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AND I WROTE MAYBE 50, 60 PAGES ABOUT ONE PART OF MY LIFE, ANOTHER PART, AND I SENT IT OFF TO THE
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PUBLISHER OF "PUBLIC AFFAIRS," AND HE SAID, "I DON'T WANT TO PUBLISH THAT. YOU'RE TOO BIT ABOUT THE WAY YOUR CAREER ENDED AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY...
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THAT TO A SAD CHAPTER WITH NBC WHICH NEVER
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WAS A GOOD FIT, AND SO THE 20 YEARS GAVE ME A START AND AN END AND IT GAVE ME A CHANCE TO TALK TO ALL THOSE MAR DEVELOP ISOUS PEOPLE WHO MADE THAT...
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WHAT I MEAN BY THAT. SO IS WHAT'S THE BITTERNESS ABOUT? >> WELL, WHEN WALTER CRONKITE
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WAS THE
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LONG-TIME ANCHOR AND THE GREAT -- HE WAS THE ANCHOR OF THE NEWS DIVISION. NEGOTIATED A NEW CONTRACT WHICH GAVE HIM TWO MONTHS OFF EVERY SUM ISER. THE...
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BEEN DOING THE SATURDAY NEWS, IS GOING TO BE HIS REGULAR REPLACEMENT WHEN HE'S GONE ON ASSIGNMENT AND IN THE SUM ISERTIME MUDD WILL COME UP TO NEW YORK...
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HAPPENED. AND I SORT OF KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED, BUT NOBODY HAD REALLY TOLD ME WHAT HAD HAPPENED SO IS I WAS IN MY LITTLE CUBICLE THERE IN THE BUREAU...
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| 00:06:27 |
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LEONARD'S OFFICE HAD CALLED DOWN TO SAY THAT MR. LEONARD WOULD BE DOWN ON THE COMPANY PLANE AND I SHOULD WAIT UNTIL HE ARRIVED BECAUSE OF -- I KNEW...
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THAT'S -- THOSE WHY -- WERE THE FIRST TWO INTERVIEWS IS I DID
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AND WHEN I WENT INTO THE NEWSROOM, IT WAS UNRECOGNIZABLE. THERE WAS NO LONGER A REAL COPY DESK. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN TRANSISTORIZED. EVERYTHING LOOKS...
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| 00:09:34 |
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HE HAD BEEN UNHORSED AT CBS, A REPORTER FOR THE "WASHINGTON TIMES" CALLED ME AND SAID COULD WE
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HAVE LUNCH? I'VE LOST TRACK OF YOU. SO WE WENT AND TALKED ABOUT CBS AND HALFWAY THROUGH THE LUNCH HE SAID, WELL, I KNEW THE QUESTION WOULD BE COMING,...
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| 00:11:51 |
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YOU WERE ALL DOING ANALYSIS. HOW HARD WAS IT TO CHOOSE YOUR WORDS FOR THIS BOOK ABOUT HOW YOU REALLY FEEL ABOUT DAN RATHER? >> WELL, BRIAN, IT...
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NOT -- HE WAS ADMIRED FOR HIS TENACITY, FOR HIS WORK HABITS, FOR HIS
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ENDURANCE, BUT HE WAS SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH BECAUSE IN THIS INSTANCE WHEN WE'D DO THESE POST-SPEECH ANALYSIS, RATHER THAN -- RATHER THAN...
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TIME REPORTING? >> CAPITOL HILL THE I -- CAPITOL HILL. I STARTED AS
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A WEEKEND RELIEF MAN AT THE WHITE HOUSE. WHO WAS THERE THEN IN CHUCK HAVE NOT IS FREMD WAS THE MAIN ONE, GEORGE HERMAN AND
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BOB PIERPOINT. I WOULD GO UP ON THE WEEKENDS. KENNEDY WAS THE
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PRESIDENT AND WENT TO NEW YORK AND RHODE ISLAND AND BOSTON. BUT HOWARD K. SMITH HAD BEEN THE BUREAU CHIEF WHO HIRED ME IN 1961 IS AND SORT OF INDICATED...
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| 00:15:00 |
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HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR COLLEAGUES -- YOU WENT ON TO WORK AT NBC FOR A WHILE, BUT THE FOLKS AT ABC AND NBC FEEL ABOUT THAT TODAY? >> IN THE CASE OF...
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| 00:15:29 |
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AFTER JIM HAGERTY LEFT THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION HE BECAME THE NEWS DIRECTOR AND TRIED TO PUT A GOOD
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| 00:15:39 |
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TEAM TOGETHER, BUT THEY NEVER QUITE MADE IT DURING THAT PERIOD. IT WASN'T UNTIL ROON ARTICLE EDGE CAME THAT THEY -- ROON ARTICLE ENL CAME THAT THEY...
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| 00:17:49 |
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THAT I CAN THINK OF, BEGINNING WITH THE KENNEDY ELECTION AND THE ASSASSINATION AND VIETNAM AND THE RACE RIOTS AND THE
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| 00:18:01 |
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VIOLENCE AND LYNDON JOHNSON'S ELECTION
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| 00:18:04 |
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AND WATERGATE AND -- IT WAS -- THAT BUREAU WAS SO FRAUGHT WITH STORIES AND HERE WE WERE, THIS MARVELOUS BRO, TALENTED MEN AND WOMEN, ALL CAME...
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| 00:19:42 |
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I STARTED. HOWARD K. SMITH IS AND SHONE ISGREN -- SCHONEGREN AND
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ERIC SEVE IS ARIDE. --
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SEVE IS ARIDE. -- S
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| 00:19:59 |
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IS EVAREI 2K6R789 >> GEORGE MERMAN? >> TALKED TO HIS WIDOW, PATTY. AND I DIDN'T KNOW THAT ED BRADLEY WAS DYING WHEN I TALKED TO HIM BECAUSE HE DIDN'T...
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| 00:20:21 |
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YOU DO? >>
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| 00:20:23 |
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YOU TAKE DAVID SCHUMER, -- SCHUMACHER, ONE OF THE BACK-BENCHERS IN THE BUREAU. HE LIVES OUT IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS
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| 00:20:35 |
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AND I WENT OUT ON THE -- OUT AND HAD LUNCH AND TURNED ON THE RECORDER AND SAID, WHERE WERE YOU BORN? JUST LIKE YOU DO, BRIAN. WHAT DID YOUR FATHER...
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| 00:20:48 |
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ANY SISTERS? JUST GOT HIM TO TALK ABOUT HOW HE BEGAN, HOW HE GOT HIS FIRST JOB. THEN ID SAID HOW WERE YOU HIRED? WHEN WERE YOU HIRED? WHAT DID YOU DO...
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| 00:23:06 |
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HE ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE
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| 00:23:08 |
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IDENTIFIED TOO CLOSELY WITH MCCARTHY AND I THINK SOME OF THE MANAGEMENT HAD FELT THAT HE HAD SURRENDERED HIS OBJECTIVITY. AND I THINK THEN HE GOT A JOB...
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| 00:23:42 |
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1989 WITH HIM. BUT FIRST, EXPLAIN HIS ROLE AND HOW POWERFUL HE WAS. >> HE HAD BEEN A NEWSPAPER MAN AND BEEN ONE OF MURROW'S BOYS OVER IN EUROPE DURING...
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| 00:24:10 |
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BUREAU AND HIS ASSIGNMENT WAS TO DO A NIGHTLY TWO-MINUTE ANALYSIS. AND TWOSS A LITTLE OASIS -- IT WAS A LITTLE OASIS ON TELEVISION. NOTHING LIKE...
