Phil Donahue — Transformation, On-Screen and Off

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Talk show pioneer Phil Donahue opens up on his remarkable perspective on the last half century of America and who we are now. He shares his personal transformations on race, gender roles, and parenting in the dramatic era he captured on television.

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0:20.0	All right, Christopher, me and you, okay.
0:24.0	Where'd you go to school?
0:26.0	Well, I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma
0:29.0	and then I went to Brown, which was a very strange move.
0:33.0	My wife wrote a book titled The Right Words at the Right Time.
0:37.0	What did somebody say to you at one point in your life,
0:41.0	change your life?
0:43.0	You could write your own,
0:45.0	or you could have someone write for you
0:47.0	and you had, of course, final cut,
0:49.0	or you could be interviewed.
0:51.0	And I did, too, I did Muhammad Ali,
0:54.0	and I did Ted Turner.
0:57.0	And Turner's, as I recall,
0:59.0	was a professor at Brown.
1:01.0	He had a professor who taught the students
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