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Happened that you may be too young to remember, the four days of television that all the networks is only one broadcast. nielsen ratings show that for those four days, the television set in the average american home was on for 31.6 hours. that s eight hours a day that america is watching the same words said by the same people and you say, i wrote in my book, you know, the funeral procession. you think of triumphs of rome. this is the closest that a republican ever came to it. a procession marching up to the capitol with the great dome of the capitol with columns in the sky marching toward at first you have the generals, joint chiefs of staff, the priests in their flowing robes and then you have the matched gray horses, the