NBC Nightly News - 1977-05-05
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[0:04] This is NBC Nightly News with John
[0:06] Chancellor and David Brinkley. Tonight,
[0:08] reported from New York and from London,
[0:10] England, site of the economic summit.
[0:18] Good evening from Heathrow Airport in
[0:20] London. President Carter in London for
[0:24] his first turn on the international
[0:26] diplomatic stage and he is the object of
[0:29] great curiosity here. He and the leaders
[0:32] of six other countries will meet to talk
[0:35] about how they can get Britain, France
[0:37] and Italy out of their economic slump.
[0:40] You might call it the slump summit. When
[0:44] he landed here at London's airport, the
[0:46] Baroness Steedman representing the Queen
[0:48] was here to greet him along with Prime
[0:50] Minister Callahan and others.
[0:53] The five other national leaders are
[0:55] coming in at various times between now
[0:56] and Saturday morning.
[0:59] >> There was a brief ceremony out here at
[1:00] night in the cold and a few brief
[1:03] remarks.
[1:04] >> But Mr. President, you once told me that
[1:07] you liked our country. Who can ever
[1:09] resist that? And I'm very delighted
[1:12] indeed to have you here. that the
[1:13] ventures that you and I are going to be
[1:15] engaged on with the others are nothing
[1:16] less than to try to overcome poverty, to
[1:20] try to get people back to work again,
[1:22] and to get our economies in a healthier
[1:24] state than they are now. This is the
[1:27] first time that our American president
[1:29] has been able to visit Great Britain
[1:33] since you assumed, Mr. Prime Minister,
[1:36] such a strong position in the European
[1:38] community.
[1:39] You're now the leader of that community.
[1:43] And it's entirely appropriate that I and
[1:45] you and five other national leaders
[1:48] should come here to discuss matters of
[1:51] of common import.
[1:53] For some of the participants, it'll be a
[1:55] new and no doubt enriching experience.
[1:58] For example, for the austere and
[2:00] president of France, Jesus Dang, it is
[2:04] an absolute certainty that he has never
[2:06] before gone to a summit conference and
[2:08] sat down to negotiate with an American
[2:10] farmer.
[2:11] They meet, however, in an atmosphere of
[2:14] reasonable goodwill. They meet more in
[2:17] in doubt than in disagreement. Doubt
[2:20] because they don't know quite what they
[2:22] can do about all this. John,
[2:25] tomorrow, the president goes touring in
[2:27] the English countryside. And tomorrow
[2:29] morning, the Today Show will have live
[2:31] coverage of part of that tour. President
[2:34] Hafz Assad of Syria is scheduled to meet
[2:36] President Carter next week in
[2:38] Switzerland. And today, Assad said
[2:40] something quite interesting. He said for
[2:43] the first time that he is ready to talk
[2:45] about demilitarized zones between Israel
[2:47] and the Arab countries as part of a
[2:49] Middle East peace settlement. UPI says
[2:51] he made that statement to foreign
[2:53] reporters. Some time ago, Egyptian
[2:55] President Sadat had said much the same
[2:57] thing. Also on the program this evening,
[3:00] wholesale prices going up again.
[3:02] Reaction to last night's interview with
[3:04] Richard Nixon, a bishop's decision of
[3:06] great importance to Catholics and a
[3:08] power play by the vice president.
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[3:43] >> Thanks, Ann. See you tonight.
[3:46] >> Stop it. That's for a bowling league
[3:48] dinner.
[3:48] >> Well, your dinner's plastic's coming
[3:50] off.
[3:50] >> Well, sometimes plastic wraps cling,
[3:52] sometimes they don't. You can't always
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[4:13] >> The Carter administration's hopes of
[4:15] keeping inflation in hand have received
[4:18] another setback today. Wholesale prices
[4:20] rose 1.1%
[4:22] last month. Those prices went up that
[4:24] much in March and almost that much in
[4:26] February. And the White House was saying
[4:28] today that there wasn't anything it
[4:30] could have done about it. Irving Ar
[4:31] Lavine has the story.
