PHIL DONAHUE R.I.P

Phil #Donahue was an excedingly gracious interviewer--and a very kind man. =
His wife, #Marlo Thomas, was just as kind. She and I were once in a CR grou=
p together long, long ago. Phil, (or Donahue as I knew him and as he was kn=
own), first flew me out to Dayton, Ohio, in the mid-1970s to talk about my =
book, "Women, Money, and Power" and he had me back again, I believe when he=
was already in New York City, to discuss my book "Mothers on Trial. The Ba=
ttle for Custody and Divorce." I had some of "my" mothers in the audience a=
nd he called upon each and every one. Donahue helped present my radical fem=
inist ideas to the nation. He was one of the few the television hosts who a=
ctually seemed to have read the books he featured--no small feat. His progr=
ams lasted for an hour, the audience participation was extensive. I will ne=
ver forget his enormous compassion, erudition, and simple, human warmth.=20

"Donahue"--please, please rest in peace. And Marlo: Please be comforted for=
your enormous loss.