Lila Diane Sawyer (/ˈsɔːjər/; born December 22, 1945) is an American television journalist.\n', 'Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC News\'s nightly flagship program ABC World News, a co-anchor of ABC News\'s morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. Early in her career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon\'s White House staff and closely associated with the president himself.\n', 'Sawyer was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, to Jean W. (née Dunagan), an elementary school teacher, and Erbon Powers "Tom" Sawyer, a county judge. Her ancestry includes English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and German. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Louisville, where her father rose to local prominence as a Republican politician and community leader. He was Kentucky\'s Jefferson County Judge/Executive when he was killed in a car accident on Louisville\'s Interstate 64 in 1969. E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park, in the Frey\'s Hill area of Louisville, is named in his honor.\n', '

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