[4:35] >> The biggest increase in wholesale prices
[4:38] last month was for food. This continues
[4:40] a trend that has already resulted in
[4:43] higher supermarket prices for consumers.
[4:46] Farm product prices after dropping most
[4:48] of last year started climbing again in
[4:51] January, and the increase has been
[4:53] greater each month. Budget director Bert
[4:56] Lance blamed the increases on
[4:58] circumstances beyond White House
[5:00] control.
[5:01] >> We've had a very severe winter. We've
[5:03] had unusual drought conditions in the
[5:05] West. Uh the winter affecting the spring
[5:07] vegetable crop in Florida, the drought
[5:10] reflecting uh damage to the crop in
[5:12] California. I think these things are
[5:14] something that nobody has any control
[5:16] over and certainly we have to be in the
[5:18] process of being aware that some things
[5:19] we can't do anything about.
[5:22] The administration is trying to do
[5:23] something about industrial prices. This
[5:26] morning, budget director Lance and other
[5:28] administration officials discussed
[5:30] probable steel price increases at
[5:33] breakfast with US steel chairman Edgar
[5:35] Spear. Spear has been told that the
[5:38] administration may let more foreignade
[5:41] steel into the United States to force
[5:43] prices down.
[5:46] NBC News has learned that Carter
[5:48] officials will meet soon with other
[5:49] industry leaders to try to prevent price
[5:52] increases. The Carter White House wants
[5:54] to keep the meetings private and
[5:56] unpublicized.
[5:58] Public appeals to industry by earlier
[6:00] administrations didn't work very well
[6:03] and Carter officials believe that quiet
[6:05] persuasion will. Irving R. Leavine, NBC
[6:09] News at the White House.
[6:12] In Washington, the Senate completed
[6:14] congressional action today on a $20
[6:16] billion program to stimulate the
[6:18] economy. The appropriations bill
[6:20] includes $4 billion to create 300,000
[6:24] public service jobs. And the House
[6:27] Government Operations Committee made a
[6:28] surprise move on oil. The committee
[6:31] approved a bill that would forbid
[6:33] American oil companies to buy foreign
[6:35] oil and would give that power to the
[6:38] federal government. Then the proposed
[6:39] new energy department would resell that
[6:41] foreign oil to energy companies.
[6:44] Patricia Roberts Harris, the secretary
[6:46] of housing and urban urban development,
[6:48] was in New York today to announce that
[6:50] the government is going to put up enough
[6:52] money to finish a public housing project
[6:54] in Harlem. A very special public housing
[6:57] project. Here's Brian Ross.
[6:59] >> This is Tyino Towers in East Harlem in
[7:02] New York City. It is the most luxurious
[7:04] public housing project for the poor ever
[7:06] built. The apartments are spacious, airy
[7:10] with long balconies, central air
[7:12] conditioning, and modern kitchens.
[7:15] And the poor people who will live here
[7:17] will find a lot more downstairs, an
[7:19] Olympic size swimming pool, two
[7:21] gymnasiums, a greenhouse, underground
[7:24] parking,
[7:26] one month's rent for a six-bedroom
[7:27] apartment as low as $100.
[7:30] But no one lives here yet. There wasn't
[7:32] enough money to complete the project and
[7:34] all of the luxuries made Tyino Towers
[7:37] very controversial.
[7:40] Ronald Reagan used it as a campaign
[7:42] issue during the Republican primaries
[7:43] last year and many believe that's why
[7:45] the Ford administration refused to spend
[7:47] the $6 million to finish Tyino Towers.
[7:51] >> But today, the Carter administration
[7:53] said it would spend the money. Secretary
[7:55] of Housing Patricia Roberts Harris made
[7:57] the announcement in a New York speech,
[7:59] never mentioning the luxuries.
[8:01] >> Although this project was conceived
[8:04] nearly a decade ago and was started and
[8:07] stopped under the previous
[8:08] administration,
[8:10] we are committed to its completion.
