Susan Stamberg

So I felt even when there were movements to make women more equal and more authoritative, I felt I always straddled those two worlds, the good girl world.

and the free and women's liberation girl.

And to some extent, I still do.

It was very often my impulse to almost talk to myself and say, toughen up, Susan.

Don't be too soft on this.

Put his feet to the fire.

Get an answer that you really do need.

It's not days from the very beginning, but it goes into around 19, I guess, 73, and the whole Watergate story, Richard Nixon and the Nixon administration being exposed for having...

Essentially, as Bob Woodward said on our air once, tampered with the vote of every American by pressures that the administration exerted.

What I remember, we did daily broadcasts.

It was the most sustained broadcasting that we did.

It was the biggest story because the Vietnam War had ended fairly soon after we went on the air.

The biggest story that we had to cover over a long period of time, the hearings in the Congress, et cetera, et cetera.

And I'm proud of having organized...

groups of citizens, that voice that Bill always wanted to hear, of ordinary people all over the country reacting to the news.

That was new in those days and very unusual.

And I had a banker...

in Kansas and a housewife in Wisconsin.

I'm not going to remember all of them, but there were about five different ones, Democrats and Republicans.

And I would call them every week and just say, so what do you think?