When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

Bush in his failed 1992 campaign Andrea Mitchell suggested this might be Romney's "supermarket scanner moment". Controversies


Role in the Plame Affair
A report in The Washington Post ("Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media" by Mike Allen and Dana Priest Washington Post September 28 2003) that Mitchell was leaked Valerie Plame's identity led to her being questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They can always say 'no comment'… but to drag a reporter out just for asking is inexcusable behavior.

Andrea Mitchell (born October 30 1946) is an American television journalist anchor reporter and commentator for NBC News based in Washington D.