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Bill Clinton: What you need to do is to write the networks, ABC and CBS and NBC, and maybe all the other smaller networks that…

On the recordFebruary 20, 1993
What you need to do is to write the networks, ABC and CBS and NBC, and maybe all the other smaller networks that advertise, and tell them to reduce advertisements of junk food--limit to a certain number of hours on Saturday morning, especially. Mr. Jennings. Basil, one of the things--I'll tell you two things. First of all, when you write to a network like that, if enough of you write they listen to you. And the other thing I'll tell you about the President which I think you'll find encouraging, though I hope it wasn't just a political statement, sir--the President very kindly had a number of reporters in the other day to have lunch with him, and he served us broccoli. [Laughter] At any rate, we're going to go to a commercial now, which makes me just little nervous. [Laughter] We'll be right back. [The television stations took a commercial break.] Support for the President's Program Mr. Jennings. We have a question from California on the telephone. Go ahead.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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