Don't Play It Again, Sam

March, 1989

Sam Donaldson refers only once to the impact of feminism on his life in his autobiography, Hold On, Mr. President! It's just after he brags about his tenacious questioning of any and all guests who appear on ABC-TV's Sunday-morning This Week with David Brinkley. "Because of me," he writes, "no one gets a free ride."Sam soon eats those words:All right, one time I gave a free ride: I failed to ask a single challenging, provocative question of leaders of feminist organizations o...

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