Chet Huntley

and Dennis James.

They play parodies of 60s newsmen like Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, and David Brinkley.

They even toss out trademark lines like, goodnight Chet, goodnight David, and stuff like that.

So that's a timely thing.

Now Inauguration Day is almost at hand, January 20th, and NBC Radio and Television are ready to bring you the most complete and comprehensive coverage of this memorable day and night.

Chet Huntley and David Brinkley will be anchormen on television, with Robert McCormick and me on radio, backed by the entire NBC News team.

From the Capitol, from the White House, and later at the gala inaugural ball, scores of NBC newsmen will cover the solemn events of this inauguration day.

Be with us Wednesday, January 20th for Inauguration Day on NBC Radio and Television.

It's time for Today in History.

In 1956, the year I was born, NBC actors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley first team up in the Huntley-Brinkley Report.

And this is NBC News, the Huntley-Brinkley Report, assembled for television every weekday night by the world's largest and most comprehensive broadcast news organization, the News Department of the National Broadcasting Company.

And they were together, I think, until at least 1970 or so.

And our constantly changing world is obscured by the sheer volume of fact.

This is Chet Huntley.

And to help digest this flow of information, I'll be with you each day with my perspective on the news.

Daily Perspective will focus on a variety of topics, from the war in Vietnam to our domestic problems here at home.

Third parties show it is also the art of the impossible.

Chet Huntley, Emphasis plain talk.

The Secretary of State of the United States, Dean Rusk, is a singular man and a more singular public official.

This is Frank Field, Emphasis, what's new in science.

[upbeat music] Today, travel is fast.

Sense in our constantly changing world is obscured by the sheer volume of fact.

This is Chet Huntley, and to help digest this flow of information, I'll be with you each day with my perspective on the news.

Daily, Perspective will focus on a variety of topics from the war in Vietnam to our domestic problems here at home.

I can't do news, Dave.

Um, but yeah, back in the day, we had Cronkite, uh, Chet Huntley, Brinkley, Jennings, Rather, Brokaw, the big names, and it really wasn't until, as you point out, um, uh, William F. Buckley, uh, w- where-

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