Let's make this birthday one to remember.

94 years old (Born on January 19, 1931)

Happy Birthday, Robert MacNeil! May your day be as engaging and insightful as the countless evenings you spent enlightening us on "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report." Your calm demeanor made even complex news seem manageable—though we're still waiting for a breaking story that rivals your legendary coverage of Watergate.

From novelist to journalist extraordinaire, you've proven there's nothing you can't narrate with grace. Here's hoping this birthday brings fewer deadlines than newsroom days but just enough excitement to keep things interesting. Cheers to another year filled with stories worth telling—and perhaps finally revealing how you maintained such impeccable composure live on air!