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Hello and Welcome to Channel 7 news at 11:00. Today we have a Special Broadcast coming tous live from Washington D.C. We are going to join Bill Beutel in a couple of seconds. ReadyBill…..Ok we are now sending you live to Washington…..Bill: “Custer’s Last Stand”…this rings a bell in the minds of many as you will see in tonight’ssegments…”Custer Stands Again”. Tonight we will have a one on one, first time interview withGeneral George Armstrong Custer. His death stirred up bitter controversy. Well he is with ustoday for one last chance to get to the bottom of everything. Let me introduce General GeorgeArmstrongCuster. Hello General. Custer: Hello Bill, how are you doing.Bill: Fine, and how are you. You are looking very good today. I am glad you took time out ofyour busy schedule to spend some time with us and our loyal viewers today. Custer: Thank You for the compliment Bill, you are looking good yourself. I myself have been ona Nutri System Diet and have lost 15 pounds, I feel like a new man. Bill: Ok we have a very short time slot here so lets get the most out of this once in a lifetimeinterview. Are you ready.Custer: I was born ready Bill. Go Ahead, Fire!!! Wait don’t fire, I meant start asking yourquestions when your ready. All I have to do is answer them, you have the tough half in asking thequestions.Bill: Ok, here goes, Are Those Bugle Boy Jeans that you are wearing..!!..Custer: Why yes, as a matter of fact they are. I bought them just for this show. I didn’t seem tounderstand that question.Bill: I was just kidding, I was just trying to break the ice between us because we will be borderingon some very touchy matters. Ok then lets get straight to the point. What are were your personalfeelings towards the Indians.Custer: I believed then and I believe now that they were uncivilized and just couldn’t keep up withus Americans. They were also very dark due to the fact that they were squalid. They refused towear normal clothing and walked around half naked. They were inferior to us in more ways thanothers. Bill: That is a very harsh statement that you have stated. Can you back up that remark.Custer: Well of course I can, one that pops into my mind is their use of the Bow and Arrowcompared to our more advanced fire power, rifles. How could they even stand a chance againstus. For such ignorance they deserved what they received!!!!!Bill: Lets back up a little and go a little off the topic for a second, if you don’t mind, can yousummarize to us how you became what you were and are today. I would like to know and I amsure a lot of the viewers would like to know also. Custer: Ohh Boy, that’s going back a long way but give me a minute. Ok, it started a long timeago when I was a young lad. I did not work hard at my studies. I graduated at the bottom of myclass fro the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1861, and joined the Union Forces in theCivil War. I can honestly say that I was and still am very smart but I never accerted myself, Iguess you could say that I was lazy.Well, during the war I served with General McClellan in Virginia. In 1863 I was assigned to thecavalry and soon revealed daring and brilliance as an officer. As a result I was promoted quickly.When the war ended, I was made a lieutenant colonel and sent to Kansas to fight Indians. Afterthat I did whatever I could to help the country and I soon became General.Well that was a lot to swallow I hope that you got it all. Bill: Wow, that was very interesting. Ok, when you were ruining the lives of Indians by killingthem and herding them off their land, like cows, into unknown and uncharted reservations didn’tyou feel any pity. Did you not have a heart!!..!!Custer: I don’t feel any pity for the Indians, not one bit. None of this was necessary if they listenedto us. It was because of their ignorance that all this started. They were a backwards culture andwe were a prospering one. They were holding us back and that was counter productive so we didwhat was in the best interest of our growing nation. We gave them every opportunity to joiningwith us and listen to us but they refused.Through my many years in the military forces I learned not to give into any of my personalfeelings. Not that I had anything against what I did!!Bill: Well, you voiced your opinion very well. Ok does the date June 25, 1876 mean anything toyou.Custer: June 25, 1876… how could I not remember that date. That was the day that made mefamous. How ironic that is. Bill: What do you mean, ironic.Custer: Well all through life I wanted to be famous and looked up to by others. Well I think its

ironic that I got what I wanted and became famous, after my death at the hands of my trueenemies….The Indians. Bill: You mentioned something about aspirations. What was another aspiration that you had.Custer: Well I was planning and wanted to become President of The United States Of America. Ifeel I would have made a very good president. I would have been the best President that thiscountry had or has or even will have. I was best fit for that position. I am sure you could see thatalso. Bill: Very interesting, well, If it is not too painful can you reminisce the events of that battle, whichwe have tagged as “Custer’s Last Stand”. Custer: Ahh, “The Battle of Little Bighorn”. My troops and I were in the Montana Territory. Mytroops were starting to get restless. We were out there trying to round up the Sioux andCheyenne Indians and move them to