Sam Donaldson
 Sam Donaldson, a 40-year ABC News veteran, served two appointments as chief White House correspondent for ABC News from January 1998 to August 1999 and from 1977-1989, covering Presidents Carter, Reagan and Clinton. Mr. Donaldson also co-anchored, with Diane Sawyer, PrimeTime Live from August 1989, until it merged with 20/20 in 1999. Mr. Donaldson co-anchored the ABC News Sunday morning broadcast, This Week With Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts, from December 1996 to September 2002. From October 2001 to May 2004 Mr. Donaldson hosted The Sam Donaldson Show - Live In America, a daily news/talk radio program broadcast on ABC News Radio affiliates across the country. In the three-hour show, Sam tackled the day’s top stories and important issues – getting comment from newsmakers, engaging listener calls, and of course, inserting his own unique experience and opinion.
Currently Mr. Donaldson is appearing on ABC News Now, the ABC News digital network. His daily half-hour show Politics Live is an unscripted dialogue with numerous guests and commentators discussing the top political news stories of the day. The show also features a “Stump Sam” segment, where viewers can submit political trivia questions via email and quiz Mr. Donaldson.
From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Donaldson also hosted SamDonaldson@abcnews.com, the first regularly scheduled Internet Webcast produced by a television network. On this Webcast, Mr. Donaldson interviewed former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and George Bush along with such diverse personalities as actor Sean Connery, comedian Janeane Garofalo, tech company CEO Jeff Bezos, and sports great Willie Mays.
On PrimeTime Live, Mr. Donaldson covered breaking news events, reported on a wide range of topics, and conducted scores of timely interviews with newsmakers–including President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first prime time interview with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell and the first prime time interviews with George W. Bush when he ran for Governor of Texas and when he ran for president.
In 1989, Donaldson also reported from Lockerbie, Scotland, as part of an hour-long, award-winning PrimeTime Live investigation of the Pan Am 103 bombing. And In June 1997, Mr. Donaldson, along with Diane Sawyer, co-anchored a special edition of PrimeTime Live dedicated to the mystery of TWA Flight 800, which exploded shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy airport in New York the year before.
During the 1997-98 season, Mr. Donaldson co-anchored a special edition of PrimeTime Live with Judd Rose, in which the two men shared their personal experiences with cancer.
Mr. Donaldson was also anchored of World News Sunday for ten years (1979-1989) and was a regular interviewer on This Week with David Brinkley from the program's inception in 1981 until Mr. Brinkley retired in 1996. Since joining ABC News in 1967 as Capitol Hill correspondent, Mr. Donaldson has covered many major news stories, including the Vietnam War, Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee impeachment investigation in 1974, and the Gulf war in 1991. Two days after the Gulf war ended, he co-anchored a special edition of PrimeTime Live from Kuwait City.
Mr. Donaldson has covered every national political convention since 1964 with the exception of the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. He reported on the presidential campaigns of Senator Barry Goldwater, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator Hubert Humphrey, President Jimmy Carter, President Ronald Reagan and Governor Michael Dukakis. He also reported as an eyewitness on Spiro Agnew's no contest plea in a Baltimore courtroom that forced Agnew's resignation from the Vice Presidency.
In 1998, Mr. Donaldson received the Broadcaster of the Year award from the National Press Foundation. The Washington Journalism Review named him the Best Television White House Correspondent in the Business in 1985 and the Best Television Correspondent in the Business in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989. Mr. Donaldson has won many other awards, among them four Emmy Awards and three George Foster Peabody Awards.
As a college student, Mr. Donaldson began his career in broadcasting at the age of seventeen by working for local radio stations in El Paso, Texas, and has enjoyed reporting on the radio ever since. Mr. Donaldson, an eyewitness to the shooting attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981, delivered the first report on any broadcast medium of that event on the ABC radio network.
