STORY BEHIND THE DODD TV INTERVIEW

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 6, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Drew Pearson dinner, where he sat at the ment the Senator had put
same table with Rep. Oren Roger Lowe, Mrs. Lowe's son,
There's an interesting un- Harris (D-Ark.), then chairman on the staff of the Juvenile
told story behind the fact that of the potent House Com- Delinquency Subcommittee
the Metromedia TV hookup merce Committee, and Sen. where he was able to read all
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tf ie candidate Ys N2 ` media's owner, John Kluge, timed for about two years.
;for Mayor of food broker and big-time ad-
$500 Cain ai^7a Gift
New York. ~P vertiser, at his Beverly Hills P e~
The St o ryp' tf home, which he purchased Meanwhile the buttering up
began Jan. 18, w from Frank Sinatra. of the man in charge of in-
1964, when Sen. Then followed other dinners vcstigating TV violence con-
Dodd's staff on Z'earson and luncheons: April 14, with tinued. When Sen. and Mrs.
his Juvenile Delinquency Sub- Mrs. Lowe and Mrs. Kluge at Dodd celebrated their wedding
committee finished a study of dinner; April 28, with the anniversary May 19, they re-
;crime and violence on tole- Kluges at their 2101 Connecti- ceived an assortment of cham-
.vision. After monitoring ABC, cut ave. home In Washington; pagne and choice liquors from
1964 rolled around, the Sena-
tor from Connecticut felt so
grateful for the. hospitality ex-
tended to him by the Metro-
media cohorts that he wanted
to do something in, return. On
Dec. 22 he wrote a glowing
letter to President Johnson
praising Mrs. Lowe and recom-
mending her for a job.
"I know\how interested you
are in bringing more and more -
qualified women into the Fed-
eral service," Dodd wrote his
friend LBJ. "It is my under-
standing that a vacancy exists
on the U.S. Advisory Commis. sion on Information, and I
would like to propose to you
the name of Mrs. Florence S.
Lowe of Washington."
CBS, NBC and Metromedia May 15, with another Metro- the Kluges with' a card read- Dodd went on for more than
they found that the following media representative, Larry ing: "Congratulations and best a page in praise of the lady
networks had carried the fol. Fraiberg; May 21, dinner with wishes. Theo and John." who had managed to maneu-
'lowing number of violent Mrs. Lowe at the National As Dodd's election campaign ver him out of investigating'
shows in one week: ABC, 45; Lawyers Club, and soon. approached, Mrs. Lowe wrote TV violence on her own sta
CBS, 13; NBC, 64 and Metro- And when he went to the Oc.. 6, 1964, "I am the self- tions. President Johnson was
media, 111. (The Washington Democratic 'National Conven- appointed chairman, board of not particularly impressed. Bill
Metromedia outlet is WTTG- tion in Atlantic City in August, directors and membership of Moyers wrote Dodd a perfunc
T`'. Channel 5). . 1964, Lowe arranged to meet the 'Florence Lowe for Dodd 3~ry acknowledgement Dec..?
' Realizing Dodd's power to him at the airport and later Committee.' So far all my Fraternizing and the back-
influence television, Metro- proposed driving him on up to candidates have won. You will scratching continued through,
media had already begun to New London. be no exception. With fondest 1965 with a real art
cultivate the Senator, and al- All this time Sen. Dodd and regards to you and Grace, g p y given
most immediately after this his Juvenile Deliquency Sub- Sincerely, Florence. by the Kluges on the Dodds'-,
preliminary juvenile d e 1 i n- committee were supposed to She also sent Dodd a con- 31st wedding anniversary in
quency report Florence Lowe, be studying TV violence, In- tribution with this note, "Love ay.
Metromedia representative in eluding the extra high rate of and kisses, Florence." Meanwhile the TV stations.;;
Washington, intensified the violence on Metromedia, Inside Three days later, Oct. 9 with the highest rate of vio-.4
,lobbying play for Sen. Dodd. fact, however, was that the Dodd wrote back, "Dear Flor? edlenee remained uninvestigat-
On Jan. 9, even' while the study of Metromedia had come ence: John Kluge's check ar- . So you can understand
'Juvenile Delinquency Subcom. to. a full 'stop. Mrs. Lowe had rive (sic) and believe me it is Why grateful Metromedia
" featured the Dodd Buckley in?
mittewas making its TV crime given `the.., Senator abeautifulmii,htly welcome," It was for
study, Mrs Lowe invited Dodd color TV set".Various., and id gratitude $500. td not when other stations
.tq the Women's Press Club for this and entertain By the time December of did not.
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