Connie Chung
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351 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Dec
Connie Chung’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. And I can't remember the exact words, but that I was basically stupid and didn't ask good questions and all of that. I would see him – my husband is a crazy golfer. You know my husband, Mari Povich, who's been determining the paternity of every child in America? You are the father. You are not the father. Well, in addition to that, my husband is a very good golfer as well.
I would see Donald Trump at celebrity golf tournaments in which my husband was playing. And he ghosted me, essentially. It was as if I were invisible. I wasn't there. Maury would say, you know Connie. And I was just...
No. No, it wasn't dangerous. It was just fraught with sexism. And, I mean, I think they all saw me as this unusual little toy.
Well, they were surprised when I came up with a story that they didn't have. It was a little competition, you know, and I love the competition. So I just... developed this sense of humor. And what I did was I tried to get them before they got me. And I had this propensity to be much too bawdy. And it was antithetical to what I looked like. You know, I looked like a lotus blossom.
And they were appalled that I had the audacity to use a bad word. But at the same time, they found it very comical.
You got it. And when I realized that, and I did, because I... I would call the assignment editor in Washington, the overnight assignment editor, and I'd say, what broke overnight? Or what's on the front page of the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, whatever. Whatever he had access to or whatever was released early enough. And I realized that they were getting stories.
And it suddenly dawned on me that They were saucing up the campaign manager and everyone who worked for the candidate and letting them spill the beans. So I said, end of staying in my room. I'm going down to the bar. And I did. I could drink when I was in college. I learned how to take a few down and still stay sane. I wasn't driving anywhere. which is walking back to my room.
And therein lies a great way to learn how to be a reporter. You had to get in there. You had to play that game. Exactly. The only place I couldn't enter where the men were, obviously, was the men's room. And they got stories there. I couldn't infiltrate the men's room.
You know, Barbara Walters taught me that. I knew that she picked up the phone herself. She wrote a letter. She faxed. She called. She nudged. She would say, let's have lunch. And I would call it being barbered. And Barbara barbered me. When I was fired from the CBS Evening News, she called me and started trying to get the first interview with me when I emerged from my bunker.
It was just remarkable. Barbara and I had a lot in common. She was clearly the pioneer and paved our way. She was the breadwinner in her family because her father's nightclubs tanked and she had to take care of her mother and her father, support her mother and her father and her disabled sister. I was the breadwinner in my family as well. my mother and father.
I supported them until the day they died. From about 25 on, I was their parent. We both co-anchored with someone who despised us, a man. We were both fired after two years. We both adopted a child. We both married nice Jewish boys, although I think Barbara married maybe two or three. But, you know, I really did—I admired Barbara because she paved our way.
I'm still wondering how come we are the perfect match, you know, because we are so different. But the public personas belie what is really behind our door. And the reason why I say that is because He, although he does this, has been determining the paternity of every child in America and utters these words, you are the father and you are not the father.
So he's a very down-to-earth, realistic guy. What belies his public persona is that he is very much a voracious reader. He's a political buff. He's a history buff. He could run circles around these pseudo-intellectuals who do interviews with – important people. And I always say that to him. Why don't you do a serious talk show? And he says, and I said, you're so smart.
People don't know how smart you are. And he says, as long as you know that, I'm fine. And I thought, oh my goodness, what a guy.
Yes. The difference is I am not serious. And you now know that, Tonya, because you've read my book. And he has to curb my enthusiasm. Because I'm liable to do something off the wall. It is not he who would do something off the wall. It is I. And he has to talk me out of it. Because I say, why? You would do it. And he'd say, no, you have a reputation to uphold.
No, I think they're right over here.
That's great.
Yes, you're right. How much is it? David, I can't have you pay for this.
I can't believe you found the clip and you used it.
Yes. He refused to call him Maury. He would always call him Morty, Murray, Marvy. I mean, whatever. And I said, he said, do you want to go out for pizza sometime? And I said, sure. Can I bring Maury? And he'd say no.
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