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This image released by ABC shows host Barbara Walters, left, with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray on ABC's "The View," Monday, April 21, 2014 in New York. De Blasio is proclaiming May 16 as 'Barbara Walters Day' in New York City. Walters is retiring that day after a storied television reporting career that has spanned five decades. (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco) ( NYC Mayor-The View )

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: (L-R) ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and ABC's "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts attend the dedication ceremony as ABC News headquarters in New York is proclaimed "The Barbara Walters Building" ABC News Headquarters Dedication Ceremony on May 12, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images) ( 489866521 )

THE BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL - 12/20/05- Anchored by Barbara Walters, “Heaven: Where Is It ? How Do We Get There?” explores the meaning of heaven with religious leaders of the major faiths, scientists, people who say they believe in heaven because they have been there, with celebrities who are vocal about their beliefs and even with terrorists. ABC News Presents A Barbara Walters Special: “Heaven: Where Is It? How Do We Get There?” on 12/20/05 on the ABC Television Network. BARBARA WALTERS interviews the DALAI LAMA in India. (CREDIT: ABC/ ROB WALLACE ) ( AE16TVWALTERS.jpg )

ABC NEWS 20/20 - 6/28/93 - Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters on the set of 20/20. The duo anchored the program together from 1979 until 1999 when Hugh Downs retired. (ABC/STEVE FENN) HUGH DOWNS, BARBARA WALTERS ( AE16TVWALTERS.jpg )

ABC NEWS - 11/5/01 Moscow, Russia - In an exclusive interview, ABC News' Barbara Walters interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin for 20/20, airing 11/7/2001, on the ABC Television Network. This marks the first time the President Putin will be interviewed by an American journalist since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th. The interview took place( 11/5/01) at the Kremlin. (ABC NEWS) VLADIMIR PUTIN, BARBARA WALTERS ( AE16TVWALTERS.jpg )

FILE - This June 6, 1977 file photo shows ABC news correspondent Barbara Walters, left, being driven by Cuban leader Fidel Castro on a sightseeing tour in Cuba. On Friday, May 16, 2014, capping a spectacular half-century run she began as the so-called "Today" Girl, Walters will exit ABC's "The View." Behind the scenes she will remain as an executive producer of the New York-based talk show she created 17 years ago, and make ABC News appearances as events warrant and stories catch her interest. (AP Photo/ABC, File) ( TV-Barbara Walters )

Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat presents Barbara Walters of ABC with a handmade dress and mother- of-pearl box following an interview with him in Beirut, Sept. 2, 1977. (AP Photo/Harry Koundakjian) ( Barbara Walters 1977 )

In this photo provided by ABC News, Barbara Walters, left, poses with President elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle for an ABC News special airing Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008 on the ABC Television Network. (AP Photo/ABC NEWS, George Burns) ( Obama Walters )

TV journalist Barbara Walters, a member of NBC's Today Show, gestures during an appearance at the morning show in New York City, May, 20, 1965. (AP Photo) ( BARBARA WALTERS ON TODAY 1965 )

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey, right, joins Barbara Walters, co-host of The View at ABC studios in New York, Friday, May 12, 2006. It was Winfrey's first appearance on the show. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn) ( OPRAH WINFREY THE VIEW )

Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., third from left, on the set of "The View," Wednesday, June 18, 2008 in New York. From left are, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Mrs. Obama, Sherri Shepard, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn) ( Michelle Obama The View )

Trailblazing broadcast journalist Barbara Walters, 83, announces her upcoming resignation on "The View", the all-woman show she created in 1997, in this ABC handout photo taken in New York May 13, 2013. Walters, known for her interviews with world leaders and celebrities and the first woman to co-anchor a U.S. evening news program, said on Monday she will retire in the summer of 2014. REUTERS/Lou Rocco/ABC/Handout via Reuters ( PEOPLE-BARBARAWALTERS/ )

Television newswoman Barbara Walters is seen in this undated photograph. (AP Photo) ( BARBARA WALTERS )

