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{{Short description|American government official, journalist, and writer (born 1961)}}
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| image               = George Stephanopoulos in 2024 (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Stephanopoulos in 2024
| office              = [[Senior Advisor to the President of the United States|Senior Advisor to the President]]
| president           = [[Bill Clinton]]
| term_start          = June 7, 1993
| term_end            = December 10, 1996
| predecessor         = [[Rahm Emanuel]]
| successor           = [[Sidney Blumenthal]]
| office1             = [[White House Communications Director]]
| president1          = Bill Clinton
| term_start1         = January 20, 1993
| term_end1           = June 7, 1993
| predecessor1        = [[Margaret D. Tutwiler]]
| successor1          = [[Mark Gearan]]
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| birth_place         = [[Fall River, Massachusetts]], U.S.
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| party               = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Ali Wentworth]]|2001}}
| children            = 2
| education           = [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Balliol College, Oxford]] ([[MA (Oxon)|MA]])
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'''George Robert Stephanopoulos''' (born February 10, 1961) is an American [[television host]], political commentator, and former [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] advisor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/george-stephanopoulos-good-morning-america-anchor-biography/story?id=133369|title=George Stephanopoulos' biography|date=June 5, 2017|website=ABC News|access-date=October 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Stephanopoulos|title=George Stephanopoulos - American political commentator|access-date=October 15, 2017}}</ref> Stephanopoulos currently is a [[news presenter|coanchor]] with [[Robin Roberts (newscaster)|Robin Roberts]] and [[Michael Strahan]] on ''[[Good Morning America]]'', and host of ''[[This Week (ABC TV series)|This Week]]'', [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s Sunday morning current events news program.<ref name = "SawyerStepDown">{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/diane-sawyer-step-world-news-anchor/story?id=24295283|title=Diane Sawyer to Step Down as 'World News' Anchor|date=June 25, 2014|access-date=August 5, 2014|publisher=ABCNews.com}}</ref><ref name="usat_Step">{{cite news |title=Stephanopoulos to replace Amanpour at 'This Week' |agency=Associated Press |work=USA Today |date=December 13, 2011 |access-date=July 31, 2015 |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/story/2011-12-13/stephanopoulos-replaces-amanpour-this-week-abc/51886148/1 |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605050710/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/story/2011-12-13/stephanopoulos-replaces-amanpour-this-week-abc/51886148/1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
Before his career as a journalist, Stephanopoulos was an advisor to the Democratic Party. He rose to early prominence as a [[communications director]] for the [[Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign|1992 presidential campaign]] of [[Bill Clinton]] and subsequently became [[White House Communications Director|White House communications director]]. He was later senior advisor for policy and strategy, before departing in December 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/stephanopoulos.html|title=Interviews - George Stephanopoulos - The Clinton Years - FRONTLINE - PBS|work=pbs.org|date=16 January 2001}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
George Stephanopoulos was born in [[Fall River, Massachusetts]], the son of Robert George Stephanopoulos and Nickolitsa "Nikki" Gloria (née Chafos). His parents were of [[Greek Americans|Greek]] descent.<ref>''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', PBS, November 18, 2014.</ref> His father was a [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] priest and [[Dean (Christianity)|dean]] emeritus of the [[Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity]] in [[New York City]].<ref name="father'sbio">[http://www.goarch.org/archdiocese/affiliates/rca/biography/stephanopoulos_robert "Fr. Robert George Stephanopoulos"]. [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]]. Retrieved December 20, 2009.</ref> His mother was the director of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] National News Service for many years.<ref name="father'sbio"/>
[[File:George Stephanopoulos crop.jpg|thumb|right|Stephanopoulos speaking at [[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|Virginia Tech]] in March 2006]]
Following some time in [[Purchase, New York]], Stephanopoulos moved to the eastern suburbs of [[Cleveland, Ohio]], where he graduated in 1978 from [[Orange High School (Ohio)|Orange High School]] in [[Pepper Pike, Ohio|Pepper Pike]].<ref name="Fong">{{cite news|url=https://www.cleveland.com/education/2009/10/post.html|title=George Stephanopoulos returns home to praise Cuyahoga Community College|first=Marvin|last=Fong|work=[[The Plain Dealer#cleveland.com|Cleveland.com]]|publisher=[[Advance Publications]]|location=[[Brooklyn, Ohio]]|date=October 13, 2009|access-date=April 18, 2020}}</ref>

In 1982, Stephanopoulos received a Bachelor of Arts degree (''[[summa cum laude]]'') with a major in [[political science]] from [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City|New York]], and was the [[salutatorian]] of his class.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stephanopoulos Returns to Columbia to Teach|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol22/vol22_iss11/record2211.13.html|access-date=2020-10-16|website=www.columbia.edu}}</ref> While at Columbia, he was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] his junior year and was awarded a [[Harry S. Truman Scholarship]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100528070230/http://truman.gov/meet-our-scholars?Year=1980 Meet Our 1980 Truman Scholars],</ref> He was also a sports broadcaster for 89.9 [[WKCR-FM]], the university's [[college radio|radio station]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Columbia Daily Spectator 20 November 1981 — Columbia Spectator|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19811120-01.2.18&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22George+Stephanopoulos%22------|access-date=2020-10-16|website=spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu}}</ref> As a student, he lived in [[Carman Hall]] and [[East Campus (Columbia University)|East Campus]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia Spectator 25 March 2005 — Columbia Spectator |url=https://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs20050325-03.2.17&srpos=12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22Julia+Stiles%22------ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu}}</ref>

