One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.

In 1973 NBC made Brokaw White House correspondent covering the Watergate scandal and anchor of the Saturday editions of Nightly News. On September 11 2001 Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9:30 a. On May 29 2011 Brokaw began hosting The Boys in the Hall a baseball documentary series for Fox Sports Net.

He is the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show NBC Nightly News and briefly Meet the Press. He now serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets. Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw (/ˈbroʊkɔː/; born February 6 1940) is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.