Nina Totenberg, NPR; 'The Personification Of Human Decency': Nina Totenberg Remembers Cokie Roberts
"To know Cokie was to see the personification of human decency. There is a
reason she was asked to speak at so many funerals. People felt such a
deep connection to her because she touched their lives. Casual friends
would find Cokie visiting them in the hospital. People in terrible
financial straits would find her bailing them out, hiring them for work
that perhaps she did not need, but work that left them with their
dignity...
On a larger scale, she was always the voice of people with less power,
and the voice of what is right. I remember one day many years ago, when
we were in negotiations with NPR management over a labor contract.
Management didn't want to extend health care coverage to one group, and
we were at an impasse.
Then Cokie, who was working on a piece of embroidery, looked up at the
management team and said, "You know, the position you are taking isn't
immoral, it is simply amoral." The room got very quiet, and soon the
impasse was over."
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Saturday, September 21, 2019
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