Cokie Roberts

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Cokie Roberts (born December 27, 1943 (age 63)) is an American journalist and author. She is the "Contributing Senior News Analyst" for National Public Radio.

[edit] Background

Roberts graduated from the Stone Ridge School in 1960 and then Wellesley College in 1964. She is the daughter of former Ambassador and Representative Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs, a long-time Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader at his death in 1972.[1] Her sister, the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother Tommy Boggs is a Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.

She has been married to Steven V. Roberts since 1966.

[edit] Career

She cohosted This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts from 1996 to 2002. Roberts has won numerous awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to "Who is Ross Perot?"

She is the author of the national bestseller We Are Our Mother's Daughters as well as Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation (2004).

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Preceded by
David Brinkley		 This Week co-anchor with Sam Donaldson
1996 – 2002		 Succeeded by
George Stephanopoulos
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