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I'm sorry that the black athletes about nine months ago was walking around advocating boycotting the Olympic Games. I hope I wish the old black cats would just shut up. Kept a mouse share went out and trained and tuned their body up to get into shape on equal in the history of the Olympic Games. And not said nothing to nobody just gone to the Olympic Games and dropped a baton and tell America. Rupert Knickerbocker. WHDH TV channel 5 in Boston. Sunshine does not believe in fact. What do you mean Look Sunshine Krispies are thinner than other leading saltine see 20 and they are the fatter than 20 of ours. We may complain a select crispy or lighter and better tasting and we can put more crackers
in every box so sunshine does not believe that crackers but they get the OK right. Whitney if you saw the Music Man did get last minute shopping a bit less mild but if you did but don't now go to add more tobacco for most maybe a longer post up or a mild taste you'd make out better both him with a home how about a man. That Paulson's dazzling primary performace gained him a new nationwide recognition. Now Americans were asking where did this man of destiny come from. Let's look at another Pat Paulson quiet reflective that Paulson of an earlier day.
We had a ranch back in Russia last day it was a different way of life. Slower pace. And we had our work. We ran about a hundred head of chicken. Enough that I can say exactly getting up at sun up. My mother and I write it out. Did you ever try to cut a maverick leg and out of a herd those cowboys had it stopped compared to us chicken people. What's your read on a website you added much of time yourself. I is this error was when I first noticed that I had a special talent in handling situations. Things used to happen to me. First I thought it was just luck. Things used to kind of fall my way. A lot of people have asked why I started out straight for the presidency.
I suppose I could have started at the bottom of the governor's job and worked I. Just got caught up and running for president. When you're caught up in this kind of thing it's awfully hard to get loose. Besides it seemed like there was less competition for the presidency than for those governors. The rock solid Pacific coast of Washington and. Rancher with a deeply rooted dream of leadership. Is this where Pat Austin first heard the call of destiny. I don't think you can actually hear that kind of call. I mean it isn't as though somebody was yelling at you. You know if they shout it it would be hard to hear over the herd. We had a big bowl of Rhode Island Red.
Used to wander away from the herd so many can understand that chicken I feel kind of like him. I mean I know many of the folks back home can understand why I had taken off on my own like this. Destiny is something you feel like a giant invisible singer that points the way. I guess unless always I'm like that big bowl Roosters Destiny's finger but in the past for both of us out of the chicken yard and into the White I don't mean to say the folks back home don't respect me they do but they they always thought of me as more of a sex symbol rather than as an adjective. From the chicken house to the White House that Paulson campaigned tirelessly for unity based on close allegiance with the people of every state he visited.
Also how do you think you like your state you're in and they're all going to love it I love the air here it's so clean and fresh. I love the people in Denver this is my kind of town I like to settle down here and it's not like California. It's really bad out there. Like I'm here very much. In the mold. The campaign has emerged from the backwater of whistle stops to the mainstream of American politics. ROGERS I never saw it in my back East and I never saw one I knew I never. Living in a stable I'm going to sit there and say look you feel.
Dotting is a side show. That Paulson's campaign is moved into the center ring of the American political circus. Also this campaign cry we can't stand pat. Is heard not only from the galleries but from legislators. Ill. But. Lately we hear it I just hear it
on her. Shoulder. You have the event. Thank you thank. YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
THANK YOU. Here's the standard bearer this technique carries a heavy responsibility the task of soliciting bullets is easy compared to the job of soliciting money like his campaign Paulson's fund raising schemes were unique. Are you going to buy a plane for that. OK would you like a couple of plane cases or do you want to make a Band-Aid. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
You know or the party goer why you know you got it we haven't got a water you or this is a clutter and we give a kiss good night. Right OK. OK we're going to marry but I didn't want to blame our military leaders for a strange man 8:40 that let a border want to go in a plane like a window to look at it. A nice final exit plan would you like to go for that piece in a couple hundred dollars. Look all you want to get up in my hand like everybody else who dares to be different. That Paulson found hazards in fundraising especially in California. One other candidate stuck to conventional methods of financing their campaigns.
