The Resume

(January 19, 1927-October 18, 1997)
Born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Birth name is Nancy Conners Hanschman
CBS News Correspondent (1960-63)
NBC News Correspondent (1963-70)
Producer of 'Inside Washington' (1971-74)
White House correspondent during four Presidencies (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford)
Founded the Television Corporation of America (1980)
Mother to John Dickerson
Wrote the memoir 'Among Those Present' (1976)

Why she might be annoying:

She was a socialite who hosted lavish dinner parties bankrolled by her husbands.
She married an industrialist with three kids from a previous marriage and then a Goldman Sachs executive.
She admitted in her memoir to dating several prominent politicians, including then-Senator John F. Kennedy.
She claimed to have been propositioned by Lyndon Baines Johnson, and to have turned him down at least once.
She attributed her success to knowing the right people, saying: 'My social life always seems to revolve around business.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She was CBS News’ first female correspondent.
She was associate producer for Face the Nation - including the very first broadcast of the show in 1954.
Her son, who later became the host of the program, said of her: 'I owe her more gratitude than I ever expressed and more sympathy than I ever demonstrated.'
She was the first female correspondent permitted on the floor of a political convention.
She was a dead ringer for Jackie Kennedy.
She obtained a rare on-camera interview with Sam Rayburn.
She was the first to break the news that President Johnson had tapped Hubert Humphrey to be his running mate.
She received a Peabody Award for her documentary '784 Days That Changed America - From Watergate to Resignation.'
She turned down a job offer from the Washington Times to edit their women's column because, as she said: 'it seemed outlandish to try to change the world writing shopping and food columns.'

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BoyWiththeGreenHair’s Profiles [Series 15]
• Documentarians
• I am in Public Broadcasting
• I Attended John F. Kennedy's Funeral [November 25, 1963]
• I Attended Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Funeral [April 9, 1968]
• I Attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom [August 28, 1963]
• I Died in 1997 (Ranked: 70)
• I Like to Party
• I Probably Banged John F. Kennedy
• I'm Buried at Arlington National Cemetery [Virginia]
• Look at Me, I'm with John F. Kennedy
• Man's World
• News
• Profiles 46751-47000 (Ranked: 46852)
• Teachers
• Watergate Players
• What's My Line - Mystery Guests [1968-1975]
• Women who Might Have Slept with the President

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying