Chris Matthews Chris Matthews hosts “Hardball with Chris Matthews” … MSNBC … also host of “The Chris Matthews Show” … weekly news program produced by NBC News … regular commentator on NBC’s “Today Show”. A television news anchor … remarkable depth of experience … distinguished … as a broadcast journalist, newspaper bureau chief, Presidential speechwriter … best selling author. Matthews covered … fall of the Berlin Wall … first all-races election in South Africa … Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland, In 1997 and 1998, his digging … National Archives … produced … series of San Francisco Examiner scoops on … Nixon presidential tapes … covered American presidential election campaigns since 1988 including … five week recount of 2000. In 2005 … covered funeral of Pope John Paul II. In March 2004 … received David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism … awarded The Abraham Lincoln Award from Union League of Philadelphia … 2005 received … Gold Medal Award … Pennsylvania Society. … worked 15 years as a print journalist … 13 as Washington Bureau Chief for The San Francisco Examiner … two years … national columnist … The San Francisco Chronicle … syndicated to 200 newspapers by United Media. Previously spent 15 years in politics and government … in The White House … 4 years under President Jimmy Carter as Presidential speech writer … on President’s Reorganisation Projects … in U.S. Senate … five years … on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) … Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine) … top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years. … author of four best-selling books .. his first book Hardball (1988) … required reading in many college-level political science courses … Kennedy & Nixon (1996) … named … “Today’s Best Non-fiction” … served as basis of a documentary on the History Channel … A graduate of Holy Cross College … did graduate work in economics … University of North Carolina … worked for two years … trade development advisor … U.S. Peace Corps … southern African nation of Swaziland. Matthews was a visiting fellow … Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Institute of Politics … holds 14 honorary PH.Ds. … married to Kathleen Matthews, award-winning news anchor … ABC affiliate WJLA … Washington DC. They have three children