Full Bio. Since the start of his career in , Cooper has worked in more than forty countries and has covered nearly all-major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. Cooper has also played a pivotal role in CNN's political and election coverage. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. Additionally, he has been awarded eighteen Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, and an Edward R.
Murrow Award. Channel One News was a school television network seen daily in more than 12, classrooms nationwide. Cooper graduated from Yale University in with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.
He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. I do think it was his sole reason for being. Treasury," Cooper said. But it was the next generation of Vanderbilts whose ambitions had nothing to do with making money. Vanderbilt, their wives decide they're gonna get the Vanderbilts to take over New York society. Craving respectability, this generation of wealthy Vanderbilts spent lavishly on mansions that dotted Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, and palatial "summer cottages" in Newport, Rhode Island.
Rocca asked, "Pop quiz: What was the Vanderbilt family's least favorite constitutional amendment? The 16th Amendment to the Constitution ushered in the federal income tax in Estate and inheritance taxes soon followed. But the Vanderbilt spending habits continued unabated.
Cooper said, "I view the money as kind of a pathology that infected subsequent generations, because I think they all grew up with this idea that there would always be money there, and there was no need for them to actually work. When Cooper's mother, Gloria, was born in , her inheritance was much diminished, and she was given little guidance on how to maintain it: "This book helped me understand my Mom in ways I never really even imagined, because, once you see the world she was born into and the life her father led and the life her mother dreamed of leading and the life that her grandfather led, you see why it was that she, you know, grew up just spending money and thinking nothing of it.
In Cooper's father, Wyatt, died. My Mom was a remarkable lady, but I knew she did not have a plan. And she had never had a plan. When it came to money matters, Cooper assumed an almost parental role with his own mother: "I would talk to her at 13 about, you know, 'You know, you can get a bank account and you should put money in savings. Saving money is making money.
During this time, Cooper also interned with the CIA, a fact that would make headlines some 20 years later. After graduating from Yale with a bachelor's degree in , Cooper began his news career as a fact-checker for Channel One, which produces news segments to be broadcast in schools around the country. Bored with his day-to-day job, he took a video camera with him to Southeast Asia, and his footage of strife in Myanmar and parts of Africa eventually landed him the job of chief international correspondent for Channel One.
Cooper's reports soon attracted enough attention that, in , he was hired by ABC News as a correspondent and then a co-anchor of World News Now. But after the September 11, , terrorist attacks, Cooper was compelled to return to the news, and the following January CNN took him aboard as a correspondent and substitute anchor. The show was an instant success, and Cooper himself became a household name, propelled by his reporting on such events as Hurricane Katrina, the death of Pope John Paul II and the Boston Marathon Bombing, as well as much of CNN's political and election coverage.
In , Cooper also began an ongoing affiliation with CBS's 60 Minutes , to which he has contributed reports on such topics the drug war in Mexico, rape in Congo and the dire condition of coral reefs off the coast of Cuba.
Cooper's journalistic output has earned him numerous honors over the years, including a slew of Emmy Awards. Finding similar success as a writer, his memoir , Dispatches from the Edge —about his experiences covering war and tragedy—became a New York Times best seller.
However, the show failed to make a sizable impact with fans and was off the air less than two years later. The newsman has enjoyed more success as the host of CNN's annual New Year's Eve Live special since , with friend Andy Cohen joining him for coverage beginning in Normally tasked with explaining the actions of former co-host Kathy Griffin, Anderson found himself defending one of that night's segments in which a correspondent reported from inside a bus filled with people smoking marijuana.
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