Cutting Room Takes

with the late Cokie Roberts

It wasn’t long after Cokie Roberts came on PORTRAITS that we learned the sad news of her passing, on Sept. 17. We quickly realized we had great material from our interview with her on First Ladies that never made it into the final edition. So in this episode we reprise some of those special moments— where her smarts, her compassion, and her moxie are on full display.

smiling woman seated in an upholstered chair

Image credit: The Washington Post/Getty Images / © 2019 The Washington Post

Read more about the portraits:
  • Martha Dandridge Custis Washington by Rembrandt Peale / c. 1853, Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of an anonymous donor / NPG.75.3
  • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt by Bernard T. Frydrysiak / 1946, Oil on canvas / Collection of Ford and Marni Roosevelt / PC992501
  • Mary Todd Lincoln, Attribution: Mathew Brady Studio / Modern albumen print from wet plate collodion negative, 1862 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / NPG.81.M139.D1