Don't judge a book by its cover folks. This is pretty amazing stuff.
Nixon had proposed slashing the PBS budget from $40M to $20M. Rogers went before Congess and made an impassioned plea as to why his show was extremely important to the kids who watch it.
The head of the committe was blown away. Be sure to watch to the very end. It's 7:00 well spent. I wonder how this would have gone down today.....
And before the snark starts, no he wasn't gay. He was married to the same woman for 51 years and had two kids.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Last edited by Chula Vista; 05-28-2017 at 05:11 PM.
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