Paulson pioneered with his lemonade stands. This is going to help pay for the campaign down there. That is the symptom and it's actually we figured if they get about $5 today which is important and the lemonade stands brought a lot of criticism from my opponents they ask oh I could charge a nickel for a glass a lemonade as this type of mudslinging doesn't bother me that people are willing to pay a little extra for quality. My fund raising projects are based upon the guiding principles set down by President Abraham Lincoln. He said You can fool some of the people all the time. Thank you for support. Never alerted to new fundraising opportunities. Back to Boston explore still another avenue. I am a possum selling cookies for my presidential candidate over to
dinner somebody so no it does rightly say settling. Yeah yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So. Yeah. The present owners did it. That all seems inventive fund raising efforts sometimes departed from political tradition. But the high price of dinner is a staple in every successful candidate. Political
Diane These are just the foremost celebrity studded affairs provided in effect is going to starkly acceptable method of raising campaign money. So Pat Clawson invited some of the biggest names in show business press and politics to a formal 89 cent a plate cafeteria dinner. You know I think with Dominic. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
These people are the real sad cas you know they're always excited when some take time political figure is thoughtful enough to let them share the limelight. Mostly they just want to be seen with them to have their picture taken. These employers are not really my kind of people. This is just something you have to put up with. I suppose my reputation for quality cookies and lemonade was getting around. I didn't even invite Alliance people I just showed up and there I was having a dinner. A lot of them didn't even ask how much it cost. Price didn't seem to matter these people. I expect a lot of them or even vote for me. Venison man. The important thing is I got their money. And I don't so bad about taking them. They all got their picture taken with me. The science is not one of them and going to bet a dollar twenty. Here again fundraising has its hazard. Like other political diners past friends want content to eat and run. Many insisted on praising not
only the food but also the candidate. Any other candidate might have let the praise go to his head at that. Paulson modestly refused to allow the praise to understeer with his enjoyment of the dinner. Thus speaking became the task of such friends as you thank you very much. Oh I notice these little flags stuck on the desert. I just see all think I'm doing a joke when you pick up your flag and look at it on the back of it it says Made in Japan. I'm not kidding I think that tells us a lot about the evening too. I'm very glad to stand behind this man Pat Paulson. I wouldn't stand in front of them for a minute I want you to know that because we live in a time when a man with little or no experience
except the theatrical can aspire to high political office at least in this state always in keeping with this great California tradition that's beginning to build up. Some of you of course may not spike the fun you have how did I you know may not be interested in supporting you may think there are enough comedians in Washington already but I say you're wrong. Only one more. I'm going on in the cab has asked me to serve as one of his advisers he has other people looking to write jokes for him but he's interested in my serious views and he has great attitudes on all the important issues and that's why I'm very happy to serve on his advisory team. As regards the war on poverty I don't I have worked on a plan to shoot about 400 bags a week. Sure enough I think it was a couple of years when I was going to want to ask him what he thought about gun control. He said forthrightly stick him up to that is OK and I want you to know that every dollar raised
we're going to play into we need to play to the USA to go. I want to apologize for the fact that I did go on a little longer than I was supposed to but also the let me explain this. John Paul let me explain it to a guy get it with the USA. What is that you're going to get bacteria that might have been one of the most astute political campaigns of the day. Now ladies and gentlemen the next president of the United States. Mr. BALL the OMON. AA.
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tonight and take it to someone next time. This campaign was steamrolling toward the convention. One delegate supports my use decisive approach to the issue. It's really funny what happens to a delegate when he leaves. They start drinking and carousing pocket saying as soon as they get to the convention they will never agreement going out and caucus right on Alltel ave some of them Tories are eight times a day but I haven't been gaga one thank God. Gornja delegation for inviting me to take part in your caucus and I'm really looking forward to it after this meeting. I know Deb Unruh plans to shoot out a gun control bill in California during the next
session but I disagree I disagree with our guns out in ways you would anybody suppose a man comes on early and finds another man with his white watch he's supposed to do poison Mammon. What about suicide. Can you imagine a guy driving a B times of the day what a stick we done. Yes you never again Joe when you're walking down the street you'll spot a moose. Besides guns are not the real problem the real problem is bullets. If I'm elected I'll see there are plenty of guns for everybody but we'll lock up all the bullets for the sports kind of plan but the real thrill in hunting is not in killing animals but I'm stalking our brain will make it real interesting. Think of those Raylan
sneaking up on a big grizzly with an unloaded gun. Her again to ok going to overwhelm any people and ask me about the platform of the stag party. So I'd like to give you some of the issues as the stag party nominee propose a simple dollars and cents solution to be up. If you figure the number of enemy casualties and the amount we're spending on the war you discover that it's costing an average of six hundred thousand dollars for every day I say we can buy em off cheaper than that to have a hook.
The only way I console the world's problems by myself if I did I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat. Oh OK. In troubled and turbulent times as aid to people must seek out a decisive dynamic courageous candidate who commands their trust and respect a man they can have confidence in. And more and more people are turning to me as they're gone because when you fill them in on election night the word will go out to the far corners of the world for claiming that Padre go Paulson has been swept up in a presidential draft and sucked into the White House. Oh f e him going that way to unduly prolong the suspense let me give you my answer here on No. I accept the
old seems to become. President has taken to the states of New York to the beaches of California and the conventions of Miami and Chicago to the shacks of Resurrection City. There are those who insist that it's all a joke. But we told you that Pat's dream was no ordinary dream and in a land marked by political division even those who last must admit that laughter is a better alternative. You know I've always had this dream. I guess it must sound kind of silly. I've always wanted to be president. A lot of people say I'm not much of a candidate. I do have a tendency to light things up a little bigger than they are. That i embarrass myself sometimes. But I've never tried to embarrass our country. Ira got to be president. I'd walk right up to the front gate and shake hands with anybody. And if anybody ever needed a friend to talk to. Me drop by any time.
Could my show I'll be getting off. I don't have a beginning I'm just going to walk up the stage here and I'll see you again. Oh yeah hang around make a big thing about it. So I think I'll just play it. Or you'll explain it like. It's going to leave a note. Oh I love beginning I just leave it there you are. I think it's enough to just say good bye walk off so it will be. But we seen it and thank you. Oh I. Was told.
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your breath is fresh. You too can have the freshest mountain town den team Jewing go. Team. That's all it takes. Will. Hold. The A. Little. OK. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour will return next Sunday at its regularly scheduled time on most of these
stations to major stars in something special girl friends and neighbors with as guest stars get even very custom special girlfriends. California friends and neighbors the night on CBS the holdout says color TV is to a service but not always are my Motorola dependable color TV with the works in a drawer. Inside are most components to get as many circuits designed to work without burning themselves.
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Public Affairs
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Pat Paulson For President
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