Diane Sawyer

Lila Diane Sawyer is an American television journalist. Previously, Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC Newss nightly flagship program ABC World News, a coanchor of ABC Newss morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. Early in her career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixons White House staff and closely associated with the president himself.

Sawyer was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, to Jean W. , an elementary school teacher, and Erbon Powers Tom Sawyer, a judge. Her ancestry includes English, Irish, ScotsIrish, and German. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Louisville, where her father rose to local prominence as a Republican politician and community leader. He was Kentuckys Jefferson County JudgeExecutive when he was killed in a car accident on Louisvilles Interstate 64 in 1969. E. P. Tom Sawyer State Park, in the Freys Hill area of Louisville, is named in his honor.

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