[8:13] >> The tenants for Tyino Towers already
[8:14] have been selected and they've been
[8:16] waiting for years to move in. They don't
[8:18] think it's too luxurious.
[8:21] >> You know, because we live in the
[8:22] ghettos, that doesn't mean we all the
[8:24] same. We entitled to something Disney
[8:26] cuz
[8:26] >> I want to get out of here. You know, I
[8:27] don't want to live in slums the rest of
[8:30] my life.
[8:31] >> By the end of this year, about 3,000
[8:33] people will begin to leave their
[8:34] ratinfested, rundown slums to move into
[8:37] the four towers across the street. Brian
[8:40] Ross, NBC News, New York. In Washington
[8:44] today, Edwin Moore, who used to make
[8:46] maps for the CIA, was convicted of
[8:48] stealing secret papers and trying to
[8:50] sell them to the Russians. Moore could
[8:52] go to prison for life for espionage and
[8:54] pay a $10,000 fine for possession of
[8:57] classified documents.
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[10:03] >> Last night's interview David Frost had
[10:04] with Richard Nixon got a big audience.
[10:06] figures in from New York, Chicago, and
[10:08] Los Angeles show that something like
[10:10] half the sets in those cities were tuned
[10:13] to the show. President Carter watched
[10:15] the first 15 minutes and the last 15
[10:17] minutes. He said today, "I think he, Mr.
[10:20] Nixon, was frank in saying that he lied
[10:22] to the American people." Mr. Carter also
[10:25] said he thinks the former president has
[10:27] convinced himself that he did not break
[10:28] the law. And when a reporter asked
[10:31] whether Mr. Carter thought Nixon had
[10:33] broken the law, Mr. Carter said, "Well,
[10:35] I don't know." A lot of other people
[10:37] were talking about the Nixon show. Here
[10:39] are three reports.
[10:42] A morning commuter train to New York
[10:44] bringing bankers, businessmen, and
[10:46] executives from expensive suburban
[10:48] towns. People who voted for Nixon, but
[10:51] almost all of them thought Nixon was
[10:52] wrong about Watergate and said last
[10:54] night's interview did nothing to change
[10:57] their minds. A few did think there were
[11:00] sad moments in last night's interview.
[11:02] Bert Mandal, a paper company executive.
[11:05] >> Right at the end, it seemed like
[11:06] something out of a Greek tragedy or
[11:08] something because uh he was really
[11:11] seemed to
[11:13] react himself as a human being to what
[11:14] he'd done as a politician and he and he
[11:16] was sorry for it and it really affected
[11:18] me. My wife and I had tears in our eyes.
[11:21] New York City, the start of another
[11:23] workday. Most of these commuters would
[11:25] just assume forget Nixon and Watergate
[11:27] forever. Robert Hager, NBC News, New
[11:30] York.
[11:32] Hawkley, Texas. Cattle country,
[11:34] conservative country. Most voters here
[11:37] went for Richard Nixon the last time he
[11:39] ran for president, but very few of the
[11:41] ranchers we talked to this afternoon had
[11:44] bothered to watch him on television last
[11:45] night. Some said they were too busy
[11:48] getting ready for today's cattle
[11:50] auction.
[11:51] Others said it's time to put Nixon and
[11:54] Watergate behind us. Those who saw the
[11:56] program agreed with Nixon that he had
[11:59] left the country down. Others used
[12:01] harsher words such as liar and crook.
[12:05] In this part of the country, they still
[12:07] believe in old-fashioned virtues, among
[12:10] them honesty. And on that score, most of
[12:12] the people who saw Richard Nixon last
[12:14] night were not too impressed. George
[12:17] Lewis, NBC News, Hawkley, Texas. Richard
[12:20] Nixon was never the poor people's most
[12:22] admired politician. At least in
[12:25] Atlanta's poor areas, nothing has
[12:27] changed. None of the nine men in
[12:29] Leslie's barber shop cared to watch the
[12:31] interview. One said history took care of
[12:34] Nixon, there was no need to see him
[12:36] explained. Of 51 people approached on
[12:38] the street, 47 didn't see the interview.