Stephanopoulos attended [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] at the [[University of Oxford]] in England, as a [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]], earning a [[Master of Arts in Theological Studies|Master of Arts in Theology]] in 1984.{{sfn|Loesch|2016|page=70}}

==Political career==

=== Early work ===
Stephanopoulos worked in [[Washington, D.C.]] as an aide to [[Ed Feighan]] of Ohio, a Democratic [[Member of Congress|congressman]]. His job included drafting letters, memos, and speeches. His salary was reportedly $14,500 a year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All Too Human |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stephanopoulos-human.html?scp=75&sq=glee%2520generation&st=cse |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> He later became Feighan's chief of staff.{{sfn|Loesch|2016|page=70}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1996-10-14 |title=CURIOUS GEORGE |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/10/21/curious-george-2 |access-date=2022-12-17 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1988, Stephanopoulos worked on the [[1988 United States presidential election|U.S. presidential campaign]] of [[Michael Dukakis]].{{sfn|Hess|2008|page=36}} He noted that one of his attractions to the campaign was that Dukakis was a [[Greek-American]] liberal from Massachusetts.<ref>Stephanopoulos, George, ''All Too Human&nbsp;– A Political Education'', p. 21.</ref> After the campaign, Stephanopoulos became an executive floor assistant to [[Dick Gephardt]], [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader]]; he held this position until he joined the Clinton campaign.<ref name="Biography.com">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=April 2, 2014|title=George Stephanopoulos|url=https://www.biography.com/media-figure/george-stephanopoulos|access-date=January 30, 2022|website=[[Biography (TV program)|Biography.com]]|language=en-us}}</ref>

=== Clinton administration ===
[[File:President Bill Clinton prepares for 1994 SOTU with George Stephanopoulos.jpg|thumb|right|Stephanopoulos and President [[Bill Clinton]] prepare for the [[1994 State of the Union Address|State of the Union Address]] in 1994.]]
Stephanopoulos was, with [[David Wilhelm]] and [[James Carville]], a leading member of [[Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992|Clinton's 1992 U.S. presidential campaign]]. His role on the campaign is portrayed in the [[documentary]] film ''[[The War Room]]'' (1993).{{sfn|Loesch|2016|page=71}}

In the Clinton administration, Stephanopoulos served as a senior advisor for policy and strategy. His initiatives focused on crime legislation, affirmative action, and health care.<ref name="Biography.com" /> His salary was reportedly $125,000 per year.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Devroy |first=Ann |date=November 1, 1993 |title=Salaries at Clinton's White House |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/11/01/salaries-at-clintons-white-house/9c96f5b6-02c5-4888-87ee-dc547d8d93f0/ |access-date=2024-04-02 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> At the outset of Clinton's presidency, Stephanopoulos also served as the ''de facto'' [[White House Press Secretary|press secretary]], briefing the press even though [[Dee Dee Myers]] was officially the [[White House Press Secretary]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/White-House-press-secretary|title=White House Press Secretary - Definition & History |access-date=October 15, 2017}}</ref> Stephanopoulos was regarded as a member of Bill Clinton's inner circle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lonesome George |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/04/reviews/990404.04willst.html |access-date=2022-10-20 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=John F. |date=1996-05-26 |title=STEPHANOPOULOS: STILL IN THE INNER CIRCLE |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/05/26/stephanopoulos-still-in-the-inner-circle/a480f65c-bbbc-41ed-894b-3c92fe2a8c90/ |access-date=2022-10-20 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

In 1994, after [[Paula Jones]] accused [[Bill Clinton]] of [[sexual harassment]], Stephanopoulos and [[James Carville]] sought to discredit her allegations against Clinton. Both men suggested that Jones was just seeking cash for her story.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hess|first=Amanda|date=2018-11-20|title=Paula Jones, Reconsidered|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/arts/television/paula-jones-monica-lewinsky-bill-clinton.html|access-date=2021-07-03|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Stephanopoulos also successfully sought to keep Jones' news conference off television. Stephanopoulos called [[NBC]] journalist [[Tim Russert]], [[CNN]] chairman [[Tom Johnson (journalist)|Tom Johnson]], as well as several others, whom he convinced to keep her conference off television.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kurtz|first=Howard|date=1999-03-11|title=The Former Insider's Rich Memories|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/03/11/the-former-insiders-rich-memories/39d54e04-3df5-4789-9183-82a73b7af46c/|access-date=2021-07-03|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

On February 25, 1994, Stephanopoulos and [[Harold M. Ickes|Harold Ickes]] had a conference call with [[Roger Altman]] to discuss the [[Resolution Trust Corporation]]'s choice of [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] lawyer Jay Stephens to head the [[Madison Guaranty]] investigation as well as discussing if Stephens could be removed. The Madison Guaranty investigation would later turn into the [[Whitewater controversy]].<ref>[[Staff writer]] (undated). [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/infocus/whitewater/timeline2.html "Timeline"]. ''AllPolitics'' (''via'' [[CNN]]). Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Eaton| first=William J.|date=March 27, 1994|title=Cutler Defends Critics of RTC Investigator : Politics: Clinton aides reportedly asked about firing Jay Stephens, a GOP lawyer hired to probe Whitewater-related case.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-27-mn-39116-story.html|access-date=2022-01-31|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1995, as he pulled out of a parking space in front of a restaurant in the [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]] neighborhood of [[Washington, D.C.]], his car collided with a parked vehicle.<ref>[[Staff writer]] (September 9, 1995). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE1D6153BF93AA3575AC0A963958260 "Clinton Aide Is Charged after Car Accident"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref> Stephanopoulos was arrested and charged with [[hit and run|leaving the scene of an accident]] and driving with an expired license and license plates. White House press secretary, [[Mike McCurry (press secretary)|Mike McCurry]], said that President Clinton told Stephanopoulos "not to worry about" the accident but to get his license renewed.<ref name="nytimes19950909"/> The charge of leaving the scene of an accident was subsequently dropped.<ref name="nytimes19950909">{{cite news |date=September 9, 1995 |title=Clinton Aide Is Charged After Car Accident |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/09/us/clinton-aide-is-charged-after-car-accident.html |access-date=October 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>Wire Services, Mercury News. "STEPH OFF THE HOOK." San Jose Mercury News (CA), September 19, 1995, Morning Final, Front, p. 4A. NewsBank, infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0EB71EDE31F1158F?p=AWNB. Accessed April 14, 2018.</ref><ref>"A LITTLE HOME COOKIN'?." State, The (Columbia, SC), September 25, 1995, FINAL, EDITORIALS, p. A10. NewsBank, infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0EB584C0090F0C2E?p=AWNB. Accessed April 14, 2018.</ref>

