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Forbes drops plans to air fund-raiser

Associated Press, May 7, 1999

Steve Forbes has scuttled secret plans to broadcast the kickoff of his Republican presidential campaign live on national television, according to an adviser who said TV networks would not sell the publisher air time for the Waldorf-Astoria gala. The New York hotel will still be the site of his first fund-raiser, a June 16 event scheduled to raise $1 million. Forbes originally hoped to broadcast the event as part of a 30-minute campaign kickoff, according to a senior adviser.