Q&A with Frank Mankiewicz

Aug 19, 2009

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Frank Mankiewicz spoke about his career and experiences in public service. He is vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton's Washington, D.C. office. Hill & Knowlton is a public relations firm based in New York. He joined the firm's predecessor in 1983 after being president of National Public Radio. He was press secretary to Senator Robert Kennedy and .. Read More
Frank Mankiewicz spoke about his career and experiences in public service. He is vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton's Washington, D.C. office. Hill & Knowlton is a public relations firm based in New York. He joined the firm's predecessor in 1983 after being president of National Public Radio. He was press secretary to Senator Robert Kennedy and directed the 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern. In the 1960s, he was the Peace Corps' regional director for Latin America. He is the author of four books. Mr. Mankiewicz reacted to the audio recording, shown with still pictures, of a May 28, 1964, telephone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He reacted to video clips of Walter Cronkite on the CBS News on February 27, 1968; himself announcing the death of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968; and Senator Ted Kennedy and former Senator George McGovern roasting him on September 12, 2004. Various pictures were shown in the background, including a video clip from June 5, 1968, in the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot.

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00:00:15 Unidentified Speaker THIS WEEK, ON Q & A, OUR GUEST IS FRANK MANKIEWICZ. CURRENTLY, HE IS VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS...
00:00:40 Unidentified Speaker ON SATURDAY, JULY 25, AFTER WALTER CRONKITE DIED, YOU WROTE A COMMENT IN LAW SHOULD POST -- IN THE...
00:00:53 Unidentified Speaker I SAID BACK IN 1972 WHEN I HAD A SERIOUS ROLE IN SENATOR MCGOVERN'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. WE HAD...
00:01:33 Unidentified Speaker WANTED TO TAKE WALTER CRONKITE WOULD TAKE THE JOB?
00:01:36 Unidentified Speaker I KNEW THAT HE WAS VERY MUCH OPPOSED TO THE VIETNAM WAR. SIX MONTHS BEFORE THAT, HE HAD COME BACK...
00:02:52 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS 1968.
00:02:56 Unidentified Speaker NO, THAT WAS 1972.
00:02:59 Unidentified Speaker WHERE WAS THAT MEETING HELD? THE MEETING WITH MR. CRONKITE AND MR. KENNEDY.
00:03:08 Unidentified Speaker IN SENATOR KENNEDY'S OFFICE. ON CAPITOL HILL. WHAT'S HOW HAD TO COME TO KNOW SENATOR KENNEDY IN THE...
00:03:16 Unidentified Speaker I CAME TO KNOW HIM BECAUSE HE CALLED ME UP ONE DAY WHEN I WAS AN OFFICIAL IN THE PEACE CORPS. I WAS...
00:04:25 Unidentified Speaker HAD TO KNOW HIM BEFORE?
00:04:26 Unidentified Speaker NO.
00:04:28 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME EVER?
00:04:30 Unidentified Speaker YES.
00:04:34 Unidentified Speaker IT IS HARD TO ASK QUESTIONS TO PEOPLE WHO WERE AROUND WHEN THIS HAPPENED. IN 1972, YOU WERE IN SENATOR...
00:04:48 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE BEEN SENATOR KENNEDY'S OFFICE FOR THREE YEARS. WHEN HE WAS KILLED, I WAS A JOURNALIST FOR A...
00:05:10 Unidentified Speaker HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE PEACE CORPS? WHAT WAS YOUR MOTIVE?
00:05:15 Unidentified Speaker I WAS A LAWYER IN CALIFORNIA. I WAS ACTIVE IN POLITICS IN CALIFORNIA. I HAD ONE FOR THE LEGISLATURE...
00:06:47 Unidentified Speaker WHEN DID YOU FIRST MEET?
00:06:52 Unidentified Speaker WHEN I WAS THE PRESS SECRETARY. I TALK TO HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES ABOUT A STORY. THINGS WERE FAIRLY...
00:07:07 Unidentified Speaker OF ALL THE PEOPLE YOU WERE AROUND, WHO WERE YOU CLOSEST TO, PERSONALLY?
00:07:14 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD SAY ROBERT KENNEDY WERE GEORGE -- OR GEORGE MCGOVERN.
00:07:20 Unidentified Speaker WHY WERE YOU INTERESTED IN WORKING ON THE MCGOVERN CAMPAIGN? BUT I HAD COME TO KNOW HIM WHEN I WAS...
