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While ABC stood behind Smith when the outcry erupted over the program, sponsors became increasingly difficult to find. ''Howard K. Smith: News and Comment'' was hence replaced in a revised format simply entitled ''ABC News Reports.''<ref name=guardian/> After ''News and Comment,'' Smith hosted ABC's Sunday afternoon half-hour interview program, then known as ''Issues and Answers'' (since the hour-long  ''This Week.''<ref name=mbc/>

While ABC stood behind Smith when the outcry erupted over the program, sponsors became increasingly difficult to find. ''Howard K. Smith: News and Comment'' was hence replaced in a revised format simply entitled ''ABC News Reports.''<ref name=guardian/> After ''News and Comment,'' Smith hosted ABC's Sunday afternoon half-hour interview program, then known as ''Issues and Answers'' (since the hour-long  ''This Week.''<ref name=mbc/>

A native of Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]], Smith remained at ABC from 1962 to 1979, when he resigned because the network reduced the time allowed for his on-air commentaries. During the Nixon administration, Smith began to express more [[conservative]] views, particularly in regard to the [[Vietnam War]]. He hosted an hour-long interview with President Nixon in the [[White House]] in 1971. After he left ABC, Smith went on the lecture circuit, wrote his memoirs, and, befitting his patrician mannerisms, was cast in bit parts in such [[film]]s, as ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind,'' ''Nashville,''  and ''The Candidate (1972). He usually appeared as  himself.<ref name=guardian/>

A native of Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]], Smith remained at ABC from 1962 to 1979, when he resigned because the network reduced the time allowed for his on-air commentaries. During the Nixon administration, Smith began to express more [[conservative]] views, particularly in regard to the [[Vietnam War]]. He hosted an hour-long interview with President Nixon in the [[White House]] in 1971. After he left ABC, Smith went on the lecture circuit, wrote his memoirs, and, befitting his patrician mannerisms, was cast in bit parts in such [[film]]s, as ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind,'' ''Nashville,''  and ''The Candidate'' (1972). He usually appeared as  himself.<ref name=guardian/>

Smith was not the only journalist in the 1962–1963 season with his own prime-time series. [[NBC]] co-anchormen David Brinkley (1920–2003) and Chet Huntley (1911–1974) had separate half-hour programs on Monday and Tuesday evenings, respectively, entitled ''David Brinkley's Journal'' and ''Chet Huntley Reporting." Brinkley went on to host ABC's "This Week''

Smith was not the only journalist in the 1962–1963 season with his own prime-time series. [[NBC]] co-anchormen David Brinkley (1920–2003) and Chet Huntley (1911–1974) had separate half-hour programs on Monday and Tuesday evenings, respectively, entitled ''David Brinkley's Journal'' and ''Chet Huntley Reporting." Brinkley went on to host ABC's "This Week''