Journalist Barbara Walters arrives for the Time 100 gala celebrating the magazine's naming of the 100 most influential people in the world for the past year, in New York, April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson ( USA/ )

Barbara Walters arrives at 2014 TIME 100 Gala held at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) ( 2014 TIME 100 Gala - Arrivals )

In this photo supplied by Sesame Workshop, Sesame Street Muppet Elmo gets together with television journalist Barbara Walters as they host the Sesame Workshop's Third Annual Benefit Gala in New York Wednesday, June 1, 2005. (AP Photo/Sesame Workshop) ( PEOPLE ELMO WALTERS )

Television newswoman Barbara Walters poses after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday, June 14, 2007, in Los Angeles. Walters is a nominee as both a host and producer of "The View'' television talk show, as well as a presenter at the Daytime Emmy Awards in the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on June 15. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) ( People Walters )

Barbara Walters presents the award for outstanding drama series to "General Hospital" at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, June 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) ( Daytime Emmy Awards Show )

The co-hosts of "The View" attend the New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) ( New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend )

Diane Sawyer, left, smiles as Charles Gibson, center, fiddles with Barbara Walter's glasses as they leave the memorial ceremony for Walter Cronkite, Wednesday Sept. 9, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin) ( Walter Cronkite Memorial )

Robert De Niro, left, Barbara Walters, and David Rockefeller listen as World Trade Center site master planner Daniel Libeskind, not in photo, talks to reporters after the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation held its inaugural board meeting Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005, in New York. The three are board members. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ( WORLD TRADE CENTER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION )

In this photo released by ABC, Barbara Walters, right, is seen during an interview with former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, left, and her daughters Piper, center left, and Willow Palin, at a New York City hotel, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. The interview will air in segments starting with "Good Morning America," on Monday, Nov. 17. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn) ( ABC Sarah Palin )

In this image released by ABC, former Vice President Dick Cheney, right, speaks with Barbara Walters on the daytime talk show "The View," Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, in New York. Cheney appeared to promote his book, "In My Time." (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik) ( TV-Cheney-The View )

Barbara Walters, right, is shown with pop sensation Justin Bieber during an interview for "Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2010," an hour-long ABC News special. (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco) ( TV Walters Fascinating People )

Singer Katy Perry, left, poses with interviewer Barbara Walters in New York. Walters has named talent-show tycoon Simon Cowell, MLB star Derek Jeter and pop singing sensation Katy Perry as three of the year's "10 Most Fascinating People." (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik) ( TV Walters Fascinating People )

Beauty contestant Jenna Talackova, left, poses with ABC's Barbara Walters at an interview Thursday, April 5, 2012 in New York. Talackova, who advanced to the finals of the Miss Canada competition, part of the Miss Universe contest, says she was forced out of the competition because pageant officials alleged she was not "a naturally-born female." (AP Photo/ABC, Heidi Gutman) ( Sex Change Miss Universe )

Actor Robert Blake is interviewed by ABC News' Barbara Walters in the Los Angeles County Jail where he is being held in downtown Los Angeles, on Feb. 17, 2003. In an unusual move, Blake's attorney managed to have the actor testify on his own behalf during opening statements Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, at Blake's murder trial by showing jurors a videotape of a Barbara Walters interview. (AP Photo/ABC, Virginia Sherwood, File) ( BLAKE WIFE SLAIN )

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad speaks with ABC News Anchor Barbara Walters for an interview airing Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, on ABC. Assad denied he ordered the deadly crackdown on a nearly 9-month-old uprising in his country, claiming he is not in charge of the troops behind the assault. Speaking to Walters in a rare interview that aired Wednesday, he maintained he did not give any commands "to kill or be brutal." (AP Photo/ABC, Rob Wallace) ( APTOPIX Syria Assad )

Barbara Walters rides with President Ronald Reagan in a jeep rigged with TV equipment on Reagan's Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch during a November 1981 interview. (AP Photo/ABC PHOTO ARCHIVES) ( TV BARBARA WALTERS )

