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...ABC White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson, with his barracks voice, is a flamboyant exception to this charge, but any steady watcher of the evening news has to be aware of how cozily television reporters imply that they have inside information when they are merely repeating the Administration line. Many reporters believe no previous Administration has been so efficient and disciplined at controlling the flow of information, concealing internal dissent, going after leakers and shutting down access: all to get its own version across. As Marvin Kalb of NBC's Meet the Press told the forum, "This particular Administration begins...
Reagan's appeal and political clout have fundamentally changed political debate; few victorious candidates of either party campaigned for increased domestic spending or the neoisolationist foreign policy approach favored by many Democrats in the 1970s. ABC News exit polls showed that Reagan's popularity remains astonishingly high; his positive approval rating is 62% to 38%. White House Political Director Mitchell Daniels noted that successful Democratic candidates "very wisely slipped every punch and ducked every engagement with the President." Even in Louisiana, where Reagan's policies were blamed for the statewide economic crisis wrought by the collapse of oil prices, Democratic...
Regan, appearing on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," took a more cautious view...
...Republicans lose control of the Senate, President Reagan will not be a "lame duck. He'll be a dead duck." That was the pre-election assessment offered on ABC's Nightline by the President's long-time friend and ally, Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) Even Laxalt's hand-picked intended successor for his Senate seat, however, fell victim to the Democratic surge that ended six years of Republican reign in the United States Senate...
...first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just has to be cut a little smaller." How many pieces the pie can accommodate remains to be seen. Cavett, who is returning to ABC after sojourns on PBS and cable, observes that it is "kind of silly" to have so many talk shows. "We could all just have them come from the same set," he quips. "Do you realize how much money we would save...