Pop goes to the Chicago Convention 1968
- Pop goes to the Chicago Convention 1968
- Under the flag of heading off inflation, the Federal Reserve embarked upon a restrictive money policy and began raising interest rates. This is the same thing the Federal Reserve did in 2007. Predictably, it caused a recession. America became so broke that we couldn't even afford to send our athletes to the Olympic Games. Senators and congressmen outdid themselves in finding new ways to blame each other's political parties for the deplorable state of affairs. But since the politicians could not profit from it, no kind of help was forthcoming from the federal government.
It came down to the private sector to make things right, and so Pop enlisted his friends, Crosby, Sinatra and Hope, and produced a fundraising telethon that ran on all networks simultaneously. It was the first national telethon, and the largest networking in history at the time.
- Pop and Marilyn
- Pop, Milton Berle, Art Linkletter, Carl Sandberg
- This photo is of 13 episodic scripts, and 40 treatments for the TV/internet interactive educational dramatic series AMERICA. Also in the photo is the old Wollensak tape recorder I carried for my Pop when we went to record President Eisenhower's contribution, at his ranch in Gettysburg. Yes, this show has been pitched around Hollywood for a long time. But the people running the studios thought it was a little corny then.
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