Walters names 12 women who impressed her most
Barbara Walters cites Katharine Hepburn Mamie Eisenhower Betty Ford Nancy Reagan Rosalynn Carter Lady Bird Johnson Pat Nixon Dolly Parton Beverly Sills and others as the women who left the deepest impact after her 22 years in TV journalism. She describes Hepburn as fiercely confident and unique and recalls how Hepburn forced her audition. Walters highlights first ladies’ varied public lives and speaks of Dolly Parton as honest and smart and Beverly Sills as resilient and supportive of career and family.
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Phyllis Battelle
Barbara Walters
Walters
Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn
Manhattan
Katharine
Johnny
Katie
Mamie Eisenhower
Betty Ford
Susan
Betty
Nancy Reagan
Mrs. Reagan
Nancy
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn
White House
Jimmy Carter
Plains
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird
Senate
Johnson
Richard Nixon
Pat Nixon
Dolly Parton
Parton
Dolly
Beverly
Wexler Reynolds Firm Leaders Women in Politics ITC
Anne Wexler and Nancy Reynolds lead a Washington firm shaping policy and coalitions. They balance ties to the White House and Reagan era networks while stressing gendered scrutiny and high standards in lobbying. Reynolds is a former press rep for Reagan. Wexler chairs the firm and commutes from Amherst to be with her husband, Chancellor Joseph Duffey.
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White House
Capitol Hill
Carter White House
Ms. Wexler
Anne
Carter
Air Force One
Pope
Eugene McCarthy
Rolling Stone Magazine
Joseph Duffey
University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Sandwiches From Home Turned Dinner Leftovers Into Lunch
A memoir vignette recalls a mother who prepped weekly freezer sandwiches including meatball steak and turkey dinners between bread. Tuna fish salad in deep freeze created a brutal, fishy sandwich that stuck with a student who faced ridicule and sought coping advice from a classmate. Peter Minuit is noted for landing on Manhattan Island in 1626.
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Thomas Vinci
Peter Minuit
Manhattan Island
Dear Genie seeks Iowa lineage clues and genealogy notes
Readers submit requests for genealogical information on Elmer S. Brewer Bruard born 1885 in Hudson Iowa Florence Adele Smith and John Breer Murky family changes Ruth L Halligan seeks Sadderis descendants who lived in Holmes Wayne counties Ohio while LaVonne Aboud searches Mount Vernon Iowa descendants of Dr James Carson and Isabel Carson plus pilot township ties The Linn County Heritage Society meeting features Anne Gesme on Norwegian genealogy Palestine Liberation Organization troops begin Beirut pullout as French peacekeepers occupy Beirut
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Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette
Elmer S. Brewer Or
Bruard
Hudson, Iowa
Florence Adele Smith
John Breer
Door County
Wis
Florence
Sam Breese
Ruth L. Halligan
Sherman St
Streator
Ill
George
Sarah Sadderis
Holmes
Wayne Counties
Ohio
DeWitt
Clinton
LaVonne Aboud
Richmond Road
Mount Vernon
James Carson
Isabel Carson
Samuel
Prudence Cross Carson
Pilot Township
Williamsburg
James
John
Jeff Welsh
Box
People’s Bank West
Anne Gesme
Norway
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Watergate
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Kellogg
Barbara Bush
George Bush
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Commerce Department
Association
Congress
Secretary of Commerce
Anne Wexler
Skidmore College
Harry Truman
Norman Thomas
Nancy Clark Reynolds
Idaho
Goucher College
Baltimore
Reagan
California
Gerald Ford
Boise Cascade Corp
Bendix
Winle
Palestine Liberation Organization
Beirut
Clanry
Roosevelt Hotel
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