Betty Cole Dukert on Richard Nixon's appearance on Meet the Press during the 1968 election

On the Sunday before the election of 1968, Richard Nixon finally agreed to appear on Meet the Press, after having declined to appear on interview shows of that kind throughout the campaign season. Producer Betty Cole Dukert describes the appearance and the effect it may have had on the outcome of the election.

“One of the reporters who was on the panel out there was Haynes Johnson, a Nobel Prize winning writer who was with ‘The Washington Post’… he said he heard many favorable comments about how Nixon had done on that program and that he really thought it was conceivable that could have made the difference.”

Watch Betty Cole Dukert's full interview, where she discusses her five-decade tenure at Meet the Press.

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