If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

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.