After 50 years, more than one dozen presidential campaigns and years of delighting audiences as co-host of All Things Considered, Linda Wertheimer is signing off the air for the last time.
Wertheimer, 80, announced her retirement on Tuesday, bringing an end to her iconic run. Below, in her own words, one of NPR's Founding Mothers takes us through the decades as only she can — with grace, pizzazz and unvarnished truth.
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