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Feb 18, 2005

CPB President Kathleen Cox tells the Washington Post that, contrary to what PBS President Pat Mitchell and her spokeswoman have said, Cox did not confer with Mitchell on whether to withdraw "Sugartime!," the Postcards from Buster program depicting Vermont children with two mommies. "[T]he first I heard from her was after she made that decision, explaining that she had made the decision after receiving the Spellings letter," Cox says.