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Gayle King

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  1. “Yeah, it's worked out okay. But I mean, she heard that I was stranded and said, why don't you spend the night at my house? And I didn't really know her well, but I ended up spending the night there and we ended up talking all night long and realized we had very like-minded philosophies and liked and disliked the same people So I told that story years ago, and the headline was, the night I slept at Oprah's house and wore her panties. No, when you take that out of context, it sounds weird because I did wear some clothes, I did borrow clothes. But that's how we became friends and we've been friends ever since.”

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  2. “Well, she had started at nineteen in Nashville and then she was brought to Baltimore, and it didn't last long her job there, then that's how they took her off the news and put her on daytime TV. which as we see has worked out for our. It turned out to be”

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  3. “That's how Oprah and I first met at the station in Baltimore. We were both 21 and 22. We were young and black and single. And there was a big storm in Baltimore, which speaks to who she is, because in News from Hierarchy, the production system is down here load of the table, and the anchor is way up here over my head.”

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  4. “It does as opposed to someone who's always screaming and hollering and pissed off all the time. I was never that that's just not the nature of my personality in general.”

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  5. “Because you were a foot soldier. I actually am. I actually am. It takes a lot, David, actually, to get me mad. Because I think that we're all grownups. Nobody intends to score. This some more than others. Nobody intends to screw up. So I very seldom really get angry. But when I do get angry, it really is like, oh, she's really mad. And so it has a...”

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  6. “This was in Baltimore. And don't forget, you know, running the prompter. So back in the day before, it wasn't all in the computer. You had somebody who's physically putting in the scripts on a conveyor belt like I love Lucy and turning the prompter. So that was my job. And a couple of times I ran it backwards accidentally for the anchor. That's never good. Or the things sped up when I didn't want it to also never good. So I did, it was a very entry-level.”

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  7. “No one's ever. I know you can't do this without a crew, David Axe. I know. You didn't walk in here with all this equipment. Zane did this.”

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  8. “Yeah, the super where you see their name, like it would say David Axelrod or Gail King or Zane. Zane, what's your last name? It would say Zane Maxwell, engineer. So we would have.”

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  9. “So I went to Baltimore. It's amazing what creative writing can do on your resume without lying. So I took that as, you know, I was an entry-level position. I would write the copy. I would organize the slides. You know, back in the day, if you were talking about City Hall, I was the one that pulled a slide that said City Hall. I was the one that typed in the Chiron for the names. You know, the president of the United States is the only one that doesn't get a Chiron.”

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  10. “I still like the feel of it. I still like the smell of it. I still like turning a page. But David, pretty soon we won't be here anymore. Well”

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  11. “Well, as long as there's people who are, you know, one day we're all going to die off, I realize that, but people my age, I still love picking up a paper.”

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  12. “I know, I know, but I'm talking the really good ones, the really good ones who really love this job. We really are true seekers.”

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  13. “Front row seat and imagine when there's breaking news. Imagine when there's breaking news. And so I became hooked. And you look at the newspapers today with the New York Post, I mean, not New York Post, the Washington Post. I'm sitting here because the New York Post is in front of me talking about the amaze the other day. I was very into the Emmys. You look at the Washington Post and The New York Times, and they are killing it. And I just think it's so important to have a working press. And it is our job to challenge. We are truth seekers is really what we are. The heart of what we do.”

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  14. “Very impressive with that. Or four by six or five by seven. So he said, we have an entry level position. Would you be interested? And I did something that you never do when someone's handing you a gift. Do I have to work weekends? He goes, well, Gail, no. You have to work nights. Can you swing that? And so I really took it and he was being very sarcastic because When someone's offering you a gift, you don't challenge the, you know what you say, David. Thank you.”

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  15. “So I was filling out the forms, and one of them happened to be a high-level executive who said, Have you ever thought about TV, you have such a pleasant way and you have a beautiful voice? I go, I do. I never thought anything about my voice. Well, we have nobody.”

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  16. “Because I was working at a camera station which was next door to the CBS station, which was WTOP at the time, and all the mucketing mucks used to come in to get their film. Back then when you'd say, do you want matte or glossy, double prints or not? I was that girl behind the counter-huh.”

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  17. “Zane's our engineer. He's shaking his head. Yes, I'd be good at that. So presenting your case. But I was working part time at a, I got a part-time job as a production assistant, entry-level position in a TV station. And I walked in there and I was hooked by what did you say?”

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  18. “So I love, I've always liked people always. I've always been a chatty Kathy kid, have always enjoyed interacting with people. So I thought it'd be great in psychology, which I major in, or then I thought I'd go to law school because I also thought arguing a case in front of a jury, wouldn't I be good at that”

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  19. “They did. Oh, good. They did. So you gave good advice. Yeah, she was a different culture than he was and he was worried about that. He was Jewish. She was not.”

