‘Tim Russert’ dies of heart attack
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- Date: Jun 14,2008
Tim Russert, who became a household name in American political discourse as host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday talk show, died on the job of a heart attack on Friday, the television network said. He was 58.
Russert, known for his tough interviews of many of the leading U.S. political figures of the past two decades, was the NBC News Washington bureau chief.
“He was an institution in both news and politics for more than two decades,” U.S. President George W. Bush said in a statement issued in Paris, where the president was travelling.
Russert became a news subject himself in 2007, when he provided key testimony at the CIA leak trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
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