I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

After a year he resigned and moved to New York City to look for a job in broadcast news. Pest control
Only a year later Donaldson was embroiled in another Federal aid scandal. He covered the two major party political conventions in 1968 and in 1969 began anchoring the network's 11:00 pm Saturday and Sunday newscasts.

Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson Jr. (born March 11 1934) is an American reporter and news anchor serving with ABC News from 1967 to the present.