Andrea Mitchell
Journalist
1946-10-30
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist and political commentator. She has served as NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and anchor of Andrea Mitchell Reports.
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Quotes by Andrea Mitchell
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Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
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As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
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All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.
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