WEJ at 21: Cokie Roberts - ”Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation”

FILE - Cokie Roberts and Luci Baines Johnson - On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, the LBJ Presidential Library held An Evening With Cokie Roberts. (Jay Godwin / LBJ Library)

For this episode celebrating Walter Edgar's Journal at 21, we’ve dusted off a 2004, on-the-road program, recorded at Litchfield Books on Pawleys Island. Walter's guest is the late Cokie Roberts, longtime NPR correspondent and commentator. Roberts talks politics, personal history, and about her book, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation.

Cokie Roberts, herself known as a “Founding Mother” of National Public Radio, served as a congressional correspondent at NPR for more than 10 years and later appeared as a commentator on Morning Edition. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News, and, from 1996-2002, she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys.

- Originally broadcast 07/30/04 -