UPDATE: '60 MINUTES' executive producer Don Hewitt said not identifying VIACOMCBS's ownership of Richard Clarke's book was an oversight... Developing...
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And in related news, Bill Clinton said that not remembering that he had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski, was an oversight... Developing...
UPDATE: '60 MINUTES' executive producer Don Hewitt said not identifying VIACOMCBS's ownership of Richard Clarke's book was an oversight... Developing...
An oversight by Don Hewitt? What he means is that he oversaw the production and made sure they didn't include the Viacom ownership.
DON HEWITT ( Executive Producer, " 60 Minutes"): And they came to us because they were in big trouble in New Hampshire. They were about to lose right there and they needed some first aid. They needed some bandaging. What they needed was a paramedic. So they came to us and we did it and that's what they wanted to do. When I told Tim Russert that I was persona-non-grata at the White House, he said, "Why?" I said, "The Gennifer Flowers interview." He said, " You got him the nomination." I said, " I know that." As far as I know from the conversations I've had, Bernie Nussbaum knew that, Gergen knows that, Lloyd Cutler certainly knows it 'cause Lloyd had a hand in his coming on that night. You know it was strong medicine the way I edited it but he was a very sick candidate. He needed very strong medicine, and I'm not in the business of doctoring candidates but he got up out of a sick bed that night and walked to the nomination and as I said to Mandy, " You know if I'd edited it your way, you know where you'd be today? You'd still be up in New Hampshire looking for the nomination." He became the candidate that night.57 posted on 03/22/2004 10:40:40 PM EST by Senator Pardek