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Transcript: Susan Stamberg Celebrates 25 Years With NPR
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- April 6, 1996
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Scott Simon remembers Susan Stamberg, who just celebrated her 25th
anniversary with National Public Radio this week. She was one of
the first women to host a national news program.
SCOTT SIMON, Host: Twenty-five years ago this week a woman with a
laugh as urgent as a New York cabbie mashing his horn, and an accent
as thick as Brooklyn cheesecake, came to work at National Public Radio,
for which we are very grateful. Susan Stamberg began at NPR this
week in 1971. For 14 years, of course, she co-hosted All Things Considered.
Before Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, or Connie Chung, all of whom,
by the way, she closely resembles in appearance, Susan was the first
woman ...