William Proxmire and then moving on to contribute to numerous local and national campaigns. (Lehrer and Mark shared a bond as former Marines.) After the military, he turned his attention to politics, joining the staff of Sen. Mark grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, graduated from Notre Dame and volunteered for the Marines, where he served for two years. After joining the show for semi-regular conversations during the 1988 presidential campaign season, Lehrer and the NewsHour team decided to make the segment a regular part of the program. In fact, Mark was a founding member of our weekly political discussion with anchor Jim Lehrer.
“He personified all that’s special in the PBS NewsHour,” anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff said. “It would be hard to describe a political temperament more needed in our times,” said Michael Gerson.
