barbara walters. terry reeser saw the writing on the wall on the back to cbs. barbara walters did not lose her anchor title but redefine how the evening news was going to work with guys working different capitals on barbara still technically an anchor but gradually she did what she does best which was a big interview. she did not create a big tv interview. i think you would say edward r earl did that she expanded it, defined it came to donna that genre. >> absolute true. the today show experience she was clearly always told to beat besecond fiddle or third fiddle, did that help her in the later reachingia out to a broader, not just politicians and national leaders, but really broadened her access to other figures? here's a life lesson from barbara walters when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. here's how she o had done that. she had been on the today show and the host was hugh downs heard he was very supportive of her. one of the very few men on the air who supported barbara walters and her ambiti

barbara walters. tehran, 1977. i said, indeed, we work for the same company and gyptian said he wants to know, is it true she is paid $1,000,000 a month? and i said, well, actually i think it's $1,000,000 a year. and the drivers face fell. barbara walters was already a global icon. and then didn't it kind of propel her her career from that point on? isn't that a wonderful story? because how many journalists have had similar experiences to that? and, you know, one of them who did was walter cronkite. so walter cronkite was, of course, the leading anchor of the day and a figure of unquestioned authority. and someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. and they were both trying to cover the groundbreaking things that were happening in the middle east, a groundbreaking trip of anwar sadat of egypt to israel. and it was barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders that a few months earlier in 1977 enabled her to get the first si

and a great friend of barbara walters, barbara walters decided she wanted to see deep throat our member the porn movie that had a kind of following, made dick wall take her there because she didn't want to go alone. a perfect escort. >> >> i did 150 interviews for the book. they were not great on resources but there were some i looked at which were helpful. and a few others. >> i was going to ask about the barbara walters archives, do you need special permission to get in? >> they are at the beginning of being processed and not very complete. you want to find a personal letter that they wrote. >> couldn't find that. i'm hoping now that she's passed away that she made her vision put more of her papers, i hope so. >> one moment in the book i just love. it is 2010. at abc news. they want to show team spirit. what do they do? >> guest: david weston and all these rivalries not just between diane sawyer and barbara walters but other journalists as well. it was a really cutthroat culture. david weston wanted to show that they were working as a team, it was the 7 big anchors at abc which includ

>> well, i think so much of barbara walters was shaped by her father, lou walters, one of the leading impressarios, he'd book the biggest acts in the country and was one of the top tourist destinations in new york when lou walters was in charge of it. lou walters was a guy who had a wonderful touch and understanding of what audiences wanted and that's an asset that she inherited from him, but he was also a gambler and he would make a million dollars and gamble it away playing begin rummy. >> literally gambling it away? >> literally gamble it away. he would make a million dollars at the latin quarter and decide he wanted to open a new nightclub and it would flop and he would be bankrupt. i think finally a pivot point in barbara walters's life came when she was 28 years old. she had gotten out of college, out of sarah lawrence, but she wasn't exactly on a career path. she had gotten married to a guy and gotten divorced. gone to alabama for a quickie divorce of dubious legality. and she had come back to new york and staying with a school friend and that her apartment, when her father att

was barbara walters mother. and i think the cemetery office, assuming they were actual mourners, not reporters, and costume told where it was. and that's how we found the gravestone and it's three it's not a it doesn't it's not a standing tombstone it's it's for. plaques it's flat to the ground along a path in cemetery for her her father her sister and each of these markers said, you know, beloved husband and father, beloved mother and wife beloved sister and does not say that. barbara says to barbara, jill walters, no regrets. i had a great life. i, i love that. i she says she had no regrets. but we she did. and you wrote in the book that when people would come up to her and say i want to be you, she would say, then you have to take the whole package. what did she mean by that? well, you know, it's i think, the happiest people in the world probably aren't relentlessly driven, refuse to acknowledge any role for a personal right. i think while we've lots of ambitious people in washington, some kind of balance is

barbara walters lobby rep.ey in press secretary explain why she should get the interview, but why diane sawyer should not. and the bureau chief who had been in the middle of this and have very much get involved, said, listen everybody, it is diane stern. she got a call from the white house press secretary said, you are getting the interview and we decided it is going to barbara. so robin understood this was going to cause some internal consternation. so she calls the president and says, the good news is we got the interview. bad news is the white house is giving it to barbara. and he exploded in anger because it was just the latest, the straw that broke the camels back in terms of barbara's rivalry with diane which had made diane very angry and which diane was complaining about. and the president said turn it down. tell them we will not take it. which is, as you know, totally unheard of. you don't turn down an interview with the president because they will not give it to who you want ? that is not the way it wo

and when they did was walter cronkite. walter cronkite was of course the leading anchor of the day andqu a figure of unquestioned authority. someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. we are trying to cover the groundbreaking things are happening in the middle east the ground breaking trip. barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders a few months earlier 1977 enabled her to get the firstia sitdown interview wh the egyptian president and the israeli prime minister. this was the interview that not only solidified her come back as a coanchor of the evening news it also beat walter cronkite which both of them do. that interview split screen was not only a moment for journalism, it changed american foreign policy in middle east foreignn policy at a really difficult time. how dare barbara walters make that leap? not only from nbc today show with a very high profile and then into this kind of interviewing maga operation. did she do it a

