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Network Anchormen Peter Jennings of ABC, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS coincidentally arrived from New York City aboard the same plane; Rather rode coach, while his fellow millionaires went first-class. The three networks sent about 400 people to Des Moines and spent perhaps $3 million on ad hoc studios. CBS took over and closed off the modernist Civic Center for its newsroom (and already has it booked for 1988). NBC set up shop in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into...
Even when the desire to vote is strong, structural barriers to voter registration persist in a host of states. "The states impose maximum impediments on registration," former President Jimmy Carter said last fall at a symposium on voter registration sponsored by Harvard and ABC News. "It is almost impossible to figure out how, in a convenient way, to become registered," he said. Carter's lament is borne out by the proliferation of rules and regulations in some states that make it downright difficult to get to the voting booth. Despite the provisions of the Voting Rights Act, which was designed...
Jody Powell, who as President Jimmy Carter's press secretary once poured a glass of wine over ABC News Correspondent Sam Donaldson, now has found a more poetic means of revenge...
Still, the main targets are journalistic: Columnist Jack Anderson, who according to Powell never proved his claim that Carter associates conspired with Fugitive Swindler Robert Vesco; ABC News, which Powell says refused to correct a false report that the FBI was wiretapping U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft, who is described as having sent back White House tickets to a Kennedy Center gala because the seats were in the balcony; the New York Times, which Powell claims had to "screen" its staff to be sure no drug users were assigned to investigate charges that White House Chief...
Despite his distaste for journalists, Powell in 1982 became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald and a commentator for ABC News. For the first time since he joined the ranks of reporters, Powell may once more become a major topic of conversation among them...