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Lewis: Its not the law at the moment. But I have a view that at least as to high officials, policy-making officials like Ariel Sharon or William Westmoreland or Paul Laxalt or the judges of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court or any of these other people who are suing... that as to them there should be no libel actions whatever, that they are in the field of politics, and when they go into that field, they accept the risk, they undertake the risk, and answer back...
Crimson: But there is also a principle that has been expressed by Westmoreland's lawyers that public officials should have the right to protection of their reputations simply against falsehoods. Would you address this issue...
Crimson: Do you think there's a problem just for the everyday person or the public person who may not be so high, the mayor of a city who feels he's been libeled? There's a great cost to bringing libel suits. Westmoreland's spent some 2 million dollars to sue CBS. What can be done to give these people the chance to redress injury...
Lewis: I think you have two questions there, both very important. I make a distinction...between William Westmoreland or Harry Truman or Arik Sharon on one side of the line and the ordinary person. People on that first side of the line have an easy time getting a platform to answer. General Westmoreland's reputation is a lot better today than it was before this whole matter started...I think it's very different with the private figure or even with the limited purpose public figure, someone who isn't a man or woman of general fame. I think they...
Nesson: Like Westmoreland...