Connie Chung ... she told USA Today. Chung said she had to develop “armor” to deal with her sexist colleagues. “I decided I’d be a guy,” she told the “Today” show.

“I was not only a woman, but I was Chinese,” Chung, 78, said on the NBC's TODAY show while promoting her new memoir, “Connie.” Chung, who broke ground as the first Asian American and ...

Connie Chung's career ... one step at a time wasn't enough for Chung. When NBC wanted to hire somebody to present the half-hour of news before the "Today" show, Chung said, "I'll do that!

(AP Photo) FILE - Connie Chung, right, works with Jane Pauley, Nov. 11, 1983, in New York, as she prepares to take over as hostess of NBC television's Today Show, as Pauley is taking maternity leave.

While writing her memoir, Connie Chung discovered an unexpected legacy ... my arms around declaring myself a success," she tells USA TODAY. She mimicked male colleagues she had seen puffing ...

Television news pioneer Connie Chung ... “Today,” he “would not talk to me until the red light went on.” He was contractually designated to be the first to utter “Good morning” at the ...

That list includes Maury Povich and Connie Chung ... midday talk show created by station manager Bob Bennett in 1967, was Washington’s answer to NBC's "Today." "It was an amazing stroke of ...