NBC Nightly News - 1977-05-04
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[0:02] This is NBC Nightly News with John
[0:04] Chancellor and David Brinkley. Tonight,
[0:08] Wednesday, May 4th, reported from the
[0:10] NBC News Center in New York.
[0:14] Good evening. Richard Nixon says he does
[0:17] not believe that he committed an
[0:18] impeachable offense in Watergate, but
[0:20] that he brought himself down. In his own
[0:23] words, he said, "I let down my friends.
[0:25] I let down the country. I let down our
[0:28] system of government." In tonight's
[0:30] television interview with David Frost,
[0:31] the former president also says that he
[0:33] doesn't believe he was the victim of any
[0:35] conspiracy that it was all his own
[0:38] fault. Carl Stern has seen a preview of
[0:40] tonight's program.
[0:42] Reporters got an early look at the
[0:44] program this afternoon in Washington,
[0:46] and what they saw was both an old and a
[0:49] new Richard Nixon. While not admitting
[0:52] criminality, Mr. Nixon did say, "I went
[0:54] to the edge of the law. I said things
[0:57] that were not true. I screwed up
[1:00] terribly. He said, "I have a very deep
[1:03] regret. I let down my friends. I let
[1:07] down the country. I let down our system
[1:10] of government and the dreams of all
[1:12] those young people that ought to get
[1:13] into government but think it's all too
[1:15] corrupt and the rest." Nixon continued,
[1:18] his eyes moistening at times.
[1:20] "Technically, I did not commit a crime,
[1:22] an impeachable offense. These are
[1:24] legalisms. But as far as the handling of
[1:27] this matter, it was so botched up. I
[1:29] made so many bad judgments, mistakes of
[1:32] the heart rather than the head. Nixon
[1:36] conceded he should have fired HR
[1:38] Halddeman earlier, said Nixon, I didn't
[1:40] meet that responsibility.
[1:42] He revealed that John Erlickman wanted
[1:44] to stay on and suggested that only
[1:46] Halddederman go. Nixon said when he
[1:48] finally fired both of them, he thought
[1:50] of resigning himself.
[1:52] There are flashes of the old Nixon. He
[1:55] puts a distance between himself and what
[1:57] Haldderman and Erlicman did. He quarrels
[1:59] over legal definitions. He said, "I
[2:02] brought myself down. I impeached myself
[2:04] by resigning, but they want me to get
[2:07] down and gravel on the floor. No,
[2:10] never." And he suggested the CIA might
[2:13] have had a role in bringing him down,
[2:15] although he discounted any coup or
[2:17] conspiracy.
[2:19] The interview starts off slowly. It was
[2:22] filled in six hours over two days late
[2:24] last month. David Frost turned out to be
[2:27] an effective interrogator who Mr. Nixon
[2:30] described at one point as the attorney
[2:32] for the prosecution.
[2:34] The interview answers no old questions
[2:37] about Watergate. But more than anything
[2:40] in recent times, it brings a sense of
[2:42] finality and completeness to the
[2:45] Watergate years. Carl Stern, NBC News,
[2:49] Washington.
[2:51] The United States disclosed today that
[2:53] it has decided to drop its opposition to
[2:55] Vietnamese membership in the United
[2:57] Nations. Three times the United States
[2:59] has vetoed the Vietnamese application,
[3:01] but now the way is clear for membership
[3:03] this fall. This came at the conclusion
[3:05] of a round of Vietnamese American talks
[3:08] in Paris, which will be resumed there in
[3:10] about 2 weeks. John Palmer covered
[3:12] today's session. The six-member American
[3:15] delegation arrived early at the Vietnam
[3:17] embassy for this final round in the
[3:19] current session of talks.
[3:21] The Americans were kept waiting for
[3:23] several minutes in the rain until they
[3:25] were noticed and the gate was open.
[3:28] Among the spectators outside were Mr.
[3:30] and Mrs. EC Mills of Bakersfield,
[3:32] California. Their son has been missing
[3:34] for 10 years in Vietnam.
[3:38] After a 4-hour meeting, both sides
[3:40] announced that they had agreed to an
[3:41] early normalization of diplomatic and
[3:43] economic relations, but no date was
[3:46] mentioned. The United States agreed to
[3:48] drop its opposition to Vietnam's
[3:50] membership in the United Nations.