American broadcast journalist and author Barbara Walters throws rose petals as former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his wife American heiress Nancy Shevell leave Marylebone Registry Office, following their wedding in central London , Sunday Oct. 9, 2011. Shevell, 51, is McCartney's third wife.The couple met in the Hamptons in Long Island, New York, shortly after the singer's divorce from Heather Mills in 2008 and they were engaged earlier this year. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Britain US Paul McCartney Wedding )

Barbara Walters, right, visits with actor Patrick Swayze, left, and his wife Lisa Niemi at their California ranch on Dec. 6, 2008. In his first television interview since being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Swayze speaks to Barbara Walters in "Barbara Walters Special-Patrick Swayze: The Truth". (AP Photo/ABC, Ron Tom) ( People Swayze Walters )

In this photo released by ABC, La Toya Jackson, left, poses with Barbara Walters during the taping of an interview where she discusses the death of her brother, pop icon Michael Jackson, for ABC News' "20/20", airing Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, at 10:00 p.m. EDT. (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik) ( People La Toya Jackson )

President Gerald Ford gives television personality Barbara Walters a helping hand as she slips while stepping onto the stage in Washington, during an awards presentation March 10, 1975 for participants in the Special Olympics. This is the international sports program for the mentally retarded at the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing Arts in Washington. Earlier Ford attended Barbra Streisand's live television special at the Kennedy Center. (AP Photo) ( Barbara Walters and Gerald Ford )

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is interviewed by American television newswoman Barbara Walters, in October 1974. (AP Photo) ( RABIN INTERVIEW BARBARA WALTERS )

"I cannot believe the U.S. government or the U.S. people would sell out Israel for oil; I know the American people too well," declared Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel during an interview with Barbara Walters, at right, on September 1973 in Jerusalem. The interview, to be aired on the NBC television network's "Today" program, September 13, 1973 was taped in Jerusalem, and Mrs. Meir was responding to a question about the pressure by the oil-rich Arab nations in view of the fuel shortage. (AP Photo/NBC) ( Golda Meir and Barbara Walters )

With New York Mayor Abraham Beame to her right, NBC newswoman Barbara Walters shows off the Person of the Year Gold Key Award, presented to her by Verne S. Atwater, President of the Avenue of Americas Association, in foreground right, at New York City's Hilton Hotel, October 22, 1975. Canadian Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Alastair Gillespie, center right, was presented with the Inter-American Gold Key Award. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis) ( WALTERS PERSON OF THE YEAR )

Barbara Walters talks with exiled Leader Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti. Duvalier spoke at his rented villa on June 12, 1986 in Grasse, France. (AP Photo) ( Barbara Walters and Jean Claude Duvalier )

President Jimmy Carter is interviewed by four television reporters on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1977 in the Red Room of the White House at Washington. From left are: Bob McNeil, PBS; Bob Schieffer, CBS; Carter; Barbara Walters, ABC; and Tom Brokaw, NBA. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi) ( Jimmy Carter White House 1977 )

Television newswoman Barbara Walters interviews Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., in Boston's Public Garden, May 28, 1976. (AP Photo) ( WALTERS INTERVIEW TED KENNEDY )

ABC television newscaster Barbara Walters hugs her new husband, Merv Adelson, moments after their wedding ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 10, 1986. Adelson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lorimar Telepictures. (AP Photo/Peter Borsari) ( NEWLYWEDS ADELSON WALTERS )

ABC NEWS - 9/29/95 - In his first interview since he was left paralyzed from the neck down, actor Christopher Reeve talks with Barbara Walters on a special ABC News' "20/20," airing Friday, Sept. 29, at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey. (ABC PHOTO ARCHIVES) CHRISTOPHER REEVE, BARBARA WALTERS ( AE16TVWALTERS.jpg )

THE BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL - 5/18/88 - Barbara Walters hitches a ride with Sylvester Stallone during her special airing 5/18/88 on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ BOB D'AMICO) SYLVESTER STALLONE, BARBARA WALTERS ( AE16TVWALTERS.jpg )

