Oprah Winfrey has recalled how the late Barbara Walters “swooped in” to take her interview with Monica Lewinsky in 1999. Walters’s famous conversation with Bill Clinton’s former intern ...

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My cultural memory of Barbara Walters was her on “The View” as a much older woman. I remember the Monica Lewinsky interviews — everyone remembers those — but it was her on “The View ...

Joy Behar and Barbara Walters collaborated as co-hosts on "The View" for a significant number of years before Walters' passing in 2022.

‘Barbara swooped in’ on Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Monica Lewinsky In 1998, then-President Bill Clinton admitted to an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and a race ensued to ...

Some of Walters’s most prominent sit-down subjects are also featured, including comedian Bette Midler and Monica Lewinsky, who both attest to her humanity and character.

So you would get 70 million people watching the Monica Lewinsky interview at the same time, and then talking about it the next day, week, month. That’s not an environment that exists anymore.

Barbara Walters airs her interview with Monica Lewinsky, left, on “20/20” on March 3, 1999. (Globe Photos/Zuma Press/TNS) ...

Before the advent of social media and podcasts that allowed celebrities to control their messages, going through the X-ray machine of a Barbara Walters interview delivered exposure on a massive scale.