[3:54] Later, at a press briefing, a Vietnamese
[3:55] spokesman said they had told the
[3:57] Americans that the United States had an
[3:59] obligation to contribute financially to
[4:02] the rebuilding of Vietnam. They
[4:04] mentioned a figure of more than $4
[4:06] billion. But Mortyn Smith, a member of
[4:08] the American delegation, denied at a
[4:10] separate news conference that any figure
[4:12] had been mentioned.
[4:14] >> In answer to a question, he said the
[4:16] Vietnamese had promised to increase
[4:18] their efforts and accounting for missing
[4:20] Americans in Vietnam. So I I don't know
[4:22] precisely.
[4:23] >> While some progress has been made
[4:25] concerning normalizing relations between
[4:27] the two countries, there has been very
[4:29] little progress at these talks on the
[4:31] two major questions. That of economic
[4:34] aid to Vietnam and also the question of
[4:37] missing Americans in Vietnam. John
[4:40] Palmer, NBC News, Paris.
[4:43] All of this just 2 years and 4 days
[4:46] after the last Americans left Saigon as
[4:48] the North Vietnamese entered the city.
[4:51] Secretary of State Vance met with
[4:52] reporters in Washington today and talked
[4:54] about the administration's unwillingness
[4:56] to pay war reparations to Hanoi. Here is
[4:59] some of what he said.
[5:01] We made clear to the Vietnamese
[5:05] that we will not pay any reparations.
[5:10] We indicated to the Vietnamese that we
[5:13] are prepared not to oppose their
[5:17] admission to the United Nations.
[5:20] In turn, we are pleased with the
[5:22] progress which is being made in the
[5:25] missings in action area.
[5:28] The ultimate goal of the parties is to
[5:30] see whether or not uh we can find a
[5:33] basis for normalization of relations
[5:34] between our two countries. I have
[5:36] previously stated as has the president
[5:38] that we believe that is in the interests
[5:40] of our two countries and we will uh
[5:43] continue to see whether or not uh we can
[5:46] achieve that objective. Yes sir.
[5:49] The Secretary of State goes to Geneva
[5:51] later this month to meet again with the
[5:53] Russians on nuclear disarmament. The
[5:55] last time he met with them, the talks
[5:56] produced nothing of importance, and he
[5:58] said today that neither side has
[6:00] disclosed any new ideas or proposals.
[6:04] Vance will be off to London tomorrow for
[6:06] the summit conference there. On the
[6:08] program tonight, I'll be talking with
[6:09] three of our correspondents about what's
[6:11] going to happen at the summit. We'll
[6:13] also have the rest of the news in a
[6:15] minute.
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[7:19] >> Nearly everybody has had something to
[7:21] say about President Carter's first 100
[7:23] days in office. Today, George Meanie of
[7:25] the AFL CIO put in his own assessment.
[7:28] Meanie has criticized the president for
[7:30] one thing or another since Mr. Carter
[7:32] took office. So, what he said today at a
[7:34] meeting of the AFL CIO executive council
[7:37] was not unexpected. mean he was careful,
[7:40] however, to say he thinks the president
[7:42] is a great guy. Irving Ar Lavine was
[7:44] there when he said it.
[7:48] The top union leaders drew up a batch of
[7:51] statements criticizing many of President
[7:53] Carter's actions during his first 100
[7:55] days. Afterwards, AFL CIO President
[7:59] George Meanie objected to aspects of the
[8:02] Carter energy program, especially the
[8:04] standby gas tax.
[8:07] We we don't think the additional tax is
[8:09] fair. We don't think that it's equitable
[8:11] and we're hoping that Congress will not
[8:13] pass it.
[8:14] >> But Meanie's main criticism was directed
[8:16] against President Carter's decision to
[8:18] back a lower minimum wage than Labor
[8:21] wants.
[8:22] >> All last summer, all we got, the first
[8:24] priority was people, especially the
[8:26] little people of America. And and this
[8:28] to me is all wrapped up in this one
[8:31] question of minimum wage. And if he if
[8:33] he hadn't got compassion uh for these
[8:35] millions of people who who work below
[8:38] the poverty level then then I have
[8:41] reason for my disappointment. Mini is
[8:43] careful not to criticize President
[8:45] Carter personally as he did presidents
[8:48] Nixon and Ford. But Meanie's attacks on
[8:50] Carter policies may be even stronger
[8:53] because Mini believes that President
[8:55] Carter deceived him by promising
[8:57] policies that labor liked during the
[8:59] campaign. Irving R. Lavine, NBC News,
[9:03] Washington.
