I always referred to him as "Mr Marlo Thomas".
To give the devil her due, Marlo was cute as a bug in “That Girl” era.
One time on his show or in an interview, I heard Phil talk about how he had removed his kids (from his first marriage) from their suburban schools (in Ohio, I think) and enrolled them in majority-black urban public schools so that they wouldn’t grow up to be “racists.” At that point, I realized that Donahue was a monster. Even the Pelosis and Clintons AND even Obamas of the world don’t impose their ideology on their kids, instead enrolling them in the fanciest, whitest private schools they can find.