In 1999 Stephanopoulos and [[James Carville]] were sued for defamation by [[Gennifer Flowers]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Liptak|first=Adam|date=2002-11-13|title=National Briefing {{!}} West: California: Libel Suit From Clinton Era|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/us/national-briefing-west-california-libel-suit-from-clinton-era.html|access-date=2021-04-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="January 11">{{Cite web|last=Chu|first=Louise|date=January 11, 2006|title=9th Circuit Dismisses Gennifer Flowers' Defamation Suit|url=https://www.law.com/almID/900005547135/|access-date=2021-04-10|website=Law.com|language=en}}</ref> Stephanopoulos had made comments about her allegations that she had an affair with [[Bill Clinton]]. He accused Flowers of doctoring her taped conversation with Clinton to make her story look credible. Stephanopoulos also called her story "tabloid trash", "garbage", and "crap". The suit was dismissed since his comments were not the basis for defamation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2006-01-17|title=Flowers defamation suit against ex-Clinton aides dismissed|url=https://www.rcfp.org/flowers-defamation-suit-against-ex-clinton-aides-dismissed/|access-date=2021-04-10|website=The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="January 11" />

Stephanopoulos resigned from the Clinton administration shortly after [[United States elections, 1996|Clinton was re-elected in 1996]].<ref>[[Staff writer]] (undated). [https://archive.today/20120720160637/http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542062 "George Stephanopoulos Biography – (1961–)"]. ''[[A&E Television Networks]]'' (''via'' ''[[The Biography Channel]]''). Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref> Stephanopoulos is credited as among the first inside the White House to recognize the damage the Lewinsky affair could cause to the Clinton presidency.<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-stephanopoulos-was_n_683058 George Stephanopoulos Was Monica Lewinsky's OTHER White House Crush: Book]</ref>

His [[memoir]], ''All Too Human: A Political Education'' (1999), was published after he left the White House during Clinton's second term. It quickly became a number-one bestseller on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list for [[List of The New York Times number-one books of 1999|five weeks]]. In the book, Stephanopoulos spoke of his [[Depression (mood)|depression]] and how his face broke out into [[hives]] due to the pressures of conveying the Clinton White House message. Clinton, referencing the book in his autobiography, ''[[My Life (Bill Clinton autobiography)|My Life]]'', expressed regret for the  excessive pressure he placed on the young staffer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clinton |first=Bill |url=http://archive.org/details/mylifeclin00clin |title=My Life |date=2004 |publisher=[[Knopf]] |isbn=978-0-375-41457-2 |pages=738 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

Stephanopoulos's book covers his time with Clinton from the day he met him in September 1991, to the day Stephanopoulos left the White House in December 1996, through two presidential campaigns and four years in the White House. Stephanopoulos describes Clinton in the book as a "complicated man responding to the pressures and pleasures of public life in ways I found both awesome and appalling".<ref>Stephanopoulos, George, All Too Human – A Political Education, p. 5.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=All Too Human |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stephanopoulos-human.html?scp=75&sq=glee%20generation&st=cse |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref>

== Journalism ==
After leaving the [[White House]] at the end of Clinton's first term, Stephanopoulos became a political analyst for [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], and served as a correspondent on ''[[This Week (ABC TV series)|This Week]]'', [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC's]] Sunday morning public affairs program; ''World News Tonight'', the evening news broadcast; ''Good Morning America'', the morning news program; along with other various special broadcasts.

[[File:Hillary Clinton and Robert M. Gates talk with George Stephanopoulos, 2009 (1).jpg|thumb|Secretary of Defense [[Robert M. Gates]] and Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] talk with George Stephanopoulos in December 2009 in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]
In September 2002, Stephanopoulos became host of ''This Week'', and ABC News officially named him "Chief Washington Correspondent" in December 2005.<ref name="abc133369">[[Staff writer]] (December 10, 2009). [https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=133369 "George Stephanopoulos' Biography – Anchor, ''Good Morning America''; Chief Political Correspondent; Anchor, ''This Week''"]. Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref> The program's title added the new host's name.

When named to the position, Stephanopoulos was a relative newcomer to the show, usurping longtime panelists and short-term co-hosts [[Sam Donaldson]] and [[Cokie Roberts]] who, for a few years, briefly replaced the longtime original host, [[David Brinkley]].

