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'Cokie Roberts' (born December 27, 1943) is an American journalist and author. She is the "Contributing Senior News Analyst" for ''National Public Radio''.

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Background

Born 'Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs', Roberts graduated from the Stone Ridge School outside Washington, D.C. in 1960 and then Wellesley College in 1964. She is the daughter of former Ambassador and Representative Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs, a long-time Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader at his death in 1972. Her sister, the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother Tommy Boggs is a Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.
She has been married to Steven V. Roberts since 1966, and they reside in Bethesda, Maryland. One of their two children, Rebecca Roberts, also serves as an NPR correspondent and sometimes hosts Talk of the Nation and Weekend America.

Career

She cohosted ''This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts'' from 1996 to 2002. Roberts has won numerous awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to "Who is Ross Perot?"
She is the author of the national bestseller ''We Are Our Mother's Daughters'' as well as ''Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation'' (2004).

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★ Official biography - NPR

★ Women of Influence - National Endowment for the Humanities

★ 1994 Commencement Speech - Wellesley College