"Downs was so apoplectic all the time, I found it hard to get along with him. It got to the point where I gave up on him. I didn't see him anymore."
— Bill Downs

January 1, 1970

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Howard K. Smith describing Downs' frustration with his treatment by the new CBS management as quoted in The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (1996) by Stanley Cloud & Lynne Olson