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...DAYS. PBS. Thursday, 8 p.m. E.D.T. His wife Alice keeps saying that Dick Stratton is so much more tolerant since he came home from his long trip. It may be so-certainly he seems amiable in his exchanges with her and their three sons, as well as with neighbors and the TV crew that made 2,251 Days...
...Strattons are not complicated people. They live by simple, often easily satirized values. But they are good people, and the opportunity this program offers to know them intimately is, among other things, a good corrective to last year's PBS trip with the Louds, not to mention a decade of American self-contempt over the war. In the long process of "bringing us together again," 2,251 Days is a significant step in the right direction. ∎ Richard Schickel
...PBS certainly carried out its part of the bargain. In the past 18 months, such liberal commentators as Sander Vanocur, Bill Moyers and Robert McNeil have disappeared from its schedule, although its public-affairs coverage has not been substantially reduced. It has also brought what the Administration fondly describes as "grassroots democracy" to the system by giving the nation's 246 local PBS stations the budgetary power to control programming by buying or rejecting possible PBS shows in a form of program "auction." Only those shows winning sufficient financial commitment from local stations will be included in the PBS...
...five-year basis and increased it from $60 million a year as of July 1 to $100 million by 1980. In a fit of pique at the proposal, Nixon left word as he set off for the Middle East that he wanted to cut rather than raise PBS funding and, above all, keep it on the short leash of year-to-year financing...
Nixon's switch deeply embarrassed Whitehead, who had planned to leave the White House after sealing the PBS deal. Whitehead personally leaked the story of Nixon's turnabout, evidently in hopes of forcing his boss to reconsider. But "it will take a miracle to turn him around," swears one Nixon aide. "He does not like public television, and probably never will...