Television and the Presidency

Production:

• CBS television documentary broadcast 1980, color, mono sound, 3 parts each 30 min., total 90 min.
  
• Hosted by E.G. Marshall and Theodore White, based on White's Making of the President series of books on presidential election campaigns 1960-1980.
  
• Interviews with White House press secretaries (Pierre Salinger, Jody Powell, Ron Ziegler, et. al.) and television producers (Don Hewitt, Reuven Frank et. al.)
  

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Topics:

• Robert Taft
• Walter Cronkite
• Man from Abilene
• Checkers
• Adlai Stevenson
• Jackie Kennedy
• Hubert Humphrey
• Greater Houston Ministerial Association speech
• Nixon-Kennedy debate
• Kennedy funeral
• CBS News
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Barry Goldwater
• Daisy girl
• Vietnam
• Man in the Arena
• Edmund Muskie
• George McGovern
• Spiro Agnew
• Jimmy Carter
• Ronald Reagan

   

   

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