Barbara Walters
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![Gene Shalit, Barbara Walters, and Frank McGee in The Today Show, 1973.](/Images/godic/202502/20/Today_show_panel_19732349.JPG")
![Walters interviewing President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford in 1976.](/Images/godic/202502/20/Barbara_Walters-The_Fords2349.jpg")
![The View's panel (left–right Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck) interview United States President Barack Obama on July 29, 2010.](/Images/godic/202502/20/Barack_Obama_guests_on_The_View2349.jpg")
Barbara Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today and The View, the television news magazine 20/20 and co-anchored the ABC Evening News. Despite retirement as a full-time host and contributor, she has continued to occasionally report for ABC News.