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6 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Walter Cronkite’s last broadcast of the “CBS Evening News"
was forty years ago tonight:
Walter Cronkite got interview with JFK on Cape Cod for his first thirty-minute edition of CBS Evening News, extended from fifteen minutes, September 1963:
President Harry Truman gives Walter Cronkite a tour of his newly-renovated White House, 1952:
Walter Cronkite’s call-in show from Oval Office, “Ask President Carter,” 1977:
Video: Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd as Cronkite and Carter, 1977, SNL. Includes discussion of broken Post Office machines, Carter’s advice on Orange Sunshine overdose and call from an ex-President in California looking for money:

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6 Mar
White House Fish Room (now Roosevelt Room) under JFK displayed mounted head from deer hunt that LBJ compelled him to go on at LBJ Ranch (Johnson suggested that Kennedy display the deer head in Oval Office) and billfish JFK caught on 1953 Acapulco honeymoon with Jackie:
No, Mexico did not pay for the fish caught on JFK’s honeymoon.
At left on the desk in the photograph of JFK’s Fish Room is an old invention called a “typewriter."
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Not every ex-Vice President tries to cozy up to the ex-President who seemed OK letting him be in danger of assassination.
Almost looks as if Trump is letting Pence be “cancelled."
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Ronald and Nancy Reagan after wedding, today 1952, at home of their friends Ardis and William Holden, who were the only guests. Mrs. Reagan much later told me that the Holdens were fighting that day, and barely spoke to each other. Toluca Lake, California.
William Holden served as Ronald Reagan’s best man two years after appearing with Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard” (1952).
Sadly Holden met a sad end in 1981, when, after drinking in his apartment, he fell, struck his head and bled to death.
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Disguised Borat interrupts Pence speech at CPAC a year ago this week, with “daughter” over his shoulder — scene appeared in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (2020):
Another scene from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (2020):
Any particular reason why Pence won’t speak at CPAC this year?
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Maybe the seditious Mr. Pillow and Senator from Texas could unite for a buddy film.
The buddy film might begin with the seditious Mr. Pillow and Senator climbing into white Bronco with passports and cash, headed for Mexico.
Thanks to @JolieSibert, who proposes an NPR show for the notorious duo, called “Morning Sedition."
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Silver figurines on Oval Office mantel in “Seven Days in May” (1964), which told of military coup d’etat and insurrection against United States, and more recently:
The great John Frankenheimer directed both “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) and “Seven Days in May” (1964).
Robert Kennedy spent day of June 4, 1968, at Malibu home of his friend John Frankenheimer (born February 19, 1930), who then drove RFK to Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. RFK’s death helped to drive Frankenheimer into years of what he called “deep depression” and drinking.
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