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True or False: During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, presidents successfully pressured TV networks to suppress critical news coverage without legal consequences.

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Kennedy and Johnson did pressure networks over coverage, but this caused public backlash and raised constitutional concerns—it did NOT succeed as stable policy. Modern courts cite this history as an e...

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