It's hard to believe it was 45 years ago today that Mister Roger's sang "won't you be my neighbor" for the first time on national television.
Every couple of years, Congress gets it into its head that the key to balancing its budget is to cut, or even cease, the funding of PBS. Back in 1969, Rogers testified at a congressional hearing regarding the cut in funding of $20 Million the Nixon Administration wanted. With his trademark soft-spoken eloquence, his passionate and moving plea that funding not be cut and reasons why it should not be cut, PBS funding was instantly restored.
This clip absolutely moves me to tears.
I can't imagine what television would have been like without Mister Rogers.
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