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Germond married Barbara Wippler in 1951. They had two daughters, Mandy and Jessica, before divorcing. In 1995, Germond married Alice Travis, a former secretary of the
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80: From Ben Bradlee to Lena Horne to Carl Reiner, Our Most Famous Eighty Year Olds Reveal Why They Never Felt So Young
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from the show's inception 1982, acting as a "liberal voice" against conservative guests such as
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Blue Smoke & Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980
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Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988
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heavy-handed moderation. He was later featured as a panelist on the PBS program
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Germond retired in 2000. In 2011, he wrote several pieces on the
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Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics
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whose career spanned over 50 years. Germond wrote for the
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Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists
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Wake Us When It's Over: Presidential Politics of 1984
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Charles Town, West Virginia
University of Missouri
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The McLaughlin Group
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U.S. Army
University of Missouri
Monroe, Michigan
Gannett
Rochester Times-Union
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Baltimore Sun
Meet the Press
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Robert Novak
Saturday Night Live
Chris Farley
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Inside Washington

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