Wyoming Through And Through: Senator Barrasso Comments on His Friend Pete Williams’ Retirement

It was introduced on Thursday morning that Casper native, NCHS Graduate, and NBC Information correspondent Pete Williams is ready to retire in July.

The announcement led to an outpouring of assist from buddies, former colleagues, and extra.

One among Williams’ closest buddies is Senator John Barrasso.

Learn Extra: One among Ours: Casper Native, Information Legend Pete Williams Retiring From NBC Information

The Washington Put up reported that Williams and Barrasso turned buddies whereas Williams was working for KTWO-TV.

“He’s additionally shut with Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican, courting again to their roots in Wyoming, the place Williams was born and Barrasso is the senior senator,” The Put up reported. “Whereas Williams labored for a neighborhood tv station in Wyoming after faculty, he inspired Barrasso, then working as an orthopedic surgeon, to contribute to well being studies on the station, KTWO. They’ve been buddies ever since, although Barrasso mentioned that ‘he’s a information reporter first.’”

The 2 form of got here of age collectively. Their careers grew in parallel with one another, with Barrasso turning into Wyoming’s Senator, and Williams turning into the Assistant Secretary of Protection for Public Affairs, below the George H. W. Bush administration. The would see one another typically in Washington, nodding knowingly to one another as two Wyoming boys who most undoubtedly made good.

After studying of Williams’ retirement, Senator Barrasso had some encouraging phrases for his pal.

“Pete and I’ve been buddies since his days working because the Information Director at KTWO,” Senator Barrasso instructed K2 Radio Information. “We hosted the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon collectively in Wyoming for years. Pete was a mature, skilled, and trusted voice for information in Wyoming when he was nonetheless in his 20s. He was the must-see TV reporter for dependable information in Wyoming.

“All through his profession, he was trusted on each side of the aisle. He was very fast at taking an advanced situation and simplifying it with out dumbing it down. Pete was able to doing something he would have needed, and he was very, very well-liked. He was Wyoming by way of and thru. He could have left Wyoming, however Wyoming by no means left him. Folks throughout Wyoming and the nation will definitely miss Pete’s reliable reporting.”