BACKGROUND:

In his 30-year career at NBC News, Dancy covered every major beat in Washington and served twice as a foreign correspondent. Dancy was a senior White House reporter during the Carter administration, Congressional correspondent during the Reagan years, and chief diplomatic correspondent during the Bush administration. While covering the U.S. Congress, Dancy reported on the Iran-Contra hearings. He also anchored “NBC Nightly News,” “NBC News at Sunrise” and “Meet the Press.”

Retiring from NBC in 1996, Dancy was named a fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy. He also served in the Department of Defense as a senior advisor to the National Security Commission/21st Century, which was chartered by the Secretary of Defense and supported by both the White House and the Congress. The Commission delivers a security strategy and implementation plan designed to meet the emerging challenges of the 21^st century.

Dancy received the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, the Overseas Press Club’s Citation for Excellence, the Janus Award for business reporting, four national Emmys, and was the first television correspondent to receive the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress.

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