Later, NBC created American Almanac, which she co-hosted with Roger Mudd, after Mudd left the NBC Nightly News, where he co-anchored for two years with Tom Brokaw.

Tom Brokaw ( left ) greeting the 20, 000th visitor to the Gavins Point Dam in 1958.

Good Morning America continued to threaten Today into the 1980s, especially after Brokaw left Today to become NBC Nightly News co-anchor with Roger Mudd for seventeen months before being named Nightly Newss sole anchor.

While other major news anchors such as Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather immediately left their vacations, Brown did not come into the studio and instead continued playing golf.

He left the program after Brokaw went to NBC Nightly News.

After the release of 11: 11, Brokaw left Codeine, devoting himself full-time to Come.

His run turned out to be relatively brief ; future NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw would take over from him in 1976, when Walters left for ABC.

Initially, she sent out only two tapes, one to Tae Won Yu, from the band Kicking Giant, and another to Chris Brokaw, from the bands Come and Codeine.

Brokaw was playing drums with Codeine, Johnson had previously drummed for Athens, Georgia band Bar-B-Q Killers, and O ' Brien had played with two other 1980s Athens bands, Kilkenny Cats and Fashion Battery.

Her most recent band at the time, the post-no wave New York band Live Skull, had disbanded in 1990 and Brokaw and Zedek had been talking about playing together.

Zedek and Brokaw took a break after Gently, Down the Stream, and never brought the band back together again, essentially marking the end of the band.

On September 11, 2001, Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9: 30 a. m., following the live attack on the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and continued to anchor all day, until after midnight.

On September 6, 2012, Brokaw was hospitalized after appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

In May 2002, Brokaw announced his retirement as Nightly News anchor, to take effect shortly after the Presidential election of 2004.

But changes began in December 2004, when Brian Williams took over from Brokaw as anchor of NBC Nightly News, after Brokaw's well-anticipated retirement, announced in 2002.

At an interview in English after the press conference, Schabowski told the NBC reporter Tom Brokaw that " it is no question of tourism.

Soon after, NBC's Tom Brokaw interviewed Rorvik on The Today Show.

Come came into being after a mutual acquaintance invited Brokaw, O ' Brien, and Johnson to play with him.

A year after George Tuttle Brokaw died, his widow married actor Henry Fonda on September 16, 1936, at Christ Church, New York City.

Since then, Zedek and Brokaw have each released multiple solo albums, but have performed together on a few occasions to play some Come songs live.

In February 2009, Pelosi met with her bishop, Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, and with Pope Benedict XVI as a result of comments made by Pelosi to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that many observers felt inaccurately portrayed Church teaching on the subject of abortion and the beginning of life.

It was to be the beginning of a long relationship with Foss, whom Brokaw would later feature in his book about World War II veterans, The Greatest Generation.

On April 5, 1982, Brokaw began co-anchoring NBC Nightly News from New York with Roger Mudd in Washington.

The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw commenced on September 5, 1983.

As anchor, Brokaw conducted the first one-on-one American television interviews with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Brokaw with Vladimir Putin before an interview on 2 June 2000.

Brokaw would remain with NBC News in a part-time capacity through 2014, serving as an analyst and anchoring and producing documentary programs.

Along with Jennings and Rather, Brokaw helped usher in the era of the TV news anchor as lavishly compensated, globe-trotting star in the 1980s.

** Booknotes interview with Brokaw on The Greatest Generation, March 7, 1999.

** In Depth interview with Brokaw, May 6, 2012

On September 19, 2001, Sergeant Major of the Army Jack L. Tilley presented Mauldin with a personal letter from Army Chief of Staff General Eric K. Shinseki, a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities to include Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Tom Hanks.

With the transition to Williams, the show recognized its past in its opening seconds, with small photos of past anchors and sets and the voices of John Cameron Swayze, Huntley, Brinkley, Chancellor, and Brokaw, as well as an orchestral version of the " G-E-C " NBC Chimes, before going into the opening headlines read by Williams.

Later, Schabowski agreed to a live interview with Brokaw.

From 1976 to 1989 Pauley was the co-host, with Tom Brokaw and later Bryant Gumbel, of NBC's The Today Show.

In 1994, she became co-anchor of Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric — an evening time weekly TV newsmagazine with Tom Brokaw — which was later canceled and folded into part of Dateline NBC, where her reports appeared regularly and she was named contributing anchor.

Within a year, Today managed to beat back the Good Morning America ratings threat with Brokaw and new co-host Jane Pauley, featuring art and entertainment contributor Gene Shalit.

When the story was covered by NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw on February 25, 2003, Vines finally broke his silence on the issue, claiming that his statements had been overemphasized in media reports, and that he had not intended to evoke hate.

The magnitude of a news event could be measured by whether Brokaw and his counterparts on the other two networks showed up on the scene.

The panel was moderated by Tom Brokaw and featured appearances by other journalists.

Featuring interviews from the likes of Stephen Colbert, Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jackson, acclaimed scholars, and others, the program delved further into the Heroic Epic concept and the influences of mythology, and other motifs that were important in making Star Wars the standard of movies and other series for years to come, such as sins of the father and redeeming the father, coming of age, exiting the ordinary world, and others that all led to the defining " modern mythology " of our time.

Besides Wausau, other significant communities in the metropolitan area include Mosinee, Schofield, Rothschild, Weston, Kronenwetter, Brokaw, and the town of Rib Mountain.

Bob Widlar, Paul Brokaw and others followed up with other commercially successful versions.