Barbara Walters interview with Harry Reasoner

Harry Reasoner joins Barbara Walters to reflect on their brief, tumultuous tenure as the first male-female network news anchor team at ABC in 1976. Promoting his memoir, *Before the Colors Fade*, Reasoner addresses the public perception of their "unloving" professional relationship, attributing their lack of chemistry to network staging and prevailing societal sexism rather than personal animosity. He acknowledges that Walters was often unfairly labeled "bitchy" for the same aggressive reporting style that earned male colleagues like Mike Wallace praise. The conversation explores Reasoner’s reputation for professional "laziness," his preference for work-life boundaries, and the personal upheaval of his late-life divorce after thirty years of marriage. Ultimately, Reasoner expresses a lingering lack of inner peace despite his storied career, concluding that their professional failure caused mutual professional damage that required years of individual effort to overcome.