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On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers was allowed to testify at the Senate's Subcommittee on Communications to secure funding for his series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood". The hardened chairman of the committee Senator John O. Pastore of Rhode Island, who supported drastic PBS budget cuts and was unfamiliar with Rogers' work, began Roger's testimony being visibly coarse and impatient with the children television presenter. However, he was so moved by Rogers' passionate, yet soft toned testimony about the need for social and emotional education of America's children that public, noncommercial television provides, that he unexpectedly rethinked his position, ending the hearing saying "Looks like you just earned the $20 million!"
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