Pete Williams (television correspondent)
| Pete Williams | |
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Pete Williams as Assistant Secretary of Defense at a press briefing, 1991.
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| Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs | |
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In office May 22, 1989 – January 20, 1993 |
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| Nominated by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | J. Daniel Howard |
| Succeeded by | Vernon A. Guidry, Jr. |
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Louis Alan Williams February 28, 1952 Casper, Wyoming, United States |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation | Journalist, spokesperson |
Louis Alan "Pete" Williams (born February 28, 1952) is an American journalist and former government official. Since 1993, he has been a television correspondent for NBC News.
Williams, a graduate of Stanford University, began his career in local news with the Casper, Wyoming, television station KTWO and its eponymous radio station in 1974.
In 1986, Williams became press secretary for U.S. Representative Dick Cheney and followed Cheney to the United States Department of Defense as Cheney became United States Secretary of Defense to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs in 1989 during the George H. W. Bush administration.
Williams became a correspondent for NBC News in 1993 after leaving the Defense Department; his main areas of news coverage for NBC include the Department of Justice and Supreme Court.
Born in Casper, Wyoming, Williams graduated from Natrona County High School in 1970. Dick Cheney is a class of '59 Natrona alum.
Williams graduated from Stanford University in 1974.
From 1974 to 1985, Williams was reporter and news director for the Casper-based KTWO television and KTWO radio stations. Williams also served as director for the Wyoming Future Project from 1985 to 1986.
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