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| 00:25:35 |
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THAT NOBODY DARED SAY HI, ERIC. YOU WOULD SAY HI, MR. SEVAREID. >> HE DIED IN 19 2. THIS VIDEO
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IS 1989 IN HIS HOME
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| 00:25:47 |
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IN GEORGETOWN. WE'LL WATCH JUST A LITTLE BIT. >> I HAVE BEEN
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| 00:25:51 |
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ATTACKED MANY, MANY TIMES FOR BEING TOO NEWT R58 -- NEWELL -- NEUTRAL, TO UNIMPASSIONED ABOUT PUBLIC AFFAIRS. AND THEN OF COURSE EVERY
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| 00:26:04 |
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TIME I DO LOSE MY COOL A BIT I GET ATTACKED FOR THAT BUT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND
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| 00:26:11 |
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THE FUNCTION. IF YOU ARE THE SOLE IN-HOUSE COMMENTATOR ON A HUGE NETWORK, MILLIONS OF LISTENERS WHO HAVE IS ALMOST NO WAY TO REBUT YOU, THOUGH WE TRIED...
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| 00:28:54 |
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VERY ANTSY,
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| 00:28:56 |
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VERY PRICKLY ABOUT OUTSPOKEN COMMENTATORS AND REPORTERS AND THE LAST THING THEY WANT TO HAPPEN IS TO HAVE THE WHITE HOUSE BEGIN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT...
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| 00:29:49 |
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CAN'T ANY LONGER GO TO A CHANNEL OR A PROGRAM AND GET A GOOD RENDERING OF THE DAY'S EVENTS. IT IS SO
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| 00:30:00 |
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BIFURCATED. YOU GET MAYBE 10 MINUTES OF NEWS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH EVENING'S BROADCAST AND THE REST IS LIFESTYLES AND HOW TO TREAT YOUR DOG OR...
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| 00:30:36 |
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A CHANNEL
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| 00:30:38 |
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FOR EVERYBODY IN AMERICA. ESSENTIALLY. SO AS A CONSEQUENCE WITH THE COMPETITION BEING WHAT IT IS, ATTENTION BEING SHORTER AND SHORTER, AND THE PIE...
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| 00:31:42 |
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AS A SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEMS. AND TO DO THAT YOU HAD TO GET -- YOU HAD TO HAVE
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| 00:31:48 |
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A PUBLIC THAT ENJOYED AND UNDERSTOOD THE USE OF ARMS AND TANKS AND SO -- ABANDON AWED -- AND YOU HAD COLONELS WHO WOULD TRAVEL AROUND TO ADVOCATE...
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| 00:35:49 |
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HERE'S SOME FROM THAT DOCUMENTARY. >> WE
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| 00:35:52 |
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ASKED THE MAN IN CHARGE OF ALL PENTAGON PUBLIC RELATIONS, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DANIEL HENKIN, IF HE THOUGHT THE PRESS DID A GOOD JOB COVERING...
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| 00:36:09 |
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PRESS SOME HEADACHES. WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
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| 00:36:12 |
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WE ACT AS PROFESSIONALS HERE. IT'S A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP NOT ONLY WITH THE PENTAGON PRESS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON NEWS CORPS BUT...
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| 00:36:25 |
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OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND AT STATE FAIRS AND SHOPPING CENTERS? WHAT PURPOSE DOES THAT SERVE? >> I THINK IT SERVES THE PURPOSE OF INFORMING THE PUBLIC...
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| 00:36:44 |
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FORCES, TO HAVE SPEAKERS COME BEFORE THEM, TO ASK QUESTIONS AND TO UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR
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| 00:36:54 |
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OUR ARMED FORCES, WHY WE ASK FOR THE FUNDS THAT WE DO ASK FOR, HOW WE SPEND THESE FUNDS, WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT SUCH PROBLEMS AS DRUGS? AND WE DO...
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| 00:37:40 |
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IS PROPAGANDA THE I DON'T AGREE WITH IT. >> I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU JUXTAPOSED BUT I DON'T, I ASSUME THAT WASN'T PART OF IT. DO YOU REMEMBER THE QUESTION?...
