Bill Plante was a remarkable reporter. He spent four tours as a CBS correspondent in Vietnam, he interviewed Martin Luther King Jr in 1965, and he served as CBS’ White House Correspondent from 1976 until his retirement in 2016. On September 28, 2022, Bill Plante passed away. To honor him and his work, we are reairing our 2018 conversation w/ Bill and The Washington Post’s Olivier Knox.

You can read Bill’s CBS News obituary here and his Washington Post obituary by Emily Langer here.

You can watch the video of this conversation on our YouTube channel here.

This episode originally aired as episode #104 on August 22, 2018. This reair was edited by Ben Sawyer.

Journalism & Politics w/ Bill Plante & Olivier Knox