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“Matt Dillon represents a lot of what we don’t have right now,” Sabin said.

“If there’s a great show, people will seek it out wherever it is,” said Neal Sabin, vice chairman of Weigel Broadcasting, which has carried “Gunsmoke” on MeTV since 2006.

Sabin believes “Gunsmoke” may be seeing an uptick in viewing as audiences tend to look to familiarity and comfort during times of uncertainty.

It was a “flexible” approach to regulation, as Sabin characterized it to me.

Carter’s environmental dedication also played into his famously chilly relationship with congressional Democrats—as historian and Public Citizens author Paul Sabin put it to me, “The Democratic Party in the 1970s was a more complex political coalition than it is today.”