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Title
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David Brinkley : 11 presidents, 4 wars, 22 political conventions, 1 moon landing, 3 assassinations, 2,000 weeks of news and other stuff on television and 18 years of growing up in North Carolina
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Description
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The television journalist for a half-century tells his story, public and private, and takes aim at some of the things Americans love to hate.
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Identifier
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552409
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067940693X
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Creator
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Brinkley, David
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Format
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1st ed.
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Source
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Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection
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Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.
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Catalog record
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Language
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eng
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Date
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1995
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Program air date: December 10, 1995
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Publisher
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A. A. Knopf
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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
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Text
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Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: 1. How did you develop your speech pattern; 2. Hayel Bishop; 3. Willard Scott; 4. John Cameron Swayze; 5.Reaction to Churchill's Westminster speech; 6. LBJ and trip to Camp David; 7. Nelson R-not traveled on Presidential trip since; 8. Atta Boy Abe; 9. Huntley pushed piano into pool. Lamb includes a chart of chapters with check marks before each ch. and the begining page number for each chapter. How did you learn to write? Who are your favorites. Essay contest and radio. Are you a cynic--p. 175 a politician is a cynic. Greedy and abusive politicians p. 230. Luck p. 21. Mrs. Burrows Smith-D. sh be a journalist. In Washington it's always money p. 251. Washington-everyday lies-p 111. Kennedy-Jockey Club-$2000 check. Tuxedo after six at NBC. Virginia Marshall taught me to speak. Buried with my book. Statement about parties p. 238. Lost one audience because of a strike March 1962. Huntley retired in 1971--our saga ended unhappily p 217. Why did you end book with the story of your trip back to old house? Why do conservatives hate the media. Underlinings: Lamb marks passages relating to Brinkley's early life, rearing, education, early jobs, journalism, Washington and working for NBC and ABC. Notes: "Doubt & suspicion," "names," "Mama," "6 yrs. old," "8 father died," "alcohol," "Mama 42 at birth," "I was not wanted," "abortion," "essay contest," "baseball," "radio," "Rinaldo Page, D.B. first radio," "black customers," "Mrs. Smith, "drunk driving," "Sam Ragan-have great respect Southern Pines," "Emma Woodward," "personal tutor," "1940/UNC/Army," "after 1 year," "kidney ailment discharged," "death," "Mama 30 yrs forced my father out of her bedroom," "Virgina Mansell...never forgotten her for a day," "Jack Knell," "FDR," "climbing in bed with me," "buried with book," "tuxedos," "ear poor for info.," "way to speak," "Willard Scott mail bag," "Hazel Bishop," "teleprompter," "John Cameron Swayze," "no smoking sign, no cigar," "color TV, David Sarnoff," "no TV for Churchill," "St. Louis Churchill didn't come out off train," "WASH-liars," "Sister Mary," "margarine white or yellow," " America United," "IKE," "Spiro Agnew," "Nixon speech," "no one liked filling time this way," "spit on me," "press conf on film," "Kefauver . . .women," "small loan license," "Kennedy's father," "election nights," "networks rig an election?," "Strom Thurmond," "computer voting," "exit polls," "Kennedy/Nixon debate," "I liked JFK," "Brinkley's treatment got him elected," "Jockey Club...Kennedy never paid," "Kennedy's private life," "no 'rape' word," "no abortion word," "envious questions," "RFK swimming pool," "after the assas came over to our house," "Van Doren," "Austin stations," "LBJ helicopter," "cynicism and politics," "Jan. 1965 Winston Churchill's funeral," "CBS was first," "wrote well, Huntley looked good," "Atta Boy Abe," "money & space bureaucratic mind," "Huntley pushed piano into pool," "no agent," "greedy & abusive politicians," "Bill Small," "family," "Jesse," "William," "Mary," "Mama died 87," "Ann divorced from him . . . ALS," "1971 Kiker," "Greatest weeks of my life," "Alan, Joel, John, Alexis," "Alan [Joel] and lighting bugs," "WASHINGTON ATM machine," "it's always money," "Nelson Aldrich," "amendment on income tax," "envy and resentment of wealth," "buy votrs," "tax law," "tax system of fear," "Masters tax break," "outrage," "Bob Kerrey," "rich pays bill for everyone," "luxary tax," "CEO over a million," "flat tax is acceptable."
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Subject
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"Brinkley, David."
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"Television journalists--United States--Biography."
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Relation
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Original Booknotes interview
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Rights
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