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Journalist Cokie Roberts.

Cokie Roberts, Political Analyst for NPR and ABC. Her full name is Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts and she is perhaps the consummate "Washington Insider". The daughter of parents who shared a Congressional seat for a combined total of fifty years, Roberts' star in journalism is rising, covering the capital for NPR, and on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley", as well as substituting for Ted Koppel on "Nightline" In a conversation recorded live before an audience, Terry asks her about covering Congress and how her political upbringing affects her reporting (Recorded 5/21/93).

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 26, 1993: Interview with Nina Totenberg; Interview with Marty Grosz; Interview with Cokie Roberts; Commentary on Sam Phillips.
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NPR and NBC Legal Affairs Corespondent, Nina Totenberg.

NPR and NBC legal affairs corespondent, Nina Totenberg. In covering the Thomas/Hill Judiciary Committee hearings some conservative senators accused Totenberg of ruining the lives of both Thomas and Hill. Totenberg also brought the fact that Judge Douglas Ginsburg had smoked marijuana into the public eye, costing him a Supreme Court nomination. Totenberg's reports regularly for "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition," and "All Things Considered."

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Celebrated Political Reporter Cokie Roberts

Roberts is Political Analyst for NPR and ABC. The daughter of parents who shared a Congressional seat for a combined total of fifty years, Roberts' star in journalism is rising on radio and TV. In a conversation recorded live before an audience, Terry asks her about covering Congress and how her political upbringing affects her reporting.

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