTION FOR A COMPLETELY INEFFICIENT, DIRTY PROCESSING OF THE TAR SANDS. AS THEY: A) DESTROY AN AREA THE SIZE OF FLORIDA IN ALBERTA, CANADA, B) TRASH 3RD LARGEST CLEAN WATERSHED, C) EXHAUST NATUAL GAS SOURCES, SO U.S. CAN SEND PROCESSED OIL OUT OF COUNTRY. THERE'S A GLUT OF OIL IN OKLAHOMA, GLUT OF GASOLINE BEING SHIPPED TO LATIN AMERICA( TAR SANDS BY ANDREW NIKIFORUK, NPR--MORNING EDITION 3-5-2012).
3) GOP CUT AND GUT, "BALANCE THE BUDGET" WAS FORCED ON ROOSEVELT 1937, CAUSED A DOUBLE-DIP GREAT DEPRESSION, DROVE UNEMPLOYMENT TO 25%. WE ONLY GOT OUT OF IT WHEN THE JAPANESE BOMBED PEARL HARBOR AND THE U.S. ENTERED WWII. THE SAME IS HAPPENING IN EUROPE: ICELAND AT 15%, PORTUGAL AND SPAIN AT 21%, GREECE AT 25% UNEMPLOYMENT W AUSTERITY. WE COULD BE GROWING GDP BY 158% W MILLIONS OF GREEN AND INFRASTRUCTURE JOBS, LEAVE THE DEBT IN THE DUST, GET A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. (REINVENTING FIRE BY RMI.ORG) OBAMA'S PLAN WAS MORE AGGRESSIVE GETTING TO 80% RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2035, INSTEAD OF 46% BY 2050, BUT IT HAS CONSTANTLY BEEN SABOTAGED BY GOP SINCE 2009. WE NEED TO BE AT 80% RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2025 TO SHUT DOWN THE HORRIFIC ACCELERATION UNDERWAY.
4) REPEAL FINANCE REFORM SO THAT DERIVATIVES STUFFED WITH JUNK CAN DAMAGE THE ECONOMY FOR THE 4TH TIME. WALL STREET LOBBYISTS ARE CRAWLING ALL OVER THE GOP TO WATER DOWN FINANCE REFORM, JUST LIKE THEY BOUGHT OFF GOP W $5 BILLION DURING THE 1990S TO REPEAL "GLASS-STEAGAL". DERIVATIVES STUFFED W JUNK WILL DAMAGE THE ECONOMY FOR THE 4TH TIME--1987 (S&L), 1998 (LTCM--FRONTLINE'S "THE WARNING" PLUS "WALLSTREET, MONEY & POWER"), 2008 (SUBPRIME)
FLORIDA PURGES 180,000 LEGIT, MINORITY VOTES. RED STATES ACROSS U.S. TARGET TO SUPPRESS A TOTAL OF 5 MILLION LEGITIMATE MINORITY AND ELDERLY VOTES, AS GOP RIGS 2012, JUST LIKE THEY CORRUPTED 2000 AND 2004. (HBO's "Recount" dvd, ARMED MADHOUSE BY GREG PALAST, WAS THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STOLEN BY STEVEN FREEMAN AND JOEL BLEIFUSS PLUS 12 MATH EXPERTS, ANSWER--"YES, "WHAT HAPPENED WAS STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE", AND 11 MILLION LEGITIMATE VOTES FOR JOHN KERRY WENT MISSING. JUST AS GORE WON WITH THE FULL STATE RECOUNT IN 2001, REPORTED IN WASHINGTON POST 11-26-2001 IN ARTICLE, "COUNTDOWN"; KERRY WON IN 2004. NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO CORRUPT 2012 WITH LIES ABOUT VOTER FRAUD, WHICH IS NONEXISTENT. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ASKS FOR HELP ON THEIR WEBSITE AS KOCH INDUSTRIES, THE $100 BILLION OIL CONGLOMERATE FUNDING AND SCRIPTING THE TEA PARTY, TEAMS UP W ALEC TO SUPPRESS 5 MILLION LEGITIMATE MINORITY AND ELDERLY VOTERS.
WHY IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA NOT EXPOSING THIS RAMPANT RIGHT WING CORRUPTION?
