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  An Evening With Cokie Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cokie Roberts, the well known radio and television commentator, is also a writer-and we're lucky to have her with us to talk about her latest book.
Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News where for fifteen years she has covered Congress, politics, and public policy.
Roberts is the daughter of two members of Congress: Hale Boggs, the Louisiana congressman who died in a 1972 plane crash in Alaska, and Lindy Boggs, who also has served as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/events.hom/roberts.shtm   (492 words)

  
 Profiles - Cokie Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cokie Roberts' known to millions of NPR listeners and ABC viewers,, speaks out on the election, the candidates and the issues.
Cokie Roberts pulls into the driveway of her tree-shaded home in the woodsy Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., and stands there, cool and put together on this sultry afternoon in July.
The working Cokie (Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts) is described by one former ABC producer as "funny, articulate, tough, loves to talk-appreciates good-looking men." Colleagues say she's good at what she does because she understands the political process and isn't daunted by it.
members.aol.com /pzbar/cokie.htm   (2409 words)

  
 CNN.com
Cokie Roberts surprised a lot of people earlier this year when she announced she was stepping down as co-anchor of ABC's "This Week." She remains a correspondent for ABC News and National Public Radio and writes a newspaper column with her husband, Steve Roberts.
ROBERTS: I think it's just that you know who they are and sometimes you don't hear how the rest of the country hears something because you've heard their voices so many times.
Before she was a journalist, Cokie Roberts grew up as the daughter of House majority leader Hale Boggs and Lindy Boggs, who succeeded her husband as a member of Congress in Louisiana, and we wondered how this affected her view of Washington and the media.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0212/28/rs.00.html   (3084 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A 1964 graduate in political science from Wellesley College, Roberts received a 1985 Distinguished Alumnae Achievement Award in recognition of "excellence and distinction in professional pursuits." She is the recipient of over 15 honorary degrees and was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
In June 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Roberts is the recipient of numerous other broadcasting awards, including a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to the ABC News special, "Who is Ross Perot?"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cokie_Roberts   (540 words)

  
 Washington Week . Steven V. Roberts | PBS
Steve Roberts has been a journalist for more than 30 years, covering stories that have taken him from the streets of Harlem and the backrooms of Capitol Hill to the campuses of California and the villages of Greece.
Steve and his wife, TV and radio personality Cokie Roberts, write a nationally-syndicated newspaper column anchored in The New York Daily News and are contributing writers to USA Weekend, a magazine that appears weekly in 500 newspapers.
Roberts was born on February 11, 1943, in Bayonne, New Jersey.
www.pbs.org /weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/roberts.html   (494 words)

  
 NPR : Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts serves as a senior news analyst for NPR, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years.
Roberts was the co-anchor of the ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast, This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts from 1996-2002, while also serving as the chief congressional analyst for ABC News.
Roberts and her husband are the parents of two adult children and the grandparents of four.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101090   (566 words)

  
 Zephyr: September 11, 2002
Cokie Roberts, chief congressional analyst for ABC News, praised President George Bush's speech to the United Nations, when she spoke Friday at a University of Nevada, Reno foundation banquet.
Roberts, who co-hosts, “This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts,” was the keynote speaker at the foundation banquet in the convention center at Harrah’s Friday evening.
Roberts said there was still a lot of work to be done in the war on terrorism, because if Osama bin Laden is dead, the Al-Qaeda network has not been disrupted enough.
www.jour.unr.edu /zephyr/fall_02_pages/frederickson_cokie.html   (467 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts: This Week on WCHS-TV8
Cokie and Steve will discuss issues from their own marriage as well as open a window onto famous unions in history, as seen from their different perspectives as husband and wife.
Cokie Roberts is co-anchor of the ABC News program, "This Week." She is also a special correspondent for ABC News covering politics, Congress and public policy, and often serves as substitute anchor on "Nightline."
Roberts received a 1985 Distinguished Alumnae Achievement Award in recognition of "excellence and distinction in professional pursuits." She is the recipient of 12 honorary degrees.
www.wchstv.com /abc/thisweek/cokieroberts.html   (525 words)