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  20. “Guy was sitting there talking to me about his girlfriend, and that she was going to be meeting his family for the first time and he was a little nervous about that, blah, blah, blah. So I followed up to check with him to see how that go. Did they like her? So I'm very good.”

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  21. “Until you were older Marilyn you did You know what, David? I have always liked listening to people's problems. So I thought I'd be a great child psychologist or a psychologist. Even today, I love listening to people's problems and giving unsolicited advice. I did it the other day on an airplane.”

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  22. “I've been told that, Point. You're very annoying, David Axelrod, because what you want is to have a real true conversation with someone. And I'm never trying to do a gotcha or you said this and how come you're now saying this because I also believe everyone has a right to change their mind. But sometimes People do have to point out things. But I always strive to get like a real genuine breakthrough moment with a politician. And most of them are so skilled they have an agenda. You can ask a question with a politician. They will give you a total different answer because they're so ready to stick to the talking point.”

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  23. “Not on the X Files. Yeah, but there are sometimes that something will happen, whether it's politics, whether it's human nature, whether it's just something that I find egregious, whether it's a police shooting that I see, where something just happens that you just can't ignore the fact that that just happened. And I try to be very judicious because I know that people don't tune in to hear my opinion. I really do think that we do a good job on that in terms of delivering the news, that you can deliver a news broadcast and not take it to silly school, but you can have fun too. But you're right. You're raising something that I think is very important because sometimes it is very difficult not to say, can you believe what we just saw or why did they say or what are they doing? That's very difficult.”

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  24. “You went to trouble that gets me into trouble What I've been told is people don't want to hear your opinion. You are here to deliver the new song. I may be true on the news.”

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  25. “You see what Someone else deals with it. Only the tough ones come here Well, you know, there again, I go back to when he was first elected and they went to the White House, and Barack Obama said I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. And I think that we all should support him because we want him to be president of the United States. And we want him to succeed. That's the thing. We all want the president of the United States to succeed. And I think depending on where you stand, you could say either it's working out very well or it's not. I do feel that the country's very divided and that concerns me. That concerns me. Do we place a blame at him? I don't know if that's necessarily the case, but I do think that we are very divided, and I'm very afraid about that.”

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  26. “It was not foreign to him. You know, I remember when I first heard about him, I couldn't remember if his name was Barack Obama or Obama Barack. I remember calling somebody saying, what was the name of that guy you were telling me about? That guy in Chicago? Is it Barack Obama or Obama, Barack? Now it's funny to even think that because we have to say both names were unusual. But that's what I think about the president of the United States. It should be somebody, black or white, who can relate to everybody. That's why, you know, when you say the president of the United States of America, it really should mean that. And you should feel that your president, whether you voted for him or not, Is connected to you. I have great, great, great respect for the office of the presidency.”

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  27. “That's right. Yes, yes. Because I'd say, what does acting white mean? Or you speak proper English? What does that mean? Shouldn't we all be speaking proper English? But what's so interesting about the election of Donald Trump? I remember that night so clearly because we had a meeting at 5.30 where it said, you know, the numbers are coming in. This is going to be an early night in TV news. We'll be able to call the election by 11 o'clock, which because the polls, as you know, close on the West Coast at 8. So, and you can't call an election before everything's closed. So, we'll be able to call this by 11 o'clock. Then we'll probably have an early night and we'll go home by midnight. Well, as you know, that didn't happen and we were here till three or four. So I think everybody was sort of stuck. Although...”

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  28. “Oh, for sure it did Well, I mean, I think a lot of people felt that, but I think I'll hit that in a second. But I think one of the reasons why Barack Obama resonated with me in his speech in 2004. Yes. Or he said the part about being educated and reading a book?”

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  29. “And he said, You know, you should never ever try to change who you are to get people to like you. So I was always teased by the black community. And I remember thinking, hmm, what can I do to fit in? I'd invite them over to come over and go swimming as a way to get in their good graces. So, you know, Those kind of things really, I don't want to say scar you, but I do think about that. I do think about that. And now I feel It's silly to try to change your life or change your personality, dim your light to fit into anybody ever”

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  30. “But I didn't know they were Tony then. I didn't. I can remember coming home saying to my mom because I got teased in seventh grade. We lived in Menlo Park, you know, in Atherton. I had a grew up in a house that had a pool. So I have been a very privileged kid. And I remember the black kids didn't like me. They called me Oreo cookie, Aunt Sarah. Nobody wanted to hang out with me. And I can remember getting a D because I couldn't bring myself to get an F. I can remember deliberately flunking a test to get bad grade. And my dad said, why did you do that? Because I know you know this material. And I said, because the kids don't like me. And I thought, you know, if I got a bad grade, they would like me better. And he said, well, do they? I go, well, no. You know, they're still calling me Oreo and Oreo Cookie, black on the outside, white on the inside, not Sarah.”

