Toward the end of Chuck Todd‘s list of mentors in the Observer’s Mentors Issue is a story about how the Meet the Press host first arrived at NBC. It was, as Todd describes it, the result of a cold call from one of his MTP predecessors, the legendary and departed Tim Russert. He was offering Todd a spot at NBC.
At that point, Todd was comfortably ensconced at National Journal and The Atlantic. The thing was, writes Todd, “Tim was someone I idolized from afar and as a friend once said to me, when looking back on life near the end, you usually think about what you didn’t do, not what you did.
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