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In this Wednesday, March 9, 2016, file photo, Connie Chung attends the 24th Annual &quot;A Night at Sardi's&quot; held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. New Jersey's Hall of Fame honored its newest members including Camden County native Kelly Ripa, actor Ray Liotta of Newark and Middletown resident Chung on Sunday, May 7, 2017. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

How Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named Connie — and had no idea

By David Bauder - Associated Press

Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Cambridge, Mass. Walters, known over her long career for interviews with newsmakers including Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was a news anchor and co-host for decades. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

TV news pioneer Barbara Walters dies at 93

By Frazier Moore

This Jan. 12, 2012, photo shows Hugh Downs at the "Today" show's 60th-anniversary celebration in New York. Downs, a genial and near-constant presence on television from the 1950s through the 1990s, has died. His family said Downs died of natural causes Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 99. Downs was a host of the ‘Today’ show on NBC, worked on the ‘Tonight’ show when Jack Paar was in charge, and hosted the long-running game show "Concentration." (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) **FILE**

Hugh Downs, genial presence on TV news and game shows, dies

By David Bauder - The Associated Press

This cover image released by Thomas Dunne Books shows &quot;Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of 'The View', by Ramin Setoodeh. (Thomas Dunne Books via AP)

Review: ‘Ladies Who Punch’ offers inside look of ‘The View’

By LINCEE RAY - Associated Press

Walters gives archives to Sarah Lawrence College

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This Thursday, May 15, 2014 photo released by ABC shows, Oprah Winfrey, left, grasping hands with Barbara Walters, right, as co-host Sherri Shepherd looks on during a taping of Walters' final co-host appearance on &quot;The View,&quot; in New York. Thanks to Justin Timberlake and Walters, ABC is enjoying its second-best week in the ratings so far this year. An estimated 9.5 million people watched ABC's two-hour salute to retiring TV news legend Walters on Friday, May 16, 2014, the biggest audience the network has received in that time slot in two years. (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)

Walters, Timberlake boost ABC in ratings

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

David Letterman is the host of the “Late Show with David Letterman" in New York. (AP Photo/CBS, Jeffrey R. Staab) ** FILE **

Letterman: ‘I feel bad’ about humiliating Monica Lewinsky

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Barbara Walters attends &quot;A Celebration of Barbara Walters&quot; honoring her at the Four Seasons on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

What makes Barbara Walters special? A few theories

By FRAZIER MOORE - Associated Press

This image released by ABC shows, standing from left, Whoopi Goldberg, Lisa Ling, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie O'Donnell Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy, and seated from left, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar, Debbie Matenopoulos and Barbara Walters on the set of the daytime talk series &quot;The View,&quot; Thursday, May 15, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco)

Oprah Winfrey helps Barbara Walters say farewell

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FILE - This March 26, 2014 photo provided by ABC shows, co-host Barbara Walters on &quot;The View,&quot; in New York. On Friday, May 16, 2014, capping a spectacular half-century run she began as the so-called &quot;Today&quot; Girl, Walters will exit ABC's &quot;The View.&quot; Behind the scenes she will remain as an executive producer of the New York-based talk show she created 17 years ago, and make ABC News appearances as events warrant and stories catch her interest. (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco, File)

A ‘View’ without Barbara Walters after this week

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FILE - In this image released by ABC, Barbara Walters poses with Tom Cruise during an interview for her annual special, &quot;Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008,&quot; that aired on Dec. 4, 2008, on ABC. On Friday, May 16, 2014, capping a spectacular half-century run she began as the so-called &quot;Today&quot; Girl, Walters will exit ABC's &quot;The View.&quot; Behind the scenes she will remain as an executive producer of the New York-based talk show she created 17 years ago, and make ABC News appearances as events warrant and stories catch her interest. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn, File)

ABC News building in New York named for Walters

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Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano watch an NBA preseason game in 2010. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

Donald Sterling is not a racist, says V. Stiviano; mistress says she loved him ‘like a father’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 19, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, third right, sits with V. Stiviano, left, as they watch the Clippers play the Los Angeles Lakers during an NBA preseason basketball game in Los Angeles. NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday, April 29, 2014, that he is banning the owner for life from the Clippers organization over racist comments in recording. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

Stiviano speaks about Sterling, recording

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Barbara Walters set to speak at Bay Path College

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This April 15, 2014, photo provided by ABC shows, from left, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Jenny McCarthy, political commentator, guest Margaret Hoover, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters, on ABC's show &quot;The View.&quot; The show will gather all 11 past and present co-hosts to salute Walters as she retires from daily television in a first-ever reunion that will air on the May 15, episode, the day before Walters says goodbye as series co-host. (AP Photo/ABC, Heidi Gutman)

All ‘View’ co-hosts will salute Barbara Walters

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This Wednesday, March 26, 2014 photo provided by ABC shows, from left, featured guest co-host, attorney Sunny Hostin, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters and Gerald Schwartzbach, on &quot;The View,&quot; during the career celebration all season featuring “The Year of Barbara,” a look back at many of her most notable interviews, originally featured on ABC’s “20/20.&quot; Walters plans to make her final appearance on &quot;The View&quot; on May 16, part of a daylong retirement celebration that will include ABC News naming its New York headquarters after her. (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco)

Barbara Walters sets May 16 for exit

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Veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters arrives at the Matrix Awards in New York on Monday, April 23, 2012. Miss Walters fell at an inauguration party in Washington and was hospitalized, according to an ABC News spokesman on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

Barbara Walters to retire from ‘The View’ after 17 years

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, file photo, Rosie O'Donnell talks to the audience during a taping of her show in Chicago. “The View&quot; announced Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, that O’Donnell will be a guest on the daytime gabfest on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Rosie O’Donnell coming back to ‘View’ as guest

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton: I’ll announce in 2014 if I’m running

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this April 23, 2012, file photo, veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters arrives to the Matrix Awards in New York. The veteran ABC News anchor is set to announce Monday morning, May 13, 2013, on "The View" that she will retire from TV journalism during the summer of 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

Barbara Walters admits ‘we’ thought Obama was ‘the next messiah’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times