Funfact: 50% of accounting graduates are female! (According to the guy from PriceWaterhouse Coopers, the lone man on the agenda today.
Alexis Gelber introducing Lally Weymouth: "Maybe it would be quicker to list the world leaders she hasn't interviewed:"
I don't know why I'm surprised that Lally Weymouth is gorgeous, glamorous, and rail-thin. And resplendent in purple.
She read Baba's book over the weekend. We got it free in our bag. Damn, I actually bought it on Amazon.
Leadership: "When she was dying, my maternal grandmother declared that she was a virgin." (She had seven children.) Her mom said, but mom, you had to have had sex at least a few times to have children. Said grandma: "Well yes, but I didn't participate." That' smy first lesson: It is MUCH more fun if you participate.
Of people who come up to her and say, "I want to be you." She 'd say, "OK, well then you have to take the whole package." I think this is on the back of the book - it was the lede in many articles about her when Audition came out.
I"ve interviewed every president and first lady since Lyndon Johnson.
My relationship with Barack Obams started out a little rocky.
The number-one broadcast news interview in history - you know what it was? Monica Lewinsky. She mentions it because, "I recently had lunch with her, and she is the only one from that whole time who has not been allowed to move on." She's a graduate of the London School of Economics and she cant' get a job.
Special needs childrens: Jackie stuttered, people made fun of her, she had little understanding. Baba: I loved her and I resented her terribly. It is a far cry from the kind of understanding and attention that Governor Palin's baby is attracting. But as resentful as I was of my young sister as a child, I learned empathy and patience - learn from your past, and try to turn that pain and anger into something that gives you understanding, and remove some of the guilt for things that may not have been your fault.
Lou Walter's Way - Latin Quarter - Lou Walter's Latin Quarter - when the street was named showgirls came up in costumes. From that era.- "With two glasses of wine I will do their act for you."
I wanted my father to be a dentist.
Does ambition come from necessity? Well, having to work helps.
Began her career as a writer on the Today Show. There were lots of "Today Girls" but I was a today reporter. The lead Today Girl was a good interview, but a bad interview-er. They had to let her go, but they needed someone to work cheap. "This is the greatest lesson I can teach you: Some days it's very good to work cheap."
She gave the prostitutes on her corner hope. I tell you this because there are all different ways to inspire.
Frank McGee - went to the president of NBC to say that he didn't want her doing any hard news interviews. Walters dug in and said no way, I've worked too hard. Compromise: He'd ask the first three questions, she'd ask the fourth if there was any room. The way she got around that was doing interviews OUTSIDE the studio. Important ones.
sometimes you must choose you battles
Sometimes you"ve gotta
Roone Arledge was smart about her after the Reasoner
At the onset of the View, I considered that my real job was at ABC View and
5 years ago I asked to leave the show and to just do news program: "I was getting tired of interviewing celebrities out of rehab." Lesson: If you are truly unhappy, walk away.
I am blessed that the president of ABC is David Westin, who wouldn't let me walk away.
Heaven Where Is It And How Do I Get There? One of her favorites.
The purpose of life is to be happy, and the way to happiness is compassion and warm-heartedness.
Adopted daughter - Baba offered her to find her birth mother.
"I've had so much trouble with you, why would I want to find her?"
Kath Hepburn - did she always wear pants? wearing a skirt: "Well, I'll wear one to your funeral."
Kath Hepburn didn't have children. Audrey Hepburn gave up career to have her children.
KH: I've made the decision to live like a man. "I've done what I want and I've got enough money and I don't like being alone"
