TV newswoman. Was the first female co-anchor of TV's "60 Minutes" (1968).
Born at 8:00am-CST
Worked as a former Nixon White House press aide; followed Nixon into exile after his resignation to help him write his memoirs.
Was rumored to be Watergate's infamous "Deep Throat" (she's repeatedly denied it).
On the list of activities she wrote down for her first pageant win she mentioned that she enjoyed "tennis, basketball, being a Young Republican and, when time permits, knitting".
Diane Sawyer Detailed Biography
Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945 as Lila Diana Sawyer) is a television journalist for the U.S. network ABC News and co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America along with Charles Gibson and Robin Roberts.
Sawyer was born and raised in Glasgow, Kentucky, and received her English degree at Wellesley College in 1967. She served as a reporter for WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky until 1970, then was hired by White House press secretary Ron Ziegler to serve in the administration of President Richard Nixon through his resignation in 1974, working on the transition team between Nixon and Gerald Ford in 1975.
In 1978, she became a political correspondent for CBS, becoming a co-anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1981. In 1984, she became a correspondent for 60 Minutes, where she stayed for five years. In 1989, she moved to ABC to co-anchor Primetime Live with Sam Donaldson.
In the comic strip Bloom County, a central character, Opus the penguin, had a long-time crush on Diane Sawyer.
In the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous, Kirsten Dunst's character repeatedly says that she aspires to win a beauty pageant and become a news anchor, "just like Diane Sawyer."
In the movie Something's Gotta Give Jack Nicholas' character was at one time in his past engaged to Diane Sawyer
In the movie Little Black Book Brittany Murphy's character has the career goal of working for Diane Sawyer, and end up achieving the goal at the end of the movie.
Diane was often mentioned as a rival of fictional news-magazine anchor Murphy Brown on the popular sitcom of the same name.
