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AMC's 'Mad Men' has spawned a revival for the 60s in all sorts of ways. Certainly fashion, but also interest in bringing back the game show chestnuts we all enjoyed when we were home sick from school. The nostalgia fever has even gone international, where Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has a new game show 'I've Got a Secret.'

The latest entry into what is becoming a crowded field is NBC's revival on MSNBC, of 'To Tell the Truth,' another show where you could see people smoking on television.

When the news anchor Brian Williams was suspended for conflating news events into personal acts of bravery and danger, you knew that they probably weren't going to just get rid of the guy. And now it's been announced Mr. Williams will appear in a smaller broadcasting showcase on MSNBC as the host of 'To Tell the Truth.'

Anyone who remembers this show will be pleased to learn that Mr. Williams's contestants and panelists will all be celebrities and politicians, bold type names; A-list. This is especially good to hear as we ramp up to the 2016 presidential election with a very crowded field of candidates, 17 months before the election. There's no time like the present to declare candidacy, and no show better to winnow the field down to a precious few.

Mr. Williams's experience as news anchor will bring a new perspective to the show. Who better to suss out the truth than someone who put the word 'conflate' into the national consciousness, while also providing a nifty rhyming word to 'Watergate'? If only Johnny Cochrane were alive to give us rhymes with conflate: imaginate, investigate, deflate, subjugate, mitigate...The list goes on.

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