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We're looking not just at a coastal event, but a second (or) third event that will occur over the next few days. So it will be an enormous effort on our part.


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JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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