When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.

Richard Cohen, the journalist husband of broadcaster Meredith Vieira, has died at 76, more than 50 years after an MS diagnosis. He also beat colon cancer twice.

Richard Cohen, the veteran journalist and husband of Meredith Vieira, has died at the age of 76 after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis.