Elon Musk told “CBS Sunday Morning” that he has some “differences of opinion” with the Trump administration but feels “a little stuck in a bind” when he disagrees, not wanting to publicly speak out against them. Musk, who sat down for an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” a day before …
Read More »Carole Feraci, the singer who spoke her mind to Richard Nixon
The date: January 28, 1972. The occasion: a White House gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of Reader’s Digest magazine. The entertainment that night: the wholesome Ray Conniff Singers. The president quipped, “And if the music is square, it’s because I like it square!” But what happened next was anything but …
Read More »Pulling back the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey
At top universities like Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there’s a fall tradition playing out behind the scenes: students are back, and so are company recruiters looking to hire the best and the brightest. These prize students, say New York Times investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, want a place …
Read More »Martha Stewart on spring cleaning your home office space
Multimedia lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart offers “Sunday Morning” viewers some organizing tips: Hi, everyone. It’s spring cleaning time! And nowhere in the home needs a bigger spring cleaning than that desk at which you’ve been working for the last two-and-a-half years. So, let me show you a few ways in …
Read More »Rich Little: Still making a great impression
Correspondent Tracy Smith asked celebrity impersonator Rich Little, “Is it true that when you became a U.S. citizen, the judge asked you to do it in a John Wayne voice?” “Yeah, yeah. He said. ‘I’m gonna swear you in as John Wayne,’ So, I got up there and I said, …
Read More »Passage: Cicely Tyson and Cloris Leachman
It happened this past week … the loss of two great stars of stage and screen. Cloris Leachman died Wednesday. As a dramatic actress she won an Oscar for “The Last Picture Show.” But it is for her comic roles that she’ll be best remembered, including “Young Frankenstein” opposite Gene …
Read More »Painting the presidents
Perhaps you’ve heard of the “Ex-Presidents Club”? Well on May 31, 2012, John Howard Sanden became a member of another group that’s almost as exclusive: the artists who’ve painted those presidents. Sanden is a sought-after portrait artist (The New Yorker once called him “the man who makes moguls look good”), …
Read More »Art of history: Preserving African American dioramas
Look closely at this three-dimensional scene, featuring a pair of exuberant dancers. “You’ve been enslaved for 250 years, and now you’re free, and this is jubilation and joy,” said professor Jontyle Robinson. The director of the Legacy Museum at Alabama’s Tuskegee University, she describes the scene as the moment of …
Read More »Take Five (February 28): Check out the “Sunday Morning” listings of events this coming week
Check out these events around the country this coming week: PLANT CITY, FLA.: Florida Strawberry Festival (through March 8) Dating back to 1930, the Florida Strawberry Festival is one of the nation’s top fairs, an 11-day community event celebrating the strawberry harvest of Eastern Hillsborough County. Each year, more than …
Read More »Check out the “CBS Sunday Morning” Christmas song playlist on Spotify!
All of us here at “Sunday Morning” wanted to share our favorite Christmas tunes, so check out our playlist on Spotify. Recommended by producer Mary Raffalli: “A Party for Santa Claus” by Lord Nelson Recommended by communications executive director Richard Huff: “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses Recommended by producer Jon …
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