Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1974-06-18

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Roger Mudd (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:30 pm

• Nixon Administration / Cattle Producers / Government Aid

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  05:30:30 pm — 05:32:30 pm

  (Studio) Nixon administration eases squeeze for cattle producers.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (DC) Govt. buys $100 million in ground meat in effort to aid slumping livestk. industry Meat to be used in next year's school lunch program. [House Speaker Carl ALBERT - says somewhere between stkyard. and consumer large profit is being made.] Agriculture Committee chairperson W.R. Poage states his committee will investigate problem.
  REPORTER: Nelson Benton

• (Commercial: Doan's Pills For Backache; Benjamin Moore Paints.)

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  05:32:30 pm — 05:33:30 pm

• Israeli Attack / Arab Guerrilla Bases

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  05:33:30 pm — 05:33:50 pm

  (Studio) Israeli war planes attack Arab guerrilla bases in south Lebanon. Attack supposedly was in retaliation for Arab attack on Shamir last week
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

• President / Middle East Trip / Jordan

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  05:33:50 pm — 05:36:10 pm

  (Studio) President ends Mid. E. trip in Jordan.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (Amman, Jordan) Joint US, Jordanian statement issued; details given. [PRES. - hopes Mid. E. trip to help bring about Mid. E. peace.] Jordan's King Hussein to visit DC. Departure ceremony for Nixons shown.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

  (Studio) President flies to Azores from Jordan to meet with Portugal's de Spinola.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

• Mrs. Nixon / Jordan / Sightseeing

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  05:36:10 pm — 05:38:10 pm

  (Studio) Mrs. Nixon sightsees while in Jordan.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (Jerash, Jordan) Mrs. Nixon visits ruins of Roman city. Security tight around Mrs. Nixon. [Mrs. NIXON - states Mid. E. trip has been very successful.]
  REPORTER: Connie Chung

• NATO Foreign Ministers / Kissinger / Canada

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  05:38:10 pm — 05:38:40 pm

  (Studio) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) foreign mins. meet in Ottawa, Canada. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attends. Mins. write declaration of principles.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

• Zhukov / May Be Dead

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  05:38:40 pm — 05:39:10 pm

  (Studio) Unconfirmed reports say former Soviet defense minister Georgi Zhukov dead.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

• (Commercial: Kellogg's Corn Flakes Cereal; Greyhound Bus.)

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  05:39:10 pm — 05:40:10 pm

• Clawson / House Judiciary Committee / Impeachment Probe

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  05:40:10 pm — 05:42:50 pm

  (Studio) White House communications director Kenneth Clawson accuses House Judiciary Committee of trying to bring down President with leaks and other shady tactics. Clawson says some leaks prepared by William Dixon, former McGovern campaign worker. Committee members hear another White House tape and some believe it proves President knew of Watergate cover-up before March 21, `73.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (DC) March 17 conversation between President and John Dean reviewed. Committee chairperson Peter Rodino reacts to tape. Representatives Wayne Owens, Walter Flowers, William Cohen react to tape of President' recollection of March 17 meeting
  REPORTER: Bruce Morton

• Senate Watergate Committee / Staff Report Leak

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  05:42:50 pm — 05:44:10 pm

  (Studio) Senate Watergate committee recs. staff report on campaign financial stage of investigation.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (DC) Portion of draft report already leaked. Details of leak outlined.
  REPORTER: Daniel Schorr

• Immunity / Young / Hunt

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  05:44:10 pm — 05:44:20 pm

  (Studio) Washington, DC federal judge reaffirms grant of immunity for key government witnesses in Ellsberg burglary trial, David Young and Howard Hunt.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

• Kleindienst

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  05:44:20 pm — 05:44:40 pm

  (Studio) Grievance committee for United States district court orders former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to show cause why he shouldn't be disciplined. Kleindienst convicted of crime in Watergate-related case.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

• Silbert / US. Atty / Kleindienst

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  05:44:40 pm — 05:46:30 pm

  (Studio) Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst testifies at Earl Silbert's Senate Hearing with regard to nomination to United States attorney' Silbert prosecuted original Watergate trial.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (DC) Kleindienst under interrogation by Senator Sam Ervin. Interrogation topics reviewed. [ERVIN - thinks Kleindienst should have remembered more about original Watergate probe.] Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen to testify tomorrow.
  REPORTER: Lesley Stahl Artist: Howard Brodie

• (Commercial: Gibson Appliances; Clear Eyes Eye Drops.)

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  05:46:30 pm — 05:47:30 pm

• Strip Mining / Wyoming

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  05:47:30 pm — 05:51:30 pm

  (Studio) Strip mining bill survives preliminary test in House Interior Committee, but bill's manager Representative Morris Udall believes he faces some opposition.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (Gillette, Wyoming) Strip mining in Wyoming shown. [Mayor Clifford DAVIS - explains he sold land to strip miners.] Gillette already famous in psychologists' world. In 1960's psychologist probed effect of small oil boom on town's spirit. Boom town syndrome beginning all over again for Gillette. [DAVIS - believes town will be confused for 5 years before town's facilities catch up with boom.]
  REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater

• Galveston Fire

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  05:51:30 pm — 05:52:20 pm

  (Studio) Waterfront fire occurs in Galveston, Texas.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (Houston, Texas) Film of fire shown. Fire's cause not officially determined.
  REPORTER: David Dick (narrates) (KHOU-TV film)

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:52:20 pm — 05:52:40 pm

• (Commercial: ITT.)

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  05:52:40 pm — 05:53:40 pm

• Army / Public Relations Firm

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  05:53:40 pm — 05:55:10 pm

  (Studio) Army has hired public relations firm to attract troops.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (DC) Public relations firm has also acted as booking agent for Secretary of Army Howard Callaway. N.W. Ayer and Son handles Army's advertising. Letter sent to CBS by firm reviewed. Callaway denies knowledge of firm's extra service.
  REPORTER: Bob Schieffer

• Analysis (President)

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  05:55:10 pm — 05:57:30 pm

  (Studio) Eric Sevareid discusses the press.
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

  (DC) J. Walter Thompson ad agency gives 2-day symposium for business execs. with regard to meeting the press. Exs. of pointers outlined.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

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  05:57:30 pm — 05:57:30 pm