Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from NBC Evening News for Wednesday, Dec 26, 1979


Title: White Paper: The American Presidency

Abstract:

  • NBC special "White Paper: The American Presidency," reported by David Brinkley
  • Taped interviews with Hugh Sidey, George Reedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Thomas Cronin, John Ehrlichman, Abraham Ribicoff, Clark Clifford, Henry Kissinger, Mark Andrews, A. Toby Moffitt, Timothy Wirth, Andrew Maguire, Thomas P. O'Neill, Joseph Al. Califano Jr., William H. Cable, Henry Jackson, Jake Garn, Jacob Javits, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Byrd, Helen Thomas, James Wieghart, Ben Bradlee, Jody Powell, Sam Donaldson, Barbara Jordan, and unidentified others.
  • Taped excerpts of speeches by John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Steven Symms, Richard Bolling, James Wright Jr., Barbara Mikulski and Mark Russell.
  • Begin Time:08:30:00 pm
    End Time:09:58:10 pm
    TVN Record Number:659430
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1979-2009 Vanderbilt University
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