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| 00:37:54 |
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BACK AND LOOK AT THE TRANSCRIPT. BUT AT THAT TIME, THAT WAS A STANDARD TECHNIQUE OF EDITING. WHEN YOU -- THE PRESSURE IS ON YOU IN A -- IN THE EDITING...
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| 00:38:07 |
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THE INTERVIEW INTERESTING. AND TO THE POINT. AND YOU DON'T WANT TO --
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| 00:38:13 |
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YOU DON'T WANT YOUR INTERVIEWEE TO WANDER THE SO IT WAS STANDARD PROCEDURE THEN THAT YOU COULD TAKE, IF -- PROVIDED YOU DID NOT DISTORT A PERSON'S...
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| 00:39:39 |
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NO, IT'S TWO-CAMERA INTERVIEW. >> ANOTHER CLIP INVOLVES SOMEBODY YOU WORKED WITH BEING INVOLVED WITH THE MATERIAL THAT THE PENTAGON WAS PUTTING OUT...
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| 00:39:50 |
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SHALL -- ARE SOME FAMILIAR FACES. >> WELL-KNOWN JOURNALISTS AND MOVIE STARS OFTEN SERVE IS AS NAR ATERS MORE
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| 00:40:02 |
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MARCH DOCTOR NARRATORS FOR THE FILM. >> HI, I'M BOB STACK. AS YOU MAY KNOW, ONE OF MY HOBBIES IS COLLECT THE GUNS. I'VE HUNTED ON AND OFF
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| 00:40:16 |
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ALL MY LIFE. SPEAKING OF GUNS AND FAR -- FARAWAY PLACES I'VE JUST COME BACK FROM A TRIP TO VIETNAM WHERE GUNS ARE USED FOR AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PURPOSE....
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| 00:40:28 |
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DEPARTMENT, THE PENTAGON HELPED JOHN WAYNE MAKE THE GREEN BERETS. >> IN VIETNAM, REVOLUTION IS IS A DOUBLE-EDGED WORD. THE ENEMY USES IT. IT'S WHAT...
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| 00:40:49 |
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AND THERE'S NOTHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT THE KIND OF REVOLUTION THE ENEMY HAS IN MIND. IT'S THE SAME THING WE'VE SEEN IN MANY PARTS OF THE
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| 00:40:58 |
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WORD EVER SINCE THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION 50 YEARS AGO. MURDER, ASSASSINATION, TERROR, AND OVER HERE THEY'VE KILLED OVER
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| 00:41:08 |
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20,000 CIVIL ISIAN LEADERS. AND IT'S THESE SAME BRAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THE WILL AND THE GUTS TO CONDUCT THEIR OWN REVEL LUTION, A REAL REVOLUTION...
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| 00:41:46 |
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UNITED STATES NAVY. THE AIRCRAFT CARRY YES, THE CRUISER, AND DESTROYER THE THE -- STROIR. THE MODERN DEEP-WATER NAVY. >> THIS IS THE AMERICAN NAVY...
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| 00:42:04 |
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NEEDED. DISPLAYING THE FLEXIBILITY OF MODERN SEA POWER. CONTROLLING THE SEAS, EXTENDING ITS INFLUENCE ON LAND. AND HOLDING SUPER ISITY IN THE AIR....
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| 00:42:18 |
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GEARED TO MEET AGGRESSION AT ANY SPOT ON THE GLOBE. >> THE EAGLE'S TALON, MADE IN 19611, NARRATED BY WALTER CRONKITE, DEALS WITH AMERICA'S RESPONSE TO...
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| 00:42:47 |
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NEIGHBORS. RIGHT NEXT DOOR IS THE NATION WE FREED IN 1898, CUBA. A COMMUNIST TYRANNY HOLDS SWAY. WHISKERS DO NOT HIDE THE NAKED FACE OF DICTATORSHIP....
