Tom Brokaw...Richard Nixon's Press Secretary?

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🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent and former moderator of Meet the Press, joins Chuck to talk about a little-known story from his past in which President Nixon tried to hire Brokaw to work as the White House Press Secretary.

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0:00.2	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you
0:05.1	to meet the priest.
0:09.3	Welcome to 1947.
0:10.9	The Meet the Press Podcast.
0:12.4	And finally we are finally
0:14.5	doing a podcast with one of the
0:17.6	Meet the Press alum.
0:19.4	A former moderator, Tomelineschpower,
0:21.5	mr. Broka, welcome to the
0:23.9	1947 Podcast and
0:25.5	there's a reason you've been
0:27.1	invited Because little did
0:28.3	know you could have been famous or infamous in another walk of life and you made your confession
0:37.5	on the pages of The New York Times. Tell me the story.
0:40.1	Well, I've been something I've been carrying around very, very few people know about it.
0:45.5	In 1966 when I moved to California, one of the first people that I met was HR Bob Holman.
0:51.5	It was a different Holman than we came to know later. He was kind of a Republican obviously
0:57.9	and member of the establishment. His family was well known in the Southern California.
1:04.2	He was the head of the J. Waller Trums and the big advertising agency.
1:07.9	And he was the president of the UCLA Alumni Association which made him a region of the University
1:13.5	of California. And that's when I met him. And it was at the very meeting that Ronald
1:18.0	Reagan fired Clark Kerr, president of the University System. And during one of the early
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