From The Archives: A 2008 Conversation With Barbara Walters
A conversation from the archives with Barbara Walters about her 2008 memoir "Audition," a story of family challenges, celebrity gossip and blazing a trail in TV news.
Eleanor Roosevelt visiting troops in the Pacific during World War II. New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins says the first lady had an "amazing middle age."
Today it seems that “women of a certain age” are having a moment. Think U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Diane is 83 and hosting this podcast!
But if it’s a good time to be an older women, society hasn’t always looked so kindly on this demographic.
In fact, who we categorize as “older” and how we view them has shifted over time.
New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins explores why – and some of the women who helped change and define our understanding of this time in life – in a new book. It’s called “No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History.”
A conversation from the archives with Barbara Walters about her 2008 memoir "Audition," a story of family challenges, celebrity gossip and blazing a trail in TV news.
A conversation from the archives with former President Jimmy Carter. In January 1993 he joined Diane in the studio for his first of twelve appearances on the Diane Rehm Show.
Foreign policy expert David Rothkopf on the war in Ukraine, relations with China and the challenges ahead for the Biden administration.
In 2014 Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote in The Atlantic that he planned to refuse medical treatment after age 75. Now 65, he and Diane revisit his provocative essay.
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