[9:05] >> President Carter refused today to put
[9:07] additional import quotas on sugar. But
[9:10] he did do something to appease American
[9:12] sugar producers. He ordered the
[9:13] Agriculture Department to give producers
[9:15] support payments of up to 2 cents a
[9:18] pound when prices fall below 13 12 cents
[9:21] a pound. Four people were killed today
[9:23] when a tornado struck Pleasant Hills,
[9:26] Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. A
[9:28] number of people were hurt by the
[9:30] twister, which damaged or destroyed up
[9:32] to 60 homes and tore a trailer park
[9:34] apart. Rescue workers spent the day
[9:36] looking through the twisted wreckage,
[9:38] and one of the things they pulled out
[9:40] was a small dog unhe hurt.
[9:44] The Carter administration invoked
[9:46] executive privilege today for the first
[9:48] time. This occurred at the Senate Rules
[9:51] Committee, which is considering
[9:52] legislation to permit voter registration
[9:54] on election day. The administration
[9:56] wants that. Senator Robert Griffin
[9:58] disclosed the existence of a Justice
[10:00] Department memorandum, uh, warning that
[10:03] election day registration could increase
[10:06] vote fraud. A Justice Department lawyer
[10:08] confirmed that the memo does exist, but
[10:10] Deputy Attorney General Peter Flareity
[10:13] refused to let the committee see it on
[10:15] the grounds of executive privilege, at
[10:16] least until he talks with Attorney
[10:18] General Griffin Bell. Representative
[10:21] Richard Tonrey, a Louisiana Democrat
[10:23] charged with winning his seat through
[10:25] vote fraud, resigned today. He asked
[10:27] Congress to keep his seat warm and said
[10:29] he'd win it back in a special election.
[10:36] To make a single pound of his Colombian
[10:39] coffee, Juan Valdez must pick 2,000
[10:42] coffee beans. Yet, he still picks every
[10:45] one of those 2,000 beans by hand.
[10:48] The work is not easy.
[10:50] But there is no other way to pick only
[10:52] the beans that are perfectly ripe. So
[10:55] for Juan, there is no other way. After
[10:58] all, he's not growing the easiest coffee
[11:00] in the world. He's growing the richest.
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[12:06] >> Our special this evening is on President
[12:08] Carter's trip to Europe, which begins
[12:10] tomorrow. It will involve meetings with
[12:12] leaders from Europe, Japan, and Canada
[12:14] on world economy, a meeting on Berlin, a
[12:17] meeting on NATO, and a meeting in
[12:19] Switzerland with President Assad of
[12:21] Syria. We have standing by to discuss
[12:23] this Richard Valerani, our diplomatic
[12:26] correspondent, Charles Quinn, our
[12:28] defense correspondent, and Marilyn
[12:31] Burgerer, who covers the White House.
[12:32] Marilyn, what's going to happen at the
[12:34] economic conference? Well, John, it's
[12:36] extremely important to these countries,
[12:38] the industrialized democracies, that all
[12:40] of them be economically strong. It's
[12:42] politically important as well as
[12:43] economically important. The purpose of
[12:45] the summit is for these countries to
[12:47] coordinate their activities. They have a
[12:50] variety of economic problems. There are
[12:52] weak countries like Britain and Italy
[12:54] which are suffering high rates of
[12:55] inflation and unemployment. Stronger
[12:57] countries like Germany, Japan, United
[12:59] States. They can help each other or they
[13:02] can hurt each other. Let me give you an
[13:04] a specific example which I think can
[13:06] simplify economics.
[13:08] Britain is suffering from a very high
[13:09] rate of inflation, 21%.
[13:12] As a result of that, the price of its
[13:14] products are very high and they can't
[13:16] sell them abroad. I was in Bermuda
[13:18] recently and the price of a man's
[13:20] sweater in a duty-free shop is $75. Made
[13:24] in Britain. You don't sell many sweaters
[13:26] at $75 and because of that there's a lot
[13:29] of unemployment. Well, Britain is taking
[13:31] steps to stem its inflation. It's trying
[13:34] to lower its prices so that it becomes
[13:37] uh more competitive on the international
[13:39] market and it's up to us to try and buy
[13:42] those products once Britain is able to
[13:44] sell them. So, we have to stimulate our
[13:46] economies, expand them and help Britain
[13:48] in that way and they can help
[13:50] themselves.
