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muster the vote in support of our position, and the chairman had sought a private meeting, in which he was willing to compromise. It was a tense time.

But, you know, everything passes in due course--although if I look back on my public career, as against just the CBS career, I would have to say that that fight, which was in at least two parts--and the public part of that fight was one of the most important things that I did. I think, having started the presidential debates when I did, was a contribution to the use of the medium. But that would have happened whether I had done it or not. It was one of those things that was sure to have happened. But if we had lost the fight on “The Selling of the Pentagon,” I think we would have had the federal government into the news business clear up to our eyebrows--and it wasn't something I could run around and talk about. It was just, again, that kind of a gut feeling that it was important to make the stand. And I had wonderful support from the CBS people, wonderful support from the News Division, to a man--or a woman--and I had, with one or two exceptions out of over 400 affiliates, solid, solid support.

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