Volume 39, Number 7 · April 9, 1992
His Brilliant Career
By Julia Reed
On the morning of Sunday, November 17, 1991, David Duke was the featured guest on NBC's Sunday Today, CNN's Newsmaker Sunday, and ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. In itself, this was no big deal. Since October 1990, when he announced he would seek Louisiana's highest office, and possibly the presidency, the television viewers of America had grown accustomed to David Duke's surgically enhanced face. They had seen it on Good Morning America, Nightwatch, Nightline, Meet the Press, and Donahue. They had seen it for a solid hour on Larry King Live, during which he repeated his address on the air, and they had seen it on Crossfire, during which he suggested that co-host Michael Kinsley resembled a worm.
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