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  31. “Well, I think it makes you a lot more tolerant about things. You know, I'm very open to all different kinds of cultures and ideas. And I'm used to seeing and being around people that don't look like me. I'm used to fitting into, I think, all different kinds of situations. And so I marvel when I meet people who say, I didn't see, I never even met a black person until I was in college or a black person that says, I didn't spend much time around white people. So I just think it gives me a different perspective about life in general.”

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  32. “You do miss a little bit of that for him to have seen and what you've accomplished and what you've done. Everybody wants that.”

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  33. “Yes. Coming back to Turkey, I did a lot of reading because we didn't have television. So I was very smitten with TV. And we had to sit as a family, have dinner tonight, dinner together, and watch the news. And there again, I would say it's boring. He goes, you should always know what's going on in the world. So one of my big regrets, my dad died when I was in college at a very early age 46, that he didn't get a chance to see this. But on some level, I think he's seeing it.”

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  34. “I don't because, you know, my life was going to school playing with friends, and so I didn't have any historical perspective. I didn't really even become interested in world events till I was maybe in college. I remember as a kid, we had to watch the news, and I remember saying to my dad, it's so boring”

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  35. “Oh, yeah. You know, all of my friends were Turkish. I'll meet someone and I'll say they're Turkish and I'll go Merhabana Silzanus and they go, oh, you speak. That means hello, how are you in Turkish? And I say, I lived in Otis Dokus Iten Sok, Mebusavlario. And I said, that's all I know. My address and hello, how are you? But I can remember, you know, playing with Turkish friends. I had some American friends too. I could speak it when I was a little kid. I can't speak it now. And, you know, just the cultures are very different. The Muslim religion was very different to me. I can remember going to a Turkish friend's house for breakfast and they have bread and tea and don't have eggs and bacon and pancakes. And I remember having 15 pieces of bread. And I remember the mother talking to the daughter. Well, she eats quite a lot. And I'm thinking, this is all we're having just as toast and tea.”

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  36. “Well, you know, when you're a kid, you just go where your parents go, and so I don't have this, oh, we lived in blasse, like you're smoking a cigarette. Oh, I lived in Ankara Turkey. I have very clear memories of going to Paris, going to Athens. I remember touring the Acropolis. It was very hot saying to my parents, why can't we go back to the hotel and go swimming as opposed to looking at these rocks? And my dad said, one day you're going to appreciate this. This is very important what we're doing. Now I pull out my pictures of me in sixth grade going, this is me in the Acropolis. I'm very well traveled child.”

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  37. “Nope, never a shoe. His pen. Never a shoe. I mean, I think about it now and I've sort of asked people, do you think that he could have been? And people say, oh yeah, he definitely was. But I have never known that and still don't know that. I was always told he was an electrical engineer and we were sent to Turkey and we were there from first grade to sixth grade.”

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  38. “And he had a room that we could not go in, and he would be there all hours of the night. We were not allowed to touch anything. We were never allowed to touch it. This is”

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  39. “Use electrical engineer who worked for the government and we were sent to Turkey. People say, Miguel, your dad was not an electrical engineer. I go, what was he? Oh, he was clearly in the CIA. People tell me this. And I said, no, I was never told that. Well, he wouldn't be told that. You wouldn't be told that. But it's interesting, David. When he died, I was. Going through some of his things, and I found a card that said E Scott King, his name was Scott King. East Scott King passed to go to the White House to the West Gate or something. And by then, I don't even know if my mother knew it. People said, you didn't have a black man who was in Ankara turkey in the 60s who he had a room that we couldn't go in. He was a ham was his, listen to this. Ham was his hobby, I was told.”

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  40. “I mean, I actually envy people who can say I was born and raised in and fill in the blank because I don't have that. We moved around when I was a kid. So I don't have hometown, homegrown roots. And I envy people that have that because it anchors you. But, you know, I was raised my formative years were in Ankara turkey from first grade to sixth grade. And at the time, your dad was an electrical engineer.”

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  41. “I know, isn't that something? Yeah, it's very tough in Chubby Chase. Well, I think first we have to go the mean streets of Ankara Turkey for me because we're talking about.”

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  42. “I see you I remember you, David Axelrod. Listen, I was flattered you asked me to do it, so I'm glad that we could finally sit down face to face.”

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