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...indefatigable operator reached Washington Lawyer Joseph Califano, who was a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, in the midst of a Georgetown dinner party. The bash included, in addition to Fritz and Joan Mondale, Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham and a platoon of Washington journalists, among them Roger Mudd of CBS, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, and TIME'S Jerrold Schecter?hardly a crowd designed for secrecy. Nobody bought Califano's white lie that he had been talking to his wife, and when he got off the phone, one guest shouted: "He's just been offered the regional...
...over the country, assemble around the convention hall. Most are shut out, but somehow Kovic manages to enter. Enraged, near tears, he protests furiously, crying out at the awkward and indifferent Nixon delegates. "Look at me, look at your war!" The television cameras catch sight of him, Roger Mudd of CBS approaches, and for two minutes of national television all the pent up shame and rage and grief gushes...
...Rather briskly escorted him across the floor. Morton was halfway there before he thought better of it and escaped. While the Mississippi delegation caucused in a CBS trailer, Mike Wallace was locked outside, but three young CBS pages inside-sons of Commentator Moyers, Correspondent Roger Mudd and Producer Perry Wolff-took in every word. They were deprived of a major scoop only because the delegation failed to reach an agreement...
...Douglas Kiker fought his way to Betty Ford in a dead heat with CBS's Sylvia Chase, but gracefully let her go first. Even NBC'S Pettit, a raging bull at Madison Square Garden last month, was a model of courtliness, standing by patiently while Mudd of CBS beat him to an interview with former Missouri Representative Thomas Curtis. "The kind of abrasiveness that was customary and sometimes necessary in 1968 is out of place now," explained Dan Rather. "We're a little cooler headed...
...others: Tom Brokaw, John Hart and Catherine Mackin. CBS will have Morton Dean, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer on the floor, and ABC will field a team of Ann Compton, Sam Donaldson, Herbert Kaplow and Frank Reynolds...