Audition (104 page)

BW and President George W. Bush: Virginia Sherwood/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Golda Meir: NBCU Photo Bank

Raquel and Moshe Dyan: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin: Shlomo Arad/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Shah of Iran, 1977: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and King Hussein and Queen Noor: Ann Limongello/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Yasir Arafat: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Mu‘ammar Qaddafi: Kimberly Butler/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Fidel Castro: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

Note from Fidel Castro: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

BW and Margaret Thatcher: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Jiang Zemin: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Hugo Chávez: Donna Svennevik/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Henry Kissinger: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf: Steve Fenn/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

Note from President George H. W. Bush: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

Note from Princess Diana: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

BW and Dalai Lama: Rob Wallace/ American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Truman Capote: NBCU Photo Bank

BW, her mother, and Bing Crosby: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and John Wayne: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and George Burns: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Katharine Hepburn: Ken Bank/ American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

Note from Katharine Hepburn: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

BW and Jimmy Stewart: Bob D’Amico/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Sylvester Stallone: Bob D’Amico/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Audrey Hepburn: Craig Sjodin/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Arnold Schwarzenegger: Craig Sjodin/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Clint Eastwood: Steve Fenn/ American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Christopher Reeve: Ken Regan/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Bob and Michelle Smithdas: Virginia Sherwood/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Will Smith: Craig Sjodin/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

Note from Monica Lewinksy: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

Interview questions for Monica Lewinsky: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

BW and Oprah Winfrey and Cha Cha: 2004 Harpo Print, LLC/All Rights Reserved. Photographer: George Holz

BW and Mark David Chapman: Steve Fenn/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Jean Harris: Kimberly Butler/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Robert Blake: Virginia Sherwood/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW as a swimsuit model for CBS: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

BW in Citgo Gas ad: NBCU Photo Bank

Today
show: NBCU Photo Bank

Today
show: NBCU Photo Bank

BW and Harry Reasoner: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Roone Arledge, Don Hewitt, and Joan Ganz Cooney: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Hugh Downs: Steve Fenn/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and John Stossel: Virginia Sherwood/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Diane Sawyer: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar, and Debbie Matenopoulos: Lorenzo Bevilaqua/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie O’Donnell, and Joy Behar Yolanda Perez/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

BW and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepard, and Joy Behar: Donna Svennevik/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

Young BW with her dog: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

BW modeling in Paris: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

BW at racetrack: NBCU Photo Bank

BW laughing: courtesy of the Norman Parkinson Archive

BW in front of painting: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

Cha Cha in glasses: from the personal collection of Barbara Walters

ALSO BY BARBARA WALTERS

How to Talk with Practically Anybody
about Practically Anything

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2008 by Barbara Walters

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.aaknopf.com

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Walters, Barbara, [date]

Audition: a memoir/ by Barbara Walters.—1st ed.

p. cm

1. Walters, Barbara, [date] 2. Journalists—United States—Biography. I. Title.

PN4874.W285A3 2008

070.92—DC22

[B]          2008005843

eISBN: 978-0-307-26954-6

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