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Dick Cavett on missing Lincoln, Groucho Marx and his new book

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Dick Cavett on missing Lincoln, Groucho Marx and his new book

• L. Kent Wolgamott
• Oct 25, 2014
• Oct 25, 2014
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Dick Cavett, on stage during the “Dick Cavett's Watergate" panel at the PBS 2014 Summer TCA, is from Lincoln

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Former heavyweight champions Muhammed Ali, left, and Joe Frazier, right, are shown sweeping television host Dick Cavett off his feet during a 1974 taping of the ABC-TV program “The Dick Cavett Show." Cavett is a friend of Ali's and interviewed him multiple times on his show.

• AP photo

This Aug. 1, 1973, photo shows host Dick Cavett of "The Dick Cavett Show," center, on location in the Senate Watergate Committee hearing room in Washington with Committee Vice-Chairman Sen. Howard Baker, left, and Sen. Lowell Weicker.

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Dick Cavett's latest book, a compilation of columns written for The New York Times website, will be released on Tuesday.

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L. Kent Wolgamott

Dick Cavett has a new book that hits shelves on Tuesday. But before we started talking about “Brief Encounters,” he had a pressing issue to discuss.

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