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Stanton:

Oh, yeah. Sure.

Q:

What was that like? What was that relationship like?

Stanton:

How was it?

Q:

Yes.

Stanton:

It was all right. Fred is a very strong, domineering kind of person. I think he's more so today than he was at that time. I don't see Fred regularly now, but I have seen him from time to time. I knew what they were -- we had a structure in the broadcasting side of the company, where I was kept informed of everything they were doing in programming. The television network entertainment side met every, I believe it was every Thursday afternoon, and we'd go around the table talking about what was coming up, what problems they had. The sales people were there generally to keep abreast of what was happening on the program planning side. Paley sat in on it -- on the entertainment thing -more frequently than not. I sat, I think, almost every Thursday in the meetings unless I had some demanding commitment elsewhere. Had the same thing on news. It was called CBS News Executive committee, I think. And there were represented at the table the heads of the two networks, the radio network and the television network, obviously the head of News, the head of Public Affairs, the head of hard news. My assistant, Dick Salant, attended those meetings. The head of the Law Department attended those meetings. He kept the minutes and he also was there to answer any policy questions having to do with FCC regulations and so forth that





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