Barbara Walters was the first female evening news anchor in the U.S. ABC News reports she died Friday at 93.
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She had dementia in her later years, so we haven't seen or heard from her in a few years. No sickness could have silenced Barbara Walters.
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Walters, who launched "The View" in 1997, died at her New York home, ABC's CEO said. Her death was unspecified.
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Walters interviewed Fidel Castro, Margaret Thatcher, Moammar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and every U.S. president since Nixons.
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In 2004, Walters said, "I never expected this." "I'm popular. I've met more world leaders than any president in eight years."
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Walters launched "The View" on ABC in 1997. She discontinued co-hosting in 2014 but remained an executive producer.