Tim Russert has moderated many political debates, including that of the US Presidential Election. [edit]
Tim Russert is famous for using a dry erase board while hosting NBC's coverage of the 2000 US Presidential Election during election night, while trying to compute eletoral college results during all of the chaos. [edit]
Tim Russert is a huge Buffalo Bills football fan. [edit]
Tim Russert wrote an autobiography entitled Big Russ and Me. [edit]
Tim Russert lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and son, Luke. [edit]
Tim Russert is married to Maureen Orth, who is a writer for the Vanity Fair magazine. [edit]
Tim Russert is admitted to the bar in both New York and in the District of Columbia. [edit]
Tim Russert graduated with honors from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. [edit]
Tim Russert is a graduate of John Carroll University. [edit]
Tim Russert is a graduate of Canisius High School. [edit]
Irish America magazine named him one of the top 100 Irish Americans in the country. [edit]
Tim Russert was named "America’s best interviewer" in 2004 by Reader’s Digest. [edit]
Tim Russert was named the best and most influential journalist in Washington, D.C., in 2001 by Washingtonian Magazine. [edit]
Tim Russert has previously lectured at the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan Presidential Libraries. [edit]
Tim Russert has received twenty-nine honorary doctorate degrees from American colleges and universities. [edit]