[12:42] Two who did thought Nixon was still
[12:44] lying. Two others believed he would have
[12:46] been a great president had he been
[12:48] honest at the beginning of Watergate. So
[12:51] the Nixon interview was not popular with
[12:53] poor people here. One man said, "He did
[12:55] not speak for us when he was president.
[12:57] Why should we listen to him now?" Fred
[13:00] Francis, NBC News, Atlanta.
[13:04] Last night, the country saw a Richard
[13:06] Nixon who was often near tears and
[13:08] shaken by his interrogation. Today,
[13:10] however, he was out and around San
[13:12] Clemente looking pretty good. Don Oliver
[13:14] has that story.
[13:16] >> The former president barely acknowledged
[13:18] reporters who were waiting for him as he
[13:20] arrived to play an afternoon round of
[13:22] golf in San Clemente.
[13:24] >> Oh my god. All right. What do we have?
[13:27] Let's just pull it up.
[13:30] >> Nixon either ignored the questions or
[13:32] said something about it being a good day
[13:34] for golf. Earlier, a spokesman at his
[13:36] home said telephone lines have been
[13:38] jammed last night and today with calls
[13:40] about the television interview. The
[13:42] spokesman said the calls were quote
[13:44] overwhelmingly favorable.
[13:47] Nixon's son-in-law, David Eisenhower,
[13:49] was a golfing partner. He said he was
[13:51] sure Nixon had not watched the interview
[13:53] last night, but Eisenhower did and said
[13:56] that he liked it. explain the his
[13:57] forthright feelings about
[14:01] the Watergate situation. Now, 3 years
[14:03] later, we're were
[14:06] placed out in a in a public forum and
[14:10] under a uh under the very close scrutiny
[14:13] of a television camera. I thought that
[14:15] the you know, watching that um
[14:20] TV picture last night, it was almost
[14:22] like an X-ray machine.
[14:25] It was fantastic in the sense it picked
[14:27] up every mood and every nuance and and
[14:30] uh I felt that what was being seen for
[14:33] the first time
[14:36] uh was his genuine feeling about the
[14:39] whole question that in the way that he
[14:41] had expressed it to the family and
[14:42] others. The Nixon spokesman said it will
[14:45] be the ex-president's policy not to
[14:47] comment on any of the Frost television
[14:49] interviews. Don Oliver, NBC News, San
[14:51] Clemente.
[14:53] And how did some of the principles in
[14:55] Watergate react? Well, HR Halddeerman
[14:57] said he might have something to say some
[14:59] other time, but he wasn't going to make
[15:01] a lot of little comments, as he put it
[15:03] now over so complex an issue. John
[15:06] Erlickman in prison in Arizona. No
[15:08] stations in that area covered the
[15:10] program, so Erlickman didn't see it. And
[15:13] Leon Jorski, the special Watergate
[15:15] prosecutor, said he had no comment.
[15:22] >> Well, this is where they plan to build
[15:24] it.
[15:24] >> When will it be done?
[15:26] >> Uh, how old are you?
[15:27] >> 12.
[15:28] >> If everything goes right, it'll be done
[15:30] about the time you're both 20.
[15:32] >> Wow, that's 8 years. Do all power plants
[15:35] take that long to build?
[15:36] >> The big ones do.
[15:37] >> How big will this one be? Big enough to
[15:39] supply all the electricity for 200,000
[15:42] people.
[15:43] >> Where will the people come from?
[15:44] >> From the seventh grade.
[15:45] >> You mean us?
[15:46] >> That's who they're building it for.
[15:48] >> My own power plant.
[15:49] >> Mine, too.
[15:53] >> Roman Meal makes great sandwiches. Great
[15:55] toast, too. Here's why.
