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Bill Plante Dies: Longtime CBS News White House Correspondent Was 84

Bill Plante, whose tenure as a CBS News White House correspondent spanned the administrations of Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, has died.

Plante was 84 and suffered from respiratory failure on Wednesday, the network said.

Plante retired in 2016 after 52 years with the news division, a career that included coverage of the civil rights movement and of Vietnam, as well as all presidential elections from 1968 to 2016. Plante was also the anchor of CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995.

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