[13:51] >> So, really what's going to happen there
[13:52] is these leaders will get together and
[13:54] assemble so they can make some of the
[13:56] hard decisions that need to be made.
[13:58] Yes, it makes it easier for these
[14:00] leaders to take economically unpopular
[14:03] steps at home and it strengthens them by
[14:06] being able to explain that this is good
[14:08] internationally and it helps all
[14:09] countries.
[14:10] >> Marilyn, thank you very much. Have a
[14:11] good trip.
[14:12] >> Thanks, Don.
[14:13] >> When the economic summit ends, the
[14:15] president still in London will meet with
[14:17] member with the leaders of the NATO
[14:19] countries and there again the Germans
[14:21] have a complaint about American actions
[14:23] on a project for NATO on a common battle
[14:25] tank. And Charles Quinn, I'd like to ask
[14:27] you for some details on that particular
[14:30] dispute.
[14:30] >> That tank dispute, John, began when uh
[14:34] over the issue of who had the better
[14:36] tank, the Germans or the Americans, and
[14:38] whether one tank could be adopted for
[14:39] all of NATO. After that idea was
[14:42] discarded, some effort was made to see
[14:44] if some parts could be standardized. Uh
[14:47] German gun for the American tank,
[14:49] American engine for the German tank,
[14:51] that sort of thing. The Germans uh felt
[14:54] that we were stalling on the gun, but I
[14:56] was told today that the Americans are
[14:58] going to take a good hard look at that
[15:00] gun and that someday American tanks may
[15:02] be mounting German guns.
[15:03] >> Chuck, when we talked earlier today, you
[15:05] said that you had learned of a long
[15:07] range plan, was it, that Mr. Carter is
[15:09] going to submit to NATO. Can you give us
[15:11] some details?
[15:12] >> Yes. Uh John, I've learned that there is
[15:14] a plan, a 5 to 8year plan that will be
[15:17] presented to NATO, perhaps not by the
[15:19] president, but uh later in this month,
[15:21] by the Secretary of Defense. The plan uh
[15:24] I'm told or I understand has specific
[15:27] goals. It has specific timetables and uh
[15:30] it's focused more on standardization of
[15:33] weapons and more on modernization of
[15:35] weapons.
[15:36] >> Thank you, Charles. Also on Mr. Carter's
[15:39] agenda is a visit with President Assad
[15:41] of Syria, an important leader in the
[15:43] Middle East. The two will meet in
[15:44] Switzerland on Monday. Assad is one of
[15:47] the few leaders of a Middle Eastern
[15:49] country who hasn't been to see the
[15:50] president at the White House. And
[15:52] Richard Valerani, I would like to ask
[15:54] you what the Carter Assad meeting may
[15:56] produce.
[15:58] >> This is not a meeting designed to
[16:00] produce decisions. It's not a
[16:01] negotiating session, John. So, it's not
[16:03] likely to produce anything really
[16:05] tangible. But the two men will have a
[16:07] chance to size each other up. Uh that's
[16:09] very important. The element of trust
[16:11] will be critical when you get to the
[16:12] crunch period in the Middle East down
[16:14] the road. And they'll explore the
[16:16] central issues in the Middle East. How
[16:18] far is Syria willing to go to make peace
[16:20] with Israel? How flexible will Syria be
[16:23] about certain border arrangements like
[16:24] demilitarized zones? How to resolve the
[16:26] Palestinian question? How to get the
[16:28] Palestinians to the Geneva Peace
[16:30] Conference? How should they be
[16:31] represented? Remember that Syria
[16:33] boycotted the first Geneva peace
[16:34] conference on the Middle East in 1974.
[16:38] >> Would this mean this won't mean exactly
[16:39] that the president has seen every leader
[16:41] in the Middle East?
[16:42] >> No, he has still two more to go. He
[16:44] still must see Prince F of Saudi Arabia
[16:47] and then he must see Prime Minister
[16:48] Perez of Israel who has replaced Prime
[16:50] Minister Rabbine who was already here
[16:52] and that will happen probably late May,
[16:54] early June.
[16:55] >> Richard, have a good trip. I'm sorry I'm
[16:57] not with you on this one. Thank you.
