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Fi Abbott Howard Hoffmai ) Abbie Hoffman; What we're gonna see next is a film clip from the political satire movie "Millhouse” a white comedy by Emil D'iAntonio, It's currently breaking box office records at ak the New Yorker Theater. If you were watching television ae like we were tonight about 7:30, you had a chance to see Richard Nixon give what perhaps ten thousandth political speech of his career. It's just an average speech in an average day prepared by 20 or 30 scriptwriters, packaged by @ number of different people and presented as...a6 you would see a Lucky Strikes or some other products presented, We're gonna go back 20 years to see Richard Nixon in the : 2 raw. This is a....perhaps his most famous speech, perhaps ee the most famous speech by &.....by & major political candidate, : in this country since Lincoln gave the famous Gettysburg os Address, It is in 1952 and Richard Nixon is the Vice President candidate along with President Eisenhower battling it out with Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. The Republicans have made a big issue about corruption in the previous Truman administration and Richard Nixon it seemed there had been a mysterious slush fund and there had been some accusations by reporters and the Democrats that Richard Nixon had his hand ae in the campaign contributions and were using some of the money — for his own personal benefit. There was even talk that Eisenhower was gonna drop him from the campaign so Nixon is pressed right against the wall, he was forced to fight and I think we're gonna see some very revealing aspects of his —_— character, This has not been seen in 20 years on television but let's see it now. It was a paid political announcement. uy (Hereafter a film clip of “Millhouse" was shown ( for approximately 14 minutes.) Now we're gonna get to another segment of this show. At this point, and this brings up the origin of when I was asked to be a host on “Free Time" and I was asked to...you know what kind of guests I would like on I said right away that I'd like to have some of the television broadcasters themselves on because I think there's this kind of symbiotic relationship with people who make the news and people who report on the news. What typically happens is a reporter might call you up and say what's happening, you eay this is what happening then he goes and tells 40,000,000 million people and you yourself read it, look at .it and you say hat's not what's happening, And it's only in this kind of dialogue between people who make the news and people who report on it that something really exciting some kind of