Point of View

National Educational Television and Radio Center · February 8, 1965

Nine nationally-known news columnists appear in separate, successive segments to express their own frank opinions on subjects of national significance. Each guest noted for their strong opinions, has chosen his or her own topic, and will approach it with the same degree of freedom as if it were being prepared for a newspaper. The nine participants and their selected topics are as follows: 1. Henry Taylor, columnist for United Features Syndicate The Presidents Budget Message and Whats Wrong with It. 2. Rowland Evans, Herald Tribune Syndicate President Johnson and His Relations with the Press. 3. Marguerite Higgins, Newsday Syndicate US Foreign Policy in Vietnam. 4. Richard Strout, columnist for The Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic The Need for Congressional Reforms. 5. Drew Pearson, columnist for The Bell-McClure Syndicate Conflicts of Interest in the Federal Government. 6. Arthur Krock, New York Times The Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy. 7. Art Hoppe, columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle and the Chronicle Features Syndicate The Need for Total Birth Control. 8. Richard Rovere, New Yorker Magazine (Topic to be determined.) 9. Jules Feiffer, cartoonist appearing in The New York Post and The Village Voice (Topic to be determined.) POINT OF VIEW is a 1965 production of National Educational Television, produced through the facilities of WETA-TV, Washington, DC. The producer is Howard Felcher. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) 60 minute program produced on videotape.