No sooner was the system established than the #Nixon White House attacked #PBS for being packed with correspondents & guests who were “anti-administration” or “Kennedy sycophants,” as a Nixon aide, Patrick Buchanan, put it at the time.

Nixon was so “disturbed” that PBS had started a new national #news show w/the hosts Robert MacNeil & Sander Vanocur — someone on his enemies list — that he requested “all funds for #PublicBroadcasting be cut immediately,” memos released years later showed.