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Marvin Kalb Kalb in 2001 Born Marvin Leonard Kalb (1930-06-09) June 9, 1930 (age 96) New York City, New York, U.S. Education City College of New York (BA) Harvard University (MA)[1] Occupations News analyst Author Senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center Moderator of The Kalb Report Senior adviser at Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Notable credit(s) Moderator of Meet the Press, founding director, Shorenstein Center Relatives Bernard Kalb (brother)

**Marvin Leonard Kalb** (born June 9, 1930) is an American [journalist](/source/Journalist). He was the founding director of the [Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy](/source/Shorenstein_Center_on_Media%2C_Politics_and_Public_Policy) and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University). Kalb is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at [George Washington University](/source/The_George_Washington_University) and a member of the [Atlantic Community](/source/Atlantic_Community) Advisory Board.

## Career

Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] for [CBS News](/source/CBS_News) and [NBC News](/source/NBC_News). Kalb was the last newsman recruited by [Edward R. Murrow](/source/Edward_R._Murrow) to join CBS News, becoming part of the later generation of the "[Murrow Boys](/source/Murrow_Boys)." His work at CBS landed him on [Richard Nixon](/source/Richard_Nixon)'s ["enemies list"](/source/Master_list_of_Nixon's_political_opponents). At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host of *[Meet the Press](/source/Meet_the_Press)*. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother [Bernard](/source/Bernard_Kalb) worked alongside him.

Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books and two best-selling[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] novels (*In the National Interest* and *The Last Ambassador*).

Kalb hosts *The Kalb Report*, a monthly discussion of [media ethics and responsibility](/source/Journalism_ethics_and_standards) at the [National Press Club](/source/National_Press_Club_(USA)) in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.) sponsored by [George Washington University](/source/George_Washington_University).[2] He was a news analyst for [Fox News](/source/Fox_News), and is a contributor to [National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio) and [America Abroad](/source/America_Abroad). He is a senior adviser at the [Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting](/source/Pulitzer_Center_on_Crisis_Reporting).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## *Haunting Legacy*

In *Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama* (Brookings Institution Press 2011), Marvin Kalb collaborated with his daughter, Deborah Kalb, in an attempt to present a history of presidential decision-making on one crucial issue: in light of the [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam_War) experience, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? The Kalbs participated in a webcast interview of the book at the [Pritzker Military Library](/source/Pritzker_Military_Library) on October 27, 2011.[3]

## Partial bibliography

- *Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War* (2021), Brookings Institution Press, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0815738961](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0815738961)

- *Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy* (2018), Brookings Institution Press, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0815735304](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0815735304)

- *The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia* (2017), Brookings Institution Press, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780815731610](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780815731610)

- *Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War* (2015), [Brookings Institution Press](/source/Brookings_Institution_Press), [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8157-2664-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8157-2664-7).

- *The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed* (2013), Brookings Institution Press, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8157-2493-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8157-2493-3).

- *Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama* (2011), Brookings Institution Press, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8157-2131-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8157-2131-4).

- *The Media and the War on Terrorism* (2003), Brookings Institution Press, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8157-3581-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8157-3581-6).[4]

- *One Scandalous Story: [Clinton, Lewinsky](/source/Lewinsky_scandal), and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism* (2001, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-684-85939-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-85939-4))

- *The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press* (1994, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-226-42299-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-42299-2))

- *The Last Ambassador* (1981, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-316-48222-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-48222-6))

- *In the National Interest* (1977, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-671-22656-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-22656-8))

- *Kissinger* (1974, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0316482219](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0316482219))

- *Roots of Involvement: the U.S. in Asia, 1784–1971* (1971, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-393-05440-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-05440-3))

- *Dragon in the Kremlin: A Report on the Russian-Chinese Alliance* (1961)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [About Marvin Kalb](http://kalb.gwu.edu/aboutkalb.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080828192551/http://kalb.gwu.edu/aboutkalb.html) 2008-08-28 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) at *[The Kalb Report](/source/The_Kalb_Report)* from the [George Washington University](/source/George_Washington_University) website

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [The Kalb Report](http://kalb.gwu.edu/) at *The Kalb Report* from the [George Washington University](/source/George_Washington_University) website

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Webcast Interview](http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/Home/marvin-kalb.aspx) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130704170836/https://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/Home/marvin-kalb.aspx) 2013-07-04 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) on *Haunting Legacy* at the [Pritzker Military Library](/source/Pritzker_Military_Library) on October 27, 2011

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [*The Media and the War on Terrorism*](http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2003/mediaandthewaronterrorism.aspx) from the [Brookings Institution Press](/source/Brookings_Institution_Press)

## External links

- [About Marvin Kalb](https://web.archive.org/web/20080828192551/http://kalb.gwu.edu/aboutkalb.html) at *The Kalb Report* from the [George Washington University](/source/George_Washington_University) website

- [Marvin Kalb's Profile at Harvard University](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/marvin-kalb) from the [John F. Kennedy School of Government](/source/John_F._Kennedy_School_of_Government) website

- [Reagan Mondale debate October 21, 1984](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second_Presidential_Debate_with_President_Reagan_and_Walter_Mondale,_October_21,_1984.webm) on Wikimedia Commons

- [Appearances](https://www.c-span.org/person/?3868) on [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)

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