TV & VIDEO - Feb. 2, 1990

Havel on Walters’ Stage: Interviewing 53-year-old Czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel was “like something out of a Havel play,” Barbara Walters said of her 16-minute session with him in Prague. The interview airs tonight on ABC’s “20/20” at 10 p.m. and is interpreted by Rita Klimova, Brooklyn-born Czechoslovakian ambassador to the U.S. Playwright-turned-president Havel told Walters that “the time is coming when . . . politics should be taken over by intellectuals.” To help Americans grasp the idea of a writer as president, Walters suggests imagining Arthur Miller or Norman Mailer in the Oval Office.