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Helpless Reliance
Is our desire to have everything done for us a reflection of our inability to do anything for ourselves?
Mr. Rogers & The Senate Subcommittee (1969)
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of the (then) recently nationally syndicated children’s television series, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (named Misterogers’ Neighborhood at the time), testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding proposed for the newly formed non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was at…