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  CNN:

  and Bosnia, 233–39, 243–45, 249

  and Christiane, 11, 92, 116, 180, 212–23, 224–39, 250–51, 307, 311, 314, 316–17, 321–22, 324–25, 329–31, 380–92, 424

  God’s Warriors, 330–31, 380

  and Gulf War, 180, 223, 224–29

  and Katie, 107–9, 113–21, 215

  office politics in, 214

  start-up, 88–92, 107

  voice-overs, 216–17

  The War Within, 324, 330

  CNN International, 383–85, 386, 416–17

  Colbert, Stephen, 367, 385

  Collingwood, Charles, 45

  Columbine High School shootings, 265, 266, 269

  Colvin, Marie, 233

  Conger, Darva, 271

  Cooper, Anderson, 389, 397, 416

  Copeland, Aimee, 419

  Cosby, David, 30–31

  Couric, Clara “Kiki” (sister), 93, 95, 97, 104

  Couric, Elinor Hene (mother), 93–95, 104, 195, 283

  Couric, Emily (sister), 19–20, 22, 93, 95, 102, 208, 275–76, 282–83

  Couric, John Martin (father), 93, 94, 95, 127, 283

  Couric, John Martin Jr. (brother), 93, 95

  Couric, Katie, 16–22, 93–128, 179–211

  and ABC, 105–7, 414, 417–21, 425–27, 429–30

  ambition of, 17, 96, 102, 104–5, 113, 114–15, 117, 122–23, 124–25, 184, 190, 195, 197, 435

  awards to, 366, 408, 410

  birth and childhood, 18, 93–96

  career trajectory of, 23, 120, 193, 283, 340–41, 396, 410, 430, 433, 434, 435

  and CBS, 21, 293–97, 337–38, 339, 342–56, 363–67, 407–13, 424, 425

  and CNN, 107–9, 113–21, 215

  colon cancer activism of, 17, 21–22, 23, 82, 102, 210–11, 274–75, 338–39

  and competition, 262–72, 273–74, 284–87, 290–93, 363, 374–75, 397, 403, 407

  in Egypt, 397–98

  and fame, 194, 195, 196, 200, 202, 293, 337

  and family, 191, 194, 199–200, 208–9, 270, 272

  as first solo female anchor, 21, 339–42, 354, 356, 413

  income of, 283–84, 292, 337, 341, 349, 351, 353, 376, 408–9, 412, 413, 414, 430

  and interviews, 189, 191–94, 200–201, 202–3, 265, 266, 296, 328, 341, 346, 353, 355–56, 363–67, 367, 371, 374, 411, 412, 419–20

  and Jay, see Monahan, Jay

  and Katie, 417–21, 425–26, 429–30

  and Molner, 421, 427, 433

  and NBC, 180–82, 191–94, 337–38, 342

  on-air persona of, 117, 118, 121, 181–82, 190–91, 262, 266, 271, 292, 295, 339, 341–44, 347, 355, 366, 374, 377, 396, 435

  personal traits of, 18–19, 22, 23, 109, 114, 117–19, 121–22, 125, 208–9, 273–74, 340, 344, 352

  personal traumas of, 20–21, 205–9, 275–76, 282–83

  public image of, 211, 257, 268, 269–70, 273, 276–77, 284, 292, 293, 339–40, 347, 348–49, 353, 370, 375–76, 411–12, 426

