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#1910
(Studio) Report on Richard Nixon's remark and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's reply.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(No Location Given) [NIXON - says not possible to have debates between 2 candidates without incling. all candidates. Humphrey advisors feel he can't win on own and so are building up George Wallace. Won't play game to give forum to any 3rd party candidate. Humphrey telegrams mean nothing; they're kid stuff someone goes through when they're behind.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(San Francisco, California) [HUMPHREY - says Nixon may call it kid stuff, but he calls it stuff of statesmen. Thinks Americans entitled to see debate on great issues. Contrived performances not enough. Nixon's rejection of debate indicates disdain of public opinion and lack of respect for American voters. Says he has respect for opposition and American electorate.]
REPORTER: KGO-TV
(Studio) Vice Presidential campaign manager, Lawrence O'Brien, asks Nixon to appointed assistant to meet with Vice President representative to work out 2 way televised debate. Under O'Brien plan, time would be bought under cost-sharing.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#1912
(Studio) Frank Reynolds talks to reporters Ted Koppel and Lou Cioffi about campaign. [CIOFFI - says Vice President must change mood of country He's liberal and United States conservative.] [KOPPEL - says Nixon running campaign with consensus, yet says he won't run administration by consensus. Hasn't taken firm stand on anything. Vice President people hoping to goad him into taking stand.] [CIOFFI - cites Humphrey efforts to get Nixon to debate.] [KOPPEL - says Nixon only will debate with free network time and only with Vice President Actually doesn't want to debate Vice President [CIOFFI - says Vice President feels this is only way he can do it. People applaud law and order wildly, but not justice.] [KOPPEL - says Nixon afraid of overconfidence and some fluff between now and November If there is a fluff, feels Wallace votes in South would deny him White House] [CIOFFI - says signs point to Vice President breaking with Johnson administration He won't repudiate President, but will make strong statement like offering to end bombing if elected.]
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#1914
(Studio) Nomination of Abe Fortas recs. another setback.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Senator Everett Dirksen tells reporters he won't vote to shut off filibuster. Didn't say if he'd vote for confirmation. Senator Mike Mansfield says Dirksen's defection to make it harder to stop filibuster. Mansfield files cloture petition. Vote set for 1 p.m. Tuesday Reasons for Dirksen switch speculated upon.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson Artist: Charles Kavenaugh
#1915
(Studio) Commentator sees dispute as political, not philosophical.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(NYC) Substantial point Senator believes crisis in United States must be acknowledged at every government level. Not justified for President to try and pack Supreme Court as he's going out. Senator Johnson led fight to deny Eisenhower services of Lewis Strauss as Secretary Commerce. Strauss was as well-qualified as Fortas. Seeing political encounter.
REPORTER: William F. Buckley Junior
#1918
(Studio) Enemy attacks Thien Ngon and Phuoc Tan. South Vietnam and Green Berets hold and American planes offer support. 276 enemy killed in both places. Director Catholic Relief Services in 1st corps. area in Vietnam, Matthew D'Arcy says United States aid there damaged by corruption and inefficiency on point of South Vietnam officials.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(South Vietnam) United States aid made country land of thieves. D'Arcy tells reporter Craig Spence that United States representatives know of thievery but can't stop it. United States Ambassador Robert Komer says corruption cleaned up. [D'ARCY - says lots of supplies stolen off wharves. Commodities slowly move out of warehse. Tells of discrepancies. Percentage raked off at every level.] [Ambassador KOMER - says if there wasn't great deal of corruption, present government wouldn't be making big deal of anti-corruption campaign. Govt. really doing something about it.] Black market flourishes here. Refugees suffer most because products due for them free are sold to others. [KOMER - says 9,000 of 1 million TET evacuees are still in camps and 34,000 living with relatives and friends. Govt. resettling almost million is more important than few 1,000 not being settled.] [D'ARCY - says what government considers settled is not what he says. Cites differences. Few in his definition are resettled.] D'Arcy has run service for year
REPORTER: Jim Burnes
#1920
(Studio) Meaningful resettlement not accomplished through putting refugees in camps with supplies, as D'Arcy says. But Ambassador Komer right in saying these things must be done or abandon refugees. Corruption understandable. South Vietnam and Americans don't deny it. Failure stands out more than success.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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