Connie Chung

My competitors were mostly men.

They didn't look at me as a colleague.

And I am a minority and I am a woman.

And because of that, I think that they were expecting acquiescence.

And I don't know where I got this feeling that I didn't have to kowtow to them.

And I acted as if I was their equal.

But a friend of mine said to me, the first one through the door faces the heaviest gunfire.

So I think that Barbara Walters, who paved the way for all of us to experience extraordinary gunfire,

And when I came along, because I was not white, I faced a different kind of gunfire because people were expecting, my colleagues were expecting me to stand down.

And I just couldn't bring myself to stand down.

Oh, good God, yes.

I mean, you know how somewhere people would call those of us who are on the air talent?

That is ridiculous.

And I don't know where they got this because we don't have talent.

We have a brain.

We want to report news.

equally, fairly.

We tell one side, we tell the other side.

And what we're doing is presenting it to the public and asking them to make their judgment on what they believe is true or right or whatever.

But we've