Mitt THE CHICKEN HAWK/ YUGO Romney it MUST be in his DNA because all his 5 sons are CHICKEN HAWKS TOO
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I have to ask why would any vetran vote for Mitt " THE CHICKEN HAWK/ YUGO " Romney it MUST run in his DNA because all his 5 SONS ARE CHICKEN HAWKS TOO
In the 60's Mitt THE CHICKEN HAWK / YUGO Romney can be seen holding a sign in support of the Vietnam war , BUT did he go to Vietnam ? ? ? ? NO THE COWARD HIDE BEHIND HIS RELIGION AS A SO CALLED MINISTER HE DIDN'T HAVE TO , ......................THEN HE DREW A HIGH DRAT NUMBER........................ALL HE HAD TO DO IS SIGN UP , PUT HIS LIFE WHERE HIS MOUTH WAS .........................it must be in his DNA because none of his 5 sons ever served in the military MUST I remind you all his son seem to be very well educated and the all seem to be in good / great physical condition too
Mitt Romney: Fortunate Son
The memory hole has coughed up another Mitt Romney embarassment, this one the ultimate flippy-floppy. Not sure how I missed it when it first surfaced in January but for what it's worth: in 1966 Mitt Romney was one of 150 conservative students at Stanford University picketing in favor of the Vietnam War draft.
He's the guy on the far right holding the "Speak Out, Don't Sit In" sign:
Pro-War, Pro-Draft
Well, I'm sure since young Mitt was such a supporter of the Vietnam War that took so many of his peers he didn't skirt his patriotic duty, right? Since he's out there holding a sign and everything supporting the draft? Aw, be serious:
[Romney], meanwhile, never served in south-east Asia because his status as a Mormon missionary exempted him from the draft.
The GOP hopeful spent just one year at Stanford before heading to France for 30 months of missionary work.
He had already met his future wife Ann in 1965 when he was 18 and she was 15. The couple married in 1969 and have five sons and 16 grandchildren.
Isn't thatspecial. Mitt Romney was happy to join a student counter-protest supporting the Vietnam War and the drafting of his fellow students, but he "served" in France trying to win converts to the Mormon church. Just another Republican chickenhawk, pushing for the little people to get drafted into a war that he refused to join
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Obama should forget all about Bain and focus on what Mitt did as Governor for putting making the state of MASSACHUSETTS # 1 AS GOVERNOR YOU MADE MASS THE # 1 STATE WE HAD THE # 1 HIGHEST DEBT PER CAPITA @ $10, 504 AT LEAST YOU MADE US # 1 at something
Mitt made the state of Mass # 1 as Governor the state of Mass was # 1 in the highest debt per capitia @ 10,504 , Mitt Romney is a CHICKEN HAWK , AND IT MUST BE IN HIS DNA BECAUSE ALL HIS 5 SONS ARE CHICKEN HAWKS TOO , UNDER GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY THE STATE OF MASS WAS THE 47th IN JOB CREATION
NOTE At least President Obama can remember smoking MARY JANE in high school and he is man enough to admit it NOTE he didn't have to admit smoking MARY JANE , however Mitt THE LIAR Romney says he can NOT remember beating up a kid ands cutting his hair I know IF I beat up someone and I cut their hair I COULD SURLY REMEMBER THAT .............OR I WOULD CALL THE GUY WHO SAID IT A DAMM LIAR
JUST THE FACTS
PAUL SAIA 808 250 2193
Massachusetts had $10,504 in per capita bond debt in 2007, the highest total in the nation. No other state had more than $10,000 in per capita debt, and only one had more than $8,000. Massachusetts ranked second, behind only Alaska, in per capita debt as a percent of personal income, with debt making up more than 21 percent of each resident's income.
State bond debt isn't altogether a bad thing — it finances infrastructure projects and other programs that benefit state residents. But Romney's accumulation of it while governor is an element of his Massachusetts story that he regularly omits.
Romney has painted the national debt as a moral crisis that "threatens what it means to be an American." And yet, Romney's past and his plans for the future prove that he isn't actually willing to address it.
"If you look at his (Obama's) speeches to large audiences in swing states, they look and sound a lot like campaign rallies."
Hellooooo McFlyyy Obama was speechifying to a very small crowd.
