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Norah O'Donnell tries to restore the house that Cronkite built at CBS News

After Norah O'Donnell was named anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in May, she received a congratulatory email from Maureen Orth, the widow of Tim Russert, the late NBC Washington bureau chief and "Meet the Press" moderator.

"Tim would be so proud," the note read. O'Donnell said it brought her to tears. It also reminded her of how Russert, her first boss in TV news, influenced her work ethic.

"Tim used to say to me every day, 'What do you know?' " O'Donnell, 45, recalled in an interview last week as she prepared for her new job at CBS News headquarters on Manhattan's West Side. "And I would sit in the car and start calling people up on Capitol Hill before I walked into the bureau because I was afraid I would run into him and wouldn't have a little scooplet

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