Sam Donaldson Quotes
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Donaldson, Sam. Interview. \Academy of Achievement\, 28 Oct. 2000.
Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
“Vote counting” is done in legislative bodies like Congress by the party leadership, often called the “whip”. The purpose is to determine how many votes they will likely get for a particular piece of legislation. It involved determining and predicting how each member of the legislative body will vote for each variation of a bill and each amendment that has been offered. Paxon himself was one of the Congressmen responsible for doing this for the Republicans when he was in the Congress. . See {624235} for more on vote counting.
Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. is an American former reporter and news anchor, serving with ABC News from 1967 to 2013. He is best known as the network's White House Correspondent (1977–1989 and 1998–99) and as a panelist and later co-anchor of the network's Sunday program, This Week.