00:07:49 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE SOME AUDIO TAPE. IT IS LYNDON JOHNSON'S CONVERSATION FROM THE OVAL OFFICE WITH BOBBY KENNEDY,...
00:08:13 Unidentified Speaker EXPLAIN WHAT WAS GOING ON IN 1964.
00:08:15 Unidentified Speaker THERE WAS SOME TALK THAT HE MIGHT BE THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR LYNDON JOHNSON WHEN HE RAN...
00:09:14 Unidentified Speaker IN 1964, HOW HOT WAS THE VIETNAM WAR.
00:09:20 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS ROLLING ALONG. WE WERE VERY CLOSELY ALLIED WITH SOME DUBIOUS LEADERS OF THE COUNTRY. IT DID...
00:09:45 Unidentified Speaker THIS CLIP IS ABOUT 3 1/2 MINUTES.
00:09:51 Unidentified Speaker BOB MCNAMARA HAD A TALK WITH ME AND ASKED ME TO COME OVER. I THINK THERE IS A LOT OF -- I HAD THE...
00:12:22 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT THAT IS GOOD THINKING. IT IS NOT ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE WAY I HAVE FELT ABOUT IT. WE...
00:13:29 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS ABOUT AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN'T GET TO TO HUMAN BEINGS INSIDE AND AN ADMINISTRATION -- INSIDE...
00:13:45 Unidentified Speaker WELL, WHAT I WAS HEARING WAS AN EVOLVING POSITION OF SENATOR KENNEDY'S THAT IT. HE HAD BEEN A STRONG...
00:14:17 Unidentified Speaker FROM YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, WHEN DID SENATOR KENNEDY BECOME VERY ANTI-WAR.
00:14:33 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD SAY PROBABLY ABOUT 1966 OR 1967. HE WAS ALWAYS MOVING THAT WAY. HE WOULD HAVE COME DOWN WITH...
00:15:16 Unidentified Speaker KENNEDY AND SENATOR -- SECRETARY MCNAMARA TALK A LOT. IT MAY BE HIS POSITION WAS CHANGING AND SO WAS...
00:15:49 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT SAYING THAT PEOPLE DO NOT TELL HIM TO HIS FACE WHAT HE SHOULD...
00:15:55 Unidentified Speaker I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REMARKABLE INSIGHT. I THINK EVERY PRESIDENT MAYBE FEELS THAT, BUT DOES NOT DO...
00:16:47 Unidentified Speaker OHNSON WAS BEGINNING TO THINK LIKE THAT. " HOW DID YOU PERSONALLY RELATE TO SENATOR KENNEDY? I FIGURED...
00:17:04 Unidentified Speaker ROBERT KENNEDY AND I WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE. WHEN I WAS APPOINTED PRESS SECRETARY, THE LEADING POLITICAL...
00:17:20 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU EVER TALK BACK TO HIM OR TALK TO HIM?
00:17:22 Unidentified Speaker WE WERE FAIRLY CLOSE.
00:17:30 Unidentified Speaker YOUR IN HIS SENATE OFFICE FOR 3.5 YEARS?
00:17:32 Unidentified Speaker THREE YEARS.
00:17:36 Unidentified Speaker WHAT CHANGED YOUR MIND?
00:17:38 Unidentified Speaker I WAS NEVER IN FAVOR OF THE WAR. WHAT CHANGED MY MIND WAS OBSERVING A SKIRMISH THAT WE HAD IN THE...
00:18:09 Unidentified Speaker I WAS OVERSEAS. I WAS WITH THE PEACE CORPS. I WAS WITH THEM FROM 1964-1965.
00:18:21 Unidentified Speaker HOW DID YOU WORK IN THE CAMPAIGN? WHAT WERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES?
00:18:32 Unidentified Speaker IN 1968, HE DECIDED HE WAS BORN TO RUN. THE RESULTS OF THE PRIMARY ELECTION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, WHERE...
00:19:14 Unidentified Speaker THE DATE THAT I HAD IS HE
00:19:15 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS RIGHT. THE DAY BEFORE ST. PATRICK'S DAY WHEN HE WENT UP IN MARCH IN THE PARADE IN NEW YORK....
00:19:24 Unidentified Speaker TWO WEEKS EARLIER THAN THAT, WALTER CRONKITE HAD MADE HIS STATEMENT ON VIETNAM ON HIS NEWSCAST. THAT...
00:19:38 Unidentified Speaker IT SEEMS NOW, MORE CERTAIN THAN EVER, THAT THE BLOODY EXPERIENCE OF VIETNAM WILL END IN STALEMATE....
