Bill Plante (January 14, 1938- ) is a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964. He has been the senior White House correspondent for CBS since January 1993 and reports regularly on The Early Show and the CBS Evening News. He anchored CBS Sunday Night News from June 1988 to August 1995.
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Plante graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in humanities. He went on to study at Columbia University from 1963 to 1964. He married Robin Smith, an award-winning documentary producer, and had six sons. One of Bill's sons, Dan Plante, is a reporter and anchor for KUSI Television in San Diego, California. Another, Chris Plante, is a talk radio host on WMAL in Washington, DC.
On August 13, 2007 as Karl Rove made his exit from the Bush administration, Plante shouted "If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?" on the South Lawn of The White House.
