Volume 9, Number 10 · December 7, 1967
See It Later
By Gore Vidal
Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control
by Fred W. Friendly
Random House, 325 pp., $6.95
On February 28, 1967 the President addressed the 90th Congress on matters of Health and Education, two subjects close to the Great Socialite's heart. Sandwiched between a plea for the expansion of the Teachers' Corps and a request for additional funds for biomedical research was the statement, 'I am convinced that a vital and self-sufficient non-commercial television system will not only instruct, but inspire and uplift our people.' The fact that the President is an owner not only of KTBC, Austin's one commercial television station, but of Capital Cable, a program-carrier, made all the more resonant his plea for non-commercial television.
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