Lewine was born January 20, 1921, in
Far Rockaway, Queens. She and her brother spent much of their childhood there in an extended family household which included their first cousins
Richard Feynman and
Joan Feynman. In 1976, Lewine asked President
Gerald Ford a two-part question that was later described by Ford's Press Secretary
Ron Nessen as "the worst misuse of a question at a presidential news conference to advocate a personal point of view."{{Cite web |url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/articles/1979-covering-the-womens-movement/ In 1977, after covering the administrations of six
presidents, Lewine left the AP, taking a job in
Jimmy Carter's administration as the deputy director of
public affairs for the Transportation Department. In 1981, she joined
CNN as a field producer and
assignment editor. Lewine was president of the
Women's National Press Club and advocated for equality for women journalists. She expressed disappointment in her own assignments at the
White House, where she reported on social events and stories about the first family, noting that she was not allowed to cover the president as were her male colleagues. She died in January 2008 of an apparent
stroke. ==References==