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Age 70
Claim to fame Host of MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews (weeknights at 7 p.m.)
Base Washington, D.C.
Twitter @HardballChris
Adweek: What's the first information you consume in the morning?
Chris Matthews: History. I start the day knowing most of what's happened in politics since World War II, so it's always there as a point of comparison. Everything is a mash-up of past and present in my brain. For instance, [Alicia Machado] is very much a case of how you treat the little people if you're a big shot, and this is what happened with [Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey] back in '48 when he yelled at some train conductor and said he ought to be fired because he accidentally jolted the train, and that really hurt Dewey.
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