For the national staff. I started in january 1998 one week before the monica story broke. Peter was a White House Reporter covering president clinton. That is how we met. Brian we have some video from 1998. Actually, right after you started. February 6. This is your husband, peter baker, when he worked at the post. The president gets home from his deposition on january 17, having just spent six hours with lawyers from paula jones and going through all this reported sexual encounters with lawyers repeating questions. The one that stuck in his mind was monica lewinsky. He gets home at night and because of betty currie and asks her to come into the office the next day. So they can talk about it. That sunday in the privacy of the white house and they went through his testimony and he tried to see if his memory matched her memory. Prosecutors are very interested in that because her version was somewhat different in that he says i was never out of earshot. He and lewinsky were never essentia
Susan i remove her being 10 years old and handing out copies of newspapers that my parents founded, the legal times, at the Aba Convention in washington. Brian how long did they own legal times . Susan we started in 1977 and their Company Owned it until 1986. Brian who taught you about journalism . Lyons was the supervisor of the newspaper at andover. He was also george w. Bushs favorite teacher in high school. Many years later was still and not only was he a great leader in journalism but also in the role of a free press. Taught constitutional law as well. My junior year in high school. It was incredible experience. Brian your husband is with us today. Peter baker. When the circumstances when you met him . Used toou have people say i got my job through the Washington Post . I met my husband there. Monica lewinsky was the thing that brought us together. I was an editor at the i would oversee investigative reporting for the national staff. I started in january 1998 one week before the m
Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists in its firstever report on press freedoms in your in the United States. Here in the United States. We will speak with reports author, former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, i hate how when ha based group tasked with enforcing the chemical Weapons Convention. The group re
Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists in its firstever report on press freedoms in your in the United States. Here in the United States. We will speak with reports author, former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, i hate how when ha based group tasked with enforcing the chemical Weapons Convention. The group re
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