E-mail a friendApril 25, 2006
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein ponders Senate hearings on the Bush administration. Tennis legend Billie Jean King reflects on her initial recognition of race and gender disparity in sports.
Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein helped unearth President Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal. He went on to become ABC News' Washington Bureau chief and senior correspondent and a contributing editor at Time and Vanity Fair magazines. He's also a best-selling author, whose books include Loyalties: A Son's Memoir and, his latest, A Woman in Charge—a controversial look at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Earlier in his career, Bernstein covered police and court beats for The Washington Post.
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King
Life magazine named Billie Jean King one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century. With a long list of firsts, she forged new inroads for women, in and out of sports, during her legendary career. King bought her first tennis racquet at age 11 and learned to play the sport on the public courts of her native Long Beach, CA. She serves on numerous boards and is the founder of the Women's Sports Foundation. King is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Portrait of a Pioneer.