Marvin Kalb

Marvin L. Kalb
Born	June 9, 1930 (1930-06-09) (age 81)
Education	City College of New York, Harvard University[1]
Occupation	News analyst, author, Senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center, Moderator of The Kalb Report
Notable relatives	brother Bernard Kalb, daughter Judith Kalb
Notable credit(s)	moderator of Meet the Press, founding director, Shorenstein Center

Marvin L. Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987–1999). The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University. He is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at The George Washington University and a member of Atlantic Community Advisory Board.

Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News, becoming part of the later generation of the "Murrow's Boys." His work at CBS landed him on Richard Nixon's "enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief Diplomatic Correspondent and host of Meet the Press. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother Bernard worked alongside him.

Kalb has authored or coauthored nine nonfiction books (Eastern Exposure, Dragon in the Kremlin, The Volga, Roots of Involvement, Kissinger, Campaign ’88, The Nixon Memo, and One Scandalous Story) and two best-selling novels (In the National Interest and The Last Ambassador). His most recent book is about the haunting legacy of Vietnam, co-authored with his daughter.

He hosts The Kalb Report, a monthly discussion of media ethics and responsibility at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and George Washington University.^[2] He is a news analyst for Fox News, and a contributor to National Public Radio and America Abroad.

Haunting Legacy

In his latest book, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (Brookings Institution Press 2011), Marvin Kalb collaborated with his daughter, Deborah Kalb, to present an accessible and hugely important history of presidential decision-making on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war?

The father-daughter journalist team spent five years interviewing hundreds of officials from every administration and researching in presidential libraries and archives. The result is a book that is equal parts taut history, revealing biography, and cautionary tale that divulges insight and information never before published.

“Viet Nam continues to be an albatross, circling the White House. In a compelling and totally accessible book the Kalbs (father and daughter) show how profoundly America's defeat in Viet Nam has affected one US administration after another, over the course of the past 36 years. If you wonder whether Viet Nam still matters, it does. Read this book and discover why and how.” –Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC’s Nightline for 25 years; senior news analyst at National Public Radio

Partial bibliography

• Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (Brookings Institution Press, 2011)
• Dragon in the Kremlin: A Report on the Russian-Chinese Alliance (1961)
• In the National Interest (1977, ISBN 0671226568)
• Kissinger (ISBN 1125577843)
• The Last Ambassador (1981, ISBN 0316482226)
• The Media and the War on Terrorism (2003, ISBN 0815735812)^[3]
• The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press (1994, ISBN 0226422992)
• One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism (2001, ISBN 0684859394)
• Roots of Involvement: the U.S. in Asia, 1784–1971 (1971, ISBN 0393054403)

Trivia

Kalb's colleagues at NBC had a running joke involving an NBC affiliate in Alexandria, Louisiana – KALB-TV, referring to that affiliate as "Marvin's Station". At one point, Today co-host Bryant Gumbel, in a co-op promo for the station's upcoming feature about Today in 1985, identified the station as KALB, smiled into the camera, and then intoned, "Marvin's Station" at which point the off-camera crew broke up.

Fox News political commentator Bill O'Reilly was one of Kalb's students.

References

1. ^ About Marvin Kalb at The Kalb Report from the George Washington University website
2. ^ The Kalb Report at The Kalb Report from the George Washington University website
3. ^ The Media and the War on Terrorism from the Brookings Institution Press

External links

• Marvin Kalb's Profile at Harvard University from the John F. Kennedy School of Government website
• About Marvin Kalb at The Kalb Report from the George Washington University website

Preceded by Bill Monroe

Meet the Press Moderator September 16, 1984 – May 3, 1987 (Co-Anchor with Roger Mudd until 1985)

Succeeded by Chris Wallace

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