We continue our tour through American history, TV Guide-style, we come to late spring, 1974, and the question before the house (and Senate, for that matter), is this: whether or not the impeachment of President Nixon, if it comes to that, should be televised.Remember, at this point in time we're still a long way from regular television coverage of the House and Senate. C-SPAN is just a gleam in Brian Lamb's eye; with the exception of the State of the Union and other major speeches, cameras have never been permitted in the hallowed halls of Congress. With an eye toward the ultimate in summer replacement series, TV Guide's Neil Hickey takes Congressional temperatures to see what the forecast is.Hickey canvassed 135 members of the House; 78 favored full coverage, and another 10 leaned toward it, while the remainder opposed bringing in the cameras. Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be a partisan split on this issue—Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, who would wind up one of the most…
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