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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] I didn't realize</v>

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that I was being rejected in the United States

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when I couldn't find work.

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I thought, well, maybe my popularity is waning.

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You don't expect anything like that

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to be happening in your own country.

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My wonderful country? That can be happening.

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<v Narrator>Noon in Gotham City.</v>

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While millions of workers hurry to their midday meal

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at a posh private luncheon

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the city's 10 best dressed women are being named

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by the town's top couturier Rudy Gurnrick.

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[audience applauding]

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<v ->On behalf of Batgirl, Mayor Lindsey, Chief O'Hara,</v>

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the entire Gotham City police force, and myself,

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thank you, Mr. Gurnrick.

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This award just goes to prove that there is room for style,

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even in crime fighting.

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<v Catwoman>Ridiculous.</v>

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<v Man>It's Catwoman!</v>

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<v ->I said ridiculous, nonsense, foolish prattle.</v>

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How can Batgirl be the best anything

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when Catwoman is around? [chuckles]

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<v ->[First Lady Voiceover] Thursday, January 18th,</v>

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I went over my guest list

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for the first Women Doers' Luncheon.

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Our subject: Crime on the street.

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My reason because the idea has lain itching

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in the back of my mind a long time,

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and I felt I haven't raised my voice

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to do what little bit I could.

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And our guest list: A very good one, I thought.

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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] They knew about my work</v>

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in America among the inner city kids.

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I didn't wanna go

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because I thought it was politicians, you know, they,

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those luncheons, what are they gonna mean?

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And that's it.

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The White House kept calling me and saying,

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"Yes, Mrs. Johnson definitely wants you to come."

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So, okay. I go.

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<v ->I'm very happy to welcome you here</v>

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to the family dining room of the White House

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on this beautiful day.

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Crime is a grim subject for a pleasant meeting like this.

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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] Now when the luncheon begins,</v>

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the women were looking at the dishes

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underneath the plates and things

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to see what era, or the history they came from,

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supporters on, things like that.

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So enthralled about the fact that they were there.

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Then in walks President Johnson.

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He puts his elbow on the pulpit

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that was suddenly out there

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rolled into the middle of nowhere.

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And he starts talking about blah, blah, blah.

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<v ->[First Lady Voiceover] And then he turned to leave,</v>

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and Miss Eartha Kitt,

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being seated at the table close to the podium

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rose in his path and said:

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<v ->Mr. President, you asked about delinquency</v>

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across the United States,

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which we are all interested in,

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and that's why we're here today.

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But, what do we do about delinquent parents?

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The parents who have to go to work, for instance,

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who can't spend the time with their children

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that they should.

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This is, I think, is our main problem.

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What do we do with the children then,

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when the parents are off working?

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And obviously he was not prepared

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to answer any kind of questions,

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because I wanted to ask about the Social Security

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that we beginning to get into knowledge about the fact

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that it won't be there, and da, da, da, dum.

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<v ->Well, that Social Security bill we just passed this year</v>

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sets up millions and millions of dollars

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for day-care centers

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where mothers can take their little ones

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if they must work.

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That's one step we've taken.

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And that comes from...

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That's approved by a bunch of men

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who are really not the best judges

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of how to handle children otherwise.

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I think that'd be a very good question

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for you to ask yourself, and the other women here.

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You all tell them what you can do.

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<v ->[First Lady Voiceover] She sat down,</v>

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stubbed out a cigarette, tossing her long hair.

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And from then on, I watched her expecting something.

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I didn't know what.

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Apparently she did not eat,

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nor did she clap for any of the speakers.

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She smoldered and smoked.

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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] After the luncheon,</v>

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now we're supposed to get up

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and take our turn to give speeches.

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But all of them were catering to the fact that...

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What do you call that word?

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No, fawning up to the boss, so to speak.

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So, when I raised my hand, she kept saying,

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"That's all right Eartha, you will finally get your turn."

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I kept raising my hand.

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<v ->[First Lady Voiceover] I did not know what to expect.</v>

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Only that it would not be good.

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When some speaker finished, I nodded to her.

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She rose, and began to talk swiftly, passionately.

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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] And I said,</v>

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"I think we've forgotten

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what the subject of this luncheon is all about."

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And I said, "One of the reasons why

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our boys are running away from the United States

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is because they come to me wherever I am in the world,

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and they tell me what they feel."

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<v ->[First Lady Voiceover] The young people are angry.</v>

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Their parents are angry

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because they are being so highly taxed.

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And then mounting to a crescendo,

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she came to her real destination:

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To denounce the war in Vietnam.

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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] Our position in Vietnam.</v>

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They don't like it.

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We've been there long enough to realize

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we cannot win this war.

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So I told her what the kids had told me, the boys.

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That's why they smoke pot

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because they just wanna go to sleep

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until everything's all over.

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<v ->[First Lady Voiceover] And then,</v>

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advancing a step toward me,

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and looking with intense directness at me,

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[she's a good actress], she said,

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"You send the best of this country off

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to be shot and maimed.

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They rebel in the street.

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They will take pot, and they will get high.

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They don't want to go to school

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'cause they're going to be snatched off from their mothers

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to be shot in Vietnam."

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I am glad to say I looked back just as directly,

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stare for stare.

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"She continued pointing a finger.", the paper said.

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"Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too.

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Although you have had daughters and not sons.

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I am a mother, and I know the feeling

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of having a baby come out of my gut.

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I have a baby, and then you send him off to war.

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No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

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And Mrs. Johnson, in case you don't understand the lingo,

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that's marijuana.

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<v ->Just a minute, Catwoman,</v>

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you can't come here and disrupt a luncheon like this.

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<v ->Or my awards.</v>

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<v ->Ah. But I can, gentlemen. [hisses]</v>

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<v Woman>Oh, no!</v>

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<v ->[First Lady Voiceover] One paper said I was pale,</v>

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and my voice trembled slightly as I replied to Miss Kitt.

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I think that is correct.

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I did not have tears in my eyes, as another paper said.

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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] Eartha Kitt</v>

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made Mrs. Johnson cry.

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I didn't see her cry.

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One woman who was sitting to my right,

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she leaned over and whispered to me.

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She said, "Thank you, Eartha, for saying what you've said.

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We all feel the same way.

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But unfortunately 75% of the women in this room

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husbands work for President Johnson."

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So they couldn't say anything about what they really felt.

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Suddenly the meeting was over.

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I had a car at the hotel

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that the White House had sent for me to come there.

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But then all of a sudden, now I don't have a car.

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So, I'm walking around, waiting for a car.

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And I had to hitchhike my way back to the hotel,

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so to speak.

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I didn't realize that I was being rejected

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in the United States when I couldn't find work.

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I thought, well, maybe my popularity is waning.

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Maybe that's because even the hotel ambassador,

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whom I had a contract with three weeks after that luncheon

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couldn't find the contract all of a sudden,

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and neither could the William Morris Agency all of a sudden.

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<v ->I shall not seek,</v>

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and I will not accept

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the nomination of my party

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for another term as your President.

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<v ->[Eartha Kitt Voiceover] And the phone rang</v>

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just as I was going out the door.

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And he said, "This is Seymour Hersh from the New York Times.

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We have something that we would like you

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to give us permission to print."

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[chuckles] It was from the CIA dossier.

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Me? On a CIA dossier? How could that possibly be?

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And he said, "We have found a list of you

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on the, this dossier."

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And he was reading it to me.

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What does that got to do with the CIA if I was?

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[purrs seductively]

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