CSPAN2 The Communicators November 20, 2012
Host what led to that decision. Guest well, it was during the Johnson Administration in the late 1960s. It was part of the Telecommunications Task force. It had concluded that the Telecommunications Industry could be competitive. And they have made recommendations mainly to the federal Communications Commission on how to make that happen. Then when Nixon Administration came along, the staff in the antitrust division, after watching for a couple of years, decided to pursue antitrust rather than sec regulation as the means to introduce the competition. My role that i was on both the Telecommunic...