ABC News executives reportedly offered [[Ted Koppel]], former ''[[Nightline (U.S. news program)|Nightline]]'' anchor, the ''This Week'' host job in 2005 after the program's ratings had become a regular third-, fourth-, and sometimes fifth-place finish after competitors NBC, CBS, Fox, and syndicated programs.<ref name="steinberg">{{Registration required}} [[Jacques Steinberg|Steinberg, Jacques]] (April 1, 2005). [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/business/media/01koppel.html Koppel Leaving ABC News and 'Nightline' in December"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> However, ''This Week'' beat ''[[Meet the Press]]'' on January 11, 2009, when Stephanopoulos interviewed president-elect [[Barack Obama]].<ref name="shea">Danny Shea (February 5, 2009). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/05/meet-the-press-ratings-lo_n_164375.html "'Meet the Press' Ratings Lowest since David Gregory Became Moderator"] ''[[The Huffington Post]]''. Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref>

On April 16, 2008, Stephanopoulos co-moderated, with [[Charles Gibson]], the twenty-first, and ultimately final, [[Democratic Party (United States) presidential debates, 2008|Democratic Party presidential debate]] between Illinois Senator Barack Obama and New York Senator [[Hillary Clinton]] for the [[United States elections, 2008|2008 election cycle]]. While the debate received record ratings, the co-moderators were heavily criticized for focusing most of the first hour of the debate on controversies that occurred during the campaign rather than issues such as the economy and the [[Iraq War]]. Stephanopoulos acknowledged the legitimacy of the concerns over the order of the questions,<ref>{{cite news|last=Abcarian|first=Robin|title=Stephanopoulos Defends His Questions to Obama|date=April 17, 2008|access-date=December 19, 2009 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/04/stephanopoulos.html}}</ref> but said they were issues in the campaign that had not been covered in previous debates.<ref name="ratings">{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24189180|title=Ratings, Criticism Big for ABC Debate – Gibson, Stephanopoulos Draw Fire for 'Shoddy' Work|author=Staff writer|author-link=Staff writer|agency=[[Associated Press|The Associated Press]] (''via'' ''[[NBC News]]'')|date=April 17, 2008| access-date=December 19, 2009}}</ref>

During the 2008 presidential election campaign, Stephanopoulos launched a blog ''George's Bottom Line'' on the ABC News website.<ref>[[Lynn Sweet|Sweet, Lynn]] (October 20, 2008). [http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/abcs_george_stephanopoulos_lau.html "ABC's George Stephanopoulos Launches New Political Blog&nbsp;– Welcome to the Neighborhood"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022024326/http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/abcs_george_stephanopoulos_lau.html |date=October 22, 2008 }}. ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''. Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref> Stephanopoulos blogged about political news and analysis from Washington.<ref>Stephanopoulos, George. [http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/ "George's Bottom Line&nbsp;– Reporting and Analysis from Anchor of Good Morning America and ABC News Senior Political Correspondent"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206043739/http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/ |date=December 6, 2009 }}. [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]. Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref>

[[File:US Navy 110204-N-0696M-049 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen is interviewed by Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos.jpg|thumb|Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. [[Mike Mullen]] is interviewed by ''Good Morning America''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Stephanopoulos.]]
[[File:P20210316CS-1271 (51130055779).jpg|thumb|right|Stephanopoulos interviews President [[Joe Biden]] in 2021.|215x215px]]

In December 2009, ABC News president David Westin offered Stephanopoulos [[Diane Sawyer|Diane Sawyer's]] job on ''Good Morning America'' after Sawyer was named anchor of ''World News''. Stephanopoulos accepted the new position and began co-anchoring ''GMA'' on December 14, 2009. Stephanopoulos announced on January 10, 2010, that that would be his last broadcast as the permanent host of ''This Week''. However, after his successor, [[Christiane Amanpour]], left the show amid sagging ratings, it was announced that Stephanopoulos would return as host of ''This Week'' in December 2011. He signed a deal to stay with ABC until 2021 worth [[United States Dollar|$]]105 million.{{sfn|Loesch|2016|page=69}}

On January 7, 2012, Stephanopoulos was the co-moderator of a debate among [[Mitt Romney]], [[Ron Paul]] and [[Rick Santorum]]. During the debate, Stephanopoulos repeatedly asked Romney whether the former Massachusetts governor believes the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn a 1965 ruling that a constitutional right to privacy bars states from banning contraception. During the debate, Romney said it was a preposterous question.<ref>Yahoo: [https://news.yahoo.com/george-stephanopoulos-obsesses-contraception-republican-debate-193800729.html George Stephanopoulos Obsesses About Contraception at Republican Debate.] January 9, 2012.</ref>

Following Diane Sawyer's departure from [[ABC World News|World News]] at the end of August 2014, Stephanopoulos was the Chief Anchor at ABC News from 2014 to 2020 while retaining his roles on ''GMA'' and ''This Week''. Stephanopoulos leads a new documentary unit for Disney's digital platforms and hosts four primetime hour-long specials on the ABC network annually.<ref name = "ABCNEWSchief Anchor">{{cite news|url=https://krdo.com/money/2021/03/01/david-muirs-new-role-at-abc-news-leads-to-drama-with-george-stephanopoulos-and-a-visit-from-bob-iger/|title=David Muir's new role|date=March 1, 2021|access-date=March 31, 2021|publisher=CNN News Source}}</ref>

===Speaking engagements===
In 2009, Stephanopoulos spoke at the annual Tri-C Presidential Scholarship Luncheon held at the [[Renaissance Cleveland Hotel]] and praised [[Cuyahoga Community College]].<ref name="Fong"/>

===Other ventures===

George Stephanopoulos is the co-founder of production companies BedBy8<ref>[https://deadline.com/2022/12/george-stephanopulos-ali-wentworth-launch-bedby8-production-company-1235186817/ BedBy8]</ref> and George Stephanopoulos Productions.<ref>[https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/george-stephanopoulos-abc-news-launches-production-hulu-1235088669/ George Stephanopoulos Productions]</ref> These companies produced ''[[Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields]]'', ''Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK'', ''Power Trip: Those Who Seek Power and Those Who Chase Them'', and ''Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier''.

