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Weekly News Coverage Summary October 21-25. [Other Document], n.d.
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. 2 pages [Other Document], 10/28/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/29/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 11/1/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/21/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/15/1968
To: Larry Higby. Re: TV Evening News Coverage Analysis October 7-11, 1968. [Memo], 1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/14/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/17/1968
TV Evening News Summary of October 14-18. [Memo], 10/21/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/23/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/22/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/10/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 9/30/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/1/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/3/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], n.d.
Summary of TV News Coverage 9/30-10/04. [Memo], 1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. 2 pages. [Other Document], 9/26/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 11/4/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 10/26/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 13 pages. [Memo], 10/25/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 10/28/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. [Memo], 10/29/1968
To: Haldeman. From: Higby.Re: Summation of Daily Reports (October 25, 26, 28). 2 pages. [Memo], 10/28/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 3 pages. [Memo], 10/31/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 11/1/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 10/23/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 15 pages. [Memo], 10/24/1968
Friday News Summary. [Memo], 9/20/1968
Thursday News Summary [Memo], 9/12/1968
To: RN. From: Buchanan. Re:Hubert is getting personal. [Memo], 9/13/1968
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Weekly News Coverage Summary October 21-25. [Other Document], n.d.
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. 2 pages [Other Document], 10/28/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/29/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 11/1/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/21/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/15/1968
To: Larry Higby. Re: TV Evening News Coverage Analysis October 7-11, 1968. [Memo], 1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/14/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/17/1968
TV Evening News Summary of October 14-18. [Memo], 10/21/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/23/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/22/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/10/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 9/30/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/1/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], 10/3/1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. [Other Document], n.d.
Summary of TV News Coverage 9/30-10/04. [Memo], 1968
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and ABC. 2 pages. [Other Document], 9/26/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 11/4/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 10/26/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 13 pages. [Memo], 10/25/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 10/28/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. [Memo], 10/29/1968
To: Haldeman. From: Higby.Re: Summation of Daily Reports (October 25, 26, 28). 2 pages. [Memo], 10/28/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 3 pages. [Memo], 10/31/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 11/1/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 2 pages. [Memo], 10/23/1968
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re: Daily Report. 15 pages. [Memo], 10/24/1968
Friday News Summary. [Memo], 9/20/1968
Thursday News Summary [Memo], 9/12/1968
To: RN. From: Buchanan. Re:Hubert is getting personal. [Memo], 9/13/1968
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Document Type
Document Description
33
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n.d.
Other Document
Weekly News Coverage Summary October
21-25.
33
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10/28/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC. 2 pages
33
11
10/29/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
11
11/01/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
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10/21/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
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10/15/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Page 1 of 5
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
33
11
1968
Memo
To: Larry Higby. Re: TV Evening News
Coverage Analysis October 7-11, 1968.
33
11
10/14/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
11
10/17/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
11
10/21/1968
Memo
TV Evening News Summary of October 14-
18.
33
11
10/23/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
11
10/22/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
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10/10/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Page 2 of 5
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
33
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09/30/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
11
10/01/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
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10/03/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
11
n.d.
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC.
33
11
1968
Memo
Summary of TV News Coverage 9/30-10/04.
33
11
09/26/1968
Other Document
Evening TV Coverage on CBS, NBC, and
ABC. 2 pages.
33
11
11/04/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 2 pages.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Page 3 of 5
Box Number Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
33
11
10/26/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 2 pages.
33
11
10/25/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 13 pages.
33
11
10/28/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 2 pages.
33
11
10/29/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report.
33
11
10/28/1968
Memo
To: Haldeman. From: Higby Re: Summation
of Daily Reports (October 25, 26, 28). 2
pages.
33
11
10/31/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 3 pages.
33
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11/01/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 2 pages.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Page 4 of 5
Box Number Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
33
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10/23/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 2 pages.
33
11
10/24/1968
Memo
To: Bob Haldeman. From: Jack Carley. Re:
Daily Report. 15 pages.
33
11
09/20/1968
Memo
Friday News Summary.
33
11
09/12/1968
Memo
Thursday News Summary
33
11
09/13/1968
Memo
To: RN. From: Buchanan. Re:Hubert is
getting personal.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Page 5 of 5
WEEKLY NEWS COVERAGE SUMMARY -- OCTOBER 21 - OCTOBER 25.
Haydeman
OCT.
21
OCT
22
OCT 23
OCT 24
OCT 25
TOTALS
(NBC / CBS)
NIXON 1:00/1:40 3:00/3:25 0:15/3:45 3:00/5:00 3:30/2:10 10:45/16:00
HHH
2:00/3:20
0:15/3:20
2:00/4:20
0/2:30
3:00/4:00
7:15/17:30
WALL.
0/1:20
0:15/2:10
2:30/3:00
0:15/1:50
2:30/3:40
5:30/12:00
AGNW
0/0
0/0
0:15/0
0:15/0
0/0
0:30/0
MUSKE 0/0
0/0
3:00/0
0/0
0:15/0
3;15/0
LEMAY 2:00/2:00 0/0:15
0/0:30
3:00/0
0/0
5:00/2:45
THE WEEK'S COVERAGE WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY CBS' JUXTAPOSING FILM OF THE
THREE CANDIDATES ON VARIOUS ISSUES, THUS PROVIDING WHAT WALTER CRONKITE
CALLED "A POOR SUBSTITUTE" OF A DEBATE. (THIS ALSO EXPLAINS CBS' IN-
FLATED TIME SPENT ON POLITICAL COVERAGE THIS WEEK.) THE QUESTIONS WERE
ON LAW AND ORDER, MONDAY; THE CITIES, TUESDAY: VIETNAM, WEDNESDAY
NATIONAL SECURITY (THE DROFT AND NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY), THURSDAY
AND ECONOMICS (COST OF LIVING AND INCOME TAX SURCHARGE), FRIDAY.
