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Cokie Roberts
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Cokie Roberts
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Cokie Roberts

American, 1943 - 2019
Cokie Roberts was one of the 'Founding Mothers' of NPR who helped make the network one of the premier sources of news and information in the United States. She served as a congressional correspondent at NPR for more than 10 years and later appeared as a commentator on Morning Edition. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming.