NBC News White House Correspondent David Gregory to Speak at NFIB Summit
As chief White House correspondent, David Gregory has begun his sixth year leading the network's coverage of the Bush presidency, reporting regularly on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, for NBC News' 24-hour cable network MSNBC and on MSNBC.com. In addition, Gregory often appears on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
In the fall of 2005, Gregory began substituting regularly for Matt Lauer on Today. He has served as substitute moderator on Meet the Press, and has been a substitute anchor for the weekend editions of Nightly News and Today. As a political commentator, Gregory is a frequent contributor on Meet the Press and the syndicated Chris Matthews show.
Gregory is also well known for his appearances on MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning and has been tapped by the shock jock to guest host.
He has circled the globe, traveling with President Bush on every major foreign trip and to nearly every state in the nation during the presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004.
From the White House, Gregory has also covered every aspect of the war on terror and the war in Iraq since 9/11. He was the only network correspondent to tour ground zero with President Bush, and he reported exclusively from Afghanistan while traveling with Vice President Dick Cheney to the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Gregory was one of the few journalists to travel with Vice President Cheney on a mission to 12 countries in the Middle East in 2002, as the administration laid the groundwork for the Iraq war. During the summer of 2004, he landed an exclusive and rare interview in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ahead of his summit with President Bush in Texas.
Through terror attacks, two wars, presidential campaigns, policy debates, Supreme Court nominations and a historic leak investigation, Gregory has earned a reputation for being one of the toughest questioners of President Bush and his press secretary Scott McClellan. Naming him one of Washington’s 50 best and most influential journalists, Washingtonian magazine labeled Gregory the “firebrand in the front row.”
On the campaign trail in 2004, Gregory was the most heavily utilized network correspondent on television, according to the Tyndall Report. He was the only network correspondent to travel with the president aboard Air Force One on Election Day, and reported exclusive details during the network’s marathon election night coverage. During the historic 2000 campaign, Gregory also led the network’s election night coverage from Austin, Texas, and stayed on to chronicle the legal standoff during the recount.
In 2005, Gregory shared an Emmy with his colleagues for the network’s coverage of President Ronald Reagan’s death and funeral the previous summer. He reported on Reagan’s death from Paris, where President Bush learned of the news.
Since joining NBC News in 1995, Gregory has covered nearly every major story for the network: from the O.J. Simpson trials, to the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, to the impeachment of President Clinton, and the death of Pope John Paul II in Rome.
A native of Los Angeles, Gregory graduated from The American University in Washington, D.C. with a bachelor’s degree in international studies. In 2005, he was named the School of International Service’s alumnus of the year and now sits on the dean’s advisory council.
Gregory lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Beth Wilkinson, an executive vice president and the general counsel of Fannie Mae, along with their three children.
