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By DAREDLL EILAND
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�, HOLLYWOOD—Radio and '1'V star Arthur God- ---
+` frey had some strong comments on the Vietnam war
„' and a few government leaders duringa party
r press rant in
$f'• the Diplomat Hotel Monday,
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Godfrey and his crew completed cutting tapes for
I ' • his morning radio show while they were here so God-
t�1 hey could appear ip the Dinner liey charity horse show
t, }y } opening Wednesday ine Miami, r
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i. ,;, At the press reception just after the cutting sea-
` sion,Godfrey answered questions ranging from his read- V
ing habits to the war in Vietnam.
' • r ft His answers to come of the
Godfrey, for all his 63 of es showed that 1 -
years (33 of them with CBS),
has not lost a bit of his pithiness:
Q — As one of the big names of early television,
.� when It was an Infant, chat do you think of TV fare
today?
' , A— "I think they have Improved It a great deal
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it.. technically. But as far as program content goes, It
stinks,"
Q—What are your favorite TV programs?
•• t A—"I don't get too much time to watch. Jeez, I
` I don't even have time to do all the reading I want to do,
47• f ti now."
"� Q What pre you reading? .. --
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A—"There are two of them,'Doom Pussy,'a terrific
,ewe., t 3 book about the Vietnam war . . . if you want to find
• r out What the war's all about over there, get that book.
4 And'Yoga and Reincarnation'by Jesse Sterns,"
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Q —Do you practice yoga?
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as • a "Sure, that's how I
•1Illfr' ` A — got this leg back Ina :/
shape."
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a ' Q — You recently visited U.S. troops in Vietnam.
tVil. What do you think of the war over there?
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A—"It's a terrible war,It's one of the worst ones
ItrA we have ever fought.In other wars,you had a front ilne
iiitP where the action was and you had a rear area where
you had relative safety,
"Over there,you couldn't sit around in a group like
t;" r''Jr? " we are here.if you did,some kid would come in and roll
" a hand grenaden you.
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"You walk art long,
every where over there, with a
,. gat on your hip and an eye out to be sure that some-
' t. . body doesn't sneak up on you."
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,% Q—What do you think of some of the eapresslone
' 1, ,- 1` of opposition to our Vietnam position that ha hoer
la t voiced Ir • _!�
#yI`�r;' i,'' ` • A—"S think ht's a crying shame. Over 6,000 of our
I aoys killed and the rest of the country still goes on like 'I�
�ty . ve ar•q not at war.I think we should have total mohill-
N�� c , ��`I, •.atlon,The cream of the t . t ver there /t
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and we are still havin_ our bas mitzvahs here,y
Q— 'oat do you think about The way the war la
1 .- being Conducted?
A—"I think It's being misconducted. I think we
should have gone in there a lung time ago, bombed the
14401k rq,)' hell out of everyone of those communists and then got
ra out.,,
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�;:r Q—A lot of our entertainers have gone into politics
lately. Have you ever been approached and what post
-r would you consider?
4 ;di A--"Years ago,I was asked to run for governor of
i.,,,', (,..!4!, # Virginia. I said; 'No, thank you.' Under the Eisenhower
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f'R ',,' Administration, (Charles) Wilson (secretary of De-
k " y,'• 4Tense.) asked mg,to be his secretary of the Navy, 1 said
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