[16:58] >> Are we? Also covering the summit will be
[17:01] a fellow named David Brinkley who is not
[17:02] here tonight because he's on his way to
[17:04] London. He'll be on the program from
[17:06] there tomorrow evening and I'll be back
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[18:13] The men who run the tuna fishing fleet
[18:15] from San Diego thought they had reached
[18:17] a compromise with environmental groups
[18:19] on just how many porpuses they might
[18:21] kill while taking tuna from the sea. But
[18:24] they were wrong. There was no compromise
[18:26] and there was no fishing today for tuna.
[18:28] Frank Burke Holdier has a report on what
[18:30] happened instead. The tuna boats left
[18:33] their births in San Diego this morning,
[18:35] but not to go fishing. The fleet was
[18:37] staging a demonstration protesting the
[18:40] collapse of what the fishermen had
[18:41] thought was a compromise with
[18:43] environmental groups worked out by
[18:45] Senator Cranston of California to permit
[18:48] them to continue to kill a limited
[18:49] number of porpuses when they catch their
[18:52] tuna. There was a brief unplanned
[18:54] confrontation with one environmentalist,
[18:57] Barbara Ferris of the Fund for Animals,
[18:59] who said she thought the Secretary of
[19:01] Commerce had offered an acceptable
[19:02] compromise. Yeah, Secretary of Commerce
[19:05] gave you a reasonable quota. She gave
[19:07] you accidental setting on spinner
[19:08] corpus. She gave you what you asked for.
[19:10] We don't have 100%. We got what we asked
[19:13] for. We didn't ask
[19:14] >> under the law. She gave you a legal
[19:16] reasonable quota and she stuck to it. As
[19:19] far as I'm concerned, you got what you
[19:22] asked for. And this is
[19:24] >> Wait a minute, hun. Can we set on
[19:26] spinners? We can't set on mix school.
[19:28] So, how can you say we got what we asked
[19:30] for?
[19:30] >> This is an endangered species. You're
[19:32] talkinganger.
[19:34] people.
[19:35] >> No, you got more guts coming out
[19:37] automobiles. Automobiles kill people
[19:38] that are really hurt here being here
[19:40] alone with no protection. I tell you,
[19:42] you we're really a sick weak people here
[19:44] cuz right now we should get you. And I
[19:46] don't know, I should take you in my
[19:48] hands and really work you over.
[19:50] The eastern spinner is one variety of
[19:52] porpus often caught and killed when the
[19:54] tuna nets are set out. The compromise
[19:57] that failed fixed a very tight limit on
[19:59] the number of spinners that could be
[20:00] killed. Fishermen said they couldn't
[20:02] live with that limit.
[20:05] The lone environmentalists left the
[20:07] demonstration early today with a police
[20:09] escort.
[20:10] While the fishermen, their boats, and
[20:12] their families took their demonstration
[20:14] to its climax, trying to convince the
[20:16] public that if they must fish by
[20:18] environmentalist rules, it's they who
[20:20] are the endangered species. Frank Burke
[20:23] Holtzer, NBC News, San Diego.
[20:26] In Texas, where everything seems bigger,
[20:28] a state legislator talked against a
[20:31] piece of legislation for 43 hours and
[20:34] broke the world one-man filibuster
[20:36] record by 17 minutes. State Senator Bill
[20:40] Meyer was bent and determined to keep a
[20:42] certain bill from getting through the
[20:44] chamber. When the end came, he was more
[20:46] bent than determined. And when finally
[20:48] he had enough and sat down, he was given
[20:50] a standing ovation. With the applause
[20:53] out of the way, the Texas Senate then
[20:55] voted overwhelmingly against it.
[21:01] >> 7 years ago today, this girl knelled
[21:03] over the body of a student shot by
[21:05] National Guardsmen in the anti-war
[21:07] demonstration at Kent State University
[21:09] in Ohio. Few who saw it ever forgot that
[21:12] picture, and many at Kent State have not
[21:14] forgotten what happened at the
[21:15] university that day. Bob Kerr has a
[21:17] report on this anniversary.
[21:21] Last night, more than a thousand
[21:22] students marched in a candlelight
[21:24] ceremony commemorating the tragedy.
