 The news department was given more money, leading to notable coverage of the 1960 Presidential election campaign, and the prominence of "The Huntley-Brinkley Report".Kintner was forced to defend NBC at the height of the quiz show scandal of 1959–60, testifying to the United States Congress that NBC and the other networks were victims of the quiz show rigging just as viewers were, and that the networks were working to wrest production control of programming from advertisers, whose pressures had been seen as key influences driving the scandals.Kintner returned to Washington, DC, in 1966 after President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to be his Cabinet Secretary.