  and self-promotion, 108–9, 283, 411

  and 60 Minutes, 339, 349, 408, 411

  talent of, 124–25, 180, 338, 367

  teen years of, 95–98

  and Today, see Today

  at University of Virginia, 97–104

  and Yahoo News, 430–31

  and Zucker, see Zucker, Jeff

  Croatia, Christiane in, 229–35, 240

  Cronkite, Walter, 45, 56, 62, 110, 158, 175, 191, 295, 410

  career move of, 16, 332, 380, 416

  as gold standard, 116, 251, 360, 366, 396, 407, 432

  and JFK assassination, 39–40

  and Katie, 342, 346, 347–48

  Crossman, Sara, 95–97

  Curle, Chris, 106, 107, 109, 113, 116, 117, 121

  Curry, Ann, 181, 184n, 273, 338

  Dalai Lama, 381

  Daly, Emma, 11, 231, 232, 234, 235, 237, 241, 242, 247–48, 250, 298–99, 308, 309

  Dana, Rebecca, 335, 356

  Davis-Goff, Annabel, 149, 153

  Dean, John, 53–54, 55, 59, 62, 64

  DeGeneres, Ellen, 367, 419

  Delahaye, Luc, 231, 242, 247–48

  Delaney, Kevin, 104–5

  DeMille, Cecil B., 210

  DePaulo, Lisa, 179, 203

  Diamond, Nancy, 212

  Diana, Princess of Wales, 174, 281, 310

  Diba, Queen Farah, 72, 75, 80

  Dickerson, Nancy Hanschman, 45, 47

  Dole, Bob and Elizabeth, 200–201, 341

  Donahue, Phil, 158

  Donaldson, Sam, 105, 160, 164, 170–71, 236

  Doss, David, 378, 395

  Douglas, Paul, 324

  Dozier, Kimberly, 324

  D’Souza, Christa, 83, 223

  Duke, David, 189, 341

  Dunagan, Foxie and Norma Belle, 5

  Duncan, Lane, 97, 105, 106, 114, 115

  Ebadi, Shirin, 320

  Ebersol, Dick, 183, 184

  Edwards, Douglas, 29, 47, 295

  Edwards, John and Elizabath, 353

  Ehrlichman, John, 59, 62, 64, 68

  Elizabeth II, queen of England, 331

  Emerson, Gloria, 48, 233

  Entelis, Amy, 157

  Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), 21, 210, 211

  Ephron, Nora, 38, 61, 343

  Esfandiari, Haleh, 71, 72–73

  Evans, Gail, 115, 116, 117, 215

  Evans, Jane, 217, 223, 225, 226, 227

  Exley, Frederick, 159

  Face the Nation, 382, 396, 415–16

  Fager, Jeff, 147, 169–70, 347, 408, 409, 410, 411, 415

  Fallaci, Oriana, 83, 233

  Falwell, Jerry, 330

  Farman-Farmaian, Ayshe, 72, 83

  Farmer, Don, 90, 106–9, 113, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120–21

  Fassihi, Farnaz, 386

  Federbush, Yael, 266, 281

  Ferraro, Geraldine, 219

  Fleet, Maria, 91, 92, 180, 212, 213, 216–17, 223, 226–28

  Fleischaker, Marc, 28, 31, 44

  Florea, Janie McMullen, 94, 95–97, 208, 283

  Fox, Marie, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43

  Francis, Fred, 125, 181

  Frederick, Pauline, 46–47, 48

  Freeman, Morgan, 346n

  Friedan, Betty, 38, 47, 48, 57, 60

  Friedman, Jon, 396, 399

  Friedman, Paul, 56–57, 60, 344–45, 351, 389, 403, 407, 408

  Furness, Betty, 112

  Gaddhafi, Muammar, 251, 400–401

  Gadinsky, Brian, 121–22

  Gannon, Frank, 63, 67, 131

  Garagiola, Joe, 184, 188

  Gbowee, Leymah, 386

  Gellhorn, Martha, 83, 233

  Gibson, Charlie, 352

  and competition, 262, 271, 284, 363

  and Diane, 279, 281–82, 287, 290, 333–35, 337, 369, 410

  and GMA, 177, 257, 258, 259, 260–61, 262, 263–65, 268, 270–71, 279, 280, 282, 289, 291, 334

