21 Facts About Cokie Roberts

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Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts was an American journalist and author.

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Cokie Roberts was considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers" along with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg.

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Cokie Roberts served on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation and was appointed by President George W Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.

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Cokie Roberts received the nickname Cokie from her brother, Tommy, who as a child could not pronounce her given name, Corinne.

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Cokie Roberts's parents were Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs, each of whom served for decades as Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Louisiana; Lindy succeeded Hale after his plane disappeared over Alaska in 1972.

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Cokie Roberts attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school in New Orleans, and graduated from the Stone Ridge School, an all-girls school outside Washington, DC, in 1960.

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Cokie Roberts graduated from Wellesley College in 1964, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in political science.

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Cokie Roberts worked briefly as a producer for WNEW-TV before Steve's career had them relocating to Los Angeles.

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Cokie Roberts worked for Altman Productions and then for KNBC-TV as producer of the children's program Serendipity, which won a 1971 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award.

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Cokie Roberts moved with her husband to Greece, where she was a stringer for CBS News in Athens.

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Cokie Roberts began working for National Public Radio in 1978, working as the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years.

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Cokie Roberts went to work for ABC News in 1988 as a political correspondent for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, continuing to serve part-time as a political commentator at NPR.

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Cokie Roberts appeared as a panelist for many years on ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast This Week with David Brinkley.

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Cokie Roberts covered politics, Congress, and public policy while reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts.

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Cokie Roberts continued to serve occasionally as a panelist on This Week and work on NPR.

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Cokie Roberts's final assignment with NPR was a series of segments on Morning Edition titled "Ask Cokie," in which she answered questions submitted by listeners about subjects usually related to US politics.

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Cokie Roberts was made an honoris causa initiate of Omicron Delta Kappa in 1995 from the University of Akron and later received the organization's highest honor, the Laurel Crowned Circle.

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Cokie Roberts was cited as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting by the American Women in Radio and Television.

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Cokie Roberts was a president of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.

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From 1966 until her death, Roberts was married to Steven V Roberts, a professor and fellow journalist.

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Cokie Roberts was successfully treated at the time but died from complications of the disease in Washington, DC, on September 17,2019.