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Covering Watergate: 40 Years Later With MacNeil And Lehrer
best to be as evenhanded and fair-minded as I think we have gone on to make it an essential attribute of our program since. JIM LEHRER: Absolutely. And I think that’s where it all started. Is with Watergate. ROBERT MACNEIL: I think we knew immediately that from Newshour With Jim Lehrer Read more »
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Celeb Birthdays for the Week of May 19-25
19: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 79. TV personality David Hartman is 78. Actor James Fox is 74. Actress Nancy Kwan is 74. Actor Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in "Star Wars") is 69. Musician Pete Townshend is 68. Singer-bassist Dusty Hill of ZZ Top is 64. Singer-actress-model from ABC News Read more »
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Benghazi Lies Over the White House
was an interesting moment on The News Hour when Michael Gerson assured Mark Shields and Jim Lehrer that the Benghazi cover up is not Watergate. I am rather certain that that is true, but the fact that Gerson had to say is an indication of the seriousness of from SD Politics Blog Read more »
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Guatemala: 1983 "MacNeil/Lehrer Report" on debate over military aid to Ríos Montt's regime
an episode from May 8, 2013 during the military dictatorship of José Efraín Ríos Montt. In this episode, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer report on the battles in Washington going on over funding and military aid to Guatemala, as violence and instability there from Boing Boing Read more »
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How Did Watergate Affect You?
Watergate," a PBS NewsHour special report, will air May 17. Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring all 250 hours of the proceedings, from PBS NewsHour Read more »