ABC NEWS - 20/20 - ABC News' Barbara Walters interviewed former President Richard Nixon for 20/20, which aired in May 1985. (ABC PHOTO ARCHIVES) ( AE16TVWALTERS.jpg )

ABC NEWS - 9/30/76 - Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters anchor the ABC Evening News. (ABC PHOTO ARCHIVES.) ( AE16TVWALTERS.jpg )

FILE - This May 14, 2005 file photo shows TV personality Barbara Walters at the Legends Ball, an award ceremony hosted by Oprah Winfrey in Santa Barbara, Calif. On Friday, May 16, 2014, capping a spectacular half-century run she began as the so-called "Today" Girl, Walters will exit ABC's "The View." Behind the scenes she will remain as an executive producer of the New York-based talk show she created 17 years ago, and make ABC News appearances as events warrant and stories catch her interest. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File) ( TV-Barbara Walters )

Singer Jessica Simpson, center, joins "The View" co-hosts Rosie O'Donnell, left, Barbara Walters, second from left, Joy Behar, second from right, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck during the taping of the first show of the 10th season of the ABC women's chat show Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006 in New York. The show began its 10th season with O'Donnell joining the returning Behar, Hasselbeck and Walters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ( TV VIEW ODONNELL )

This April 15, 2014, photo provided by ABC shows, from left, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Jenny McCarthy, political commentator, guest Margaret Hoover, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters, on ABC's show "The View." The show will gather all 11 past and present co-hosts to salute Walters as she retires from daily television in a first-ever reunion that will air on the May 15, episode, the day before Walters says goodbye as series co-host. (AP Photo/ABC, Heidi Gutman) ( TV View Walters Salute )

In this publicity image released by ABC, Octomom Nadya Suleman, right, listens to host Barbara Walters during an appearance on the daytime talk show, "The View," Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik) ( TV Octomom View )

This photo, supplied by ABC, shows Meredith Vieira saying her goodbyes on ABC's "The View" television talk show as her co-host Barbara Walters, left, smiles on during Vieira's farewell show in New York Friday, June 9,2006. Vieira is leaving to join "Today" on NBC is September.(AP Photo/ ABC ,Steve Fenn) ( TV VIEIRAS LAST DAY )

This May 10, 2014 photo released by NBC shows cast members Colin Jost, left, and Cecily Strong, center, with TV personality Barbara Walters who made an appearance on the Weekend Update segment of "Saturday Night Live," in New York. On Friday, May 16, 2014, capping a spectacular half-century run she began as the so-called "Today" Girl, Walters will exit ABC's "The View." Behind the scenes she will remain as an executive producer of the New York-based talk show she created 17 years ago, and make ABC News appearances as events warrant and stories catch her interest. Walters has often been parodied on the weekly sketch comedy series. (AP Photo/NBC, Dana Edelson) ( TV-Barbara Walters )

FILE - This June 3, 1975 file photo shows Television newswoman Barbara Walters reacting as she addresses staff members from the NBC "Today" show during a farewell party in the studios in New York after her final live appearance on the show. Walters left to join ABC as co-host and anchorwoman of the rival networks' evening news program. On Friday, May 16, 2014, capping a spectacular half-century run she began as the so-called "Today" Girl, Walters will exit ABC's "The View." Behind the scenes she will remain as an executive producer of the New York-based talk show she created 17 years ago, and make ABC News appearances as events warrant and stories catch her interest. (AP Photo, File) ( TV-Barbara Walters )

ABC's television news anchorwoman Barbara Walters, right, blows out the candles on an apricot cake during a party celebrating her 46th birthday, at a midtown Manhattan restaurant in New York, September 26, 1977. Holding the cake is Lenore Hershey, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez) ( WALTERS CELEBRATES 46TH BIRTHDAY )

Television newswoman Barbara Walters, co-host of NBC's Today Show, shares a laugh with staff members in New York City, June 3, 1976. Today will be Walters' last live appearance on NBC as she joins ABC to become the rival networks' evening news anchorwoman. (AP Photo) ( WALTERS LAST TIME ON NBC )