00:20:17 Unidentified Speaker HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT WE ARE CLOSER TO VICTORY TODAY AND IT GOES ON. WHEN DID HE MEET WITH SENATOR...
00:20:38 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU BEEN TO VIETNAM BEFORE.
00:20:41 Unidentified Speaker WHEN YOU WERE SITTING THERE LISTENING TO HIM -- AND I'D THINK HE HAD BEEN TO VIETNAM BEFORE. WHAT...
00:21:10 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ABOUT AN ACRE MAN FOR A MAJOR NETWORK -- AND ANCHOR MAN FOR A MAJOR NETWORK. ?
00:21:18 Unidentified Speaker IT DID NOT HAPPEN VERY OFTEN IF AT ALL. THAT IS ONE REASON THAT I FAVORED WALTER CRONKITE TO BE THE...
00:21:52 Unidentified Speaker YOU WROTE IN THIS COLUMN, AFTER WALTER CRONKITE DIED, -- WHY DID YOU WAIT UNTIL HE DIED TO WRITE THAT?...
00:22:25 Unidentified Speaker WELL, MAYBE I OVER EXTENDED A SENSE OF WHAT WOULD BE THE ETHICAL THING TO DO. IF HE HAD NOT TALKED...
00:22:40 Unidentified Speaker IS THERE MORE TO THE STORY THAN THAT?
00:22:44 Unidentified Speaker I PRETTY WELL DESCRIBED IT. THEY TALK ABOUT NEW YORK POLITICS AND THEY TALK ABOUT VIETNAM. -- THE...
00:23:20 Unidentified Speaker DUE TO READ WHAT WROTE ABOUT THIS? BUCSBUCSTHERE IS A LOT MORE TO THIS.
00:24:16 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT KNOW. I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT. HE WAS SMART ENOUGH TO KEEP HIS PERSONAL OPINIONS OUT OF...
00:24:39 Unidentified Speaker WHEN YOU REMEMBER THE 1968 ADVENT OF LYNDON JOHNSON PULLING OUT AND THE QUOTES THAT CAME OUT THAT...
00:24:55 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WHAT PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAID THAT -- WAS THAT IF HE LOST CRONKITE, HE WOULD LOSE AMERICA. I...
00:25:25 Unidentified Speaker THIS NEXT CLIP I WANT TO SHOW YOU, YOU HAVE SEEN MANY TIMES AND IT HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT MANY TIMES....
00:25:44 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS IN LOS ANGELES. 1968, JUNE 6 WAS THE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY. HE HAD WON. THAT NIGHT, IN THE HOTEL,...
00:26:23 Unidentified Speaker WHERE WERE YOU THAT NIGHT? I WAS WITH THEM ALL THE WAY.
00:26:27 Unidentified Speaker WERE YOU NEXT TO HIM WHEN HE WAS SHOT?
00:26:30 Unidentified Speaker NO, I WASN'T. I WAS ABOUT 10 OR 15 YARDS BEHIND. ASS WE WERE LEAVING, I WOULD NORMALLY BE AT HIS...
00:27:22 Unidentified Speaker IN LOS ANGELES.
00:27:23 Unidentified Speaker IN LOS ANGELES.
00:27:30 Unidentified Speaker HIS BROTHER HAD BEEN KILLED. WHAT WAS YOUR SENSE ABOUT SECURITY. HOW TOP WAS THE SECURITY WHEN HE...
00:27:39 Unidentified Speaker WE HAD NO SECURITY AT ALL. WE PROVIDED OUR OWN. WE WOULD STAND BESIDE HIM AND TRY TO KEEP THE CROWD...
00:27:49 Unidentified Speaker IN YOUR HEAD, WERE YOU WORRIED? TODAY, THERE IS SO MUCH SECURITY. EVEN LESSER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS...
00:28:02 Unidentified Speaker HE HAD POLICE PROTECTION WHEN HE DROVE AROUND THE CITY, BUT NOT IN LOS ANGELES BECAUSE THE MAYOR WAS...
00:28:20 Unidentified Speaker WHERE WAS HE SPECIFICALLY IT AND HOW DID SIR HANSARD AND FIND HIM?
00:28:33 Unidentified Speaker -- HOW DID SIR HANSARD ANDHAN FIND HIM?
00:28:38 Unidentified Speaker WE WOULD GO TO THE LOBBY TO THIS MEETING ROOM WHERE THE PRESS WAS WAITING. HE WAS VERY TIRED. HE...