==Controversies==
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===Real estate loan controversy===
In 1994, columnist [[Jack Anderson (columnist)|Jack Anderson]] reported that Stephanopoulos signed an $835,000 commercial real estate deal consisting of a two-story apartment, including an eyewear retailer, with a below-market loan rate from a bank owned by [[Hugh McColl]], who had been called by President Clinton "the most enlightened banker in America". A [[NationsBank]] commercial loan officer said that this loan did "not fit our product matrix" as banks typically offer such loans for only those customers who have deep pockets and on a short-term adjustable rate basis. Stephanopoulos's real estate agent explained that "nobody making $125,000 could qualify for the property without the commercial property (lease)." One former senior bank regulator told Anderson, "If his name were George Smith, and he didn't work in the White House, this loan wouldn't have gotten made."<ref>{{cite news |title=Did Stephanopoulos Make Out Like A Bandit? |first=Jack |last=Anderson |work=Standard-Democrat |location=Sikeston, Missouri |date=July 28, 1994}}</ref>

Regarding the controversy, NationsBank stated, "The loan described by Jack Anderson as a commercial loan to George Stephanopoulos was, in fact, a residential mortgage loan. At the time the loan commitment was made, Mr.&nbsp;Anderson (or his imaginary 'George Smith' who 'doesn't work in the White House') could have walked into any NationsBank Mortgage Company office in the D.C. area and received the same excellent rate and term for the same deal."<ref>{{cite news|title=NationsBank Responds to Jack Anderson Column |agency=[[PR Newswire]] |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NATIONSBANK+RESPONDS+TO+JACK+ANDERSON+COLUMN-a015602064 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022041547/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NATIONSBANK+RESPONDS+TO+JACK+ANDERSON+COLUMN-a015602064 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 22, 2013 |date=July 21, 1994}}</ref>

However, Stephanopoulos's realtor states that he would not have qualified for the loan without the commercial property rent. One NationsBank source states that the issuance of a residential loan on mixed-use properties is such a rarity that it was not even addressed in the "NationsBank Mortgage Corporation's Program Summary" or its "Credit Policy Manual". A NationsBank underwriting memo revealed that one of the three restrictions for mixed-use properties is that "the borrower must be the owner of the business entity". The source claims that NationsBank told the listing agent that, "We're not (interested in mixed-use properties), but we do have an appetite for this particular loan." NationsBank's primary regulator at the time was Comptroller of the Currency [[Eugene Ludwig]], a Rhodes scholar who attended [[Yale Law School]] with President Clinton, and who had been asked to investigate NationsBank by Democratic congressmen [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] and [[John Dingell]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Labash |first=Matt |date=October 1994  |title=Buy George |journal=The American Spectator |pages=30–34 |location=Arlington, Virginia }}</ref>

===Clinton Foundation charity donations ===
Stephanopoulos donated $25,000 in 2012, 2013, and 2014, a total of $75,000, to the [[Clinton Foundation]], but did not disclose the donations to ABC News, his employer, or to his viewers.<ref name="DByersPolitico05142015">{{cite news |last=Byers |first=Dylan |date=May 14, 2015 |title=George Stephanopoulos discloses $75,000 contribution to Clinton Foundation |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/george-stephanopoulos-discloses-75-000-contribution-to-clinton-foundation-207120 |newspaper=Politico |location=Washington, DC |access-date=May 15, 2015|quote=In 2012, 2013 and 2014, Stephanopoulos made $25,000 donations to the 501 nonprofit founded by former President Bill Clinton, the foundation's records show. Stephanopoulos never disclosed this information to viewers, even when interviewing author Peter Schweizer last month about his book "Clinton Cash," which alleges that donations to the foundation may have influenced some of Hillary Clinton's actions as secretary of state.}}</ref> Stephanopoulos failed to reveal the donations even on April 26, 2015, while interviewing [[Peter Schweizer]], the author of ''[[Clinton Cash]]'', a book which alleges that donations to the Foundation influenced some of [[Hillary Clinton]]'s actions as Secretary of State.<ref name="DByersPolitico05142015"/> After exposure of the donations by ''[[Politico]]'' on May 14, 2015, Stephanopoulos apologized and admitted he should have disclosed the donations to ABC News and its viewers.<ref name="DByersPolitico05142015"/><ref name=NYT51415a>{{cite news|author1=Gerry Mullany and Steve Eder|title=George Stephanopoulos Acknowledges Giving Money to Clinton Foundation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/14/george-stephanopoulos-acknowledges-giving-money-to-clinton-foundation/|access-date=May 15, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=May 14, 2015|quote=His gifts to the foundation of at least $50,000 were first reported Thursday morning by Politico.}}</ref> The story was broken by ''[[The Washington Free Beacon]]'', which had questioned ABC News regarding the matter.<ref name=NYT51415b>{{cite news|author1=Jeremy W. Peters and John Koblin|title=George Stephanopoulos's Gifts to Clinton Foundation Reinforce G.O.P. Doubts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/us/politics/george-stephanopoulos-discloses-gifts-to-clinton-foundation.html|access-date=May 15, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=May 14, 2015|quote=But his disclosure of the contributions — made after the conservative Washington Free Beacon started asking ABC News questions — seemed only to deepen Republicans’ distrust in the most recognizable political journalist at the most-watched news network in the country.}}</ref> The donations had been reported by the Clinton Foundation, which Stephanopoulos had considered sufficient, a reliance ABC News characterized as "an honest mistake".<ref name=NYT51415a/>

