The first was longtime ABC and NPR correspondent Cokie Roberts. She was born into privilege having been the daughter of Louisiana representative Hale Boggs, who disappeared and presumably was killed when the plane he was in with AK Representative Nick Begich disappeared. No sign of them was ever found. This was way back in 1972. Upon Boggs' disappearance, his wife, Lindy, replaced him, and she remained in the U.S. House for 18 years, until 1991. She died in 2013, aged 97.
With that kind of background, plus a marriage to another journalist, Steve Roberts, Cokie could and did do whatever she set her mind to doing. Her birth name was Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts, and that doesn't include her maiden name Boggs.
Roberts had two children. She was diagnosed with breast cancer around 2002, but eventually it cost her her life. She was 75.
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Because she was born into a political family, this gave her an insight few other journalists had:
Ms. Roberts’s background gave her a deep respect for the government institutions she covered, and she didn’t hold herself or her journalism colleagues blameless for the problems of government. “We are quick to criticize and slow to praise,” she said in a commencement address at Boston College in 1994._____
“But,” she told the crowd, “it’s also your fault.” Constituents, she said, needed to allow members of Congress to make the tough votes and “let that person live to fight another day.”
In an oral history recorded for the House of Representatives in 2007 and 2008, she expanded on the impact her childhood experiences had in shaping her views about America.
Another prominent journalist has died. Sander Vanocur, 91, who worked for NBC and ABC and was the last living journalist on the panel during the first of the Nixon-Kennedy debates of 1960, has died.
During his 14 years at NBC News, Vanocur became a familiar face to American viewers while covering election cycles as White House correspondent and national political reporter. The last surviving participant in the U.S.’s first presidential debate -- between Kennedy and Richard Nixon on Sept. 26, 1960 -- Vanocur was part of the technology-driven transition from World War II presidents to a generation of leaders increasingly defined by the new medium of television._____
The debate, which was viewed by about 66 million people, featured the two candidates, four panelists and a moderator, Howard K. Smith. In one of his questions, Vanocur pressed Nixon to comment on President Dwight Eisenhower’s recent remark that if he were given a week, he might think of a Nixon-inspired idea that was adopted during Eisenhower’s tenure. Vanocur later ended up on Nixon’s “Enemies List” of people deemed to be hostile to his administration, which lasted from 1969 until 1974.
"Surrogacy"--reproductive prostitution--needs to be banned worldwide.
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These trans activists don't even hide their total hatred for women.
It truly points to the complete failure of the mental health establishment in treating mental disorders like this. Instead, because of political pressure, the shrinks "treat" them by giving these delusional people whatever they want, the Hippocratic Oath be damned.
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The English language continues to be under assault.
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They should have been booted out long ago.
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