It was the summer of 1996, and the Democratic National Convention was about to open just six blocks away from Harpo Studios on the Near West Side.
Though the center of the political universe had come to her own backyard, Oprah Winfrey wanted no part of it.
Oprah Winfrey (AP/Harpo Productions)
"I've been asked to do everything, but I'm trying to stay out of it," she told me at the time.
Except for taping an interview with John F. Kennedy Jr., Winfrey was determined to let the convention -- and the parade of presidential politics -- pass her by.
"I've tried to stay out of politics for my entire tenure on the air," she said. "Basically, it's a no-win situation."
Now fast-forward to 2008 and consider just how right Winfrey may have been.
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