Based on Stephanopoulos's donations to The Clinton Foundation charity and his behavior during prior interviews and presidential debates, Republican party leaders and candidates expressed their distrust, and called for him to be banned from moderating 2016 Presidential debates, due to bias and [[conflict of interest]].<ref name=NYT51415b /><ref name=NYT51415c>{{cite news |last=Peters |first=Jeremy |date=May 14, 2015 |title=Rand Paul: George Stephanopoulos Shouldn't Moderate 2016 Debates |url=https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/14/rand-paul-stephanopoulos-shouldnt-moderate-2016-debates/?_r=0 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |location=[[New York City|New York]] |access-date=May 14, 2015|quote=Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, said that the donations and Mr. Stephanopoulos’s close ties with the Clintons should preclude him from moderating any debates in the 2016 presidential campaign.}}</ref> He agreed to drop out as a moderator of the scheduled [[Republican Party presidential debates, 2016|February 2016 Republican presidential primary debate]].<ref name="DBashCNNMoney05152015">{{cite news |last=Bash |first=Dana |date=May 15, 2015 |title=Stephanopoulos seeks to move past Clinton donations scandal |url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/05/15/media/george-stephanopoulos-analysis-clinton-foundation/index.html?iid=EL |newspaper=[[CNNMoney]] |location=[[Atlanta, Georgia]] |access-date=May 15, 2015|quote=On "The Daily Show" last month, Stephanopoulos said that when foreign governments and other entities give millions to the Clinton foundation, "everybody" knows there's "a hope that that's going to lead to something, and that's what you have to be careful of."}}</ref>

In the month prior to the revelation of his donations, Stephanopoulos told [[Jon Stewart]] on ''[[The Daily Show]]'' that when money is given to the Clinton Foundation, "everybody" knows there's "a hope that that's going to lead to something, and that's what you have to be careful of."<ref name="DBashCNNMoney05152015"/>

===Jeffrey Epstein association===
In 2010, Stephanopoulos attended a dinner party at the home of convicted sex offender socialite [[Jeffrey Epstein]] alongside [[Chelsea Handler]], [[Woody Allen]], [[Katie Couric]], [[Prince Andrew]], [[Charlie Rose]], and [[Eva Andersson-Dubin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-moved-freely-hollywood-circles-2008-conviction-1223336|title=Jeffrey Epstein Moved Freely in Hollywood Circles Even After 2008 Conviction|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first1=Tatiana|last1=Siegel|first2=Marisa|last2=Guthrie|date=July 10, 2019|access-date=July 2, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks|title=Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks|website=[[The Daily Beast]]|first=Alexandra|last=Wolfe|date=April 1, 2011|access-date=July 2, 2020}}</ref> Following Epstein's arrest in July 2019, the guest list of the party was reported online, with those attending receiving backlash, Stephanopoulos denied being friends with Epstein, with the party being the only encounter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/09/jeffrey-epsteins-social-contacts-with-katie-couric-george-stephanopoulos-other-celebs-scrutinized/|title=Jeffrey Epstein's social contacts with Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, other celebs scrutinized|website=[[The Mercury News]]|first=Martha|last=Ross|date=July 9, 2019|access-date=July 2, 2020}}</ref>

Stephanopoulos told ''The New York Times'': "That dinner was the first and last time I've seen him, I should have done more due diligence. It was a mistake to go."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-new-york-elite.html|title=Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway.|website=The New York Times|first1=Jodi|last1=Kantor|first2=Mike|last2=McIntire|first3=Vanessa|last3=Friedman|date=July 13, 2019|access-date=July 2, 2020}}</ref>