[15:59] Roman Meal contains coarsely ground
[16:01] whole grain wheat and rye. That means
[16:03] the bran and the wheat and rye germ are
[16:05] retained. Toasting enhances the branny
[16:08] nutty taste of the grains. The enriched
[16:11] flour and other nutritious ingredients
[16:12] give it a light open texture. Roman
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[16:18] bread. The Roman Meal company thought
[16:20] you'd like to know.
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[16:28] beautiful day.
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[16:53] Just how secure are nuclear power plants
[16:55] from attempts on them by terrorist
[16:57] organizations? One congressional agency
[17:00] thinks they're not all that secure. And
[17:02] today a house hearing was held on that.
[17:04] The hearing was covered by Charles
[17:06] Rhodess.
[17:08] >> A General Accounting Office report last
[17:10] month said attempts by terrorists to
[17:12] sabotage nuclear power plants might
[17:14] work. The report blamed inadequate
[17:16] security at the plants. The man in
[17:18] charge of safeguarding the plants told a
[17:20] House committee today that protection
[17:22] had been increased and the plants are
[17:24] now safe. It is only
[17:26] >> we are taking action in a responsible
[17:28] way and the level of protection that
[17:30] will be required and will be reached in
[17:33] the near future is well above that
[17:36] necessary to protect against such uh
[17:38] hypothetical threats.
[17:40] >> But people from industry and from
[17:42] government disagreed. They said a well
[17:45] planned sabotage was still possible.
[17:47] There's no assurance that the security
[17:49] systems at any power plant would be able
[17:52] to withstand sabotage attempts by threat
[17:54] levels that are now considered minimum
[17:56] by NRC. Some may be able to. We simply
[17:59] cannot prove it. Nor can NRC. One can
[18:03] conclude that a small team and possibly
[18:05] even one or two people with sufficient
[18:08] detailed knowledge and access to the
[18:10] plant equipment can sabotage a
[18:12] sufficient amount of components to cause
[18:15] a release of radioactive material. There
[18:17] has been no sabotage against the nuclear
[18:19] power plant and there are no known
[18:21] threats, but the committee was alarmed
[18:24] by the testimony today and one member
[18:26] said he hopes it will lead to better
[18:28] security quickly. Charles Rose, NBC News
[18:31] at the capital.
[18:33] >> The administration is opposed to breeder
[18:35] reactors because they produce not only
[18:37] energy but plutonium which can be used
[18:40] to make nuclear weapons. France and West
[18:42] Germany are not happy about this
[18:44] opposition because they see big world
[18:46] markets for this kind of nuclear plant.
[18:48] Today, however, the French Atomic Energy
[18:50] Agency said it has worked out a way to
[18:53] produce fuel for nuclear plants which
[18:55] cannot be used for weapons. Details to
[18:58] come later this week.
[19:00] Last Sunday, New Hampshire police
[19:02] arrested 1,400 people who were
[19:04] demonstrating at Seabbrook against a
[19:06] nuclear power plant. Today, the long
[19:08] process of trying them in court began at
[19:11] Hampton. Lee McCarthy reports.
[19:13] >> 21 of the protesters were brought to the
[19:14] Hampton courthouse this morning. Many
[19:17] hope to stay in jail unless the charges
[19:19] against them were dropped.
[19:22] 26-year-old Murray Rosenlith of Brooklyn
[19:24] was the first person tried. He was
[19:26] convicted. Judge Alfred Casa fined Rosen
[19:29] Blath $100 and sentenced him to 15 days
[19:32] at hard labor. The sentence was
[19:34] suspended, but the judge said it would
[19:36] be enforced if Rosenlith got arrested
[19:38] again for trespassing at Seabbrook.
[19:40] Rosenlith was jailed pending appeal
[19:42] because he did not post bail.
[19:45] County Attorney Carlton Eldridge had
[19:47] said that a stiff penalty would serve
[19:48] notice that you can't mess around with
[19:50] the laws of New Hampshire. Later, Judge
[19:53] Cassasa sentenced eight protesters to 15
[19:55] days in jail, did not suspend the
[19:57] sentences, and set bail at $500 each.
