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#917
(Studio) President elect Nixon asks J. Edgar Hoover to continue as director of FBI. Also asks Richard Helms to continue as CIA head.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) [HOOVER - appreciates the honor.]
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Studio) Richard Nixon confers with Republican leadership; visits Dwight Eisenhower.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Republican administration, Democratic Congress problem noted. Senator consideration of treaty to control nuclear weapon spread considered. Senator Everett Dirksen favors approval of treaty; Nixon does not, entirely, due to USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia. [NIXON - intros. Gerald Ford, Everett Dirksen.] [DIRKSEN - notes that Mike Mansfield desires action on treaty. Dirksen favors it.] Nixon visits Dwight Eisenhower at Walter Reed Hospital. Film shown.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
#918
(Studio) L. B. J. cabinet members and Nixon cabinet appointees meet tomorrow. John Mitchell to call at White House George Christian quoted with regard to reasons for meeting
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#921
(Studio) Richard Nixon officially elected.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Bethesda, Maryland) Mrs. Esther Commoner featured. [COMMONER - notes controversy with regard to electoral college.]
REPORTER: Bob Clark
(Annapolis, Maryland) Commoner goes to Annapolis to vote officially. [COMMONER - casts vote for Hubert Humphrey.] [Birch BAYH - wants electoral reform, popular vote.] Bayh takes issue to campuses. [BAYH - speaks against electoral college procedure.] Senator Karl Mundt wants revamp of electoral college. [MUNDT - explains error of Bayh plan. Notes state sovereignty, 2 party system; procedure for amending Const.]
REPORTER: Bob Clark
(DC) Richard Nixon role in electoral reform noted.
REPORTER: Bob Clark
(Studio) Pay to electoral college members $10 day and 20 cents per mile travel.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#924
(Studio) United States frees 7 North Vietnam merchant seamen caught 13 mos. ago, as gesture of good will. Hopes are this will help United States POWs to be released. Unconfirmed reports say Hanoi to release some United States POWs before Christmas.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#925
(Studio) B52s bomb troop installations near Saigon. Mekong Delta action reported Bombing action explained. United States Navy active in near-Saigon waterways.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Near Saigon, South Vietnam) United States Navy seeks to cut infiltration from West, in rivers, canals 15 mile from Saigon. Enemy used Cambodia as sanctuary. Operation Giant Slingshot described. Film shown of action, gunfire. Helicopters fire on VC. United States victorious in encounter.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel with Kenneth Gale
#926
(Studio) Viet Cong team arrives in Paris. Pham Dang Lam, of Saigon delegation, meets Cyrus Vance. Nguyen Cao Ky criticizes Clark Clifford with regard to television interview saying Saigon, Hanoi, and NLF should handle political settlement, and blaming procedural delay on Hanoi and Saigon.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#927
(Studio) Supreme Court rules draft board can't punish war protestor by drafting him if he is legally exempt from service. Cheyenne, Wyoming, draft board drafted divinity student after Washington, DC protest. Court also rules with regard to procedure for draftees suing draft bds. In another decision, court refuses to review government's right to order reservists to active duty in undeclared war; like Vietnam war. Fort Lee, Virginia, reservists make appeal.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#930
(Studio) At College of San Mateo in California classes resume quietly, after police identity check of students, faculty. Violence at college last Friday thought due to non-college persons.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#931
(Studio) 150 students protest in Vatican Square supporting Roman Catholic priest Father Don Mazzi, suspended week ago for challenge to church authority. Parishioners at home church in Florence also protest.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Florence, Italy) 41 year old priest at center of rebellion. Fired after 14 years as priest. Film of protest shown. Parishioners plan protest against Pope Paul on Christmas Eve. Cardinal of Florence resignation sought. Rich, comfortable Christianity said object of protest by those who believe church chiefly for the poor. Mazzi prepared catechism portraying Christ as social agitator against wealthy and powerful. Film of Mazzi interview shown. Mazzi quoted with regard to Communism. Mazzi said basically simple man. Said concerned more with people than art treasures during Florence flood. Problems for Pope Paul listed. Roman Catholic reform noted.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
#932
(Studio) Costa e Silva, Brazil president, conts. round-up of political opponents. Dictatorial powers, include press censorship, assumed. Rptdly. ordered arrests of criticizers.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#933
(Studio) Crew readies for flight Saturday Frank Borman, Junior, James Lovell, William Anders rehearse in simulator for trip around moon.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#937
(Studio) Christmas begins in Washington, DC as President Lyndon Johnson lights national tree. [JOHNSON - speaks of Vietnam war.] Film of lighting shown. Christmas carols sung. Johnson holds grandson in arms.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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