ABC’s Martha Raddatz has covered 9/11, wars, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and heads of state, and has the ear of the military up and down the chain of command. Last fall the new leader of the free world took her on. Good luck with that, Mr. President.
It’s 10 days after the presidential election, and Martha Raddatz, back in her book-lined Washington, DC, office after a photo shoot, quickly de-pancakes her makeup and slips into slim pants, a puffy down jacket, and flats, all black. Then she curls up in a chair, a Pakistani rug woven with images of Kalashnikov rifles, tanks, and grenades at her feet, to talk about her work as a TV reporter in some of the most dangerous, machismoloaded situations in the world.
“I was in Ramadi, and there was an older marine who said, ‘Are you one of the good ones or one of the bad ones?’ ” she recalls. “And I just looked him in the eye and said, ‘I don’t know, Marine, are you one of the good ones or one of the bad ones?’ ”
“And he said, ‘Okay, I gotcha.’ ”
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