  
 The Purpose Prize | Cokie Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News where for over fifteen years she has covered Congress, politics and public policy.
The Roberts are also contributing editors to USA Weekend Magazine, and together they wrote From this Day Forward, an account of their more than thirty five year marriage and other marriages in American history.
Cokie Roberts also serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions and this year was reappointed to the President’s Commission on Service and Civic Participation.
www.leadwithexperience.org /prize/judges/roberts.cfm   (259 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roberts first served as a panelist on "This Week With David Brinkley" in 1987, and was named a regular panelist to the program in 1988.
Roberts was a contributor to PBS-TV’s "MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour".
Roberts and her husband are the parents of two children.
www.speakerseries.com /spk2000/rob.htm   (378 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts speaks at commencement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roberts, an analyst for ABC News who has won several journalism awards, said Sunday morning at the Bradley Center that the need for social justice values and#8211; which are the touchstones of a Jesuit education and#8211; and civility in government is great due to increasing political partisanship.
Roberts addressed the declining popularity of politics as a profession, placing blame on the news media for too often focusing on the wrongdoings of politicians, politicians themselves for campaigning against the institutions they are trying to serve and voters for not allowing elected officials a fair chance to serve their constituencies.
Roberts, who won the Edward R. Murrow Award for her work as a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and was the first broadcast journalist to win the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for her work covering Congress, was one of five people receiving honorary degrees Sunday.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1411961/posts   (1578 words)

  
 Lifetimetv.com: Intimate Portrait
Award-winning television journalist Cokie Roberts is a best-selling author, wife and mother.
Roberts is the third and youngest child of an eminent political family.
Roberts often celebrated her birthday on Capitol Hill, and by the time she was seven, Roberts "could fold and stuff [envelopes] like a campaign veteran."
www.lifetimetv.com /shows/ip/portraits/9945/9945_bio.html   (293 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts on How Internet Is Ruining Representative Government (fwd)
Cokie interviewed me about how the Internet is changing the relationship between citizens and government agencies, after she read about the FTC's decision to take email comments on the Staples merger.
At the end of Cokie's column is a letter to the editor sent by Susan Ashdown, a reader of the Salt Lake Tribune, which is one of newspapers which ran the column.
Cokie Roberts and her husband say their "blood runs cold" at the idea of citizens emailing their opinions directly to the Federal Government instead of channeling them through their "representatives".
www.ibiblio.org /pjones/ils310/msg00263.html   (1329 words)

  
 The Clarke Collegian
Clarke College is pleased to announce that Cokie Roberts, ABC News chief congressional analyst and co-anchor of “This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts,” will be the recipient of the 2002 Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Medallion of Excellence in the Field of Mass Communication.
Roberts was scheduled to receive the award last year, but was unable to attend the ceremony due to a family emergency.
Roberts also serves as a news analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years.
www.clarke.edu /news/collegian/summer02/cokieroberts.htm   (258 words)

  
 United Feature Syndicate Newspaper Enterprise Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio.
Roberts is the author of the best-selling We Are Our Mother's Daughters (1998) and the forthcoming Founding Mothers (William Morrow, 2003).
Roberts appears regularly on CNN, PBS and the ABC radio network, and hosts Voice of America's "The Roberts Report." He is a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report, a popular lecturer and the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University.
www.unitedfeatures.com /ufsapp/viewFeature.do?id=6   (1021 words)

  
 01-111 (Cookie Roberts)
Cokie Roberts is co-anchor of the ABC News Sunday morning broadcast This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts.
Roberts is also the author of the national bestseller, We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters (1998), in which she explores the diverse roles women have played throughout American history and the connections and distinctions among different generations of women.
Roberts is a 1964 graduate of Wellesley College, and she is the recipient of 15 honorary degrees.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2001-02/01-111.html   (623 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cokie Roberts, one of the most visible journalists in America today, is co-anchor of the ABC News program, "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts." She is also a special correspondent for ABC News covering politics, Congress and public policy, and often serves as substitute anchor on Nightline.
Roberts serves as a news analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the Congressional correspondent for more than ten years.
Roberts shapes a framework within which many women will begin to explore their varied roles in society.
www.depts.drew.edu /media/news/1999/cokie.htm   (232 words)

  
 SDA Meetings
Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, where for fifteen years she covered Congress, politics and public policy.
The Roberts are also contributing editors to USA Magazine, and together they wrote From this Day Forward, an account of their more than thirty five year marriage and other marriages in American history.
Cokie Roberts also serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions and this year was appointed to the newly formed President’s Commission on Service and Civic Participation.
www.sdahq.org /meetings/convention2006/cokieroberts.html   (318 words)