Obama should forget all about Bain and focus on what Mitt did as Governor for putting making the state of MASSACHUSETTS # 1 AS GOVERNOR YOU MADE MASS THE # 1 STATE WE HAD THE # 1 HIGHEST DEBT PER CAPITA @ $10, 504 AT LEAST YOU MADE US # 1 at something
Mitt made the state of Mass # 1 as Governor the state of Mass was # 1 in the highest debt per capitia @ 10,504 , Mitt Romney is a CHICKEN HAWK , AND IT MUST BE IN HIS DNA BECAUSE ALL HIS 5 SONS ARE CHICKEN HAWKS TOO , UNDER GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY THE STATE OF MASS WAS THE 47th IN JOB CREATION
NOTE At least President Obama can remember smoking MARY JANE in high school and he is man enough to admit it NOTE he didn't have to admit smoking MARY JANE , however Mitt THE LIAR Romney says he can NOT remember beating up a kid ands cutting his hair I know IF I beat up someone and I cut their hair I COULD SURLY REMEMBER THAT .............OR I WOULD CALL THE GUY WHO SAID IT A DAMM LIAR
JUST THE FACTS
PAUL SAIA 808 250 2193
Massachusetts had $10,504 in per capita bond debt in 2007, the highest total in the nation. No other state had more than $10,000 in per capita debt, and only one had more than $8,000. Massachusetts ranked second, behind only Alaska, in per capita debt as a percent of personal income, with debt making up more than 21 percent of each resident's income.
State bond debt isn't altogether a bad thing — it finances infrastructure projects and other programs that benefit state residents. But Romney's accumulation of it while governor is an element of his Massachusetts story that he regularly omits.
Romney has painted the national debt as a moral crisis that "threatens what it means to be an American." And yet, Romney's past and his plans for the future prove that he isn't actually willing to address it.
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Mitt THE CHICKEN HAWK/ YUGO Romney it MUST be in his DNA because all his 5 sons are CHICKEN HAWKS TOO
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I have to ask why would any vetran vote for Mitt " THE CHICKEN HAWK/ YUGO " Romney it MUST run in his DNA because all his 5 sons are chicken hawks
In the 60's Mitt THE CHICKEN HAWK / YUGO Romney can be seen holding a sign in support of the Vietnam war , BUT did he go to Vietnam ? ? ? ? NO THE COWARD HIDE BEHIND HIS RELIGION AS A SO CALLED MINISTER HE DIDN'T HAVE TO , ......................THEN HE DREW A HIGH DRAT NUMBER........................ALL HE HAD TO DO IS SIGN UP , PUT HIS LIFE WHERE HIS MOUTH WAS .........................it must be in his DNA because none of his 5 sons ever served in the military MUST I remind you all his son seem to be very well educated and the all seem to be in good / great physical condition too
Mitt Romney: Fortunate Son
The memory hole has coughed up another Mitt Romney embarassment, this one the ultimate flippy-floppy. Not sure how I missed it when it first surfaced in January but for what it's worth: in 1966 Mitt Romney was one of 150 conservative students at Stanford University picketing in favor of the Vietnam War draft.
He's the guy on the far right holding the "Speak Out, Don't Sit In" sign:
Pro-War, Pro-Draft
Well, I'm sure since young Mitt was such a supporter of the Vietnam War that took so many of his peers he didn't skirt his patriotic duty, right? Since he's out there holding a sign and everything supporting the draft? Aw, be serious:
[Romney], meanwhile, never served in south-east Asia because his status as a Mormon missionary exempted him from the draft.
The GOP hopeful spent just one year at Stanford before heading to France for 30 months of missionary work.
He had already met his future wife Ann in 1965 when he was 18 and she was 15. The couple married in 1969 and have five sons and 16 grandchildren.
Isn't thatspecial. Mitt Romney was happy to join a student counter-protest supporting the Vietnam War and the drafting of his fellow students, but he "served" in France trying to win converts to the Mormon church. Just another Republican chickenhawk, pushing for the little people to get drafted into a war that he refused to join hIM
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Gamblingis illegal in my home state of South Carolina. If I went a important person and went to Las Vegas and gamble would it be a scandal when I returned to South Carolina? Yes, I broke my states law but not Nevada law.
Over the last 50 plus years the SS had gone to nations where prostitution is legal. What did they do? Sit around and play bridge and checkers? What do reporters do when they travel to nations where prostitution is legal? Play cards or watch TV?
All of us know and respect your long and honorable work as a correspondent. This was not your best day.