  and retirement, 368–69

  and World News Tonight, 333–35, 356, 363, 368–69, 370, 410

  Gibson, Mel, 288–89, 357–58

  Giffords, Gabrielle, 394, 395

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 210

  Gollust, Allison, 202, 274, 284, 287

  Goodman, Ellen, 61

  Goodman, Roger, 160, 161–62

  Good Morning America, 139–40, 160

  and competition, 137, 177–78, 197, 257–60, 262, 264

  and Diane, 178, 197, 257, 259–71, 279–82, 284–93, 297, 334, 358–60, 368, 370, 402, 432

  and Gibson, see Gibson, Charlie

  and Lunden, 140, 259

  and She
rwood, 290, 291, 378

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 307, 318

  Green, Judi Lempert, 37, 38

  Greene, Diana, 114, 116, 118, 216

  Gulf War, 180, 223, 224–29

  Gumbel, Bryant, 112–13, 183–84, 188–90, 192, 197–98, 202, 271, 273

  Gupta, Sanjay, 389, 416

  Gurbst, Mimi, 162

  Hagan, Joe, 334, 346, 353

  Haiti earthquake, 373–75

  Haldeman, H. R., 53, 54, 59, 62, 64, 65, 68

  Hampton, Tom, 31

  Hart, Lois, 90, 107, 113, 117

  Hartman, Rome, 344–45, 354

  Haviv, Ron, 230–31, 232, 239, 242, 243–44, 246, 247–48, 317–18, 321, 322, 398

  Hayes, Ray, 52, 149

  Haynes, Greg, 7, 8, 9, 31, 42, 53, 55

  Haynes, Sallie Schulten, 32, 53

  Hayter, Sparkle, 11, 91–92, 116, 212, 217, 218

  Hereford, Frank Loucks, 100, 103

  Hernandez, Daniel, 394

  Hewitt, Don, 144–48, 160, 183, 250–51, 314

  Heyward, Andrew, 293–94, 295, 296–97, 372, 377

  Hill, Anita, 191–92, 265

  Hilton, Perez, 426

  Hiltzik, Matthew, 409, 421

  Hoffman, Abbie, 91

  Holbrooke, Richard, 139, 141, 142, 144, 149, 150, 152, 153–54, 379

  Holocaust, 367, 371, 429

  Holyfield, Evander, 263–64

  Houston, Whitney, 285–86, 289, 436

  Howard, Lisa, 45, 48

  Howard, Margo, 146

  Howell, Betsy Yowell, 95–97, 115, 194, 283

  Hume, Brit, 105

  Humphrey, Hubert H., 53

  Hunt, E. Howard, 58

  Huntley, Chet, 29

  Hurricane Katrina, 297, 395

  Hussein, king of Jordan, 251

  Hussein, Saddam, 180, 223, 226, 288, 317, 329

  Iger, Bob, 378, 380, 390

  India, missing girls in, 319–20, 325

  Indian Ocean tsunami, 290–91

  Iran:

  Amanpour family in, 12, 69–70, 71–72, 217–18, 229, 303, 304–5, 423

  American hostages in, 84, 117, 135, 251

  Islamic Revolution (1979) in, 11, 77–78, 80–82, 229

  nuclear plans of, 371–72

  and Revolutionary Journey, 304–5

  SAVAK (secret police), 72–73, 80

  Iraq, 228–29, 287–88, 317–18, 322–24, 325

  Isaacson, Walter, 317, 331, 381

  Jackson, Michael, 168, 285

  Japan, earthquake and tsunami, 402–3

  Jennings, Peter, 160, 389

  career move of, 16, 332, 380

  and competition, 174, 175–76, 182, 344

  death of, 333

  and Diane, 50, 281, 288

  and World News Tonight, 57, 161–62, 169, 280, 333, 369

  Johnson, Beth, 37, 38, 43

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 55, 362

  Jones, Jim, 134–35

  Jordan, Eason, 215, 243

  Kalb, Marvin, 131, 134

  Kaplan, Dave, 236, 237

  Kaplan, Rick, 164, 171, 354–56, 364, 394–95, 410, 412–13

  Kardashian, Kim, 426–27

  Katie, 417–21, 425–26, 429–30

  Kavanau, Ted, 90–91, 108, 121, 190, 198

  Kazakhstan, Christiane in, 318–19

  Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 105, 106, 120

  Kennedy, John F., 39–40

  Kennedy, John F. Jr., 84–88, 304, 306–7

  Kennedy, Robert F., 4, 45

  Kennedy, Ted Jr., 222

  Kerry, John, 295

  Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali, 429

  Khatami, Seyyed Mohammad, 251–52, 320

  Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 78, 80

  Khosravi, Parisa, 219–20, 221, 222, 228, 234–35, 246, 251, 303, 307, 315, 322, 325–26, 328, 330