00:29:30 Unidentified Speaker WHERE WAS HE FROM?
00:29:32 Unidentified Speaker YES. I THINK HE WAS FROM SYRIA. HE WAS A PALESTINIAN. HE LIVED IN CALIFORNIA FOR QUITE A WAY OF --...
00:29:45 Unidentified Speaker WHERE IS HE NOW? WHAT'S HE IS IN SAN QUENTIN FOR LIFE.
00:29:55 Unidentified Speaker LET'S RUN THIS CLIP FROM 1968. WHAT SENATOR ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY DIED AT 140 -- 1:44 P.M. TODAY,...
00:30:50 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ELSE DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR MOMENT?
00:30:55 Unidentified Speaker I REMEMBER THAT I LEFT OUT OF THAT LIST OF PEOPLE, SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY. WE MADE THE CORRECTION...
00:31:51 Unidentified Speaker WHEN DID IT HIT YOU? WHAT'S A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER.
00:32:00 Unidentified Speaker IS THERE ANY WAY TO DESCRIBE THE IMPACT IT HAS HAD ON HER LIFE? NOTWHAT'S NOT YET.
00:32:08 Unidentified Speaker IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PASSING ON, INCLUDING EUNICE SHRIVER AND HER HUSBAND HAS...
00:32:27 Unidentified Speaker SAW A PICTURE OF SARGENT SHRIVER THE OTHER DAY. DO YOU COMMUNICATE WITH HIM?
00:32:36 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS A WONDERFUL, VIBRANT, ACTIVE GUY. HE WAS WELL INTO HIS 60S, '70S. NOW, HE IS AFFLICTED WITH...
00:33:00 Unidentified Speaker YES HE DID. HE STARTED IT. WHAT'S THE TO KNOW HIM?
00:33:04 Unidentified Speaker VERY WELL. -- DID YOU KNOW HIM?
00:33:17 Unidentified Speaker VERY WELL.
00:33:23 Unidentified Speaker WE WENT THROUGH A LOT OF NAMES AND PEOPLE WERE UNWILLING TO RUN. I THINK IT WAS A TURNING POINT IN...
00:33:46 Unidentified Speaker YOU LOST BY 25 POINTS.
00:33:50 Unidentified Speaker WE LOST TO THE POINT THAT SENATOR MCGOVERN WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A CANDIDATE FOR YEARS LATER.
00:33:58 Unidentified Speaker WALTER CRONKITE DIED A FEW WEEKS AGO AND TODAY, DON HEWITT DIED.
00:34:04 Unidentified Speaker I SAW THAT.
00:34:06 Unidentified Speaker I DID KNOW HIM. HE GAVE ME CAUSE FOR CONSIDERABLE EMBARRASSMENT IN THE KENNEDY CAMPAIGN. DON HEWITT...
00:36:30 Unidentified Speaker [UNINTELLIGIBLE] THE FORMER AIDE TO RONALD REAGAN WROTE --
00:36:54 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS ABOUT RIGHT. SINCE I WAS RUNNING FOR THE LEGISLATURE IN CALIFORNIA.
00:37:00 Unidentified Speaker HOW MUCH OF THIS FRENCH SHIP EXISTS TODAY -- A FRENCH SHIP EXISTS TODAY? -- FRENCIENDSHIP EXISTS TODAY?...
00:37:23 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS PROBABLY INVOLVED WITH SOMEBODY ON THE OTHER SIDE. I RESPECTED HIM. HE IS ONE OF THE RARE ...
00:38:05 Unidentified Speaker I AM.
00:38:07 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE UP ABOUT AND I UNDERSTAND YOU GO TO WORK EVERY DAY.
00:38:12 Unidentified Speaker I WORK EVERY DAY, BUT I TECHNICALLY RETIRED. I KEEP THE OFFICE AND THE PHONE AND THE COMPUTER AND...
00:38:22 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ARE YOU WRITING A BOOK ABOUT? BUT I SUPPOSE IT IS A MEMOIR.
00:38:31 Unidentified Speaker -- I SUPPOSE IT IS A MEMOIR.
00:38:34 Unidentified Speaker WANTED TO WAIT THIS LONG?
00:38:39 Unidentified Speaker IT IS TIME.
00:38:44 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE 85. DON HEWITT IS 88. WALTER CRONKITE IS 92. EUNICE SHRIVER WAS 88. HOW DO YOU DO IT AT THIS...
