FILE - In this March 11, 1985 black-and-white file photo, Bill Monroe of NBC's "Meet the Press", center, sits with former Presidents Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford at Tulane university in New Orleans. Monroe, who hosted the long-running Washington political television show "Meet the Press" for nearly a decade in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died. A New Orleans-based television station he worked for, WDSU, said Monroe died Thursday at a nursing home in suburban Washington. He was 90. (AP Photo/Andrew J. Cohoon, File)