  
 Women of Influence: A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
Roberts: Growing up in Washington in the 1940s and 1950s I saw the influence of women like my mother--married to Hale Boggs, my father, who had come to Congress when he was twenty-six and she was twenty-four back in 1941--and then the women that she associated with, Mrs.
Roberts: It is my understanding that in the post-World War II period, as the GI bill brought a lot of people into academics, that the whole emphasis of writing about ordinary people became much more part of what historians did.
Roberts: Then, of course, as you well know because the NEH has been so involved in it, the Founding Fathers' papers created the possibility for new biographies of the Founding Fathers to be written: David McCullough's books or Walter Isaacson's on Benjamin Franklin or the Alexander Hamilton books, the wonderful Madison books.
www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2006-01/womeninfluence.html   (4295 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts - 2004 National Book Festival (Library of Congress)
Cokie Roberts is a political analyst for ABC News and NPR.
During her more than 30 years in broadcasting, she has won numerous awards and honors, including two Emmy Awards, induction into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and a citation from the American Women in Radio and Television as of one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, she and her husband, Steven V. Roberts, write a weekly newspaper column, are contributing editors to USA Magazine, and wrote The New York Times bestseller From This Day Forward (2000).
www.loc.gov /bookfest/2004/roberts.html   (168 words)

  
 The Clarke Collegian
Clarke College is pleased to announce that Cokie Roberts, ABC News chief congressional analyst and co-anchor of "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts," will be the recipient of the 2001 Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Medallion of Excellence in the Field of Mass Communication.
Roberts also serves as a news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR), where she was the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years.
Before joining ABC News in 1988, Roberts was a contributor to PBS-TV’s "MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour." Her coverage of the Iran/Contra affair for that program won her the Weintal Award in 1987.
www.clarke.edu /news/collegian/summer01/cokieroberts.htm   (235 words)

  
 Wake County Literacy Council - [ Cokie Roberts ]
RALEIGH -- Cokie Roberts calls her life busy and even a sampling of her resume is a mouthful.
She is the mother of two adult children, a wife who writes a weekly column with her husband and plans to write a book with him, and she is the daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
When the questions ended, Roberts was ushered through a crowd of fans who lined up in Jones Auditorium to exchange a few words with the famous newswoman and get her to sign her book.
www.wakeliteracy.org /cokie_roberts.php   (570 words)

  
 A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
Roberts, a senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a political commentator for ABC News, observed that the administration will focus on three domestic priorities: privatizing social security, making further reforms to the tax code, and expanding faith-based initiatives.
Roberts recalled a conversation she had with the president during the 2000 campaign.
Describing it as “the most closed White House ever,” Roberts added that the president prides himself on the “discipline” of a unified message, where leaks and dissenting opinions are not tolerated.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/news/2004/cokie_roberts_113004.htm   (414 words)

  
 The Democratic Daily » Blog Archive » Cokie Roberts Shows Trend is Towards Acceptance of Gay Marriage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I find Cokie Roberts is often bashed in the liberal blogoshere, but I could never bring myself to dislike her.
One useful thing about listening to, or reading, Cokie Roberts is that she is a good barometer of the conventional wisdom (even if sometimes overly influenced by Republican talking points).
Cokie and Steve Roberts have a column this week which illustrates how the conventional wisdom is changing on one issue–gay marriage.
blog.thedemocraticdaily.com /?p=3342   (3302 words)

  
 Cokie Roberts Bans the Internet
Roberts, along with her husband Steve, make a sleazy attempt to discredit the Internet as a reliable source for information in their syndicated column.
The truth is, a big star such as Cokie Roberts is far more influential than the average senator or congressman -- and, in a sense, is just as much a part of the government.
As for Cokie Roberts, she is the daughter of Hale Boggs, a former Democratic House Whip who was the product of a corrupt Louisiana political machine that dates back to Huey Long.
www.banned-books.com /bbarticle-cokie.html   (2323 words)

  
 The Harry Walker Agency, Inc.
Cokie Roberts has covered Congress, politics and public policy for the past fifteen years at ABC News.
Roberts serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years.
Cokie Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media.
www.harrywalker.com /speakers_pitch.cfm?Spea_ID=189   (477 words)

  
 Cokie & Steve on Marriage at The Republic of T.
As the Democratic Daily notes, Cokie Roberts has taken a drubbing or two from the progressive blogosphere, perhaps for cleaving to closely to perceived conservative leanings.
So, it’s particularly worth noting when Cokie and Steve Roberts use their column to come out in support of same-sex marriage; prompted by an invitation to a wedding celebration for two couples, one of which was a gay male couple.
Here’s that poll that Cokie and Steve cited in their column, which also shows that opposition to same-sex marriage has dropped from 64% to 51% since February of 2004.
www.republicoft.com /2006/06/18/cokie-steve-on-marriage   (1359 words)

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