How Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named 'Connie' — and had no idea

Some public figures achieve immortality with buildings or monuments named after them. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a namesake brand of marijuana, as well as hundreds of Asian-American women as a living legacy. Chung found out a few years back from a journalist named Connie Wang about Chinese immigrants who named their daughters after her, as a visible model of success in this country that they could strive for. Chung, who's now 78, this fall has released a memoir of her life, which doubles as a history of broadcast news in the late 2000s, including her ill-fated partnership with Dan Rather and dodging the legendary rivalry between Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer.