{"id":62182,"date":"2024-11-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=62182"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:46:03","slug":"barbara-walters","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/barbara-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Barbara Walters<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lecture-date-january-30-2025\">Lecture Date: January 30, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-gemini-3-group-lecture\">The Gemini 3 Group Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2025: Barbara Walters\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1052414895?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62159\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" title=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page.jpg 659w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Barbara Walters broke every rule \u2013 the belief that women couldn\u2019t interview the most serious newsmakers, that women couldn\u2019t anchor primetime newscasts, that women couldn\u2019t demand higher pay than, well, anybody else. She did all that, and more. In a career of enormous consequence, she redefined the genre of the big TV interview, questioning presidents and prime ministers, despots and dictators, notorious murderers and more. Her interview with Monica Lewinsky commanded the highest ratings of any TV interview on a single network, before or since. At age 74, she created a new form of TV talk, \u201cThe View,\u201d a show that\u2019s still going strong. But it wasn\u2019t easy, and it wasn\u2019t free. Her relentless drive cost her three marriages, wounded her relationship with her only daughter, set up a bitter and legendary rivalry with Diane Sawyer, and left her alone and isolated in her final years. Barbara Walters became a source of inspiration and aspiration for girls and women across the country. But her life reflected the limitations of the day for women who dared to break new ground. Even so, on the headstone of her grave: \u201cNo Regrets!\u201dIn&nbsp;<em>The Rulebreaker, The Life and Times of Barbara Walters<\/em>, Susan Page breaks news on every front\u2014from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her death. This is the \u201cstunning\u201d (Norah O\u2019Donnell), \u201cbrilliantly written\u201d (Andrea Mitchell) account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1_VmuVisgAjwU3tuO-tXCbLckWtZNFqSf\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=103238403274382254745&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">VIEW PHOTO SLIDESHOW<div class='arrow'><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-speaker-susan-page\">Speaker: Susan Page<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page_pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page_pic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62174\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page_pic.png 230w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/page_pic-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Susan Page is an award-winning journalist and the Washington Bureau chief of <em>USA TODAY<\/em>. Her previous books, <em>Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power<\/em> and <em>The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty<\/em>, were both <em>New York Times<\/em> bestsellers. In 2024, she covered her twelfth presidential election, and has interviewed the past 10 presidents (three after they moved out of the White House and one before he moved in). A Kansas native, she has reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries, served as president of the White House Correspondents Association, and moderated the 2020 vice presidential debate. She and her husband, Carl Leubsdorf, live in Washington, D.C. 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