George Stephanopoulos

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It was an exchange reminiscent of Abbott and Costello's famous Who's on First routine. George Stephanopoulos repeatedly asked Mitt Romney about whether he thinks that states have the right to ban contraception, and Romney repeatedly replied that he had no idea why Stephanopoulos would ask such a question. In fact, Stephanopoulos was prodding Romney about whether he believes there is a constitutional right to privacy as the U.S. Supreme Court has found in two landmark cases, 1973's Roe vs. Wade, and 1965's Griswold vs. Connecticut , which found that states do not have the right to ban contraception.

Waiting at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Nov. 5 for the delayed 7:35 a.m. flight to Manchester, N.H., George Stephanopoulos was full of guarded hope. The plan was for ABC's newest anchor, successor to the venerable David Brinkley's Sunday morning "This Week" chair, to meet with his colleagues for a three-day trip tracking the newest Democratic presidential candidate, retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark, on the campaign trail.

Clinton-aide-turned-political-journalist George Stephanopoulos had some reservations about whether he would be the right person to replace Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America." But the 48-year-old said adjusting from his Sunday political talk show "This Week" to morning television wasn't as hard as he thought it would be. It didn't hurt that he scored the first interview with President Obama after the Democrats lost the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat last month. I know you were a morning person before this, but how has your routine changed?

After years of toiling in the shadows of a giant, ABC's Sunday morning public affairs program, "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," is finally beginning to step into the spotlight once exclusively occupied by NBC's "Meet the Press." It's the economy, stupid, plus "This Week's" round table has been called pretty smart. "Meet the Press" has long been the dominant program, so far this season attracting about 4.3 million viewers each week.

Re Stephanopoulos' book: With Democrats like George Stephanopoulos, who needs Republicans? LESTER KUSHNER Valley Village

The Democratic presidential candidates will participate in a forum at Drake University in Des Moines on Sunday morning. The forum will be broadcast as a special edition of ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" at 8 a.m.

James Carville (pictured), Bill Clinton's sardonic 1992 campaign strategist, has as much on-screen charisma as any Hollywood celebrity. Documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus use him and director of communications George Stephanopoulos to fashion this candid and entertaining 1993 backstage look at the unlikely political juggernaut that captured the presidency (Disney Tuesday at 9 p.m., Wednesday at 4:05 a.m.).

It was an exchange reminiscent of Abbott and Costello's famous Who's on First routine. George Stephanopoulos repeatedly asked Mitt Romney about whether he thinks that states have the right to ban contraception, and Romney repeatedly replied that he had no idea why Stephanopoulos would ask such a question. In fact, Stephanopoulos was prodding Romney about whether he believes there is a constitutional right to privacy as the U.S. Supreme Court has found in two landmark cases, 1973's Roe vs. Wade, and 1965's Griswold vs. Connecticut , which found that states do not have the right to ban contraception.

White House Senior Advisor George Stephanopoulos says he's ready "to grow up" and move on to other professional challenges if President Clinton wins a second term. Stephanopoulos, among the group of youthful "War Room" strategists who helped get Clinton elected in 1992, said his five years of working for the president are starting to wear him down. "In some ways, it's just physical," the 35-year-old told the New Yorker magazine.

George Stephanopoulos once occupied one of the most powerful posts in the White House. As a trusted advisor to Bill Clinton, the political whiz kid worked right next to the Oval Office and was a key figure in every major policy discussion. Starting Monday, the 48-year-old will take on a very different assignment. Seated next to co-host Robin Roberts, Stephanopoulos will work behind the anchor desk at ABC's "Good Morning America," charged with delivering both the serious-minded news and the frothier fare that make up the morning television mix. It's an unexpected trajectory for a Rhodes scholar who studied political theology at Oxford -- one that even he says he couldn't have predicted.

After years of toiling in the shadows of a giant, ABC's Sunday morning public affairs program, "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," is finally beginning to step into the spotlight once exclusively occupied by NBC's "Meet the Press." It's the economy, stupid, plus "This Week's" round table has been called pretty smart. "Meet the Press" has long been the dominant program, so far this season attracting about 4.3 million viewers each week.

The Democratic presidential candidates will participate in a forum at Drake University in Des Moines on Sunday morning. The forum will be broadcast as a special edition of ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" at 8 a.m.

Once a ratings disaster, ABC Sunday chat show "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" is showing new signs of life. The program has been on a ratings upswing, last month beating NBC's once-invulnerable "Meet the Press" and CBS' "Face the Nation" in the key ages-25-to-54 demographic two weeks in a row. In a phone interview Monday, I asked Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton White House aide, about the program's comeback, his interview with Al Gore and the 2008 presidential race.

Waiting at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Nov. 5 for the delayed 7:35 a.m. flight to Manchester, N.H., George Stephanopoulos was full of guarded hope. The plan was for ABC's newest anchor, successor to the venerable David Brinkley's Sunday morning "This Week" chair, to meet with his colleagues for a three-day trip tracking the newest Democratic presidential candidate, retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark, on the campaign trail.

Occasional morsels from Campaign 2000 What election? Many American voters are not convinced it makes a big difference who is elected president, are not paying close attention to the campaigns, and are not that worried about the nation's condition, a voter survey says. Fewer than half of voters, 46%, said they have thought about the presidential race a lot, while almost as many said they had thought about it only a little.

Wednesday marked George Stephanopoulos' first White House briefing since President Clinton announced that David Gergen would be coming aboard as the Administration's new chief spokesman. The 32-year-old Stephanopoulos entered the press room smiling, walked up to the podium, stared out at the assembled reporters and delivered his opening line: "So, how was your weekend?"

The city quietly dropped charges Monday against White House adviser George Stephanopoulos, who had been accused of leaving the scene of a minor car accident and driving with an expired license and tags. "We took the case, evaluated it and decided not to go forward with it," said Claude Bailey, spokesman for the city's corporation counsel. He declined to answer further questions. Stephanopoulos, 34, did not appear at his arraignment. He was arrested Sept.

When George Stephanopoulos was 4, he began serving as an altar boy at his father's church. Clearly, he enjoyed the rituals--the candles, the sacrament, the incense. "Maybe one reason I've never been queasy about the grubby work of politics, the mechanics of running campaigns and making laws, is that I spent so many of my early days behind the altar screen--where my father's prayers were my cues," he writes in "All Too Human," a memoir of the young aide's travails in the Clinton White House.

Re Stephanopoulos' book: With Democrats like George Stephanopoulos, who needs Republicans? LESTER KUSHNER Valley Village