[20:03] Keeping the protesters in custody while
[20:05] they await trial or appeal is costing
[20:07] New Hampshire a lot of money, but
[20:09] Governor Meldram Thompson says the state
[20:11] will continue to take a hard line
[20:12] against the demonstrators.
[20:15] >> Uh, we don't know what the final bill
[20:17] will be. The first thing we had to look
[20:19] at was whether or not we were going to
[20:21] enforce the laws of the state of New
[20:22] Hampshire. And uh that decision of
[20:25] course was uh an affirmative one. There
[20:28] are at least 1,300 protesters still
[20:31] being held in four state armories. They
[20:34] are being guarded and fed by the
[20:36] National Guard. Each guardsman is paid
[20:38] $35 a day. The total cost of housing,
[20:41] feeding, and guarding the demonstrators
[20:43] is about $50,000 a day. The governor
[20:46] says the state will ask for federal help
[20:48] to pay the bills. After all, he said of
[20:51] the 1400 people arrested at Seabbrook,
[20:53] only 200 were from New Hampshire. Lee
[20:56] McCarthy, NBC News, New Hampshire.
[21:00] Reuter reports from Brussels today that
[21:02] there is more evidence that a ship
[21:04] loaded with uranium, which disappeared
[21:06] in 1968, was taken to Israel and
[21:09] unloaded. Sources said that countries in
[21:11] the common market investigated the
[21:13] disappearance and concluded that there
[21:15] is little doubt that the uranium, which
[21:17] was of weapons quality, ended up in
[21:19] Israel.
[21:21] In Chicago today, the Conference of
[21:23] Roman Catholic Bishops ended its annual
[21:25] meeting. It had a great many weighty
[21:27] proposals to consider, but whatever the
[21:29] bishops decided, they knew in advance
[21:31] that Pope Paul would have the last word.
[21:33] Al Johnson covered the closing session
[21:35] of the conference.
[21:40] The American bishops were dealing with
[21:42] 182 proposals to liberalize the laws of
[21:45] the Roman Catholic Church. The most
[21:47] definitive action they took was allowing
[21:49] Catholics who were excommunicated
[21:51] because they remarried after divorced to
[21:54] return to the church. A divorced and
[21:56] remarried Catholic is kind of a looked
[21:59] upon as a kind of an outcast. And I
[22:02] think that that uh this is wrong. And I
[22:05] think it shows as best we can in a very
[22:09] difficult situation to try to show our
[22:12] Christlike concern for people who are
[22:14] involved in such a situation. On the
[22:16] more controversial issues, birth control
[22:19] and the ordination of women and married
[22:21] men as priests, there was open
[22:23] discussion by the bishops today, but no
[22:25] real change of position.
[22:28] No, we will.
[22:29] >> For example, on the issue of women
[22:31] priests, it was obvious that had no
[22:33] chance of being approved.
[22:36] >> The response will be in the light of the
[22:38] universal law of the church.
[22:40] And I think we're playing games,
[22:42] frankly, if we
[22:44] if we promise any more than we in fact
[22:48] can do. And I think we've answered I
[22:50] think we responded to that particular
[22:51] resolution about the ordination of
[22:53] women. The bishop's overall response was
[22:56] they plan to study and consider some of
[22:59] the proposed reforms, but they will not
[23:02] study reforms which conflict with church
[23:04] law. Al Johnson, NBC News, Chicago.
[23:08] Here,
[23:09] >> the National Highway Traffic Safety
[23:11] Administration today announced
[23:12] investigations into possible defects in
[23:14] more than 2 million General Motors
[23:16] automobiles. More than 190,000 Ford
[23:20] models and 370,000
[23:22] folkswagen models.
