Connie Chung says booze and bawdy jokes helped her break into journalism's boys club
Briefly

"It suddenly dawned on me they were saucing up the campaign manager and everyone who worked for the candidate, and letting them spill the beans," Chung says.
"Therein lies a great way to learn how to be a reporter. I don't recommend it by any means. But at the time, I just had to find a way."
"I don't blame him totally, because he had owned Walter Cronkite's chair for many years and had to move over a few inches to make room for me."
"I do believe that had I been another man, had I been an animal, had I been a plant he would not have wanted anyone to share that seat with him."
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