Jane Pauley returned to her native Indiana in October for something she had never done before.
The former "Today" show and "Dateline" anchor campaigned for Barack Obama — an involvement in politics prohibited during her 31-year TV news career after earning a political science degree from Indiana University in 1971.
"I wouldn't even wear a campaign button," says Pauley, 58, about her days at NBC. "This was the first time in my adult life that I ever campaigned for someone."
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Pauley will urge fellow baby boomers to get involved with — or give back to — society during a lecture Jan. 13 in Cincinnati. The Indianapolis native left TV after NBC canceled her "Jane Pauley" daytime talk show in 2005.