Pete Williams
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Louis Alan "Pete" Williams (born February 28, 1952) is an American journalist and former government official.
He has been a television reporter for NBC News since 1993.
He was in President George W. Bush's cabinet. Williams was born in Casper, Wyoming; his mother was a realtor and his father was an orthodontist.
He has used the term "pete" since childhood.
Since graduating from Stanford University, where he had initially studied engineering but later switched to journalism, he began working in local news with the Casper, Wyoming, television station KTWO and its eponymous radio station in 1974. During the George H. Bush administration, Williams became the press secretary for US Senator Dick Cheney and then Cheney to the United States Department of Defense as Cheney became the Defense Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs in 1986. After leaving the Defense Department, Williams became a correspondent for NBC News in late March 1993; the Department of Justice and Supreme Court were among his key areas of news coverage for NBC.
Early life and education
Pete Williams was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming, where his mother, "Bennie," was a teacher and later a Realtor, and his father, Louis, was a dentist. He was one of three children. Williams graduated from Natrona County High School, which is coincidentally the same high school as his fellow Bush Administration alumnus Dick Cheney—in 1970. He was a member of his high school's coveted debating team and also received an award for public speaking. He was also very active in his school's Teenage Republicans club and a member of the National Honor Society.
Williams graduated from Stanford University in 1974. While at Stanford, he studied Journalism and History and spent a year in London in a Stanford-sponsored international program.
Career
Williams worked as a reporter and news director for the Casper-based KTWO television and KTWO radio stations from 1974 to 1985. Williams served as the program's manager from 1985 to 1986.
Williams was hired as press secretary and legislative assistant on the staff of US Representative Dick Cheney in 1986. Following Cheney's appointment as United States Secretary of Defense and as Press Secretary of the Defense Department, Williams was appointed Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs in 1989.
He was accused of covering up widespread illicit military operations that had occurred during the US invasion of Panama under the pretense of impoking Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, which was later seen in the documentary film The Panama Deception (1992).
In 1991, journalist and activist Michelangelo Signorile dismissed Williams as gay. Though Cheney's then-ban on LGBT members of the military, when asked by reporters, the department refused to dismiss Williams (a civilian employee). Cheney also expressed his opposition to the ban.
Williams was recruited by NBC News in March 1993 as a justice reporter based in Washington, D.C., to cover news from the US Department of Justice and the Supreme Court.
Williams denied that there were any signs of genocide or war crimes during the Bosnian War, saying that "we don't have evidence of a scheme of systematic or mass murder of innocent civilians." In the 1997 film Welcome to Sarajevo, a video clip of the actual speech is included.
Williams, a NBC justice reporter, has interviewed United States Attorneys General John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, and Eric Holder, as well as FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Williams received a smear of praise from various media outlets for covering events in a more restrained, cautionary manner in covering the Boston Marathon bombing for MSNBC and NBC News. Williams declined to announce a later-retracted assertion that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had arrested a suspect for the bombing, in contrast to the Associated Press and CNN. Williams has been calm, diligent, and correct on a major story that has been defined by inaccurate and conflicting reports and wild rumors, according to Dylan Byers of Politico: "On a major story that has been characterized by inaccurate and conflicting reports and wild rumors, Williams has been consistent and correct." Williams' "restraint in not leaping too far into conclusions," Brian Resnick of the National Journal wrote. In the overnight hours of April 19, 2013, the term "NBC's Pete Williams" became a trending topic.
Pete Williams, a reporter covering the Washington, D.C. Capitol car attack of April 20,2021, said the assailant was a "White Man" before authorities knew of his presence. He did not retract his statement. "Now, the question is: what's the wellbeing of the Capitol Police officers who were wounded when the man was wounded, because it was a White male who was driving the car," Williams told MSNBC anchor Katy Turman, "when the man got out of the car and assaulted the police officers with a knife." Noah Green, a physically impaired Black man who was a self-described "follower of [Louis] Farrakhan," was the assassinated assassination.
During the Today Show on Friday, Williams announced his resignation on Friday, July 29, 2022.
Williams has been named in three national news Emmy awards.
In recognition of Williams' numerous contributions to journalism, the University of Wyoming named him a Doctor of Letters in 2012. He was praised for his "sound judgment, fair mindedness, impeccable ethics, and dedication to service."
Williams was named a recipient of the 2018 John F. Hogan Award, which is distributed annually by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). "The Hogan Award, which was named after the association's first president, honors "an individual's contributions to the journalism field and the freedom of the press." Williams was chosen because "for the first 25 years as a government spokesperson and then as a journalist reporting government," said Scott Libin, current Chair of RTDNA. "His research and knowledge of power and politics have been extremely useful to the viewers of NBC News."