00:39:05 Unidentified Speaker PRETTY MUCH THE WAY THAT I DID 20 YEARS AGO OR 30. THERE ARE THINGS TO BE DONE. I HAVE A WONDERFUL...
00:39:32 Unidentified Speaker WHAT BOVE DID YOU WRITE TOGETHER BEFORE?
00:39:35 Unidentified Speaker WE WROTE A GOOD BOOK ABOUT TELEVISION CALLED "REMOTE- CONTROL." IT WAS ABOUT HOW TELEVISION WAS VERY...
00:39:50 Unidentified Speaker I THINK SO. BUCS IN WHAT WAY?
00:39:56 Unidentified Speaker -- IN WHAT WAY? IT HAS CREATED IT HAS CREATED POLITICS AND A WAY THAT WE LOOK AT OUR PUBLIC LIFE....
00:40:51 Unidentified Speaker ARE YOU GETTING ANGRIER?
00:40:55 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT WHAT THE CABLE STUCK DURING THE DAY.
00:40:57 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ARE YOUR HABITS EVERY DAY?
00:41:00 Unidentified Speaker I WAKE UP TO A WONDERFUL RADIO PROGRAM, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO FOR WHICH I WAS PRESIDENT FOR AWHILE....
00:41:37 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN THE TED KENNEDY CAMPAIGN AT ALL?
00:41:41 Unidentified Speaker ONLY IN COVERING IT.
00:41:45 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU ENCOURAGE HIM TO RUN?
00:41:49 Unidentified Speaker I PROBABLY DIDN'T, BUT ONLY PERIPHERALLY. I DID NOT HAVE A ROLE IN HIS CAMPAIGN. A LOT OF PEOPLE PROBABLY...
00:42:01 Unidentified Speaker WHY DID THEY ROSE TO IN 2004?
00:42:07 Unidentified Speaker -- WHY DID THEY ROAST YOU IN 2004?
00:42:10 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS PART OF A FUND TO SET UP A SCHOLARSHIP. SOMEBODY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO GET PEOPLE...
00:42:29 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS TED KENNEDY TALKING ABOUT YOU.
00:42:34 Unidentified Speaker I O FRANK A LOT. I NEVER WOULD HAVE RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE IN 1980 IF FRANK HAD NOT BEEN PRESIDENT...
00:43:25 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS HE LIKE?
00:43:29 Unidentified Speaker HE IS A LIKABLE AND ENGAGING MAN DID. HE IS THE BEST CENTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY -- OF THE 20TH- CENTURY....
00:43:52 Unidentified Speaker HAVE YOU TALKED TO HIM DURING THIS TIME OF HIS BRAIN CANCER?
00:44:07 Unidentified Speaker NOT MUCH.
00:44:11 Unidentified Speaker THIS SEEMS TO BE A TIME A LOT OF PEOPLE PASSING ON. BUT A LOT OF BIG-NAME FIGURES OF THE '60S AND...
00:44:22 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF ALL THAT ERA?
00:44:26 Unidentified Speaker IT IS HARD TO SAY. PART OF THE LEGACY IS GOOD FELLOWSHIP FOR COMPATIBILITY. WE ALL GOT ALONG A LOT...
00:45:28 Unidentified Speaker HERMAN MANKIEWICZ DID WHAT FOR A LIVING?
00:45:30 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS A SCREENWRITER. I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT JUST BY WATCHING. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE WAS A...
00:45:44 Unidentified Speaker HIS MOST FAMOUS MOVIE?
00:45:47 Unidentified Speaker CITIZEN KANE. SOME MAY SAY IT WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE. IT WAS THE STORY OF A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER...
00:46:18 Unidentified Speaker WHERE DID HE GET THE IDEA?
00:46:21 Unidentified Speaker PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS THE PARALLEL TO THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. THE NEW HEARST -- P DEWHURS...
00:46:45 Unidentified Speaker YOU HAVE TWO SONS, BEEN AN JOSHED. IT TELLS ABOUT BOTH OF THEM.
00:46:52 Unidentified Speaker THEY ARE -- TO TELL US ABOUT THEM. -- YOU HAVE TWO SONS, BEN AND JOSH.
00:47:08 Unidentified Speaker BEEN IS MUCH UNDER -- BEN IS MUCH YOUNGER AND HE IS A HOST OF TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES. YOU CANNOT DO...
00:47:18 Unidentified Speaker WAS AND HE WON OF THE YOUNG TURKS ON AIR AMERICA?
