Title Washington Bureau Chief Company USA TODAY Bio Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA Today. She has covered five White House administrations and in 2016 is covering her tenth presidential election. She has interviewed the past eight presidents (three after they left office) and reported from five continents and dozens of foreign countries. She hosts Capital Download, an award-winning weekly video newsmaker series. She regularly guest-hosts The Diane Rehm Show on NPR and appears as an analyst on the PBS NewsHour, CBS’ Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, Fox News Sunday, CNN’s State of the Union and other radio and TV outlets. She was awarded the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 1991 for covering the elder President Bush for Newsday and again in 2002 for covering the younger President Bush for USA TODAY. The White House Correspondents Association has honored her with the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Deadline Reporting on the Presidency as well as the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, given for excellence in coverage of the presidency. She has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence (shared). As a reporter, she drove to Three Mile Island hours after the nuclear mishap was reported, traveled across Southeast Asia to chronicle the exodus of Vietnamese ‘boat people,’ sat down to dinner with Richard Nixon to hear his critique of Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign, and interviewed physicist Stephen Hawking through his computerized ‘voice.’ She traveled to Moscow and Beijing with President Reagan, Saudi Arabia and Japan with President George H.W. Bush, and Bangladesh and New Zealand with President Clinton. She joined USA TODAY as a White House correspondent in 1995 after covering the beat for Newsday. She has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association, chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and president of the Gridiron Club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington. She twice has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror. A native of Wichita, Kansas, she received a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Daily Northwestern. She received a master’s degree from Columbia University, where she was a Pulitzer Fellow. She is married to Carl Leubsdorf, a columnist with The Dallas Morning News. They have two sons, Ben and Will.