Neil MacNeil

Neil MacNeil (January 3, 1923 in the Bronx, New York, NY – June 7, 2008 in Bethesda, MD) was an American journalist.

He began in journalism as a local reporter on The New York Times. In 1949 he came to Washington as a congressional correspondent for the United Press, until 1958 when he joined TIME Magazine where he worked for nearly 30 years reporting on Congress, and served as chief Congressional correspondent. For TIME Magazine, MacNeil reported many cover stories, including on such members of Congress as Sam Rayburn, Mike Mansfield, Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedy brothers - John F., Robert F., and Edward M. - Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Hubert Humphrey, William Fulbright, Robert Byrd, and Howard Baker. He appeared on such programs as NBC’s “Meet The Press” and CBS’s “Face The Nation.”

For three years starting in 1964, MacNeil made a weekly report, “MacNeil on Congress,” for the Eastern Educational Television Network, a program enlarged in 1967 into “Washington Week in Review” on National Public Television. He was a weekly regular on that program until 1978.

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