On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:45:01 -0400, Dee D. Flint wrote:

You missed my point. It would be just as bad no matter whose administration
it was and no matter to what party they belonged. If it were a Gore
administration, they'd be just as much a sock puppet to the commercial
interests of that administration.

There are those who feel that the FCC's predecessor, the Federal
Radio Commission, was a sock-puppet to the Herbert Hoover
administration. This was long before FDR and the New Deal alphabet
soup agencies.

HH was the Secretary of Commerce before he became prez in the era
when the Commerce Department did what the FCC does today.

I really have to be respectful of him as a person because I actually
had the opportunity to shake hands with him when I was a senior in
college in the mid-1950s -- he was the kick-off speaker for the
fundraising campaign for our then-new engineering building and made
it a point to shake the hand of every senior engineering student.
He must have been in his 80s by that time.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane