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Executive Privilege. Nixon was totally misleading in an answer to NBC'S Tom Brokaw, who wanted to know how the President could justify his repeated claim that he was just following the precedent set by past Presidents in withholding evidence from the Judiciary Committee. Only Andrew Johnson, Brokaw noted, had faced an impeachment inquiry-and he yielded everything that the House demanded. Nixon conceded that Brokaw was right on Johnson but argued that the "principle of confidentiality" between President and advisers was applicable in an impeachment proceeding as well as in any other congressional investigation...
...covered wagon, and Chester Robert Huntley's childhood was spent on the raw edge of America's last frontier. The rugged spirit he absorbed from his family and the land prepared him to cultivate the unfilled fields of electronic journalism. As co-anchor man of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report for 14 years, he became one of the country's most recognizable celebrities while earning respect for his skill as a newsman. When he left NBC in 1970, he returned to Montana, and it was there that he died last week of lung cancer...
During later stints with CBS, ABC and NBC outlets in Los Angeles, Huntley insisted that TV news should be more than a dry recitation of bulletins. He expressed opinions when he felt they were called for and drew right-wing fire for advocating minority rights and criticizing Senator Joseph McCarthy...
Since Lewis became director in 1969, NBC has made no election night projection mistake, he said...
Lewis explains that his plan for the future is to shift the emphasis of NBC election coverage to the "why" behind the election, to find out what the people want their government...