===Donald Trump lawsuit===
On March 19, 2024, [[Donald Trump]] filed a defamation lawsuit in Florida against ABC News and Stephanopoulos for an undisclosed sum over a March 10 airing of ''This Week'', arguing that Stephanopoulos harmed Trump's reputation by claiming he was found liable for raping the writer [[E. Jean Carroll]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Jackson|first1=David|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/19/donald-trump-lawsuit-george-stephanopoulos-abc/73033183007/|title=Donald Trump files lawsuit against George Stephanopoulos, ABC News after interview with GOP lawmaker|date=March 19, 2024|website=USA Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Wendling|first1=Mike|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68582953|title=Trump sues ABC News and host Stephanopoulos over rape claim|date=March 19, 2024|website=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Battaglio|first1=Stephen|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-03-19/trump-sues-abcs-george-stephanopoulos-for-liable|title=Trump sues ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation|date=March 19, 2024|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> The judge presiding over the case stated that the jury did find that Trump forcibly penetrated Carroll with his fingers.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Reiss|first1=Adam|last2=Gregorian|first2=Dareh|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-tosses-trumps-counterclaim-e-jean-carroll-finding-rape-claim-sub-rcna98577|title=Judge tosses Trump's counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll, finding rape claim is 'substantially true'|work=[[NBC News]]|date=August 7, 2023|access-date=July 6, 2024}}</ref> In July 2024, Judge [[Cecilia Altonaga]], presiding over the suit brought by Trump, denied a motion to dismiss by Stephanopoulos, finding that the technical definition used by the judge in the New York case did not examine the findings made by the jury, which was "sexual abuse", not "rape".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/24/media/trump-lawsuit-abc-george-stephanopoulos-rape-claim/index.html |title=Judge won't dismiss Trump's defamation suit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos|first1=Marshall|last1=Cohen|work=[[CNN]]|date=July 24, 2024}}</ref> On December 14, 2024  George Stephanopoulos and ABC News settled the lawsuit, paying $15 million to [[Donald J. Trump Presidential Library|Donald Trump's presidential library]] as a charitable contribution, $1 million for Trump's legal fees, and issuing a public apology to Trump for Stephanopoulos repeatedly making false statements about Trump during the interview on March 10.<ref>{{cite news|last=Levinson-King |first=Robin|title=Trump gets $15m in ABC News defamation case |date=14 December 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrw57q4y9do |website=BBC |access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gabriel Hays |first=Brooke Singman |date=2024-12-14 |title=George Stephanopoulos and ABC apologize to Trump, are forced to pay $15 million to settle defamation suit |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/george-stephanopoulos-abc-apologize-trump-forced-pay-15-million-settle-defamation-suit |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-14 |title=ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit |url=https://apnews.com/article/abc-trump-lawsuit-defamation-stephanopoulos-04aea8663310af39ae2a85f4c1a56d68 |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
In the fourth episode of the [[Friends season 1|first season]] of the [[NBC]] television series ''[[Friends]]'', entitled "[[The One with George Stephanopoulos]]" and originally aired 13 October 1994, the girls spy on Stephanopoulos across the street, after they were delivered his pizza by accident.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.livesinabox.com/friends/season1/104towgs.htm|title=The One With George Stephanopoulos|website=Livesinabox.com|access-date=2016-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/friends-the-one-with-george-stephanopoulos-the-one-1798177105|title=Friends: "The One With George Stephanopoulos"/"The One With The East German Laundry Detergent"|website=Tv.avbclub.com|date=13 June 2013 |access-date=1 January 2019}}</ref>

Stephanopoulos was the inspiration for the character of Henry Burton in [[Joe Klein|Joe Klein's]] novel ''[[Primary Colors (novel)|Primary Colors]]'' (1996). Burton was subsequently portrayed by [[Adrian Lester]] in the [[Primary Colors (film)|1998 film adaptation]]. [[Michael J. Fox]]'s character, Lewis Rothschild, in the film ''[[The American President]]'' (1995), written by [[Aaron Sorkin]] was modeled after Stephanopoulos. He was also used by Sorkin as the model for [[Rob Lowe|Rob Lowe's]] character, [[Sam Seaborn]], on the television drama series ''[[The West Wing]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/dec/17/featuresreview.review1|title=A beginner's guide to the West Wing|first=Mark|last=Morris|date=December 17, 2000|newspaper=The Observer |access-date=October 15, 2017|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> According to Stephanopoulos, his role in the Clinton administration was more like [[Bradley Whitford|Bradley Whitford's]] character [[Josh Lyman]] than Seaborn or Rothschild.<ref>Krakauer, Steve (April 2, 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201031900/http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a10130.asp?c=mbennf "So What Do You Do, George Stephanopoulos, Anchor, This Week – The Political Advisor-turned-Anchor Talks the Bush Legacy, Moving to Newseum, and the County's Political Climate"]. ''[[Mediabistro.com]]''. Retrieved December 19, 2009.</ref>

In 2000, he rivaled [[John F. Kennedy Jr.]] as the nineties' most eligible non-Hollywood bachelor, appearing (along with George Clooney) in a ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine's "Most Wanted" list.<ref>[https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/08/before_bill_monica_was_after_g.html Monica Lewinsky's First Choice: George Stephanopoulos?]</ref>

Stephanopoulos appeared in the ''[[Pawn Stars]]'' episode "[[List of Pawn Stars episodes#Season 4 (2011)|Buy the Book]]", where he bought a first edition of Ernest Hemingway's ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' for $675.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Bell|first1=Benjamin|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/george-stephanopoulos-hosts-facebook-qa|title=George Stephanopoulos Hosts Facebook Q&A|date=May 17, 2013|website=ABC News}}</ref>

Stephanopoulos returned to his ''alma mater'', Columbia University, in 2003, serving as the keynote speaker at Columbia College's Class Day.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sachare|first=Alex|title=Class of 2003 Steps Out|url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul03/features1.php|work=Columbia College Today|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=May 14, 2011|date=July 2003|quote=George Stephanopoulos ’82, ABC newsman and former advisor to President Clinton, was the keynote speaker at Class Day. He offered the graduates words of advice from his father: "Keep your balance", and from legendary faculty member Lionel Trilling ’25: "Prize fearlessness more than happiness."|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120201/http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul03/features1.php|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2013, Stephanopoulos played himself in ''[[House of Cards (American TV series)|House of Cards]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826888/#actor|title=George Stephanopoulos|work=IMDb}}</ref> and in 2014 he played himself "[[Shadows (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)|Shadows]]", an episode of ''[[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marvel.com/news/tv/23214/learn_how_marvels_agents_of_shield_begins_its_second_season|title=Learn How Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Begins Its Second Season - News - Marvel.com|work=marvel.com}}</ref> In September 2016, Stephanopoulos was featured on a €1 (1 euro) Greek postage stamp, along with other notable [[Greek Americans|Greek-Americans]].<ref>{{cite web|date=2016-09-07|title=Five Prominent American Hellenes Featured on Greek Postage Stamps|url=http://www.thenationalherald.com/135465/five-prominent-american-hellenes-featured-on-greek-postage-stamps/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105032120/https://www.thenationalherald.com/135465/five-prominent-american-hellenes-featured-on-greek-postage-stamps/|archive-date=2016-11-05|work=The National Herald}}</ref>

