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In August 2004 the governor of New Jersey resigned. Big deal, you say. politicians resign from office all the time. But Jim McGreevey’s resignation was unique, as he outed himself as the nation’s first openly gay governor:.
McGreevey resigned, however, not because of his sexuality, but because he had an affair with a male state employee.
In this 2006 interview McGreevey discusses his book The Confession.


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The NBA finals are about to get underway. But the celebratory mood was muted last week with news of the passing of a towering basketball figure (literally and figuratively).
Hall of Famer Bill Walton was a 14-year NBA veteran. The #1 draft pick in 1974, he spent his early years with the Portland Trail Blazers, then the Clippers, then the Celtics. Nagging foot injuries eventually forced his retirement.
In this 1994 intervioew Walton discusses his book Nothing But Net.

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Country music legend Hank Williams was married twice. Between those two marriages Williams had a relationship with a woman named Bobbie Jett. And they had a daughter, who was born five days after Williams’ death from heart failure.
But it took some 30 years for that baby girl to learn the real story of her parentage.And it took years of court fights for the full story to emerge, and for her to obtain her share of the Hank Williams legacy.
In this 1990 interview Jett Williams discusses her autobiography Ain't Nothin' As Sweet As My Baby

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From 1996 to 2002, economist Laurence Meyer was a Federal; Reserve governor. He was among those experts who meet a few times a year to keep the economy on track.
In this 2004 interview Meyer pulls back the curtain to show us not just what the Fed does, but how they do it.

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1950s blonde bombshell Mamie Van Doren's career put her in the same stratosphere as Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. And Mamie was not shy about her sexiness. She had many male acquaintances.
In this 1988 interview Van Doren talks about her kiss-and-tell memoir, and about the pressures and demands of being labeled a sex symbol.

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It’s been almost 50 years since the last American soldier came home from Vietnam.
In this 1993 interview, Army Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and war correspondent Joe Galloway recall the first major battle of thwe war, in the Ia Drang Valley in1965.'

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