PERSON: Pete Williams

Journalist

Louis Alan "Pete" Williams (born February 28, 1952) is an American journalist who works as a television correspondent for NBC News. Williams, a graduate of Stanford University, began his career in local news with the Casper, Wy., television station KTWO and its eponymous radio station in 1974. In 1986, Williams became press secretary for U.S. Representative Dick Cheney and followed Cheney to the United States Department of Defense as Cheney became United States Secretary of Defense to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs in 1989 during the George H. W. Bush administration. Williams became a correspondent for NBC News in 1993 after leaving the Defense Department; his main areas of news coverage for NBC include the Department of Justice and Supreme Court.<br> <br> -- Wikipedia