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| 00:43:41 |
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TODAY. >> DID YOU INTERVIEW
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| 00:43:44 |
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WALTER CRONKITE FOR YOUR BOOK? >> YES, YES. >> DID YOU ASK HIM ABOUT THIS? >> NO, I DID NOT. >> WHY NOT? >> WELL, ACTUALLY THE INTERVIEW I HAD DONE...
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| 00:44:04 |
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INTERVIEWED HIM ABOUT OTHER THINGS.
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| 00:44:06 |
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BUT THAT DID NOT COME UP BECAUSE
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I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT
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| 00:44:09 |
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THE BOOK AS
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| 00:44:10 |
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SUCH. ANYWAY, IT
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| 00:44:12 |
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WAS -- IT MARKED A DIFFICULT CHAPTER IN MY RELATIONS WITH WALTER. GORDON MANNING HAD BEEN ASSIGNED BY S IS ALIANT TO TELL WALTER WE WERE GOING TO...
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| 00:46:13 |
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REFLECTIVE OR INTROSPECTIVE, IS SUPERFICIAL AND DEPENDS SO MUCH ON ACTION, FILM, AND THE SCREEN MOVING ALL THE TIME AND THE MAIN QUESTION THAT PRODUCERS...
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| 00:47:19 |
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AWFUL LOT OF STUFF THAT NETWORKS ASK YOU TO DO, NEWSIS
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| 00:47:25 |
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MEN SHOULDN'T BE ASKED TO DO AND I REFUSED SOME THINGS AND -- FOR INSTANCE, WHEN WALTER WAS UNHORSED AS ANCHOR OF THE CONVENTION IN 1964, PALEY ORDERED...
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| 00:50:23 |
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SEEN BEFORE. THE STORY OF LILLIAN BROWN AND BEING WITH RICHARD NIXON RIGHT BEFORE HE RESIGNED. WHAT'S THAT STORY? >> LILLIAN WAS THE PREMIERE MAKEUP...
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| 00:50:53 |
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SPEECH." SO SHE WENT OVER, LEFT SEVAREID, WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND WHEN SHE GOT THERE, THE SECRET SERVICE AGENT, WHO KNEW HER, SAID IS, "LILLIAN,...
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| 00:53:49 |
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JOKE. LET ME SEE. DID YOU GET THESE LIGHTS PROPERLY. EYE EYES ALWAYS HAVE -- YOU WILL FIND IF YOU GET PAST 60, THAT'S ENOUGH. MY FRIEND OLLIE ALWAYS...
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| 00:54:33 |
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THE >> 93 YEARS OLD AND TOLD YOU THAT STORY. WHY DID SHE WAIT ALL THESE YEARS? >> I DON'T KNOW. SHEE -- SHE'S VERY
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| 00:54:43 |
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DISCREET. I TRIED TO GO THROUGH A LIST OF
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| 00:54:45 |
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PRESIDENTS SHE HAD MADE UP AND
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| 00:54:47 |
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SHE SAID, WELL, SHE NEVER LET ANYTHING GO THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, WAS TRULY
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| 00:54:53 |
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PRIVATE ABOUT WHAT SHE HAD SEEN AND
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| 00:54:55 |
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OBSERVED IN THE WHITE HOUSE. BUT SHE TOLD ME A COUPLE INTERESTING THINGS. FOR INSTANCE,
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| 00:55:01 |
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WHEN SHE WOULD MAKE UP. KENNEDY, SHE'D ALWAYS TAKE HIS JACKET, YOU KNOW, AND SORT OF TUCK IT UNDER HIS TAIL SO IT WOULDN'T RIDE UP. IT WAS THEN SHE...
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FOR A COPY, CALL 1-877-662-7726. FOR FREE TRANSCRIPTS OR TO GIVE US YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS PROGRAM, VISIT US AT Q-AND-A.ORG. C-SPAN PROGRAMS ARE...
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| 00:57:10 |
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A TWO-PART "Q.&.A." INTERVIEW WITH FORMER CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT ROGER MUDD. NEXT WEEK WE'LL CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION WITH MR. MUDD AS HE
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