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Article: Bags and Baggage; Greta Van Susteren Goes on the Record In Her New Book
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- The Washington Post
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- August 26, 2003
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After the O.J. Simpson trial that propelled her to the pinnacle of
legal punditry, Greta Van Susteren was on the phone trying to land
the first interview with the disgraced football star.
Forty-five minutes later, she said: "O.J., can I have your phone
number to call you back? I have to go pick up my husband, and if I'm
late, he'll kill me."
She apologized after an awkward pause, one of the few times the
mile-a-minute talk show host has been at a loss for words.
In her about-to-be-released book "My Turn at the Bully Pulpit,"
Van Susteren, 49, recounts her rise from loudmouth lawyer to plastic-
surgery cover girl to cable news queen. Since defecting from CNN to
Fox News last year, the former ...