Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, reporter and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth30 October 1946
CityNew Rochelle, NY
CountryUnited States of America
determined kerry people
This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
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To get interviews for their newscasts, I'd work the phones, calling locations to find someone I could interview when a story broke.
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Two guys came up behind me, grabbed me, and pulled me out, ... I was in a lot of pain. It was really humiliating to be dragged out of an event in a president's office.
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Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.
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I was stricken. I think that was his honest response, unfiltered by the conventions of Washington and the corridors of the Senate.
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Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
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Jesse Helms looked at me, smiled and said, 'That's good,'
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It hurts all the time, as anyone with a torn rotator cuff knows.
taking terribly time
I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.
luck phone
Frankly, I don't think it was luck. I must have made 100 phone calls.
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He spent his entire adult life trying to understand how the economy is organized, and he's not going to stop now.
challenged likes
He likes to be challenged by intelligent people.
driven
You know, he's not going to have a car. He hasn't driven for 18 years.
funny
He thought the whole thing was so funny.