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    Cokie Roberts

    From today's WSJ:

    Associated Press
    Updated Sept. 17, 2019 12:44 pm ET

    NEW YORK— Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians who grew up to cover the family business in Washington for ABC News and NPR over several decades, died Tuesday in Washington of complications from breast cancer. She was 75.

    ABC broke into network programming to announce her death and pay tribute.

    Ms. Roberts was the daughter of Hale Boggs, a former House majority leader from Louisiana, and Lindy Boggs, who succeeded her husband in Congress. Ms. Roberts worked in local news and CBS News before joining NPR to cover Congress in 1978. She joined ABC a decade later, not leaving NPR.

    She co-anchored the Sunday political show “This Week” with Sam Donaldson from 1996 to 2002.

    “Cokie Roberts was a trailblazer who forever transformed the role of women in the newsroom and in our history books,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “Over five decades of celebrated journalism, Cokie shone a powerful light on the unsung women who built our nation, but whose stories had long gone untold.”

    .................................................. .........Her colleagues said she never became cynical or lost her love for politics. She did force NPR to clarify her role as a commentator when she wrote a column in 2016 calling on “the rational wing” of the Republican party to reject Donald Trump as their presidential candidate.
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    Saw that earlier...R.I.P......Ben
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    I listened to her in her early years at NPR and appreciated her reporting. She will be missed.
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    Rest in Peace!
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    That's too bad. I thought she was a class act unlike her sidekick Sam Donaldson.
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    She was a good one. RIP.

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