George Stephanopoulos
American government official, journalist, writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Robert Stephanopoulos (Greek: Γεώργιος Στεφανόπουλος; born February 10, 1961) is an American television journalist and a former political advisor.
George Stephanopoulos | |
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Senior Advisor to the President | |
In office June 7, 1993 – December 10, 1996 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Rahm Emanuel |
Succeeded by | Sidney Blumenthal |
White House Communications Director | |
In office January 20, 1993 – June 7, 1993 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Margaret D. Tutwiler |
Succeeded by | Mark Gearan |
Personal details | |
Born | George Robert Stephanopoulos (1961-02-10) February 10, 1961 (age 63) Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Alexandra Wentworth (m. 2001) |
Children | 2 |
Education | Columbia University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) |
Website | Official website |
Stephanopoulos is the chief political correspondent for the news division at ABC-TV– and a co-anchor of ABC-TV's morning news program, Good Morning America (GMA). He returned as host of ABC-TV's This Week in January 2012,[1] a Sunday morning news program produced by ABC-TV's news division. He is the main replacement anchor for ABC-TV's newscast program, World News with Diane Sawyer.[2]
In recent years, he has co-hosted ABC News's special live coverage of political events with Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer. He and has often been on GMA and World News. He launched George's Bottom Line, an ABCNews.com blog.
Before he started working for ABC News, he was a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. He later became the White House Communications Director for two years. He was replaced by David Gergen. This change came after the Republican party getting control of the U.S. House and Senate in the mid-term elections of 1994.
In April 2020, Stephanopoulos was diagnosed with COVID-19.[3][4]