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(Studio) Richard Nixon declines invitation to visit South Vietnam by South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu. Aide says no foreign trip planned unless President Johnson suggests it. Transition begins.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Nixon law partner, Franklin Lincoln, Junior and Johnson advisor, Chas. Murphy, meet. Rms. in federal office building for Nixon's use. General Services Admin. calls it President-elect suite. Murphy says 300 needed for President [LINCOLN - says good to be back. Was assistant defense secretary under Eisenhower. Still in initial stages.] Work underway on inaugural platform and stands.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) Senator Vance Hartke predicts Richard Nixon coalition government with post for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Nixon spokesperson says no information about this.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Edmund Muskie returns to DC.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [MUSKIE - says Nixon entitled to support and chance to give effective ntl. leadership]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) With 96% vote in, Richard Nixon has 30,041,582 votes and 43%; Hubert H. Humphrey has 29,766,043 and 43%, and George Wallace has 9,242,950 and 13%. Humphrey gets Texas votes. Pollster Louis Harris says Nixon would have won by 10% if Wallace hadn't run. Spk. at National Press Club.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [HARRIS - says Humphrey never caught on as personality in election. Neither he nor Nixon got better than soft reaction. Democrats and Negroes voted for Vice President and most of labor votes switched from Wallace to Vice President Wallace campaign dropped in North and new South Drop benefitted Nixon, not Humphrey. Electoral college battle settled in Florida, SC, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and OK.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Oregon Senate race undecided. Senator Wayne Morse trails Robert Packwood.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) South Vietnam charges North Vietnam with 16 artillery attacks since bombing halt reported Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihanouk says he'll free 11 Americans if President will try to stop allied bombing there.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nigerian civil war lasted 16 mos. Biafra hurt worst.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Enugu, Nigeria) Used to be 150,000 here. 4/5 land Biafrans started out with deserted. Ibo people displaced.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
(Obanogkia, Nigeria) International Red Cross brings in food. Crowd waits. People could starve later. Children with nutrition-related disease shown. [Relief program director Glenn HAYDEN - says death rate lower but certain % will die depending on how long they've been in bush.] High protein food needed. Food does no good if people stay in bush.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) German woman slaps Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger at convention Claims he had Nazi past and slap justified. Sentenced to 1 year prison.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) On 51st anniversary of Soviet Bolshevik revolution, 1000s students in Prague shout anti-Soviet slogans and burn flags. Order restored. Communist Party members jeer Alexander Dubcek.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Moscow, USSR ) Soviet leaders present in Red. Sq. for celebration. Marshal Andrei Grechko gives keynote address. Warns against imperialists. Ambs. of West Europe and United States missing; protesting Czechoslovakia occupation. Weapons put on parade. Average Soviet never had it so good.
REPORTER: William Cole
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(Studio) Defense Department releases film of US-USSR encounters in September during NATO maneuvers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(N. Atlantic) United States Air Force F-l02 took photos of Soviet TU-95. Plane described. Some United States pilots carry signs that say "smile" in Russian.
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
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(Studio) Los Angeles Cnty. spent $250,000 investigating murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and protecting his accused assassin, Sirhan Sirhan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on getting away from it all and going back into past.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Virginia City, NV) Tourists keep old mining camps like this 1 alive. Population 500. Bucket of Blood saloon still in business Norman Jackson and Smiley Washburn provide music. Howard Bennett rehearse for church on old organ. 100s of other camps dead.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
(Bodie, California) l0,000 lived here; nobody now. Sounds of what it was like here heard. Bodie full of ghosts.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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