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Cohen, Janet Langhart
1941—
Media consultant, Television personality
As wife of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Janet Langhart Cohen was one of the most prominent spouses in Washington from 1997 to 2001. The former beauty pageant winner, Boston television personality, media consultant—and longtime Democrat—wed a Republican senator in 1996, and their union has been celebrated more as a triumph over multicultural issues in America than political ones. Though there had been other high-profile interracial couples in Washington power circles, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Janet and her husband William S. Cohen—appointed to his cabinet post in the Clinton Administration in late 1996—were the country's highest-ranking such pair on the official protocol lists. Washington Post writer Kevin Merida called them "the best advertisement for the kind of dialogue and interpersonal racial progress President Clinton is now pushing, the kind of progress that can't be legislated." After Cohen's tenure ended, the couple remained prominent social commentators. J
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Janet Langhart Cohen
Janet Langhart Cohen, president of Langhart Communications, is an Emmy-nominated journalist who began her television career on CBS in Chicago. During her 25-year career, Cohen has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC and BET; hosted ABCs Good Day in Boston; covered special assignments for Entertainment Tonight and produced several programs, including On Capitol Hill with Janet Langhart. As an overseas correspondent, she covered news in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Throughout her career, Cohen interviewed many major newsmakers and leaders of the 20th century. Among the prominent people she interviewed are President Bill Clinton (who acknowledged her work in his last State of the Union address), President Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Mel Gibson, Bill Cosby, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, Dan Rather and Larry King.
Cohen also has worked as a columnist for The Boston Herald, U.S. News and World Report, and served as spokeswoman for Avon Cosmetics. She has been a judge for the White House Fellows
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Accomplished across all different fields, these five women inspire not only with their achievements but also with their graciousness, generosity of spirit, and grit. Accepting challenge after challenge, each called upon in her own way to find courage and determination, they all remained, as writer Kenny Moore once put it, “unharmed by victory.”
Janet Langhart-Cohen
Janet Langhart-Cohen made history as a broadcast journalist, but she calls her time as “First Lady of the Pentagon” the most transformative of her life.
Janet Langhart-Cohen was born on December 22, 1941—at a tumultuous moment in a nation that had just declared war, in a time when being Black in America meant having rights and opportunities that were restricted—and her life has been shaped and changed by politics, race, and social activism. She was raised by her single mother, a domestic worker. “I learned of racism as early as seven years old. My parents had to tell me about it because my life depended on it,” Langhart-Cohen said.
Despite these challenges, Langhar
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