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Article: Ted Koppel, Firmly Anchored; After 16 Years at the Helm of `Nightline,' He Could Write a Book. Guess What.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 28, 1996
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It's the fantasy of every scoundrel or miscreant who's ever
been on the wrong end of the "Nightline" lens: Ted Koppel, on the
griddle, doggedly ducking questions.
Here in his chilly office overlooking the Mayflower Hotel,
amid the honorary degrees and glittering Emmys, the ABC newsman is
the picture of self-confidence: his blue-eyed gaze steady, his
genial expression unchanged.
Why, then, is he firmly refusing to say anything about his
wife beyond that she is "a lawyer"? Or to say what his grown
children do for a living? Or even to describe his 18th-century
weekend place in St. Mary's County?
"We are now talking about the very thing I don't talk about,"
Koppel says, enunciating ...