Cokie Roberts
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Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs "Cokie" Roberts (b. December 27, 1943) is an NPR journalist. She worked many years on the Sunday morning ABC News program This Week along with Sam Donaldson and George Stephanopoulos.
Her father was House Democratic majority leader and segregationist Hale Boggs, a signer of The Southern Manifesto that condemned the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. Her mother Lindy Boggs acceded to the congressional seat formerly held by her father. Her brother is prominent Washington lobbyist Thomas Boggs, a registered foreign agent for Qorvis Communicationsof (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49849-2004Dec8.html) Saudi Arabia.
She married former New York Times journalist Steve Roberts in 1966. The two lecture and have written books together, most recently From This Day Forward in 2000. They have a son, Lee, and a daughter, Rebecca.
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