Anne O'Hare McCormick Quotes

Anne O'Hare McCormick (16 May 1880 – 29 May 1954) was an English-American journalist who worked as a foreign news correspondent for The New York Times. In an era where the field was almost exclusively "a man's world", she became the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in a major journalism category, winning in 1937 for correspondence. In 1936, she became the first woman to be appointed to the editorial board of the Times, where she began a regular column on foreign policy in 1937.
Prior to World War II, McCormick interviewed almost all important world leaders, including Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the war, she served on the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy, preparing foreign policy recommendations for President Roosevelt. With her foreign policy column, her position on the Times editorial board and her vast experience with interviewing world leaders, she became an influential political analyst in journalism along with Walter Lippmann and Dorothy Thompson, she became an influential political analyst in journalism.