In 2021, Stephanopoulos was portrayed by George H. Xanthis in two episodes of ''[[Impeachment: American Crime Story]]''; the third season of the [[true crime|true-crime]] anthology television series ''[[American Crime Story]]'' on [[FX (TV channel)|FX]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morris |first=Lauren |date=October 26, 2021 |title=Meet the cast of Impeachment: American Crime Story and their real-life counterparts |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/impeachment-american-crime-story-cast/ |access-date=2022-01-27 |website=Radio Times |language=en}}</ref>

In July 2022, ''[[Loot (TV series)|Loot]]'''s episode 4 of season 1 was released, in which main character Molly Novak said, "sometimes I turn on the news and pretend George Stephanopoulos is my husband."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=1395&t=54685|title=Season 1 Episode 4 Transcript|date=July 1, 2022|website=}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Stephanopoulos is a [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] Christian and has earned a master's degree in [[theology]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CEzoAgAAQBAJ&q=Stephanopoulos+is+a+Greek+Orthodox+Christian+and+has+earned+a+master%27s+degree+in+theology&pg=PT398|title=The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories|first=David|last=Remnick|author-link=David Remnick|publisher=[[Random House]]|edition=1st|location=[[New York City]]|year=1996|isbn=978-0679452553}}</ref>

In 2001, Stephanopoulos married actress, comedian, and writer, [[Ali Wentworth]],<ref>{{cite news|title= Weddings: Vows; Alexandra Wentworth, George Stephanopoulos |first= Alex |last= Kuczynski |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/style/weddings-vows-alexandra-wentworth-george-stephanopoulos.html | work = [[The New York Times]] |date= November 25, 2001 |access-date=June 12, 2011}}</ref> at the [[Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity]] on New York's [[Upper East Side]]. They have two daughters, one born in 2002 and one born in 2005.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lloyd |last=Grove |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32091-2003Jul22?language=printer |title=Ali and George, Living It Up |newspaper=Washington Post |date=July 23, 2003 |page=C03 |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120919081743/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32091-2003Jul22?language=printer |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-15-et-fave15-story.html| title=Ali Wentworth, 'Head Case'| work=The Los Angeles Times| date=May 15, 2009| first= Mark |last= Sachs}}</ref> Stephanopoulos was introduced to [[Transcendental Meditation technique|transcendental meditation]] by [[Jerry Seinfeld]]. Conducting an interview on ''Good Morning America'', he said, "We're all here because we all have something in common—we all practice Transcendental Meditation. … I think that people don't really understand exactly what it is and what a difference it has made in people's lives."<ref name=napw2013>{{cite web|title=Why should you learn Transcendental Meditation?|url=http://www.napw.com/wall/post/8506/why-should-you-learn-transcendental-meditation-hug/|access-date=January 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705235501/http://www.napw.com/wall/post/8506/why-should-you-learn-transcendental-meditation-hug/|archive-date=July 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Honors==
In May 2007, Stephanopoulos received an [[Honorary degree|Honorary Doctor of Laws]] from [[St. John's University (New York)|St.&nbsp;John's University]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.qgazette.com/articles/father-and-son-receive-honorary-degrees-from-sju/|title=Father And Son Receive Honorary Degrees From SJU|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|work=Queens Gazette|publisher=The Service Advertising Group, Inc.|location=[[Queens]], [[New York City]]|date=May 30, 2007|access-date=April 13, 2020}}</ref>

He has won two, and been nominated for 17, News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

==Bibliography==
* ''All Too Human: A Political Education'' (1999)<ref name="All Too Human">{{cite news |date=March 28, 1999 |title=Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/bsp/besthardnonfiction.html |access-date=May 14, 2011 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* ''The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis'' ([[Grand Central Publishing]], 2024)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/george-stephanopoulos-announces-situation-room-book-8349252|title=George Stephanopoulos' New Book Examines History's Biggest Decisions Made in the White House Situation Room|date=October 10, 2023|website=People}}</ref>

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* {{cite book|author-link=Bill Clinton|last=Clinton|first=Bill|year=2004|title=My Life|publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]]|location=[[New York City]]|edition=1st|isbn=978-0375414572}}
* {{cite book|last=Stephanopoulos|first=George|year=1999|title=All Too Human&nbsp;– A Political Education|publisher= [[Little, Brown and Company]]|location=[[Boston]]|isbn=978-0316929196}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wy1F3UUrAOAC&q=In+1988%2C+Stephanopoulos+worked+on+the+Michael+Dukakis+1988+U.S.+presidential+campaign&pg=PA36|title=What Do We Do Now?: A Workbook for the President-Elect|first=Stephen H.|last=Hess|author-link=Stephen H. Hess|publisher=[[Brookings Institution#Publications|Brookings Institution Press]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2008|isbn=978-0815736554|page=36}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2X6fCgAAQBAJ&q=In+1988%2C+Stephanopoulos+worked+on+the+Michael+Dukakis+1988+U.S.+presidential+campaign&pg=PA70|title=Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To|first=Dana|last=Loesch|author-link=Dana Loesch|publisher=[[Sentinel (publisher)|Sentinel]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=2016|isbn=978-0399563881}}
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*[https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/FY17%20Membership%20Roster.pdf Membership] at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]
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