David Schoumacher was a newspaper and television journalist. He was also a television anchor in Washington D.C. from the 1950s until he retired. His newspaper journalism career was some twenty years from the 1950s to '70s, and then he became a television journalist, a correspondent on the Vietnam War, the Watergate Trials, and even interviewing astronauts Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

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, Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

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, and Michael Collins

Michael Collins (astronaut)

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As a reporter, Schoumacher worked for CBS

CBS

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, ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, and finally WJLA-TV

WJLA-TV

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 7, a local channel in Washington and ABC affiliate. He worked for WJLA-TV from 1976 to 1988.

He also hosted the telecourse series Economics U$A

Economics U$A

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 in 1985, covering macro-

Macroeconomics

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 and microeconomics

Microeconomics

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 with the help of Richard T. Gill and Nariman Behravesh

Nariman Behravesh

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, economic analysts.

Family

Schoumacher has four children by his first wife, Sharon Gay Schoumacher, whom he married in 1955 – Robert, Linda, Janet, and Karen. Each of them is married with two or more children, giving Schoumacher eleven grandchildren. Schoumacher divorced Sharon and remarried three times. His current (fourth) wife, Elizabeth "Wooz" Schoumacher, lives with him on their farm in Hume, where they raise Devon grass-fed cows.