In 1989, Barbara Walters’s interview with Muammar Qaddafi confirmed her status as the most powerful interviewer in the world. Yet it was the pink Chanel suit she wore to the meeting that was the ultimate power play.
had given me my first job in broadcasting when I was hired to fill in for her assistant over the summer. Now, I frequently traveled on assignment with Barbara for her big, news-making interviews and was learning at the shoulder of the country’s most celebrated and influential broadcast journalist, who would soon turn 60.
Yet it was the pink Chanel suit Barbara wore to the meeting in the desert that was the ultimate power play. On the way to Tripoli, we changed planes in Switzerland. At the airport, Barbara gifted me with a deep green Chanel scarf with a pattern of gold chains and cut jewels. I worked with her on and off for nearly two decades, and over that time, she offered many such gestures. Wolford hosiery was difficult to find at the time in New York, and when we were in Europe, she would buy me all the black opaque tights I could carry home.
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