The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

“After a news career that stretches back to the Eisenhower administration I'm looking forward to joining American University’s School of Communication and the Newseum to work with a new generation of prospective journalists” said Clooney. Despite a commanding early lead when the national media began to report on the electoral contest (due to his famous son George Clooney) the local and regional press began to use the phrase "Heartland vs. He then moved to California for a try at show business.

He is the brother of two sisters singers Rosemary Clooney and Betty Clooney and father of actor and film director George Clooney.