Political Quotes

“I am pleased to join others today all across the greater Washington metropolitan area in saluting Washington's own radio station, WTOP, as it celebrates 25 years of all-news broadcasting. Today WTOP will be honored with a gala celebration, hosted by the CBS radio network, featuring such illustrious news figures as Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson, and Connie Chung. WTOP, which first signed on as WTRC broadcasting from Brooklyn, NY in 1929, gained its current call letters 1943, when it became affiliated with CBS. The station is now owned by the Dallas-based Evergreen Media Group. WTOP has been honored with the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in news broadcasting. In particular, I would like to recognize and commend the outstanding contributions made by a newsman from whom I and many of my colleagues have the highest regard: WTOP's one and only Dave McConnell. Dave is the Capitol Hill correspondent for the station and the host of 'Today on the Hill,' an excellent program which opens up and clarifies congressional action--Senate and House, floor and committee--to the people in our greater metropolitan area of the Nation's Capitol.”