Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1974-06-10

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Tom Brokaw (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:10 pm

• Nixon / Middle East Trip

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  05:30:10 pm — 05:36:00 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon's itinerary for Mid. E. trip outlined.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (White House) President prepared for trip most of wkend. at Camp David. [NlXON - realizes 1 trip won't solve deep differences between United States and Mid. E., but this is a beginning.] Nixons to rest in Salzburg, Austria, before continuing trip to Mid. E.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw (narrates)

  (Studio) Report from Salzburg follows.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (Salzburg, Austria) Arrival ceremonies shown. Chancellor Bruno Kreisky meets Nixons and Kissinger. Chief of staff Alexander Haig and Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler also travel with President, among other staff members
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Studio) Giant picture of Nixon constructed in Cairo, Egypt, in anticipation of President' arrival Wednesday
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• (Commercial: The Hartford Insurance Company; Kool-Aid.)

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  05:36:00 pm — 05:37:00 pm

• Nixon / House Judiciary Committee / Confrontation

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  05:37:00 pm — 05:39:10 pm

  (Studio) Nixon sends letter to House Judiciary Committee explaining reason for refusal to comply with subpoena.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (Capitol Hill) Contents of letter outlined. [Representative Don. EDWARDS - doesn't think President has right to decide what evidence can be probed by committee ] [Representative Jerome WALDIE - believes committee to find President in contempt of court] [Representative Charles RANGEL - says President has told committee and Americans to go to hell, and he's left cntry.] Judiciary Committee Republicans caucus and back President in calling for witnesses. [Representative Edward HUTCHINSON - thinks letter pretty good.] [Representative Robert McCLORY - doesn't believes President has right to furnish whatever evidence he pleases.] Republicans formally ask chairperson Peter Rodino to call witnesses.
  REPORTER: Ray Scherer

• President / Gesell / Conflict

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  05:39:10 pm — 05:41:00 pm

  (Studio) President also sends letter to Judge Gerhard Gesell. Gesell has insisted President give John Ehrlichman and his lawyer access to documents needed for Ehrlichman's defense in Ellsberg break-in trial.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (DC) Details of letter outlined. President attorney James Saint Clair offers Ehrlichman somewhat of a compromise; details given. Special prosecutor Leon Jaworski files brief to keep case against Ehrlichman from being dropped.
  REPORTER: Carl Stern

• Sirica / Watergate Defendants

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  05:41:00 pm — 05:41:20 pm

  (Studio) Judge John Sirica hears arguments for case dismissal against defendants in Watergate cover-up trial. Former Attorney General John Mitchell's attorney's argument for dismissal reviewed along with H.R. Haldeman's lawyer.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Co-Conspirator List / Supreme Court

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  05:41:20 pm — 05:41:50 pm

  (Studio) Special prosecutor Leon Jaworski and President' attorney James Saint Clair ask Supreme Court to unseal grand jury's records, naming Nixon as co- conspirator in Watergate cover-up. Judge John Sirica agrees to open files.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• (Commercial: Polident Denture Cleaner; Volkswagen.)

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  05:41:50 pm — 05:42:50 pm

• Crop Report / Inflation

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  05:42:50 pm — 05:45:20 pm

  (Studio) Agriculture Department reports winter wheat harvest likely to be 5% smaller than reported month ago. Representative Wilbur Mills urges Congress to reimpose wage, price controls as remedy to inflation.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (DC) Reduced wheat supplies could result in higher food prices when cost of living already climbing 12% a year [MILLS - believes wage, price controls could end inflation in short term.] Critics of Mills' resolution upset; details given.
  REPORTER: Irving R. Levine

• Schmit / Suit / Safeway, A&P

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  05:45:20 pm — 05:45:40 pm

  (Studio) Cattleman Loran Schmit files suit against A&P and Safeway food mkts. Schmit says mkts. conspired to fix meat prices.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Clothing Workers / Strike

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  05:45:40 pm — 05:45:50 pm

  (Studio) Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union votes on new contract. Provisions of contract discussed.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Nurse Strike

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  05:45:50 pm — 05:47:10 pm

  (Studio) Nurse strike seriously affects San Francisco Bay area.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (San Francisco, California) Nurses want more money and more say-so in health care given patients. American Nurses Association backs strike. [Nurse Ada JAYCOX - thinks nurse strike here is only beginning of strikes all over cntry.]
  REPORTER: Kevin McCullough (KRON-TV)

• Kennedy / Tax Cut

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  05:47:10 pm — 05:47:30 pm

  (Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy proposes tax cut program.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:47:30 pm — 05:47:50 pm

  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• (Commercial: Savings and Loan Assns.; Spray'N Wash Stain Remover.)

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  05:47:50 pm — 05:48:50 pm

• Supreme Court Rulings / Prosecutors / School Aid

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  05:48:50 pm — 05:49:20 pm

  (Studio) Supreme Court makes ruling to broaden power of prosecutors; details given. Court also makes school aid ruling; details outlined.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Tornadoes

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  05:49:20 pm — 05:49:30 pm

  (Studio) Tornadoes hit Arkansas, Kansas, and OK.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Land Use / Bill

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  05:49:30 pm — 05:51:50 pm

  (Studio) House votes on legislature to promote better planning for land use.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (DC) New federal land use bill explained. Bill may not pass. [Representative Morris UDALL - believes President reversed support of bill to gain conservative vote against impeachment.] [Representative Sam STEIGER - doesn't accept Udall's explanation.]
  REPORTER: Douglas Kiker

• Senate / Missile Warhead

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  05:51:50 pm — 05:52:10 pm

  (Studio) Senator votes down Pentagon proposal to begin development of new missile warhead for country
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Italy / Government Falls

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  05:52:10 pm — 05:52:20 pm

  (Studio) Italian government falls. Premier Rumor resigns.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Panovs To Emigrate

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  05:52:20 pm — 05:52:40 pm

  (Studio) Russian ballet dancer Valery Panov and wife to leave USSR Friday for Austria.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• Boy Scouts / Scandal

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  05:52:40 pm — 05:53:10 pm

  (Studio) Boy Scout officials confirm mbrship. figures padded to get additional federal funds.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• (Commercial: Taster's Choice Coffee; ITT.)

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  05:53:10 pm — 05:54:40 pm

• Journal (Middle East Trip / President)

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  05:54:40 pm — 05:56:40 pm

  (Studio) Senator Republican leader Hugh Scott and Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield react to President' Mid. E. trip. David Brinkley discusses trip.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (Studio) American presence in Mid. E. increases Thinks President' trip expected as natural turn of events.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Good Night

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  05:56:40 pm — 05:56:40 pm