  Khoury, Elias, 387

  Kiernan, David, 126, 186, 194, 203, 205, 206–7

  King, Don, 263–64

  King, Larry, 124, 204, 282, 306

  King, Martin Luther Jr., 4, 38, 45

  Kissinger, Henry A., 53, 54, 138

  Koch, Ed, 62

  Koppel, Ted, 56, 105, 160, 169, 174, 175

  Kuralt, Charles, 136, 137, 139

  Kurtis, Bill, 139, 141, 143

  Kurtz, Howard, 368, 409

  Kuwait, Diane in, 287–88

  Ladendorff, Marcia, 89, 90, 91, 108–9, 215

  Latifah, Queen, 414, 426

  Lauer, Matt, 184n, 202, 257, 262, 264, 266, 271–74, 278–79, 284, 285, 287, 339, 340–41, 418, 433

  Leff, Mark, 215

  Leno, Jay, 16, 22, 197, 413

  Letterman, David, 410

  Lewinsky, Monica, 176, 252, 265, 272

  Lewis, Lennox, 263–64

  Lilly Ledbetter Act, 365

  Littell, Rob, 86, 87

  Lobb, Kathleen, 21, 101, 123, 125, 126, 184, 203, 204–5, 206–7, 269

  Locke, Mandy, 126, 187, 194, 200–201, 203, 205–7

  Logan, Lara, 144n, 399–400

  Loory, Stuart, 109

  Louisville, Kentucky:

  Diane at WLKY in, 3, 4, 6, 8, 43–45, 49–50, 64

  Diane’s early years in, 3–5, 360

  integration in, 30–31, 34, 36, 361

  racial strife in, 3–4, 10, 29–30, 33–34, 50

  Love, Yeardley, 419

  Lunden, Joan, 140, 178, 191, 257, 259

  MacFarquhar, Neil, 225–26

  Mackin, Cassie, 105–6, 119–20, 156, 196

  Macmillan, David, 310, 311

  Maddox, Tony, 329

  Manji, Irshad, 386

  Maples, Marla, 168

  Marchand, Paul, 248

  Marcus, Bret, 124

  Marshall, Catherine, 34–35, 36, 66, 161, 363

  Marton, Kati, 153–54, 379

  Mary Tyler Moore Show, 118

  May, Elaine, 151

  Mayer, Marissa, 430–31

  McCain, John, 363, 364

  McChrystal, Stanley, 373

  McClellan, Max, 144n

  McDonald, Bob, 7

  McDonald, Celia, 8

  McGee, Frank, 56, 110

  McGinnis, Marcy, 60, 63, 105, 131, 337

  McGovern, George, 58, 59, 111–12

  McGrady, Phyllis, 8, 160, 161, 164, 169, 171, 258, 260–61, 262, 270, 281, 285, 291, 297

