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Andrea Mitchell

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“It was very adversarial. It was very tough. And he He clearly did not like to be challenged not by a woman, certainly. He called me Andy Mitchell. And we had these live news conferences carrying his news conferences on the radio. And it became very combative, and there was a lot of investigations into police corruption. He was very protective of the police department, which is where he came from, also police brutality, a lot of conflicts between African Americans and other ethnic groups. The city was divided.”
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“Frank Rizzo. He became the mayor in 1971, and I covered that race and then covered city. By then I was covering City Hall. But initially covering the police chief, conflicts, I was initially the school reporter, and he was in constant conflict with the chairman of the school board, an eminent former mayor. Richardson Dilworth, Reform Democrat, great leader, great man. His vision for the school system was very different from the police chiefs, and there was A terrible School kids protest right on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where all the museums are in front of the School headquarters that became what was later referred to as a police riot Which I was covering”
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“And then Dr. King just a few days later. And so they needed somebody to go to North Philadelphia with a tape recorder, do some interviews, and I volunteered Then I was not on duty when I was at home watching the coverage when Bobby Kennedy was killed in June, June 4th and 5th. But you probably went and did something.”
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“Late 60s, early 70s. Think of 1968. Hired in 67 by 68, we had I was working and Editing audio clips of LBJ's speech when in the last Sentences, he said he would not.”
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“Women in the newsroom. In Philadelphia, it was very rare. And they didn't want women in the newsroom. They didn't think we could do it. The time was so volatile and violent. Vietnam War protests.”
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“I said, give me an entry level job in the newsroom. And I talked my way out of the management training program and into being a copy boy. On the midnight to eight shift.”
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“If I'd gotten a fellowship I'd applied to, I would have certainly gone. I was in Gerton College in Cambridge, accepted and on my way to do an M lit or B-lit or whatever they called their graduate degree. And be an English professor, but Instead, I didn't get the fellowship, and my parents, I think, could have Have paid for it, but I wanted to be more independent. The radio station beckoned. I was accepted into their management training program, they then had a network Westinghouse broadcasting. The TV station in Philly was an NBC affiliate, but I was going to work for them. But they said that women couldn't be in news. They had to be in marketing or promotion or maybe sales. Not in news. And I said, No, I want to do news. And so”
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“Jewish parents dream. And then going to the Aspen Music School influenced me greatly. I was in junior high and high school and loved my experiences there, but realized I wasn't really good enough. To be competitive, and that I wanted more out of life. I didn't want to go to Music college. I wanted to go to a liberal arts school and have a wider experience and thought I could do everything, but once I got to college, got caught up in so many other things that I wasn't practicing, I wasn't getting into music lessons, and I lost my ability and desire. And so the radio station, the classical music radio station gave me that outlet, but then interning at the All-News radio station, I realized I really wanted to do this.”
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“News. It was an emotional decision, and I've always thought about that. I initially thought about going to law school. My father had really influenced us in taking years and years of Latin in high school because we were going to be lawyers or doctors or some Jewish dream.”
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“And so you can update a transit strike or anything else by just getting on the telephone from anywhere you were. You did not need makeup. You didn't need to worry about your hair. what you're wearing”
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“Dating ourselves, David. You only needed a dime to call in a story. On a paved phone booth in a phone. I remember those days”
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“All the immediacy, the adrenaline, the excitement. Radio was so easy. You carried a tape recorder around once I got into the business. It was.”
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“In 1966, KYW Awnews Radio ANUs all the time, you give us 20 minutes, we'll give you the world. They went on news, and I was an intern there and loved it. Why?”
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“Who came to campus in 1964, and I didn't get the exclusive interview someone else did and lorded it over me for the school paper. But that was exciting. It was also my first experience. I was assigned by the Ivy League radio network, which is a thing. Us to go to Radio City Music or Radio City in New York across the street from where I When I'm in New York. And I did the Senate races for the Ivy League radio network, which is all the Ivy League schools.”
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“So it was in an old carton. Needed somebody to write, and they ended up giving me a program, a classical music program. So once a week I would do a chamber music program. On Tuesday nights, I think at 8 o'clock in the evening called Musica de Camera. Little pretentiously and Our theme song was the Raspee Air and Dances for the flute. And I do remember running up the stairs of Houston Hall sometimes when the theme strong was already playing to slide into my chair, which is something.”
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“And I was an English major, and I remember finding in my parents' attic an essay that I had written in first grade when I referred to about brotherhood and the importance of brotherhood and all people not having wars and completely misspelled, phonetically spelled. My father had kept that, strangely.”
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“At the University of Pennsylvania, we had a student union, a student hall, Houston Hall, and the radio station was on the third floor, and I was down the hall in an NAACP meeting as a freshman and heard music and didn't even know about the radio station and that you could try to join it. And hearing the classical music, I went down the hall and got involved and asked if I could volunteer. And eventually this was 1963. Eventually they needed somebody to write newscasts and I had written for the school newspaper in high school. And as you recall, the experience of writing as a kid and always writing, I think I glossed over how I like to write essays.”
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“And I had actually left school a year early to go to college. That affected all of us. She was a beloved teacher. And my older sister. Who had graduated a year before I and her boyfriend, then husband, now husband, we all were part of that community. And Mickey proud at home. Brought it home profoundly to us. We'd been involved in the civil rights movement. I remember Also, you know, there were so many political strains back in the 50s and 60s. Some of our classmates, parents were affected by the McCarthy movement. When we think about the turmoil now, we forget that. 60s were 50s and 60s were not as Ozzy and Harriet as people now remember them.”
