Barbara Walters: I had affair with U.S. senator

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Barbara Walters Admits to Affair with an African American Senator...Not That One
Published 5/1/2008 at mediabistro.com: TVNewser
... Brooke was the first African-American popularly elected to the Senate. The AP obtained a transcript of the Oprah show in which Walters admits that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers. ...

Barbara Walters Steamy Affair!
Published 5/1/2008 by Takiyah at Love B. Scott | Splendiferously Divine!
... For years, Barbara has asked celebrities very deep and personal questions, and now she is coming forth with a deep secret of her own. She appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show that will air this upcoming Tuesday. A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers, Walters says. CNN Barbara does have some years on her, but why is she talking about it now? Does she want a medal ...

The Walters Affair
Published 5/1/2008 at WOW Report
... Oprah she admits to having an affair in the 1970s with Edward Brooke, the Republican senator from Massachusets. "I was certainly involved," Walters tells Winfrey. "He was exciting. He was bwilliant. It was exciting times in Washington." Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected into the Senate, in 1967, and because their romance would have ruined both their careers had it been made public, Walters waited until now to tell it in her new memoir, Audition. (CNN) ...