Diane Sawyer (Photo : Twitter/Diane Sawyer)
Diane Sawyer may have sat down to interview several notable figures, but if there's one job she couldn't forget, it was when she worked as a staff for Richard Nixon.
In a recent interview on "Oprah's Master Class," Sawyer can audiences an insight on what it was like working inside the White House.
"I was so young, and I was there because of a number of circumstances - not one of which I was political. My father had been political and in politics, so his Republican history in Kentucky before he died made a difference in my ability to get hired there," she said.
Despite not having much background on politics, Sawyer was still very much eager to work in the prestigious White House, according to the Huffington Post.
"I kind of looked at it as another horizon, something I'd never seen," she explained.
Still, with her eagerness to get in and work in the White House came one of her most embarrassing moments with Nixon himself, the Sierra Leone Times noted.
Sawyer recounted how at one time, she literally knocked Nixon down - literally.
"I was a doofus. I knocked the president down my first week there! I actually physically knocked him down... I didn't exactly know where I was, but I was bounding down the stairs, rounded the corner and knocked him flat," she recounted.
Following the incident, Sawyer immediately thought that she would be fired from working at the White House. However, things took a 360 degree turn for the better and she became one of Nixon's most valuable staffer.
"He used to call me the 'tall girl.' 'I saw that tall girl, ask her to research that thing.' That's how it began really," she said.
