Barbara Walters Biography
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Salary
ABC WorldNews Tonight (1965): $1,000,000 (To move from NBC to ABC in 1976)
Trivia

Her daughter was named after Barbara's sister, who was born mildly mentally retarded and died a few years ago.

Stated that her mentor is newsman
Mike Wallace.

She only wears one contact lens while working. With one lens she can read the teleprompter, but with two she would not be able to read her notes.

Inducted into the Television Academy Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame in 1990

Honored by the American Museum of the Moving Image in 1992

Lifetime Achievement Award from International Women's Media Foundation in 1991

Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Project and Productions in 1993

Honored by Museum of Television and Radio in 1996, for her contributions to broadcast journalism

Has interviewed every US president since
Richard Nixon.

Was the Today show's first female co-host

Has received honorary doctorates from Ohio State University, Temple University, Marymount College, Wheaton College, and Hofstra University

Her father, Lou Walters, owned Latin Quarter nightclubs in New York, Boston, and Florida.

TV reporter

While in college, she dated 'Roy Cohn' (who became famous as an anti-Communist attorney for the U.S. Congress).

Graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in English

Daughter Jacqueline Dena Guber was born 14 June 1968. She was adopted by Barbara and her then-husband
Lee Guber a few days after birth.

Her interview with
Monica Lewinsky became the highest-rated news program ever broadcast by a single network.

She was the youngest producer with NBC-TV's New York station (WNBC-TV).

An adoptive mother of 1 daughter.

Is a vegetarian.

Named one of the "Best Dressed Stars of All-time" by People magazine, Sept. 2000.

She does not like to be photographed from her right side.

Graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in Miami, Florida.

Donates $1 million toward a gallery to be named for her in new Heimbold Visual Arts Center at her alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College, at Yonkers, NY campus, May 2002.

Was impersonated by
Gilda Radner and
Cheri Oteri on
SNL 25

First ever female to anchor a news broadcast on a major network when she and
Harry Reasoner were co-anchors on
ABC WorldNews Tonight in 1976.

In mid 2003, country singer
Brad Paisley released a single titled "Celebrity", which he makes a reference to Barbara by saying "I'll get to cry to Barbara Walters when things don't go my way" refering to the celebrities who she interviews, the song turned out to be a major country radio hit.

Interviewed
John Wayne on January 10th, 1979, about six months before he died.

The first anchorperson to earn a million dollars a year.
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