Overview

• He died in Washington, D.C., according to a close friend cited by CBS News, and no cause was disclosed.
• CBS noted he had been in ill health and suffered from diabetes.
• He spent more than three decades at CBS after joining in 1988, covering presidents from George H. W. Bush through Donald Trump before departing in 2020.
• Known as the press corps’ unofficial presidential statistician, he maintained detailed logs of speeches, travel, golf outings and other metrics that reporters, historians and White House aides relied on.
• As vocal problems curtailed radio work, he shifted to Twitter/X in his final CBS decade, where his White House updates drew roughly 300,000 followers.