Roger Runningen, from farm boy to White House correspondent
Back in the 1970s a cigarette commercial for Virginia Slims used to proclaim, “You’ve come a long ways, baby!”
That statement certainly holds true for Roger Runningen, the son of Violet and the late Dale Runningen of rural Houston, who grew up on a farm seven miles north of Caledonia in the 1960s, where he spent his Saturdays shoveling “you know what.”
Fast forward 40 years to when Runningen was named the White House correspondent for the Bloomberg News Service in 2003.
For the past decade, the Houston County native has traveled the globe (with the exceptions of Antarctica and the North Pole), spent countless hours at the White House and hob-nobbed with U.S. Presidents. See more in Editor Charlie Warner’s Caledonia Argus story.
PHOTO: Houston County native Roger Runningen has spent the past 17 years serving as the White House correspondent for the Bloomfield News Service. (Photo courtesy Mandel Ngan, Agence France-Presse)