00:47:23 Unidentified Speaker YES. HE WAS THE FIRST DRAMA CRITIC OF "THE NEW YORKER" MAGAZINE. HE WORKED FOR "NEW YORK WORLD." ...
00:48:06 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS A LITTLE MORE FROM TED KENNEDY AT THAT ROSE.
00:48:12 Unidentified Speaker -- AT THAT ROAST.
00:48:14 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN. SHE RELIED HEAVILY ON HIS PRESS SKILLS, WHAT MY BROTHER LOVE THE...
00:49:33 Unidentified Speaker THAT REMINDS ME OF READING PART OF THE SPEECH THAT BOBBY KENNEDY GAVE IN INDIANAPOLIS AFTER THE DEATH...
00:49:55 Unidentified Speaker I WAS NOT WRITING A SPEECH, BUT I WAS WRITING IDEAS FOR A SPEECH BUT WE NEVER GOT TO IT BECAUSE THE...
00:50:11 Unidentified Speaker AND JUST LEFT YOU?
00:50:12 Unidentified Speaker YES.
00:50:13 Unidentified Speaker WHY?
00:50:18 Unidentified Speaker OF THE PRESS BUS GOT TO THE SPEECH AFTER BOBBY KENNEDY STARTED THE SPEECH. THAT SPEECH WAS RIGHT OFF...
00:51:03 Unidentified Speaker DON'T YOU KEEP ON LEARNING?
00:51:04 Unidentified Speaker I TRIED. WHAT WHAT TECHNIQUE THE USE --
00:51:14 Unidentified Speaker WHAT TECHNIQUE DO USE?
00:51:18 Unidentified Speaker I READ BOOKS AND I TALKED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. I HAVE A GOOD MEMORY. I THINK THAT MANY OF US TO JUST...
00:51:30 Unidentified Speaker AS YOU ARE WRITING THIS MEMOIR, ARE YOU JUST RECALLING OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD OR HAVE YOU KEPT NOTES...
00:51:38 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE NOT KEPT NOTES, BUT WHAT I DID FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS WAS MEET WITH THIS THE GENTLEMAN AND...
00:52:04 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU WANT TO JUST GIVE US A HAND ON WHAT STORY YOU ARE TELLING THAT WE WILL READ ABOUT NEXT YEAR?...
00:52:14 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY MIGHT BE. SOME ARE PROBABLY PROFANE AND NOT FOR WIDESPREAD CIRCULATION....
00:52:24 Unidentified Speaker WHEN WILL IT WILL BE PUBLISHED?
00:52:29 Unidentified Speaker -- WHEN WILL IT BE PUBLISHED?
00:52:34 Unidentified Speaker WHENEVER THE PUBLISHER PUBLISHES IT.
00:52:39 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS GEORGE MCGOVERN.
00:52:43 Unidentified Speaker SOME MEMBERS OF THE PRESS STARTED TO VENTURE THE OPINION THAT I WAS JUST TOO NICE OF A GUY TO BE PRESIDENT...
00:54:13 Unidentified Speaker WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT HIM?
00:54:20 Unidentified Speaker THE WHITE HOUSE TAPES THAT HE MADE, IN THIS MCGOVERN CAMPAIGN, IN 1972, WHEN GEORGE WALLACE WAS SHOT...
00:55:26 Unidentified Speaker YOU'VE COME ACROSS AS A MILD- MANNERED INDIVIDUAL. DO YOU EVER GET REALLY ANGRY?
00:55:31 Unidentified Speaker I DO FROM TIME TO TIME.
00:55:35 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ANGERS YOU MOST IN POLITICS?
00:55:41 Unidentified Speaker I AM INCREASINGLY ANGERED BY THE ACIDITY -- THE PASSIVITY OF THE MEDIA. THEY ARE ALWAYS CONTESTING...
00:57:01 Unidentified Speaker WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CRONKITE COLUMN THAT YOU WROTE AFTER HE DIED. WILL THERE EVER BE ANYONE...
00:57:26 Unidentified Speaker MAYBE NOT. MAYBE NOT. SOMEWHERE, WE HAVE TO FIND A MEDIUM, AND I AM NOT SURE WE ARE GOING TO.
00:57:49 Unidentified Speaker FRANK, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. LET'S TAKE YOU, I ENJOYED IT.
00:58:03 Unidentified Speaker -- THANK YOU, I ENJOYED IT.
00:58:07 Unidentified Speaker 40 DVD COPY OF THIS PROGRAM, CALLED 1-877-662-7726. 43 TRANSCRIPTS OR TO GIVE US YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT...

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