ROBERT SIEGEL, Host:
When he came to NPR, the newborn network was just about to launch its first program, this one.
CLEVE MATHEWS: In addition to our own staff of reporters and editors here in Washington, we will be drawing on specialists and interesting, articulate people across the country to report for us.
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SIEGEL: My colleague Susan Stamberg says this about Cleve Mathews: He brought depth and focus to a small, new, ragamuffin team of reporters and producers. He had the highest standards and did much to shape and further the early, now permanent, values of National Public Radio.