Longtime CBS News White House Correspondent Bill Plante has died at 88.
Plante spent 52 years in various capacities with the network before retiring in 2016. CBS News announced (h/t TheWrap) that Plante's family says he died of respiratory failure.
"He was brilliant, as a reporter and as a human being," 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl said. "There wasn't anything Bill didn't excel at in our profession: he was a gifted writer, a first-class deadline maker and a breaker of major stories.
"He'll be remembered for his reports from the White House lawn, his booming voice that presidents always answered and his kind heart."
Stahl and Plante provided coverage from the White House together for a decade at CBS News after joining the network in 1964.
Plante began covering politics as part of the network's Chicago bureau and would transition over to D.C. in 1976 and a decade later was appointed Senior White House correspondent.
During his time as the reporter in the White House for CBS News, Plante would cover Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama's presidencies.
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