Broadcasting icon Hugh Downs has died at age 99, his family says.
Walters and Downs were briefly reunited in Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center in 2012 for the 60th anniversary of “Today.” During interviews for the anniversary special, Downs reflected on his own legacy.
"I would like it if people remembered me as being fair and enjoying what I did and being honest with the audience," Downs said in 2012."Because I just could not, under any circumstance, say something I didn’t believe in or something that I thought was wrong.NBC News' Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters covering the first Presidential inauguration of Richard Nixon on Janu. 20, 1969 in Washington, D.C.
Almost simultaneously with his run on “Today,” Downs also hosted an NBC game show called “Concentration” from 1958 to 1969, a memory game where contestants tried to find matching pairs of cards on a game board.
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