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#199488
Pall over convention due to ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffering 6th heart attack. He called for 1968 victory last night in taped convention speech.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Prognosis guarded. Chest pains struck at 6:15 a.m. He's resting painlessly; vital signs stable. Son, John, flies in from convention [J. EISENHOWER - says he's sleeping now. Will come back later for visit and talk pols. Mother in room with him most of time. To stay here as long as needed.] Doctors doubt that speech related to attack.
REPORTER: Neil Strawser
(Studio) Ex-Vice President Richard Nixon commented on Eisenhower attack.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Miami Beach, Florida) [NIXON - says Eisenhower strong and will see this through, too. He wants to be present at inaugural ball.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
#199490
(Studio) Platform to be presented tonight at convention Delegate support sought by candidates. Washington Governor Dan. Evans endorses Nelson Rockefeller, but feels Nixon will win. California Governor Ronald Reagan wins support of North Carolina delegation chairperson, Representative James Gardner. Report from Nixon headquarters
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Miami Beach, Florida) Nixon met delegates in 6 regional caucuses. Nixon lost some South votes to Reagan. Some South supporters want Reagan to be Vice President Nixon says his Vice President choice wouldn't be unacceptable to South Nixon aides say Rockefeller using South's liking for Reagan to win prize for self. New Jersey Nixon supporters pressure Senator Clifford Case to withdraw favorite son candidacy. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon meet delegates at reception. Nixon looks and sounds confident.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Reagan and Rockefeller also woo delegates.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Miami Beach, Florida) Reagan visits delegations. Rockefeller aides claim 275 votes for Reagan. Reagan heard of numbers like 200. Sounds like man-in-running to Texas delegation. [REAGAN - says United States can't survive more of what it's got now. Any Republican administration would be fortunate if Nixon agreed to serve in it.]
REPORTER: Bill Stout
#199492
(Studio) Southern Christian Leadership Conference President, Dr. Ralph Abernathy begins campaign to get Republican attention for poor peoples' flight.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Miami Beach, Florida) [ABERNATHY - calls it 1 of last chances for Republicans to win back black vote. Convention almost lily-white. Nomination of someone like Rockefeller can bring black vote back.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Abernathy leads march.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Miami Beach, Florida) Poor protesting hunger and seating of delegations with no Negroes on them. They visit large gaudy hotels. Rockefeller showboat nearby. [ABERNATHY - feel we're entitled to nicer things of life. We can see a lot of people at convention headquarters at hotel.] Abernathy brings smaller version of muletrain with him. Poor can't compete with show of pols.
REPORTER: Bert Quint
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(Studio) Nixon says if nominated, he may go to USSR to talk of world problems. Moscow may not be indifferent.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
(DC) When Nixon visited USSR last year, he didn't get meeting with Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Soviet leadership will probably see him this time because he's going as Republican President nominee and Soviets need him like he needs them. They suffered political setback in Czechoslovakia that may lead to Kremlin changes. They may need appearance of good relations with American Johnson administration prepares appeals for Soviet cooperation with Vietnam, missile talks and summitry.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
#199495
(Studio) Marines spot 2 bands of Communists on move in An Hoa valley near Da Nang. They fired from barges. 41 enemy killed. American paratroopers battle 300 member Communist battalion near Saigon. 14 killed. 2 Americans killed; 10 wounded. North Vietnam Premier Pham Van Dong admits North Vietnam sending troops to fight in South Vietnam. Says no reason why Hanoi and Washington, DC couldn't have cordial relations if United States withdraws.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199496
(Studio) Israeli troops enter Jordan and kill 5 Arab guerrillas for bombing Israeli clinic.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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(Studio) President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson enter Brooke Army Med. Center for physicals. She'll stay overnight. He'll return Weds. to complete his.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199499
(Studio) California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch flies from convention to investigate 2 Los Angeles shooting incidents. 5 present at 3rd Watts festival shot and wounded. 3 Negroes killed and 3 others, incling. 2 white police in another incident.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199500
(Studio) Report on busman. G. T. Miller and his change of heart.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
(Luverne, Alabama) 40 years ago, Miller member of KKK. Stated in federal court that he killed number Negroes in self-defense back then. Acquitted by white jury. He renounced Ku Klux Klan and now is helping Negroes find jobs. He employs some himself and works with civil rights. Most whites despise him. He refused to fire Negro whose son transferred to county school. [MILLER - says needed that "nigger" to work and he needed a job. Couldn't see why I should fire him because his son going to school. He should have education like my boy. Bus. fell off 60-70%.] He and Mrs. Miller shown leaving church. Busman. tried to prevent filming. [REPORTER - asks him why he pushed tree limb in camera lens.] [BUSMAN. - says trying to keep you from showing what's going on.] [Pastor Jesse GANN - says people not doing business with Miller like they once did. Don't feel it's organization boycott.] Miller has had to layoff some workers due to boycott. Gann feels Miller made some unfair charges against white busmen. [MILLER - says like to see cnty. pull together for benefit of cnty., city, state and nation Try to teach folks to love one another and get along.] He's losing $1,500 a month and may have to quit business Miller shown crying. Sign that says Luverne is "friendliest city in South" debatable.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel
#199502
(Studio) 24,000 postal workers in Canada to be back at work if they approve settlement.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199503
(Studio) Atlas-Agena rocket carrying experimental satellite launched at Cape Kennedy. Air Force won't confirm.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199504
(Studio) Britain says in Geneva, Switzerland that the 1925 convention outlawing germ warfare obsolete and says there should be new 1. USSR argues old convention working. United States cool to idea because progress made in nuclear disarmament with USSR .
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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#199506
(Miami Beach, Florida) Any decisive surprise at convention between now and Weds night impossible. Nixon convinced he'll win. Rockefeller and Reagan forced to temporary alliance. Passion for either Rockefeller or Reagan not strong enough. Nixon seems to be more interested in foreign problems rather than domestic. Whoever elected won't representative consensus.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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