The Q&A Cafe Archives: Sept 2008, George Stephanopoulos

We taped this Q&A Cafe with George Stephanopoulos soon after the economic collapse of September 2008. It meant a lot to have him as a guest, as we were/are friends - dating back to the Clinton campaign -  and also because I had worked for "This Week" when it was known simply as "the Brinkley show," as the guest producer/aka booker.  His memoir of working with Bill and Hillary Clinton, All Too Human, remains one of my favorite political books. 

Interestingly, mid-interview, George received a phone call he had to take. It was the White House, I think. We stopped the taping, he slipped into the bar to take the call, and then he returned and we resumed. The audience loved it. 

Trivia: later, keeping it in the family, Ali Wentworth was a guest. She is a marvelous actor and comedian and also George's wife. Too bad they did not appear together -- which is something I did do with some other "power" couples:  Chris Matthews and Kathleen Matthews, Connie Chung and Maury Povich, and Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. 

btw, every network Sunday show host of that era appeared at The Q&A Cafe: Tim Russert, and his successor David Gregory, and his successor Chuck Todd (now my boss), and Bob Schieffer.