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Diane Sawyer
Journalist
Female
Born
Dec 22, 1945
Age
67
Hometown
Kentucky
Other Names
Lila Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyer is the current anchor of ABC News' flagship program, ABC World News. Previously, Sawyer had been co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program, Good Morning America (GMA).
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Diane Sawyer
Age 67
parents
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Erbon Powers "Tom" SawyerFather -
Jean W. DunaganMother
siblings
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Linda SawyerSister
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CHILDHOOD
1945
Birth
Born on December 22, 1945.
TEENAGE
1962
16 Years Old
During the period from 1962 to 1965, Sawyer was "America's Junior Miss" touring the country to promote the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.
TWENTIES
1967
21 Years Old
In 1967, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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1969
23 Years Old
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Soon after her birth, her family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where her father rose to local prominence as a Republican politician and community leader; he was Kentucky's Jefferson County Judge/Executive when he was killed in a car accident on Louisville's Interstate 64 in 1969.
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1970
24 Years Old
Sawyer began her professional career in Republican Party politics. In 1970, White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler hired her to serve in the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1974
28 Years Old
Sawyer continued through Nixon's resignation from the presidency in 1974 and worked on the Nixon-Ford transition team in 1974–1975, after which she decamped with Nixon to California and helped him write his memoirs, published in 1978.
THIRTIES
1977
31 Years Old
She also helped prepare Nixon for his famous set of television interviews with journalist David Frost in 1977.
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1978
32 Years Old
In 1978, Sawyer joined CBS News as a political correspondent and became a co-anchor, with Bill Kurtis, of the CBS Morning News in 1981.
1984
38 Years Old
In 1984, she became a correspondent for 60 Minutes, a CBS News investigative television newsmagazine; she remained for five years.
FORTIES
1988
42 Years Old
On April 29, 1988, she and Mike Nichols, a film director, were married. They have no children. Nichols has 3 from previous marriages: Daisy, born in 1964; Max, born in 1974; and Jenny, born in 1977.
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1989
43 Years Old
In 1989, she moved to ABC News to co-anchor newsmagazine Primetime Live, with Sam Donaldson.
1992
46 Years Old
Sawyer has interviewed many political figures including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. She conducted the first interview with U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton after his first election to the presidency in 1992.
FIFTIES
1998
52 Years Old
From 1998 to 2000, she would become a co-anchor for ABC's 20/20, also a newsmagazine, co-anchoring on Wednesdays with Donaldson and on Sundays with Barbara Walters.
1999
53 Years Old
In 1999, Sawyer returned to morning news (GMA) as the co-anchor of GMA with Charles Gibson.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2007
61 Years Old
On February 12, 2007, she interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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On September 2, 2009, she was announced as the successor to Gibson, who retired as ABC World News anchor on Friday, December 18, 2009.
2011
65 Years Old
On November 14, 2011, Diane secured another exclusive by being the first person to interview Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, ten months after she survived an assassination attempt.
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