An Inclusive Litany

5/6/96

Dan Rather on the "CBS Evening News," April 30, 1996:
Good evening. It's the question every American driver is asking with every trip to the pump. Why is the price of gasoline going up and up. Is it the free market at work, the law of supply and demand? Or, is it greed, or possibly something more sinister?

Mr. Rather again, same show, same night:

President Clinton is giving some election-year help to America's ranchers and farmers. The President took action today to try to boost cattle prices, which have fallen to their lowest level in ten years.

Rather discusses dairy-state Republicans' own excursions into the marketplace on behalf of their constituents, February 2:

A CBS News exclusive. The hush-hush plan afoot in Congress that could make your milk prices soar.... CBS News has been told that a secret deal is making its way through Congress that would increase the additives in your milk, and increase the retail price of milk about 40 cents a gallon.