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#199907
(Studio) CBS survey shows Richard Nixon with 324 electoral votes and 30 states; George Wallace with 66 and 7 states and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey with 22 states with 126 votes toss-ups.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199908
(Studio) Vice President Humphrey acknowledges his situation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Salt Lake City, UT) [HUMPHREY - says he guesses he's the underdog. Pundits know and sometimes they make it so.] Vice President speaks to Utah Democrats at breakfast. [HUMPHREY - says bandits out to get village. Better man the barricades. Heard Republican truth squad in town, but knew they couldn't have President and Vice President candidates with them.] Republican truth squad follows Humphrey; incls. 3 Congmen. and governor [Senator Hugh SCOTT - says candidate who can't hold meeting together can't persuade country he can hold nation together.] Demonstrators always on V.P' south mind. [HUMPHREY - believes in right of dissent for all.] Vice President handles Nixon, press and truth squad but not demonstrators.
REPORTER: David Schoumacher
#199909
(Studio) Rptd. Nixon resigned from Springfield, New Jersey, golf club that discriminates against Negroes and Jews after nomination.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199910
#199911
(Studio) George Wallace proposes industry in rural areas to help cities solve job and housing problems.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Montgomery, Alabama) Wallace takes off for Midwest and E. industry areas.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
(Chicago, Illinois) [WALLACE - says we don't make different speech in each area like Nixon. We'll say same thing in Cicero that we say everywhere.] Motorcade held through city. Supporters of opponents there. [WOMAN - says don't think nothing of Wallace.] [2nd WOMAN - says for him 100%. He's what we need.] Wallace made an impression.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
#199912
(Studio) New York City teachers' strike settled over wkend. Local school board involved in dispute; calls settlement unacceptable.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199913
(Studio) International Longshoremen's Assn. ready to strike ports from Maine to Mexico. Govt. expected to seek Taft-Hartley injunction to keep dock workers at work. Union wants more guaranteed work and fringe benefits and more pay.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199915
(Studio) Biggest commercial airliner shown to public.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Everett, WA) Boeing 747 can carry 490 passengers. Inside simulation shown. 158 sold. 1st to go into operation 15 mos. from now. Plane has 2 levels. Stewardesses christen plane.
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
#199916
(Studio) Judge in James Earl Ray case finds 4, incling. defense attorney, guilty of contempt on charges of violating court rules on pretrial publicity.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Memphis, Tennessee) Ray appears in court heavily guarded. Attorney Arthur Hanes asks Judge West Preston Battle to remove closed circuit hook-up that monitors all Ray's moves because Ray getting more nervous. Battle refuses. Only 28 spectators. Security tight.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
#199917
(Studio) President Johnson and ex-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara speak to IMF and World Bank of need of family planning in underdvpd. cntrys. McNamara proposes incrd. international loans with new emphasis on population control.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199920
(Studio) Battleship New Jersey fires into DMZ.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam) United States hopes Hanoi will consider ship just another weapon. Decision to use her made in August, 1967. Ship shown. 1,600 men aboard her. Twice as many men in World War II. [Captain J. Edward SNYDER JR. - says "New Jersey" put into commission to provide field artillery support to forces in S.E. Asia. Don't have to slug it out with battleship because we're the only 1.] Practice firing shown. [Rear Admiral Sam MOORE - says she'll hit deepest targets.] [Executive Ofr. Commander James ELFELT - says living conditions adequate. 4 man mess tables now instead of long tables. Have air conditioning.]
REPORTER: Don Webster
#199921
(Studio) Communists shell special forces camp Southwest of Da Nang. United Press International reports enemy turns back allied relief force trying to reach outpost. North Vietnam flag raised over 1 of nearby villages. 6 black soldiers involved in riot at Long Binh stkade. will be tried for murder or conspiracy to commit murder. 1 white soldier killed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199922
(Studio) Secretary of State Dean Rusk meets with United Nations Secretary General U Thant. Rusk doesn't comment on Thant's calls for bombing halts. Rptd. he feels such appeals only confuse Paris Peace Talks.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199923
(Studio) People's Republic of China celebrates 19th anniversary. Premier Chou En-lai says Mao Tse-tung's cultural revolution close to victory. Charges Soviet troops massed in Bulgaria to threaten Albania, China's European ally.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199924
(Studio) Grandson of ex-Soviet For. Min. arrested for protesting Czech invasion. Among 7 protesters picked up in Red Sq. last month Could get 3 years
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199926
(Studio) House Ethics Committee to meet to look into phantom voting reports 1 House clerk suspended pending study.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199927
(Studio) Justice Abe Fortas takes point in ceremony on eve of vote.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Fortas gives oath to 4 new trustees of John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, incling. Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Fortas refuses to discuss nomination.
REPORTER: Hal Walker
#199928
(Studio) Senate Foreign Relations Committee reviews appointed of J. Russell Wiggins as United Nations Ambassador
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Chairperson Committee Senator J. William FULBRIGHT - asks Wiggins why he's interested in appointed] [WIGGINS - says interested in appointed because he's in love with United States and its histories, insts., peoples and land. Believes in future of US.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199929
(DC) Senator probably to approve Wiggins. Wiggins' age allows him to say what he wants to. Nationality is point of personality. Writers and eds. usually unfit for public office; reasons cited.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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