{"id":23400,"date":"2014-12-01T04:24:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23400"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:06:12","slug":"december-1-2004-tom-brokaw-steps-down-at-nbc-10-years-ago-today-nbc-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23400","title":{"rendered":"December 1, 2004&#8230;Tom Brokaw Steps Down At NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/December-1-2004...Tom-Brokaw-Steps-Down-At-NBC-10-years-ago-today-NBC-anchor.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDecember 1, 2004&#8230;Tom Brokaw Steps Down At NBC<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 2004, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw made he final appearance as anchor on &#8216;NBC Nightly News&#8217;. He began his run on the show in April 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Although he has already coined the phrase &#8220;the greatest generation&#8221;, he does not use the term when he talk about them with great respect. At the end, Bob Hope sings a short custom version of &#8220;Thanks For The Memories&#8221;. Thanks Tom! I remember you from your days at WSB in Atlanta. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JMxUzdep6p0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JMxUzdep6p0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Brokaw Says Farewell to NBC Nightly News (2004)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JMxUzdep6p0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After bringing viewers the news for nearly 23 years, NBC News anchor, Tom Brokaw, gave his parting words on December 1st, 2004, expressing gratitude for what&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/762065733830978\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1, 2004&#8230;Tom Brokaw Steps Down At NBC On this day in 2004, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw made he final appearance as anchor on &#8216;NBC Nightly News&#8217;. He began his run on the show in April 1982. Although he has already coined the phrase &#8220;the greatest generation&#8221;, he does not use the term when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74138,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions\/74138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}