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Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.

CBS News veteran Roger Mudd, who derailed a Kennedy with one question, dies at 93 Reuters/Virginia Photo:Reuters Mudd died on Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in Virginia. Roger Mudd, the longtime CBS News political correspondent who famously helped sink Edward Kennedy’s White House ambitions by asking in an interview why the senator wanted to be president, leaving the candidate flustered, died on Tuesday at age 93. Mudd, who covered politics and national affairs at CB...

Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.

Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.

Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.

Longtime CBS News political journalist Roger Mudd is dead at 93.

In an April 2008 interview on the “NewsHour,” he said he “absolutely loved” keeping tabs on the nation’s 100 senators and 435 representatives, “all of them wanting to talk, great access, politics morning, noon and night, as opposed to the White House, where everything is zipped up and tightly held.” Mudd received a George Foster Peabody Award for his November 1979 special “CBS Reports: Teddy,” which aired just days before Kennedy officially announced his attempt to challenge t...

Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.

Roger Mudd, whose TV network career spanned more than 30 years, once famously stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president.

Mudd died on Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in Virginia.