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" xv } s* Abbott Howard Hoffman by.see.you turn on the television........80 you turn on the television and........r beg your pardon? You turn on the television and you see this film of Vietnam'and they don't tell you that it was shot by the Pentagon. Well, like tonight, I mean, you know, it's as if Nixon didn't have — enough fime on television already tonight when you ran that a jittle Checker's film, you know, I mean, he decided he's got to have some time at 7:30 tonight to sell us 412 on his i Supreme Court appointments. Now, «hat's he do see if he had L ; gome time? Well, he just calls up the networks and says, - "Fellas, I'd like to have some time at 7:30 tonight on ail three of your aet-orks and I'd like for you to carry it on —k | television and I'd like for you to carry in on radio and I'm - not going to pay you anything for it," and they say well “ot yes sir, Mr. President, that's just fine you go right on sir whenever you'd like. And he does and there it is, you know, brought to you by.s.eeoe.(unintelligible) that's the theory * of course and,.....but, you know, I think that's, that is the most importent political question that the people of this country need to become informed about and respond to and reform in i972. We saw this evening another of the television spectaculars written, produced and directed out of the White House and we're gonna see them ali through 1972.And it's not that the networks are particularly partisan, they don't care whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat, they just say...are attracted to power like moths to a flame and they Support whatever's powerful and Presidents are very powerful and so they tend to support then. _ The problem is that if we're going to maintain any a kind of a balance in this courtry between the Executive and F the Legislative Branch of Government for starters, and those are supposed to be two equal branches of government, we've got to have some way of getting Congress into that little 21 inch screen and that's part of the problem because you've got 60 many of them fellas that's it's hard to fit them ail in i that picture. And so they've got dozens of things to start a withe And the second disadvantage is, well one of those es when President Nixon seized all the networks, 14 united States Senators came back and they. said look we don't want all three networks, we don't want the networks free. But we would like to have one network for which we will pay full commercial rates,as not a good a time as the President had in his prime time,that which we as members of the Legislative er -ill- PARR ree emma my pe ree rm ee eT AR me pee Be pee