Bill Plante, an award-winning CBS Newsman and White House correspondent for four presidents made him one of the longest serving television Washington, D.C. journalists in history, died of respiratory failure on Wednesday at the age of 84.
Plante retired from CBS News as senior White House correspondent in 2016 after 52 years. He served four tours in Vietnam – including award-winning reporting on the fall of Saigon and Cambodia – covered the civil rights movement, all the presidential elections from 1968 to 2016, and was the anchor of the "CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995. Plante was a CBS News White House correspondent for 35 years during the administrations of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama and covered the State Department during the administration of George H.W. Bush.
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