Barbara Walters was a broadcasting pioneer, interviewing dozens of famous faces from former President Richard Nixon to pop star Taylor Swift .

"I do my homework, so I have a certain sense of authority," Walters - who died at age 93 in December 2022 - exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2014. "Sometimes I know more about the person than they do themselves. I'm very rarely nervous. When I finish an interview, I do ‘shoulda, coulda, woulda,' and it drives me crazy, but when I'm actually doing the interview, I'm fine in authority and that's a good feeling."

Walters got her start on NBC's Today in 1961, where she was quickly tasked with handling lighthearted stories and weather reports. Within one year, she became the broadcast's reporter-at-large and began conducting serious inte

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