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
driven
You know, he's not going to have a car. He hasn't driven for 18 years.
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Frankly, I don't think it was luck. I must have made 100 phone calls.
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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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I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.
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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.
determined kerry people
This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
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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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It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.
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It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
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Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.
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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.