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“Not the way, not with the resistance that it was in other communities, Boston, for instance. So it worked. We had One high school, two junior high schools, but the elementary schools were very Segregated by neighborhood. So, I think that that was the premise of it in a city of 75,000 or 80,000 people. We had all white elementary schools and then more diverse schools downtown”
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“And my mother was involved in the buzzing, in carrying out the busing. She was by then. Working for this superintendent of schools of our city. So she was very involved in.”
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“Very involved And my community, New Rochelle, was subject to one of the first, if not the first, northern immigration integration orders from a federal judge or”
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“To class and being very isolated. Not madly for Adley. I remember you follow what your parents talk about. So I remember a lot of conversation about Eisenhower in the early 50s. By the time of the Vietnam War and those debates, we had a lot of arguments over the dinner table and a lot of excitement about the civil rights movement. Lunch counter protests.”
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“Back in the 50s and the nomenclature was different in what we would now consider politically incorrect. Was a school in Pelham, New York, our neighboring community, and we had a neighbor next door, a young boy whom I babysat with a lot and we loved greatly. And he was a special needs child Down syndrome. And so they involved my parents when we moved next door, when we moved from the city in the Westchester County community, and so they did a lot of organizing fundraising, barbecues in our backyard, square dances, all sorts of events to raise money. And so she really had the idea that music and dance would be what she could contribute as a teacher. Making getting the kids more involved and more active.”
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“I love to write. I remember writing a story about Brotherhood Week. My mother had taken us to the United Nations, I think, as a brownie or a Girl Scout trip. My mother was amazing. Was always coming up with things to do, and especially when we lived in New York, we were always hopping on the subway and going to the museums, if not going to the book.”
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“Really did your research, and I was always late for my deadlines. Jumping in the car with my mother, the column came out on Friday, and seeing your name in print was such a kick. In the hometown paper, it was owned by the Macy Westchester chain. It's now Ganett, I believe, in Westchester County, New York. And I would go around to all the classes and take notes on what the individual classes were doing. I was by then a sixth grader and write a column on the school news from the Roosevelt Elementary School. It was Theodore Roosevelt, by the way. I also did”
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“And at least three days a week, and so not be as involved in education. I had Sunday school and confirmation. The synagogue, but not. I never learned Hebrew.”
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“And that I think always bothered my mother as well. I think there was sort of an informal agreement that she had the girls and we could do music, which was three days a week between the lessons and the choir practices and all the rest.”
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“As a baby, we would go to synagogue with my father and get dispensation and be able to sit next to him. But after that, if we had stayed in New York City, we would have had to sit upstairs and be separated.”
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“Well, frankly, it did because my brother went to. Jewish day school yeshiva and for a number of years in elementary school. Was very Much involved in religious education. I think being the only boy, he was the baby brother, and my father was from a long line of religious Jews, the Kohan, the Priestly Jews that come down from Abraham by tradition and have certain obligations and rituals. They observe, so having a male child. And there was always something about the male lineage there that I found even as a child off-putting.”
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“I played the violin and the piano and sang. Really, I thought I was going to be a violinist, but I wasn't good enough to be professional. My sister in elementary school played even the best soon, but became a very good pianist and now sings and acquire and is very active in music where she lives in New Hampshire. And my mother was a pianist and my brother played the cello.”
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“We were observant as a young child in New York City, very observant in an Orthodox synagogue. Once I was in elementary school first grade in Nurchell, I was less so My talent was really in music, and my mother was very involved in our music education, my sisters and mine.”
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“Campus, and I said, I think this is where my father was, and he showed me what In fact, my father had spent the first few years of his life.”
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“Are the American stories? My father had polio as an infant and a toddler and couldn't serve and was very deeply affected by that. He eventually walked and actually was very good athlete on the sidelines and teaching us softball and ice skating from off the edge of the ponds back home when we had moved to the suburbs, but was always afflicted by the after effects of polio. And very interestingly, When I started researching the history of the hospital that he had been taken to under quarantine as a young boy, as a two year old in New York City, it was on Roosevelt Island And when I was on Roosevelt Island for the official launch of the Clinton campaign. Met a blogger from Roosevelt Island who was telling me about the history and the polio hospital that was being torn down for the new Cornell I teach.”
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“I'm so struck by the fact that some of the people who are the harshest opponents of Immigration, which is so necessary, I believe, for our labor force and for our Cultural diversity or people who came from the same kind of background I came from and obviously took a very different direction.”
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“Still there, and it's there as a mosque. In a Pakistani neighborhood. Brick Lane, very famous immigrant neighborhood. Started with immigrants from Brussels, lacemakers, and then moved through all of the immigration waves and now has turned into a very fashionable part of London publishing and media companies.”
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“Yeah, he was in housewear's furniture design, had factories, had a showroom in New York on Lower Fifth Avenue. Was amazingly creative. He was the son of very, very religious Jewish family from London, and his grandfather and grandfather were scholars, and my grandfather and great-grandfather were very active in a synagogue, creating a synagogue in the east end of London and the Jewish ghetto, which I went to visit on one of the G20.”
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“My mother's My grandmother on my mother's side and my grandfather came probably after a 1905 or 1906 pogrom and they were The youngest of a blended family, a widow, and a widower marrying, having children together. So there were his, hers, and theirs among the siblings, and they were actually... Half brother, half sister, or step. I don't know the actual term. She was the oldest of one parent widow. He was the oldest of the widower, and they came. Found an apartment and worked in the sweatshops and the garment industry and brought over all the other 12 plus the parents.”
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“And it was eventually changed. And my mother's family, Rubenstein, came from what they thought was Russia. Now it would probably be Belarus or Ukraine”
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“And where they come from. Yeah, my family came from, my father's family came from London. But we don't know before that. So that name was Metric.”
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