Mystery Theater - The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill
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Mystery Theater - The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill

B1IntermediateOctober 17, 202657 min
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The Committee is seeking hundreds of papers and tapes.

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Listen again, when WDAF and your Kansas City, Kansas public schools present another school note. Stay tuned for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater following ABC News at the top of the hour. It's 11 o'clock, this is WDAF Kansas City. News of the hour on the hour from American Information Radio.

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This is George Caldwell from New York and at this hour Vice President Gerald Ford says that the Senate Watergate Committee would reduce the size of its request for presidential documents, the White House might be willing to compromise. The Committee is seeking hundreds of papers and tapes.

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Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson sides with President Nixon in his refusal. In McLean, Virginia, Richardson explains. I think the Committee seems to me to have cast its net too widely. They haven't so far as I know made what I would regard as a sufficiently clear showing

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