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Lemay Candidacy #198201

CBS Evening News for Wednesday, Oct 30, 1968
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(Studio) Report on Vice Presidential candidate, General Curtis LeMay.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

(No Location Given) Film of LeMay in 1957 shown. He was Air Force Chief of Staff and head of SAC. No hoopla at LeMay political stops. LeMay holds press confs. and talks at small groups.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas

(NYC) LeMay is quiet and impassive.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas

(No Location Given) LeMay blunt. [LEMAY - says in favor of birth control and legalized abortion. Integration holds key to solving racial problems. See it work in Air Force. Nuclear weapon just another weapon to military man.]
REPORTER: Ike Pappas

(Vietnam) LeMay visits Vietnam. Returned and said nuclear weapons shouldn't be used in Vietnam.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas

(No Location Given) [Spiro AGNEW - says 3rd party bristles in defiance of good judgment. Single careless gesture could turn world into cinder.]
REPORTER: Ike Pappas

(Columbus, Ohio) [LEMAY - says tactic of scaring American public used against him.]: LeMay seen as way for Wallace to broaden appeal to upper middle class. He wants to stop American from further drift to left. LeMay is sincere.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas

Reporter(s):
Cronkite, Walter;
Pappas, Ike
Duration:
00:05:50

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