Peter Baker

White House Correspondent
The New York Times

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Peter Baker is the White House Correspondent for The New York Times. He was most recently White House correspondent for The Washington Post and has covered President George W. Bush and his administration since the November 2004 election, chronicling the second-term travails over the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, Supreme Court nominations, midterm elections and other events. He also covered the White House during President Bill Clinton's second term, co-writing the story that broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal and serving as the paper's lead writer on the subsequent House impeachment battle and Senate trial.

In between stints at the White House, Baker and his wife, Susan B. Glasser, were Moscow Bureau Chiefs for nearly four years, a period that coincided with the rise of Vladimir Putin and the latest political and economic transformation of Russia. Among other stories, Baker covered the Moscow theater siege, the Beslan school takeover and the war in Chechnya. During that time, Baker also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and reported from throughout Central Asia and the Middle East. He was the first American newspaper reporter to enter Afghanistan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and he embedded with the Marines' commanding general on the road to Baghdad.

Baker is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton (Scribner, 2000), and with Glasser of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (Scribner, 2005). He appears frequently on television and radio public affairs shows. His work has also appeared in publications such as The New Republic and American Journalism Review.

A native of the Washington area, he attended Oberlin College and worked at The Washington Times before joining The Post in 1988 as a Virginia reporter. He and Glasser live in Washington with their son, Theodore.

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