[23:24] Alex Haley, the author, found fame and
[23:27] fortune by tracing his ancestors back to
[23:29] Africa in the book Roots. Now, Deborah,
[23:32] the British firm which publishes
[23:33] Deborah's periage, a sort of stud book
[23:36] for British nobility, has found
[23:37] something else about Alex Haley. It
[23:39] looked up the slave owner side of his
[23:42] family and found that he is descended
[23:44] from a distinguished family named
[23:46] Jackson, which moved to Alabama from
[23:49] Ireland.
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[24:25] When a fruit and cereal lover finishes
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[24:54] With the president of England, the
[24:55] highest ranking official at the White
[24:57] House is Vice President Montdale. Mr.
[24:59] Manddale likes to make a little speech
[25:01] about his office being the real center
[25:03] of power. He says that on inauguration
[25:06] day, he got to ride in a chauffeur car
[25:08] while the president had to walk back to
[25:10] the White House. He says that he got to
[25:12] travel overseas while the president got
[25:14] to make only local trips. That he got to
[25:17] stay with Queen Elizabeth in Buckingham
[25:19] Palace while the president had to stay
[25:20] with a beer distributor in Clinton,
[25:22] Massachusetts. It gets laughs. And
[25:24] Montdale used a variation of it today
[25:26] when he bid farewell to the Carters.
[25:30] Yesterday, you asked me what I intended
[25:33] to do while you were gone. And I admit I
[25:35] didn't have a good answer, but I've been
[25:37] thinking about it. And I thought I might
[25:41] walk up Pennsylvania Avenue,
[25:44] maybe visit an old friend in Clinton,
[25:46] Massachusetts,
[25:48] and if I could use your sweater, I might
[25:50] even speak to the American people while
[25:52] you're gone.
[25:54] This is a routine which the president
[25:55] and the vice president have practiced
[25:57] before. Once when Manddale did his act
[25:59] about being the real center of power,
[26:01] Mr. Carter got up and with mock somnity
[26:04] referred to him as the acting vice
[26:06] president. They may be the only comedy
[26:08] team we've seen in those jobs in the
[26:10] history of the country. Good night for
[26:12] NBC News.
[26:18] Sarah Lee introduces new almond coffee
[26:20] cake. I took the cereal. This coffee
[26:24] cake is the most almondy. I just
[26:28] couldn't resist. I took the cer.
[26:31] >> Make room. Pecan coffee cake, butter
[26:33] strusel, and cinnamon strusel. Here
[26:35] comes new almond coffee cake with
[26:37] almonds in the filling, almonds on top,
[26:39] and 72 all butter layers everywhere
[26:41] else.
[26:42] >> Nobody can resist.
[26:48] What you doing, Maryannne?
[26:50] >> Susan Jr. scraped me with Vaseline
[26:52] petroleum jelly.
[26:53] >> What you doing, Mr. Smith?
[26:55] >> Using my Vaseline petroleum jelly.
[26:57] Smooth out these hardworking hands.
[26:59] >> What you doing, sis?
[27:01] >> Taking off my eye makeup, silly, with
[27:02] Vaseline petroleum jelly.
[27:04] >> What you doing, mom?
[27:06] >> Moisturizing my face with
[27:08] >> I know with Vaseline petroleum jelly.
[27:11] >> Knees, eyes, face, hands. Vaseline
[27:14] petroleum jelly
[27:15] >> is doing it all. Heat. Heat.
[27:49] Heat. Heat.
[28:25] Hi, I'm Richard P. asking you to join me
[28:27] on my first special. It's okay. It's
[28:28] time to go now.
[28:30] >> Huh?
[28:30] >> Let's go back to our room. Come on.
[28:32] >> I wanted to tell them to watch my
[28:33] special on NBC. It's Thursday at 9:00, 8
[28:35] central time.
[28:36] >> Sure. Come on. Let's go back. Warm milk
[28:38] time. Let's go.
[28:38] >> We're going to have guest and
[28:39] everything. A new high in comedy,
[28:41] Richard Prior, followed by Chubby Chase.
[28:44] Tonight on NBC,