Carl Leubsdorf - Washington Bureau Chief, The Dallas Morning News

Carl P. Leubsdorf has been Washington Bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News since 1981. His weekly column is carried on the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services wire. Prior to that, he was White House correspondent and national political correspondent of The Baltimore Sun (1976-81) and spent 15 years with the Associated Press (1960-75) where he worked in New Orleans, New York and Washington, the last three years as the AP's chief political writer. He has been in Washington since 1963. A native of New York City, he has a BA with honors in government from Cornell University (1959), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MS with honors in journalism from Columbia University (1960). He has appeared over the years on many television shows and for four years co-hosted Belo's Capital Conversation. He is married to Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA Today; they have two college-age sons. He also has a son and four step-children from his previous marriage.