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#198101
(Studio) Richard Nixon says administration driving hard for bombing halt agreement and future cease-fire. Also told but doesn't believe that activity is cynical try by President Johnson to salvage Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's campaign. Vice President's campaign manager Lawrence O'Brien says old Nixon surfaced, making charges while not appearing to. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford holds news conference
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Secretary Clifford, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and General Earle Wheeler meet with President Admin. says no breakthrough. [CLIFFORD - doesn't know if lull is sign from North Vietnam. 80,000 North Vietnam remain in South Vietnam. United States has military superiority over USSR and will continue to maintain it. United States has 1,054 land-based ICBMs; USSR has 900. United States has 656 submarine nuclear missiles; USSR has 75-80. United States has 646 intercontinental bombers; USSR has 150-155.] Conflict over South Vietnam and NLF roles in Paris Peace Talks probably holding up bombing halt.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
(Studio) Laos Premier Souvanna Phouma says United States to stop North Vietnam bombing. White House declines comment. Radio Hanoi says won't deescalate in exchange for end to air attacks. South Vietnam President Nguyen opposed to Viet Cong having role in peace talks.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#198103
(Studio) Vice President Humphrey also refutes Richard Nixon' security gap charge.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) [HUMPHREY - says Nixon advocating incrd. militarization. Playing numbers game just like in 1952. His numbers wrong. US strongest nation on earth.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Los Angeles, California) Visits delicatessen. Greets crowds. To campaign among minorities.
REPORTER: Bill Plante
#198104
(Studio) George Wallace campaigns in New York
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Nearly 17,000 in Madison Square Garden to see Wallace and General Curtis LeMay. Few hecklers. Protesters outside Garden. 3,000 police on duty. Evidence movement no longer sectional.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
#198105
(Studio) Senator Edward Long and Representative Barratt O'Hara lost primary election. Associated Press reports both taking junkets abroad. Details of trip cited.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#198107
(Studio) Several 1,000 students seize control of London School of Econs. and raise Viet Cong flag. Ldrs. say building to be used for medical aid for anyone hurt in big Vietnam demonstration Sunday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198108
(Studio) Report on philosopher-longshoreman, Eric Hoffer's argument during testimony to President commission on violence.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Militant supporter of Black Panthers and sociologist, Herman Blake and Hoffer differed. [HOFFER - cites poor childhood.] [BLAKE - asks if he's been called nigger?] [HOFFER - says he was 1st man to write of need for Negro community in 1964.] [BLAKE - asks why he stops community.] [HOFFER - says you must build it.] [BLAKE - says can't build it when whites like you tell us we can't be what we are.] [HOFFER - says Negroes haven't started on it.] [BLAKE - says you stopped us.] Blake started to leave but stayed. [Commission Vice-Chairperson Judge Leon HIGGINBOTHAM - says Hoffer's statements indicative of racist pathology in US. His views representative mass. His remarks prove Toynbee's statement that civilizations are destroyed from within.] No answers provided.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
#198109
(Studio) Secretary Clifford reports Navy to resume building quiet submarine to cost $150-200 million.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198110
(Studio) Apollo VII crew nears debriefing end. To fly to Houston Saturday Still photos shown of Hurricane Gladys, Mt. Everest and other mts.; gulf coast area and sunrise across peninsula.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198111
(Studio) Cardinal Rich, Cushing, 73, to offer resignation to Pope Paul at end of year due to criticism over Kennedy-Onassis marriage. In WEEI interview, says he intended to retire in 1970. Denies encouraging Jacqueline Kennedy to marry Onassis.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198112
(Studio) Granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barbara Anne, 19, to marry Fernando Echavarria-Uribe, 25, of Bogota, Colombia. Her father, Colonel John Eisenhower, refuses to say if son, David, will marry Julie Nixon before Christmas.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198113
(Studio) Marine Captain, Charles Robb, passes out cigars due to birth of his and Lynda Byrd's daughter.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President Johnson passes out cigars at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Baby 7 pounds 8 ounce and has black hair. [JOHNSON - says she's expressing herself as females do.] President returns to hospital later with grandson, Patrick Lyndon, 18 mos. [MRS. JOHNSON - says baby pink, vocal, pretty and 7 1/2 pounds]
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
#198114
(Studio) Justice William O. Douglas accuses Army and Solicitor General of sending 105 Kentucky soldiers to Vietnam day ahead of schedule before Supreme Court considered their case.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#198117
(Studio) 5th report on candidates and issues. What would you do to slow cost of living rise?
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(No Locations Given) All George Wallace remarks filmed on October 16, 1968. [WALLACE - says cut out unnecessary federal spending and put some welfare money into public works project to provide jobs.] Hubert Humphrey remark filmed October 20, 1968. [HUMPHREY - says will meet with labor, management and finance repr. to talk about voluntary program of wage price stability. To call national conference for that purpose. Have escalator clause in social security plan.] September 30, 1968, paid political advertisement shown. [NIXON - says should stop rise in cost of living for social security recipients and stop reduced capital in their pensions. Automatic social security increase should be incld. when cost of living up. Benefits should be increased when can afford to do more.] Would you drop 10% tax surcharge set to expire in June? Humphrey remark filmed October 9, 1968. [HUMPHREY - says tax anti-inflationary force. Congress must reenact it. Won't ask for it to be put on again unless inflationary pressure out of control and war continuing] September 4, 1968, paid political advertisement shown. [NIXON - says tax should be ended when war is. Tax level should be reduced.] [WALLACE - hopes surcharge can be dropped. Like to remove tax-exemption feature on tax-exempt foundations.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198118
(Studio) President Houston Astrodome invites Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon to debate there Sunday before election. Humphrey accepts with or without Nixon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198120
(Studio) Analysis of problem facing President winner.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Not many cheering enthusiasts in pols. crowd. Most reserved, courteous and silent. There will be "show me" attitude after election. Whoever wins must create own consensus.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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