uld you ask barbara walters? good, and i'd want them i probably ask myself, what would barbarae had she was enormously skilled in sh that to the heart of the matter and that were she knew that the more words you had around a question, the be for someone to dodge it. so i think if i were going to ask her three questionher what's your best let's see if she says somethingpersonal. what's your regret? beets, but none of us have no regrets. and then i thiquestion i would ask perhaps would be, were you happy you that question of many of the people you interviewed. the said yes, she was happy. joy bahar, the co-host on the view ish. there's no question she she was very proud of what she did and she was proud of the money she she had. but almost everyone else i talked to no, she was never happy. susan page.u. in. we are here tonight petraeus and lord roberts of

when you heard walter ogrod, what were you thinking? who the hell's walter ogrod? andrea canning: coming up-- are you innocent? andrea canning: --an arrest. heartbreaking. i hated him. the only thing i could think of, was getting my hands around his throat. andrea canning: who was barbara jean's killer? tom lowenstein: they felt that barbara jean must have been killed on the block very near to where she lived. andrea canning: the search for an answer would uncover some long-buried secrets. lester holt: you're looking at the actions of the prosecutor or the police? both. the biggest part of this problem is not just innocent mistakes. the biggest part of this problem is the abuse of power. andrea canning: when "dateline" continues. [ music playing ] hey, flo. cool leg warmers. thanks. they are just for the bus ride to work. they are not part of the official uniform. no tunes today? no. my apartment was robbed last night. took my cable ready tv, vcr, portable cassette player. yup. all the latest tech. if only progressive had renter's insurance like their home insuranc

rachel walters. so it's through their family line that we have these letters to share with you and share with american public in this donation. it becomes clear why the walter's family valued these letters. there's 180 letters and papers, mostly of e of envelopes that show the way that the mail travel, the cost of that mai when the address had to change, to find somebody who had relo and the postmarks of the work that the post office was doing to to process those mail. envelopes and about sohose letters and a few items of ephemera that the family enclosed while trying to communicate with each other, including the item in the middle here, which is a special order that was issued in 1863, and that david had chosen to enclose in this envelope with his letter that's pictured. and this wastime while david was serving in kentucky, a bordte, and working with the fifth indiana calvary to in particular, this special order declared martial law in the counties so that the state election could go along peacefull

when i got back to walter reed and when i was out of walter reed, we went to live in southern marylandand the amazing part, what she did after that. she was taking care of the household, we had three kids, she went off and got her masters in social work. to do all of that, she did it in a five-year span. to do all of that, taking care of the household, taking care of me, being my caretaker, and taking care of three kids to me is amazing. i always tell my kids, you don't have no excuse anymore. our oldest daughter, she has her masters in education, she works at lausd, a school teacher, a dollar going to school in pasadena who will get her masters in education as well, join my daughter in the education system. i have a son that was accepted to uc santa cruz, about to finish his first year there and aspiring to be an astrophysicist my son here now wants to be an officer in the military, still trying to figure that out. we will see if we can get him there. he has great examples. pretty sure he will be able to accomplish his goals. to me, my wife is the most important person here. i think e

bruno walter did not stay in brislau.es of pressburg, riga, temes vary, allowed him to gain good experience. and then the responsible post of conductor, berlin state opera. of course, bruno walter considered the invitation of idol's teachers an honor, many years of joint work with the great musician, acquaintance with the author's concept of his symphonic scores made bruno walter one of the greatest interpreters of mahler. their works after the composer's death in 1911 walter conducted the premieres of his ninth symphony and the song about the earth. the family life of the maestro was happy, his wife became. opera singer elsa korneck, soon they had two daughters. in 1913, bruno walter took over the bavarian theater. his productions of wagner's operas were of particular importance. during the first world war and the post-war years , the bayreuth festival was not held, and so the center of wagnerian music moved to munich. by the early 1930s, bruno walter had become one of the most famous. maestro walter amazed listeners wit

so, um, but yeah, i mean, walter, he was fantastic. walter he was awesome. it was a great place to be and, and i was so happy to see a lot the, the warriors getting the care they got and being able to move on and continue their lives. like i said, i was there about two and a half years and and i seen from burn victims to bullet wounds and and then we got the guys are they'll be amputees, triple amputees, quadruple amputees guys are were getting a chance. arms from other people it's just the technology and and then advancement was just it's amazing to watch amazing to see and and that gave me hope as well a and so once i got out of the tree and my wife goes, i love out here. i love i love the four seasons and course i'm going to stay over there. i'm not going to see even though i want to go back to california of we're going to stay here on the east coast. so we ended up moving to waldorf, which is the southern and southern maryland. so we enjoyed it out there. i mean, the east coast beautiful. we loved the cherry blossoms and the potomac river and and then yo

i love that about walter reed. they took care of you when you got to explore new york, disney world,d, we went to the carolin. "was a great experience out there it was really, really fun. got a south, got us out, got us out. that is what we needed. less and less i felt embarrassed of being out. you should not feel embarrassed it was just hard. sometimes it's hard to not feel embarrassed. but, since it let's us get out and took us to all of these places to became less, less, lessor embarrassing i'm becoming more and more proud of who i am, how i ended up in how i look now. a little bit shabbier i guess i can control that, right. [laughter]r] walter reed was fantastic. it was awesome. it is a great place to be i was so happy to see the warriors get the care they got. be ablee to move on continued their lives. like i said i was there about two and half years and i seen from burn victims and got amputees on it guys getting transplantshe, arms from other people. it was the technology in advance and it was amazing to wat