[21:28] May 4th, 1970, Kent students
[21:31] demonstrated against the US invasion of
[21:33] Cambodia. Ohio Governor James Rhodess
[21:36] called in the National Guard. Some
[21:38] students threw rocks. The guard opened
[21:41] fire, killing four students, wounding
[21:43] nine others.
[21:47] Today at Kent, sculptures of the four
[21:50] students shot to death keep alive the
[21:52] memory of that day.
[21:54] So do old newspaper clippings.
[21:58] Jennifer Wallace was in sixth grade at
[22:00] the time.
[22:01] >> People remember the past and they can
[22:02] learn and
[22:06] it's here. This is the past and they
[22:09] must learn. A campus group called the
[22:12] May 4th Coalition urged students and
[22:14] teachers to boycott classes, but most of
[22:17] them didn't.
[22:19] 2500 students did attend an afternoon
[22:22] rally.
[22:24] Most of these students who were in grade
[22:26] school 7 years ago were aware that
[22:28] something bad happened at Kent State,
[22:31] but many are only now hearing and trying
[22:33] to learn more about it, and they say
[22:35] they don't like what they're finding
[22:37] out. I think that um what was done was
[22:41] wrong and I don't know if there's
[22:44] justice couldn't can be done now but I
[22:47] just can't believe it really did happen
[22:48] at the time.
[22:50] >> I'm upset,
[22:52] angry.
[22:56] I don't know if there are words to
[22:58] describe it. It's
[23:03] I don't think justice has been served.
[23:06] >> In the 7 years since National Guard
[23:08] bullets killed and wounded students
[23:10] here, there was an investigation by a
[23:12] presidential commission. A federal judge
[23:15] dismissed criminal charges against eight
[23:17] National Guardsmen. And a jury said
[23:19] Governor Rhodess and the National Guard
[23:21] troops were not to blame. An appeal of
[23:24] that decision is still pending.
[23:27] Bob Kerr, NBC News, Kent, Ohio.
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[24:34] In London today in Westminster Hall,
[24:36] Queen Elizabeth addressed both houses of
[24:38] Parliament. The occasion marked the
[24:40] beginning of the Queen's Jubilee, the
[24:42] celebration of her 25 years on the
[24:44] throne. The monarch's address to
[24:46] Parliament is an old custom, but this
[24:48] year it had a special meaning. Garrick
[24:50] Utley was there.
[24:54] The ceremony goes back to 1540 when a
[24:56] delegation from Parliament went to King
[24:58] Henry VIII at his palace to deliver
[25:00] their humble address. This year though,
[25:03] Queen Elizabeth came before both houses
[25:05] of Parliament to receive the address and
[25:07] to offer her reply. It was only the
[25:09] third time in history that both the
[25:10] House of Lords and House of Commons have
[25:13] met jointly to honor a monarch's
[25:15] jubilee. In the distant past, the
[25:17] address to the Queen was often an
[25:19] opportunity to voice complaints over
[25:20] royal powers. Today it was an occasion
[25:23] to celebrate the official start of Queen
[25:25] Elizabeth's Jubilee year.
[25:29] >> Our ceremony launches today a nationwide
[25:34] celebration of your majesty's silver
[25:37] jubilee.
[25:39] >> In her response, the queen called for
[25:41] unity among all the British, English,
[25:44] Scots, Welsh, and Irish.
[25:46] I number kings and queens of England and
[25:49] of Scotland and princes of Wales among
[25:52] my ancestors.
[25:55] And so I can readily understand these
[25:57] aspirations.
[26:01] But I cannot forget that I was crowned
[26:04] queen of the United Kingdom of Great
[26:07] Britain and Northern Ireland.
[26:10] >> The ceremony ended with perhaps the most
[26:12] traditional compliment of all. features
[26:15] for her majesty the queen. Hip hip
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[26:30] NBC News London.
[26:33] And a bit of a jubilee in Paris today
[26:36] for the great American painter Andrew
[26:38] Wyth. He was inducted into the French
[26:40] Academy of Fine Arts. The second
[26:42] American painter to be so honored in the
[26:45] 182 years of the academyy's existence.
[26:48] The first around 75 years ago was the
[26:50] American painter John Singer Sergeant.
[26:52] Wyth said he hoped that his paintings
[26:54] could bring the spirit of America to
[26:56] France as Charles Lindberg did when he
[26:58] flew there 50 years ago. And on that
[27:00] note, good night for NBC News.
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