As Washington Week celebrates its 50th anniversary, we asked our fans why they watch the show. Richard says he enjoys Washington Week because he wants "a voice of different opinions in a constructive manner" and "an informed perspective."

As Washington Week celebrates its 50th anniversary, Paul Anthony, the program’s announcer from the very beginning, looks back at his many years on the show and how it all began in 1964.

For the past half century, Washington Week has presented a civil conversation about the most important stories of the week. Viewers like Bob, who came to our town hall in Cleveland, appreciate the “unbiased, in-depth information” he gets from watching the show. “It fills in a lot of the blanks,” Bob said. “We watch it religiously.”

As Washington Week celebrates its 50th anniversary, we asked fans what they enjoy about the show. George called Washington Week “must-see TV” because he appreciates what he calls non-biased coverage.

As Washington Week celebrates its 50th anniversary, we asked viewers what they love about the show. Many viewers, like Bill, mentioned they value the civil discourse on Washington Week.

Washington Week is turning 50! Longtime viewers are sharing what they love about the show. In Colorado, Elizabeth told us she appreciates the “intelligent discussion” and that there’s “no bull.” Why do you watch Washington Week?

For 50 years, Washington Week has been a civil conversation of the week’s news with the nation’s top journalists. All week long, longtime viewers have been sharing their reasons for watching. “I enjoy that there seems to be an honest discourse without interrupting, rudeness or arguing,” Kathleen told us in Colorado.

For 50 years, Washington Week has been the most intelligent and up to date conversation about the most important news stories of the week. “I just love hearing smart people talk about the current issues of the week,” longtime viewer Kim told us at the roadshow in Philadelphia last summer.

As Washington Week celebrates its 50th anniversary, longtime viewers are telling us why they love the show. One thing we keep hearing: “It's very measured and objective in this day and age of the shouting and partisan bickering.” Gwen Ifill always said she wanted to offer viewers more light than heat. That remains our goal every week.

As Washington Week marks its 50th anniversary, two of the program’s original employees are nearing their own golden anniversary. Paul Anthony, Washington Week’s announcer for the past 50 years, met his wife Joanne, a one-time Washington Week production assistant and WETA-TV accountant, on his first day on the job. “It was love at first sight,” Paul says.

Happy Valentine’s Day! We love our viewers, and as we mark our 50th anniversary, they’re sharing why they love the show. Mary Ellen says she loves Washington Week because "it gives me the best news I can get about politics." So why do you love Washington Week?

Washington Week turns 50 next week! All this month we’ll be sharing reasons longtime Washington Week viewers keep watching. Kathy told us she watches because of the intelligent, responsible and respectful conversations. “I like the fact that it's done intelligently, and people don't yell each other down,” she said in line for the Washington Week roadshow in Cleveland last July.

America had a new Republican president, as well as a Republican-controlled Congress. It was 2001, and George W. Bush had just taken office as the 43rd president of the United States. Bush, much like President Donald Trump this week, kicked off his first term by making good on campaign promises, such as education reform and conservative values on issues like abortion.

During his first week in office President Donald Trump has been busy fulfilling many of his campaign promises by signing executive orders to build a wall on the southern border, begin undoing the Affordable Care Act and moving forward on the Keystone XL pipeline. Eight years ago, President Obama was also trying to jump start his agenda.

It's been a month since Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election and left the "highest, hardest glass ceiling" unshattered. But for the female politicians who blazed the trail before Clinton, they still dream of a woman serving in the Oval Office. Rosalind Wyman is one of them. The 84-year-old was once only the second woman to serve on the Los Angeles City Council.

It was January 2016. Before any votes had been cast. Donald Trump had spent months leading the Republican primary polls. Longtime Washington Post reporter Dan Balz met a family in Iowa that helped "crystallize" Trump's appeal with voters in America's heartland. The Swearingen family had been lifelong Democrats and voted for Barack Obama, but Trump was their candidate of choice this time.

Donald Trump ran an unconventional campaign, and the one person who was by his side everywhere he traveled was his 27-year-old press secretary Hope Hicks. Bloomberg Politics reporter Jennifer Jacobs first met Hicks in the early days of Trump's campaign in Iowa. Hicks had previously worked for Ivanka Trump's fashion company and had no experience in politics.

After a long and bruising campaign where middle America was concerned that the country was in "deep trouble," voters elected a new president. It was a change election that saw the governing party swept from power. It was November 1992.

For the second time in three years, a National Security Agency contractor is accused of stealing information from the secretive government agency. This time it's a 51-year-old Maryland man who was arrested for allegedly stealing classified computer code that hack foreign governments. But three years ago it was the 29-year-old Edward Snowden who took thousands of documents on NSA surveillance.

As vice presidential nominees Tim Kaine and Mike Pence prepare to face off in their only debate, we look back at the impact of the 2012 vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. While Biden and Ryan were at the table, Real Clear Politics' Alexis Simendinger said on Washington Week that the real focus of the debate was the top of the ticket.