  McGuirk, Liza, 213–14, 220–21, 222, 299, 302, 379, 417

  McLaughlin, Marya, 45, 47–48

  McManus, Sean, 297, 343, 344, 351, 366, 408

  McRee, Lisa, 257–58, 259

  Meet the Press, 382, 390, 396, 415

  Menendez brothers, 168, 265

  Mews, Renalda, 89

  Milestone, Judy, 116, 118, 239

  Milk, Harvey, 103

  Miller, Jim, 225

  Miller, Judith, 318

  Miller, Lee, 233

  Milosevic, Slobodan, 230, 238

  Mitchell, John, 54, 58, 59, 62, 64

  Mitchell, Martha, 54

  Moaveni, Azadeh, 386

  Molner, John, 421, 427, 433

  Monahan, Caroline Couric “Carrie,” 199–200, 270, 272, 354, 366, 427, 433

  Monahan, Elinor Tully, 191, 194, 200, 270, 272, 354, 366, 427, 433

  Monahan, Jay, 93, 94, 126–27, 339

  death of, 17–18, 20, 22, 208–9, 257, 269, 271, 272, 282, 367

  and family, 191, 194, 196, 200

  illness of, 19, 204–8, 210

  Jay Monahan Center, 269, 274

  marriage of Katie and, 127, 179, 186, 187, 194–97, 198–200, 203

  Moonves, Leslie, 293–94,
295, 296, 333, 337–38, 342, 343, 344, 352, 376, 397, 408–11, 418

  Moreno de Mora, Miguel Gil, 308–9

  Moses, Gig, 75–77

  Moth, Margaret, 232–35

  Mubarak, Hosni, 251, 397, 398–99, 400, 401, 436

  Mudd, Roger, 131, 133, 134, 137–38, 141

  Mugabe, Robert, 380–81

  Muir, David, 373, 415, 424–25, 433

  Murdoch, Rupert, 169

  Murphy, Jim, 356, 357

  Murrow, Edward R., 16, 45, 251, 332, 380, 416–17

  Murrow’s Boys, 45, 132, 144, 251

  Musharraf, Pervez, 315

  Nathanson, Caryn, 201, 210

  National Organization for Women (NOW), 57, 60

  NBC:

  and Katie, 180–82, 191–94, 337–38, 342

  Women’s Revolt in, 57–58, 61

  NBC Nightly News, 407, 433

  Neshat, Shirin, 386

  Neuffer, Elizabeth, 241

  Newman, David, 104

  Newman, Kevin, 257–58, 259

  Newman, Paul, 197

  News Sorority, 23–24

  Newsweek, 61, 299, 339, 340

  New York Times, 55, 291–92

  Nichols, Mike, 149–56, 164–65, 173, 176, 291, 293, 415, 421–22

  Nixon, Pat, 54, 65–66

  Nixon, Richard M., 51–52

  in China, 55–56

  Diane’s interview with, 138–39, 192

  Diane’s jobs with, 51–56, 58, 59–60, 65–67

  Diane’s loyalty to, 6, 9, 59, 63–67, 131–32, 133

  and impeachment, 64

  memoirs of, 67–68, 131, 132

  resignation of, 66–67, 132

  and tapes, 64–65

  and Watergate, 58–59, 62, 63, 64, 67, 138

  Nobis, Louise, 120

  Noriega, Manuel, 180

  Norville, Deborah, 182–84, 186–88, 191

  Nunn, Ray, 219

  Oberbeck, Chris, 85, 86

  Oberstein, Jennifer, 278

  O’Brien, Conan, 413

  O’Brien, Dennis, 280

  Oehler, Dennis, 222

  O’Gorman, Patricia, 145

  O’Hearn, Kathy, 316–17, 383–86, 387, 397

  Operation Desert Shield, 180, 186, 226

  Operation Iraqi Freedom, 287–88, 317–18

  Orth, Maureen, 168

  Oz, Amos, 387

  Page Six, 289–90, 395, 433

  Pahlavi, Reza Shah, 70, 71–72, 75, 77–78, 80–81, 83–84

  Paley, William, 60, 61, 138

  Palin, Sarah, 21, 363–66, 410, 412

  Pauley, Jane, 110, 111–13, 118, 127–28, 140, 178, 182–83, 185, 189, 191

  Paulsen, Lisa, 17, 20, 21, 210–11, 269, 274, 338–39, 397

  Peale, Norman Vincent, 35

  Pearl, Daniel, 315, 332n

  Peck, Rory, 238

  Pelley, Scott, 294, 399, 403, 407–8, 414–15, 432