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...John Chancellor for his "immediate thoughts" on this or that. After NBC projected Reagan the winner, Chancellor offered this immediate thought: "Just that there's a hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least one occasion, Brokaw harkened back to former NBC newsman David Brinkley, now with ABC News. In 1980, Brinkley surveyed the giant NBC map--colored Reagan blue--and labelled it "a suburban swimming pool." It's odd to see Brokaw so drained that he must rely on a former colleague's quip...
Over at ABC, Brinkley joined Peter Jennings, who interviewed Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell. Jennings spoke of those who identified themselves as "born against, I mean again, Christians." Forgive the slip. And Barbara Walters' commentary? "As a woman I think I should say something about Ferraro as a woman candidate but as an American I think I should say nothing about the Ferraro candidacy but I will speak now as a woman so I will comment on Ferraro as a woman and how her campaign has affected American women." No, that's not an exact transcript. But it's close...
There was some welcome relief. Roger Mudd brought intelligence to the NBC triumvirate. And Brinkley managed to seem as sharp and wry at ABC as he once was at NBC. ABC also scored with George Will and Tom Wicker, if only because both seemed so visibly confused by Walters' words...
George F. Will, the most talented of the lot, is going through a change of persona more than a change of views in his second career as tart questioner on ABC'S This Week with David Brinkley (where he is billed as plain George Will). "When you accept an institutional identification," he says, "that does change you." Still a Tory, or a "Scoop Jackson Republican," he is no longer so chummy with Reagan; his continued advocacy of higher taxes irritates Reagan, and Will says he gets invited to the White House "not that much" any more. Given television...
...made public, as she had promised earlier. "The hesitance to release her husband's tax returns," wrote George F. Will in his syndicated column, "may mean he has not paid much in taxes." Indeed that had been the common suspicion. On an ABC news program, This Week with David Brinkley, Ferraro said her husband had relented because "people were jumping to the most outrageous conclusions on a lot of things." Columnist Will, an interviewer on the program, asked if the disclosures would show that her family had paid its fair shares of taxes. Replied Ferraro: "They sure will. And George...