Interests
Chasing exclusive stories, tennis, concerts, reading, going antiquing with my wife, Jackie.
Achievement
Marrying Jackie, my son Jason, speaking before the Wellesley Club at the Harvard Club in Boston with my dad in the audience.
Biography
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Donald Lambro is the chief political correspondent for The Washington
Times, a noted author and a nationally syndicated columnist. His
twice-weekly United Feature Syndicate column appears in newspapers across
the country, including The Washington Times.
He received the Warren Brookes Award For Excellence In Journalism in
1995 and in that same year was the host and co-writer of the nationally
televised PBS documentary, Inside The Republican Revolution, a
behind-the-scenes report on the first 100 days of the 104th Congress.
Mr. Lambro was also the producer and moderator of The Washington Times
Forum, a public affairs program that was broadcast from Capitol Hill over
the C-SPAN cable television network. His commentaries have been heard across
the country on Associated Press Radio, National Public Radio, the Mutual
Broadcasting System and the Business News Network.
One of Washington's most frequently quoted political reporters, Mr.
Lambro has interviewed most of the congressional and political leaders of
our time and has covered numerous presidential campaigns over the past three
decades. He has written widely about the government, the economy and social
issues. Wall Street economic analyst Lawrence Kudlow has called him "the
best political economic reporter in Washington today."
He earned a national reputation in the late 1970s and the 1980s for his
stinging investigations into federal spending programs. Reader's Digest said
he is "widely considered journalism's top expert on government waste." The
Washington Post called him "a one-man search-and-destroy mission against
government waste." The Dallas Morning News: "He has a tenacious, bird-dog
knack for digging into some bureau's budget and coming out with the truth."
The Boston Globe: "He's got the figures and a delivery stocked with enough
anger and adjectives to make a politician blush."
The author of five books on the government and the economy, Mr.
Lambro's last book was Land of Opportunity, the story about America's
entrepreneurial expansion in the 1980s, published by Little Brown and
Company. In a Wall Street Journal book review, economist George Gilder said
the book "should be used in every high school and introductory college
economics course" in the country.
An earlier book, FAT CITY: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes, won
national acclaim and the attention of President Reagan who quoted from it
during his 1980 presidential campaign. Soon after taking office, Reagan
passed out copies of Mr. Lambro's book to every member of his Cabinet at a
White House Cabinet meeting, urging them to read it and root out wasteful
spending.
A subsequent book, WASHINGTON - CITY OF SCANDALS, dealt with wasteful
federal spending and what can be done to reduce it. The New York Times Book
Review called Mr. Lambro's book "an unsparing chronicle of hypocrisy, fraud
and inefficiency in our government" and "a valuable insiders view of the
government."
In a special "Up-Front" feature on Mr. Lambro, People magazine credited
him "with being a crucial influence on Candidate Reagan's budget promises
and on the President's fiscal program."
Mr. Lambro also was the host and co-writer of Star Spangled Spenders, a
privately-funded, one hour public television documentary on the growth and
cost of the federal government that was broadcast across the country in
1982.
Before launching his syndicated newspaper column in 1980, Mr. Lambro
was a reporter for United Press International, covering Congress, the
federal bureaucracy and national politics. His investigative series on
federal spending programs, "Watching Washington," was twice nominated by UPI
for a Pulitzer Prize.
He was named the Heritage Foundation's Distinguished Journalism Fellow
in 1981.
He received the "Outstanding Journalist Award" from the Conservative
Political Action Conference in 1981 for his book, FAT CITY. And he was the
recipient of the National Taxpayers Union award for "outstanding efforts to
curtail government spending." His investigative work as a Washington
columnist was also nominated for a Pulitzer by United Feature Syndicate.
Born and raised in Wellesley, Mass. and a graduate of Boston
University [1963], where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism, Mr.
Lambro began his career as a reporter for The Boston Herald-Traveler,
joining UPI in 1968 in Hartford, Conn., where he covered the state house.
In addition to numerous television, radio and speaking appearances, he
has also written for many magazines and other periodicals, including
Reader's Digest, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, the Washingtonian
Magazine, National Review, Barron's and The World Almanac.
He is married to the former Jacquelyn Killmon. They have one son,
Jason, and live in the Washington, D.C. area.
Mr. Lambro is also listed in Who's Who In America.
