Cokie Roberts, long the face of ABC’s national news, has reposed. She won countless awards, including three Emmys from the National Academy of Television throughout her decades-long career. The Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame inducted Mrs. Roberts and the American Women in Radio and Television (now called Advancing Women in Media) recognized her as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In 2008, the Library of Congress bestowed upon her the title of “Living Legend”.
Read more: C459, legendary T.V. Liberal commentator, Cokie RobertsBorn Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs on December 27 1943 in New Orleans. New York Times food critic and author Craig Claiborne was a cousin. Her husband, fellow journalist Steven Roberts, and children, Lee and Rebecca survive her.
Her father was (Thomas) Hale Boggs, the former Democratic House majority leader and representative from New Orleans and a member of the Warren commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Hale Boggs died in a plane crash in Alaska in 1972.. After his passing, Lindy Claiborne Boggs was elected to take over her late husband’s congressional seat. Years later, President Bill Clinton appointed Mrs. Boggs to be the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See in 1997.
I cannot take full credit for this one. David Monroe, author of Personal Moon-to-Sun Returns 2, suggested the Libra rising. I pinned it down from there. Mr. Monroe liked the final product, so I am posting it. It does seem to work.
The Mars in Gemini in the 8th suggests breast cancer, see Kayleigh McEnany’s BRCA1 chart for more on this.. Her ascendant at 19 Libra (HS) — Portrait of a septuagenarian — highlighting her role as a paragon in her field for her practical contributions — is conjunct her Part of Fortune and the high amount of air in her chart shows up often in “talking” heads.
Roberts’ siblings also took a liking to politics. Her older brother, Thomas Boggs Jr., was a lobbyist and her sister Barbara Boggs Sigmund was the former mayor of Princeton, New Jersey. Her younger brother, William, died as an infant, and her other two siblings have predeceased her.
Her death was because of complications from breast cancer. In 2002, doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer and successfully treated it, but it reoccurred.. Alas she didn’t have as much success in her second fight.
