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ee ( 4) Abbott Howard Hoffman Bill Greeley: It's a tough act to follow.......(unintelligible) Richard, That's a tough act to follow. Abbie Hoffman: It is. He wh....It was....it's kind of interesting that everybody was laughing at it and yet it probably was..,it did, it did get him right on the ticket. Tre came right down and said Richard you're my boy and it was a kind of cunning speech, Well, what do you thing about the newsmen not coming on, on the show? Does this suppression of news go on in their own back yard a lot is this an uncommon activity? How do they decide what is news? * Bill Greeley: I think the FBI probably tipped them if you were a national security risk. They're wnder great pressure from the affiliates, from the sponsors, from the....the affiliates, for instance the NBC affiliates two years ago, came in and in their closed meeting they voted 60% to 40% that NBC coverage of Vietnam was slanted anti-war and they have the affiliates board take this up with the president of the network, Julian Goodman. Now if the affiliates think, 60% of them think that, you know, that the coverage of the war is slanted what has the coverage of the war been really? What is the last unintelligible) documentary on Vietnam that you saw on TV? t was Charlie Company I thihk on CBS (unintelligible) have to go right? Where's the hour documentary on the secret war in Taos? Abbie Hoffman: Where's John Lawrence? In London? They do uh they do have....the network.....lots of times when you confront .them with certain kinds of problems, the first thing they say is of course space and time and the next thing they of course say is the FCC. Is the FCC something....guess i should ask (unintelligible) is the FCC something that the networks have invented? Does it exist? . Nicholas Johnson: Well, I regret to say it does exist and there's seven of us there am..but we don't really constitute much of ea threat. I must say that's......that's putting it very