Todd Stanley Purdum is a national editor and political correspondent for Vanity Fair (magazine).
Until late 2005, Todd Purdum was a reporter and the Los Angeles bureau chief for the New York Times. From 1994 to 1997, Purdum was a White House correspondent for the Times. Purdum is now the national editor for the pop culture magazine Vanity Fair.
Purdum is a son of Jerry S. Purdum, a Macomb, Illinois insurance broker, investor, and realtor, and Con...
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Todd Stanley Purdum is a national editor and political correspondent for Vanity Fair (magazine).
Until late 2005, Todd Purdum was a reporter and the Los Angeles bureau chief for the New York Times. From 1994 to 1997, Purdum was a White House correspondent for the Times. Purdum is now the national editor for the pop culture magazine Vanity Fair.
Purdum is a son of Jerry S. Purdum, a Macomb, Illinois insurance broker, investor, and realtor, and Connie Purdum. He was graduated from St. Paul's School in 1978 and from Princeton University in 1982. He married Tiffany Windsor Bluemle in 1987; the couple were subsequently divorced.
In 1997,, Purdum married former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, who served President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994. Their relationship is the basis for the relationship between C.J. Cregg and Danny Concannon on the TV show The West Wing. Purdum and Myers have two children.
For the July 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, Purdum wrote a scathing article about...
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