Katie Couric The Best Advice I Ever Got, Part 20

上次应该是part 19, 打错了.这次就直接纠正成part 20吧.

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Part 3 Never Give In
On Pluck and Perseverance

 

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

I could probably write an entire book about the people who thought I'd never make it in television. I guess I'll begin at the beginning. In the early eighties, when I was working at CNN as an assistant assignment editor, the Washington bureau chief, Stuart Loory, decided to give me my first big break. He approached me one day and said, “Katie, would you like to go to the White House every morning and report on the president's schedule for the day?” I could hardly believe it. I have never done a TV report in my life, and now I was going to be at the White House! I went home, thrilled and terrified, spent much of the evening in front of the mirror, talking earnestly into my hairbrush, and has a sleepless night fantasizing about my acclaimed television debut. The next morning, the crew helped me put in my earpiece and watched as showtime approached. During the commercial break, I heard the two anchors Dave Walker and Lois Hart, a married couple, chatting with each other. “Who is that girl?” Lois asked. “I don't know,” Dave answered. “But she looks like she's about sixteen years old!” Confidence began to escape my body like air from a tire. When they “threw” to me, I recited the president's schedule in a singsongy voice, more or less reading from the AP wire: “At ten o'clock, the president has a meeting with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski” -working a tad too hard to pronounce it properly. When it was over, more relieved than anything else, I went back to the bureau, where a very nice assignment editor named Bill Hensel told me that he has gotten a call from the president of CNN, Reese Schonfeld. The message was blunt: He never wanted to see me on the air again.