Born in El Paso, Texas, Mr. Donaldson received his Bachelor’s degree from Texas Western College and did graduate work at the University of Southern California. His 1987 autobiography, Hold On, Mr. President, was an international best seller.
Mr. Donaldson served on active duty with the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1959, rising to the rank of Captain, USAR. After resuming his broadcasting career at KRLD-TV in Dallas in 1959, he joined WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C., in 1961, where, along with local and regional news, he covered such national stories as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, President Kennedy's funeral in 1963, passage of the Civil Rights Act in the Senate in 1964, and Senate hearings on the Vietnam war in 1965. He also anchored the station’s weekend news broadcasts, and produced and moderated a weekly interview program. Mr. Donaldson joined ABC News in 1967.
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Richard B. Hoey
 Chief Economist, Senior Vice President, The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
Chief Economist, Chief Investment Strategist, The Dreyfus Corporation
Richard B. Hoey is chief economist and senior vice president of The Bank of New York Mellon
Corporation, as well as chief economist and chief investment strategist of The Dreyfus Corporation.
Mr. Hoey joined Dreyfus in 1991 as chief economist. In July 1999, he was appointed chief economist
of Mellon Financial Corporation, which merged with The Bank of New York Company, Inc. to form
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation on July 1, 2007. Mr. Hoey was also appointed chief
investment strategist for Dreyfus in July 1999. Earlier in his career at Dreyfus, Mr. Hoey managed
three equity mutual funds which, in the aggregate, grew to over $2 billion in size.
Mr. Hoey is responsible for monitoring all aspects of the economic environment for The Bank of
New York Mellon Corporation and Dreyfus including the U.S. economy, the global economy and
currencies. He works closely with the heads of various specialized equity and fixed income teams at
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and Dreyfus. Mr. Hoey also serves as a principal
spokesman for The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and Dreyfus on economic and
investment issues.
Previously, Mr. Hoey spent nearly two decades as a chief economist, portfolio strategist and a member
of both the investment policy and stock selection committees of a number of leading investment
firms, including Prudential-Bache, A.G. Becker and Drexel Burnham Lambert.
At the beginning of his career on Wall Street, he was co-owner and portfolio manager at an
investment counsel firm which managed balanced accounts investing in blue chip stocks, special
situations, convertible securities and growth stocks and acted as advisor on private placement
financing.
Mr. Hoey graduated from Yale College where he earned a B.A. degree in politics and economics and
from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration where he earned an M.B.A.
in investments.
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John O'Hurley
 Award-winning actor John O’Hurley has catapulted into television’s busiest and most versatile actor/show host, advertising hero and feature film star.
O’Hurley is best known as “J. Peterman” on “Seinfeld” which is now the #1 syndicated show in the world and can be seen in 85 countries. John won a Screen Actors Guild Award for “Best Ensemble” for his work on “Seinfeld.” It was O’Hurley’s unique portrayal of the wry and witty “J. Peterman” that led to dozens of advertising campaigns for companies such as Xerox and The Travel Channel, earning him multiple advertising and marketing industry awards. John reappeared in prime time in 2005, capturing America’s heart with his turn on Season 1 of “Dancing with the Stars,” where he officially won the series with the highly contested “Dance Off.” After a two-year stint hosting “To Tell The Truth” and a three year stint hosting USA’s “Get Golf with the PGA TOUR”, O’Hurley is now the regular host of NBC Sports highest rated yearly show, “The National Dog Show presented by Purina,” a Thanksgiving tradition to 22 million viewers. He has also recently assumed the role as host of the long time popular game show “Family Feud,” now in it’s 30th anniversary year.
Mr. O'Hurley is a New York Times best-selling author having penned "It's Okay To Miss The Bed On The First Jump, And The Other Life Lessons I Learned From My Dogs" and his most recent book, "Before Your Dog Can Eat Your Homework, First You Have To Do It. In addition, life imitates art for John as John is now the business partner and part owner of the J. Peterman Company, along with the real J. Peterman! |
