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...blitz even extended to an appearance on one of those l-to-5 a.m. radio call-in programs, the Larry King show. Perhaps his toughest questioning came after Monday Night Football, where he appeared on an extended ABC Nightline that was on until 1:25 a.m. He faced Sam Donaldson, who filled in for Ted Koppel. On Nightline, the camera watches over the interviewer's shoulder, while the target appears on a large screen, as if coming from somewhere a long way off. In this case it was a gimmick. Donaldson was in a below-ground studio...
...length prosecutorial style, he first-named back (". . . it was unknown to me at that point, Sam") like a prisoner hoping to curry favor with his captor. The effect was self-demeaning. There were those who admired his dogged imperturbability. Afterward, ABC got a number of calls criticizing Donaldson, who had done his job professionally...
...American Express, the Shearson deal marked the end of a long, and sometimes embarrassing, search for a major acquisition. In 1972 American Express made a disastrous foray into the securities business by buying a 25% interest in Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette, now Wall Street's 18th largest firm, for $29.3 million. Three years later, American Express gave up that investment for only $6.4 million. Then in 1979 American Express attempted an unfriendly takeover of McGraw-Hill, but the board of directors of the publishing firm unanimously rejected...
...replied the editor as two rewrite men joined the line, taking a sentence or two of dictation in turns before typing it into the computer. At 2:31 p.m., U.P.I, went on the air with its report, just a minute after White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson broke the story on ABC radio...
Steele said Donaldson--who served as undersecretary of State under Henry A. Kissinger '50--would appeal to moderate conservatives...