Katie Couric

So my dad was a newspaper man, actually.

He wrote for the Macon Telegraph.

He covered politics for the Atlanta Constitution.

He was the bureau chief of United Press.

And I think, honestly, he had a hard time supporting a family of four kids on a newspaper man's salary.

Before I was born, my parents and their then three children, because I'm the youngest of four, moved to Washington.

where my dad worked in public relations.

Oh.

And, you know, it was public relations, a little different.

And then he also taught public relations at various colleges in the Washington, D.C.

area, like the University of Maryland and American University.

And my mom was primarily a homemaker who also volunteered at Planned Parenthood and worked in the gift department of Lord & Taylor.

But I always thought –

In a different era, my mom would be like a kick-ass stockbroker.

I remember she bought a lot of Trojan stock when the AIDS crisis came to the forefront in the early 80s.

She's very – unfortunately, both my parents have passed away.

But my mom was very, very savvy and quite ambitious for her children.

And I think she came of age in an era when women just really didn't have that many opportunities.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I think.