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All right. The exultant balloonist asked why they extended their pioneer flight to France said the reason it was child's Ellenberg. He's an inspiration to generations of Frenchmen and Americans LENNEBERG historic plane flight was 51 years before this first and land crossing by balloon. Not only flight but also radio communication was then in an embryonic state. The whole nation hung over their radios that Saturday afternoon as the lone pilot approached the coast of France. But Lindbergh had not anticipated that he carried a letter of introduction from Farrah Roosevelt Jr.. I'm childish Lindbergh he announced to the frenzied French who had flocked to his landing LENNEBERG was competing for a prize offered in the interest of the development of aviation. The feet of the balloon is rather to be compared with the first climbing of the Matterhorn to the congressional question why I climbed the mountain Hornets first conquer answered because it's there. Saw the fight of
the blown his brains a lift to the spirit of brightly a brief break in the clouds of inflation of deficit and dollar deterioration that depressed the world economic climate. The president's press conference yesterday afternoon accented the grimness of the news. He has vetoed the huge defense bill for its inclusion of what he calls an unnecessary and wasteful to billions for a nuclear aircraft carrier. He's prepared to veto. Also a tax bill. If its terms are on acceptable he implied the likelihood of a veto over the tuition tax credit bill the Congress had passed the day before the keys are the problem is of inflation and the shrinking dollar is locked in the energy barrel he said that the Congress has failed to pass in 16 months. In the lack of legislation he'll set a limit on oil imports my executive order the president said he spelled out in detail the reasons for his return of the 37
billion dollar defense appropriations that to billions for the nuclear aircraft carrier comes from reduction of other military means that cuts the muscle of national defense and of our commitment tonight to the presence at the nuclear carrier would be the most expensive vessel ever built and would actually weaken the Navy he said by replacing a needed number of smaller warships. He urged Congress on its return from the recess and began today to face up to its responsibility for an adequate defense bill and an energy bill. He had no apology for using the veto for the veto and his view is he said a routine part of the relation between the White House and the Capitol. He felt he may earlier been too reluctant to use the veto particularly on the water projects that Congress passed over his objections. He should have vetoed them he said and if he had it to do now he warned. I do not favor the tax credit for college
tuition he said and I'm even more opposed on constitutional grounds to a tax credit for school tuition tuitions credit is not a sound process. Both Houses have voted the college tuition credit but defeated the proposed credit for schools. He'd have no hesitation he said in vetoing the tuition credit bill unless the Congress passes a better bill. After the report from its conference the tuition credit in the Senate bill is only for one hundred dollars now and two hundred fifty one thousand eighty. Not much toward tuition of forty five hundred more. The Senate yesterday passed another bit of a college education assistance shape to the president's proposal of more loans and grants to students. So this Presidential a favored alternative will be in the legislative mill when the Congress returns from its present recess. The president laid out a work program he expects for the Congress that would crowd the six weeks that will remain to the close of this Congress scheduled end October 7. The election impending The following
month will be a compelling factor for many on their voting. A presidential test of any legislation will be its effect on inflation which the president yesterday described as 10 nations. He voiced his sharpest criticism yet of the press and complained of the treatment there of the removal of Robert Griffin from the Government Accounting Office. No idea has been more distorted the president said. Griffin he said was not fired but transferred to a post of equal salary and equal importance. This was not because he was incompetent but because of him compatibility with his chief. And he has not been placed on the White House staff in glossing over the Gryphon affair the president omitted any mention of Speaker O'Neill who made it a personal issue with the administration. He's bringing Israel's back again and Egypt to a meeting with him at Camp David September 5 is a high risk for him politically the president said. If it fails I don't have to share the blame but failure could bring a
new conflict in the Middle East and the security of the United States is involved. The talks had broken down completely between Israel and Egypt he said and the refusal of their leaders to meet or have their representatives meet. Made a deadlock that could worsen. It had become essential that the United States join as a full partner in discussions. It was a gamble but one that had to be taken. The president saw the visit of China's chairman walk to remain here and encouraging and that China is opening up Washington he said is constantly exploring ways for better relations with China and is hopeful about it. But the pace in diplomatic relations depends on both. What provides the congressional hearings. James Ray with their dramatic effect is the chairman's admonition as each session opens and closes. Everyone in the room is to remain seated and make no move. The shot recall Jack
Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald had Oswald not been killed he would have become the central figure of a proceeding much like these hearings which have the aspect of a trial as a committee member. When the hearings move in September from the murder of Martin Luther King to the assassination of President Kennedy the key question will be of as well as of right. Was he the tool of a conspiracy. Has the committee's interest shifts to the Kennedy murder. One wonders how lasting will be LaPointe theory of the Presidential assassination. The whole industry has been built on its literature. It's now 15 years. The committee is actually mation of that investigation was provoked by reports of a sound that might have been of a bullet recorded on a Dallas motorcycle cops radio and instant after firing. This creates another hypothesis of a second assassin. Lincoln's assassination created a mythology that lasted three quarters of a century.
I find that I reviewed a book published in 1937 by a reputable house a little brown titled Why was Lincoln murdered by Otto. I sent him a more descriptive title would have been who caused Lincoln's murder but that would have been to direct the chimes that was based on a US swatch of circumstances surrounding the murder. The book's target for Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. He controlled the District of Columbia police and the military patrols and so could theoretically have caused the insufficient protection of the president that night and the failure to order timely road blocks to stop the murder or any of the bridges out of town Staten had a record of contempt for Lincoln's tolerance of the South. Innuendo against Stanton was nourished through the politics of reconstruction and then sustained by a public appetite for sensational whodunit. The issue of cigarette smoking exploded this week in new form when a scientist of the National Cancer Institute published a list of low tar
cigarettes rated by their relative safety with the lowest rate content he said a pack a day might safely be smoked. This was hotly refuted by officials of the cancer institute itself and deplored by Secretary California of AGW who said person quit cigarettes would be encouraged to take them up again. The Tobacco Institute gleefully claimed its position was confirmed that there's no agreement on the relation of cigarettes to help with government scientists evidently divided. The president in a speech in North Carolina assured to Makkah growers there would be a continuance of their crop subsidies. The Master's legislative committee investigating the MBM scandal reported that it showed a pattern of political corruption in the state. They made no final judgment on criminal charges against individual politicians. It was the totality of the system or lack of system that demanded further exploring by a commission with subpoena powers they lacked. They
said. As to whether politicians extorted money from MBM or MBM bribe politicians. The distinction they said between extortion and bribery in this case made a little sense but they gave particular attention to the influence of former governor Peabody as a lobbyist for MBM Peabody's influence may well have made the difference between Ambien is getting or losing the UMass building contract they said their criticism of Peabody's role recalls a statement of President Coolidge. When asked his plans on leaving the White House he wouldn't want to take any position that had a string to it he said.
Series
WGBH Journal
Episode
Louis Lyons
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-68kd5fvd
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WGBH Journal is a magazine featuring segments on local news and current events.
Created Date
1978-08-18
Genres
News
Magazine
Topics
News
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:10:29
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Production Unit: Radio
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Identifier: 78-0160-08-18-001 (WGBH Item ID)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
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Chicago: “WGBH Journal; Louis Lyons,” 1978-08-18, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-68kd5fvd.
MLA: “WGBH Journal; Louis Lyons.” 1978-08-18. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-68kd5fvd>.
APA: WGBH Journal; Louis Lyons. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-68kd5fvd