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[[File:Pete Williams at a press conference, January 1991.jpg|thumb|Pete Williams as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs at a press briefing, 1991]]
'''Louis Alan''' "'''Pete'''" '''Williams''' (born February 28, 1952) is an American journalist and former government official. Since 1993, he has been a television correspondent for [[NBC News]]. He served in the administration of President [[George H. W. Bush]].
Williams was raised in [[Casper, Wyoming]]; his mother was a realtor and his father was an orthodontist. "Pete" is a nickname he has used since childhood.<ref>John Hanchette. "Pete Williams in an Unlikely War Celebrity." ''(Little Rock) Arkansas Gazette'', January 21, 1991, p. 10.</ref> After he graduated from [[Stanford University]], where he had originally studied engineering but subsequently changed to journalism,<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/video/why-i-chose-stanford-from-nbc-s-pete-williams-691880515926 Pete Williams. "Why I Chose Stanford." NBC News, video, May 24, 2018]</ref> he began his career in local news with the Casper, Wyoming, television station [[KTWO-TV|KTWO]] and [[KTWO (AM)|its eponymous radio station]] in 1974.
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