Barbara Walters, groundbreaking newswoman and TV personality, has died at the age of 93.
Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent, has died at the age of 93.
Growing up around celebrities taught a young Barbara a lesson that she relied upon throughout her career. "Her condition also altered my life," Walters wrote. "I think I knew from a very early age that at some point Jackie would become my responsibility. That awareness was one of the main reasons I was driven to work so hard. But my feelings went beyond financial responsibility.
In her memoir, Walters wrote that she had dark hair, a sallow complexion and was often told she was skinny. She said her parents' term of endearment for her was "Skinnymalinkydin." "I asked Vladimir Putin if he ever ordered anyone to be killed," she once recalled. "For the record, he said 'no.'" In 1999, an estimated 74 million viewers tuned in to watch Walters interview Monica Lewinsky about the former White House intern's affair with then-President Bill Clinton. Toward the end of the interview, Walters asked Lewinsky, "What will you tell your children when you have them?" Lewinsky replied, "Mommy made a big mistake" to which Walters quipped, "And that is the understatement of the year.
"She keeps me sane, she keeps me grounded," Walters said of her daughter. "Children do that ... I think a lot of working women struggle with the job and being home and there's never a right answer. Whatever you do is wrong, but whatever you do will turn out eventually to be OK."
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