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STSPECIAL REPORT: MOURNING IN AMERICA
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STSPECIAL REPORT
Mourning in America.
Here, from Washington, is Connie Chung.
CC: Good afternoon from Washington D.C. This is the second day of the three day Memorial for the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Today mourners will file by the coffin in the Capital rotunda to say goodbye to the remains of Ronald Reagan, or as he was affectionately known, “the Gipper”.
Tomorrow the President’s body will again take flight, back to Simi Valley, where President Reagan will be planted in a “Golden City on A Hill”. We will be covering the National Day of Mourning with reports throughout the day.
Today we have a good friend of the Reagan’s, an honorary pall bearer and American entertainer and entrepreneur, Merv Griffin with us. Good afternoon Merv.
MG: Ohhh, good afternoon Connie. Ohhh, it’s nice to see you.
CC: It’s nice to see you again Merv.
MG: Yes, Ouuuhh, I remember you when you were a local anchor on CBS in Los Angeles, that’s when we met. Remember? You were on Channel 2.
CC: Yes, then I went to New York to join the network…
MG: Ouuuhhh. That didn’t work out. Then you bounced around, you’ve been on more networks than I was. What happened to you? Where are you now?
CC: I am the primary anchor for “Silly Thinking” now.
MG: Ouuhh, well good. Good for you. What is that?
CC: Merv. you’re an old friend of the Reagan’s. When did you meet the President?
MG: Ouuuhh. We met after the War, World War II. I had become a contract player at Warner Brothers and Ronald Reagan and I met and became friends. He was an old hand at Warners by then, but he took the time to be kind to me.
CC: DO you think that President Reagan’s policies set the stage for the mess were in now. Trampling human rights around the world and backing oppressive governments, as we have done for so many years, is now coming back to haunt us?
MG: Ouuhhh. You’re a journalist.
CC: Let me put it another way Merv. For years we have been told that the government and military have been making us safer. But now all the double dealing and military action have made us much less safe at home. Do you think Reagan can share responsibility for this folly?
MG: Ouuhhh. Yeah, well, Ron was a heck of guy. A real man’s man. Kind of a cowboy. But he always had a smile and a wonderful story.
CC:Merv, don’t you believe that the extraordinary security needed for this event is a fitting symbol to the cavalier American foreign policies that Reagan and others have explored and that we deserve to be here, feeling insecure, that enemies and terrorists can attack innocents at any time?
MG: Ouuhh, if you were on the game show I created, “Jeopardy”, you’d have to put that in the form of an answer.
CC: ‘Security measures symbolize everything we have done wrong in the world’.
MG: What is bad judgment?
CC: Thank you Merv Griffin, for being with us today.
MG: Lets play another one, I pick “Primary Colors” for a thousand.
CC: I don’t have time. Join Bill Pullman and me tomorrow as we cover the President’s final journey to nowhere. I’m Connie Chung. See you later.
STNEWS IS!
Mourning in America.
Here, from Washington, is Connie Chung.
CC: Good afternoon from Washington D.C. This is the second day of the three day Memorial for the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Today mourners will file by the coffin in the Capital rotunda to say goodbye to the remains of Ronald Reagan, or as he was affectionately known, “the Gipper”.
Tomorrow the President’s body will again take flight, back to Simi Valley, where President Reagan will be planted in a “Golden City on A Hill”. We will be covering the National Day of Mourning with reports throughout the day.
Today we have a good friend of the Reagan’s, an honorary pall bearer and American entertainer and entrepreneur, Merv Griffin with us. Good afternoon Merv.
MG: Ohhh, good afternoon Connie. Ohhh, it’s nice to see you.
CC: It’s nice to see you again Merv.
MG: Yes, Ouuuhh, I remember you when you were a local anchor on CBS in Los Angeles, that’s when we met. Remember? You were on Channel 2.
CC: Yes, then I went to New York to join the network…
MG: Ouuuhhh. That didn’t work out. Then you bounced around, you’ve been on more networks than I was. What happened to you? Where are you now?
CC: I am the primary anchor for “Silly Thinking” now.
MG: Ouuhh, well good. Good for you. What is that?
CC: Merv. you’re an old friend of the Reagan’s. When did you meet the President?
MG: Ouuuhh. We met after the War, World War II. I had become a contract player at Warner Brothers and Ronald Reagan and I met and became friends. He was an old hand at Warners by then, but he took the time to be kind to me.
CC: DO you think that President Reagan’s policies set the stage for the mess were in now. Trampling human rights around the world and backing oppressive governments, as we have done for so many years, is now coming back to haunt us?
MG: Ouuhhh. You’re a journalist.
CC: Let me put it another way Merv. For years we have been told that the government and military have been making us safer. But now all the double dealing and military action have made us much less safe at home. Do you think Reagan can share responsibility for this folly?
MG: Ouuhhh. Yeah, well, Ron was a heck of guy. A real man’s man. Kind of a cowboy. But he always had a smile and a wonderful story.
CC:Merv, don’t you believe that the extraordinary security needed for this event is a fitting symbol to the cavalier American foreign policies that Reagan and others have explored and that we deserve to be here, feeling insecure, that enemies and terrorists can attack innocents at any time?
MG: Ouuhh, if you were on the game show I created, “Jeopardy”, you’d have to put that in the form of an answer.
CC: ‘Security measures symbolize everything we have done wrong in the world’.
MG: What is bad judgment?
CC: Thank you Merv Griffin, for being with us today.
MG: Lets play another one, I pick “Primary Colors” for a thousand.
CC: I don’t have time. Join Bill Pullman and me tomorrow as we cover the President’s final journey to nowhere. I’m Connie Chung. See you later.
STNEWS IS!
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