ON BOLANCE, RN GOT SLIGHTLY MORE COVERAGE THAN HUMPHREY ON NBC
DURING THE WEEK, SLIGHTLY LESS ON CBS. THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDI
DATES TAPERED OFF DURING THE WEEK, ALTHOUGH BOTH CBS AND NBC ON
MONDAY USED LEMAY'S STATEMENTS ON A BOMBING HALT EARLY IN THEIR
NEWSCASTS.
ALL DURING THE WEEK THE PARIS PEACE TALKS AND A POSSIBLE BOMBING
HALT DOMINATED THE TELECASTS IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. ON WEDNESDAY BOTH
NETWORKS HAD SPECULATIVE STORIES ON THE POSSIBLITY OF PROGRESS IN THE
PARIS PEACE TALKS, WITHOUT TYING THIS INTO THE CAMPAIGN. ON THURSDOY
BOTH NETWORKS LED WITH EXTENSIVE COVERAGE OF LBJ'S NEWS CONFERENCE AND
HIS DENIAL OF ANY BREAKTHROUGH. ON FRIDAY, THE FLAP BETWEEN RN @ND HHH
OVER THIS BROKE INTO THE OPEN. BOTH NBC AND CBS USED OS THEIR FIRST
ITEMS RN'S LEARNING TOP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN DRIVING HARD
FOR . BOMBING HALT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, AND FOLLOWED WITH HHH'S CHARGE
THAT RN IS PLAYING POLITICS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY AND IS BEING
IRRESPONSIBLE. BOTH NETWORKS ALSO HAD AT THE SAME TIME CLARK
CLIFFORD'S DENIAL OF A MISSILE GAP, AND CBS USED LARRY
0'BRIEN STATEMENT THAT RN OF OLD HAS EMERGED.
THESE STORIES GOT THE BEST COVERAGE DURING THE WEEK:
NIXON
TUESDAY--WHISTLESTOP THROUGH OHIO
THURSDAY--WHISTLESTOP THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA
FRIDAY--POSSIBLE CEASE-FIRE AND SECURITY GAP
HUMPHREY
MONDAY-NEW YORK ROLLY
TUESDAY--BETTER RECEPTION IN TEXAS
FRIDAY--REPLY TO RN ON SECURITY GAP
NBC'S JACK PERKINS MADE FAVORABLE COMMENTARIES ALL WEEK ON HUMPHREY.
IN MONDAY COMMENTARY HE SAID HHH'S STRATEGY NOW WAS TO COME ON STRONG
"AND THEY HAVE SOME REASON FOR HOPE." ON WEDNESDAY PERKINS SAID THAT
THINGS "ARE GOING RIGHT IN TEXAS...CROWDS ARE GROWINN, MONEY IS COMING
IN, AND THE CANDIDATE IS RECHARGED."
HERB KAPLOW OF NBC HAD SEVERAL LONG, ANALYTICAL ITEMS ON RN, SOMEWHAT
DISPASSIONATE IN NATURE. COMMENTATOR SAID WEDNESDAY THAT DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN RN IN 1960 AND 1968 IS THAT THIS YEAR HE IS AHEAD , GIVING MORE
TIME FOR THOUGHT. KAPLOW HAD SPECIAL REPORTS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY,
INTERVIEWING ELLSWORTH ON THURSDAY AND FRANK SHAKESPEARE ON FRIDAY.
THAT IS ALL FOR TONIGHT...GA OR END...
MANY TKS. END.N
Hademen
OCTOBER 28, 1968 EVENING TV COVERAGE CBS
LEAD STORY WAS ON THE SPOT COVERAGE OF 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
FOUNDING OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC SHOT IN PRAGUE.
FIRST POLITICAL STORY WAS AT 6834 OR DAVID SCHUMACHER THAT
MCCARTHY TO ENDORSE HUMPHREY, ALTHOUGH NOT TOO ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
THERE IS A FEELING THAT RN'S CALL LAST WEEK FOR A HIKE IN DEFENSE
SPENDING WAS A FACTOR IN MCCARTHY'S DECISION. SCHUMACHER SPECULATED
MCCARTHY MAY LATER RESIGN FROM THE SENATE AND DEMOCRAT PARTY IN A
DRAMATIC GESTURE AS FIRST STEP TOWARD BUILDING A THIRD FORCE.
CBS POLL SHOWS NIXON SCORING A SLIGHT GAIN IN ELECTORAL VOTES
THIS PAST WEEK EVEN THOUGH HUMPHREY HASPICKED UP IN POPULAR VOTES.
CBS GIVESS NIXON 28 STATES WITH 270 ELECTORAL VOTES, A GAIN OF 14
OVER LAST WEEK BY CHANGING OHIO FROM "TOSS-UP" TO NIXON, AND WEST
VIRGINIA FROM NIXON TO "TOSS-UP."
AT 6:37 NIXON WAS SHOWN ON A 50 SEC FILM CLIP BEING GREETED
IN NEW YORK BY ROCKY AND LATER DELIVERING SPEECH BACKING TEACHERS
("ITS TIME WE RECOGNIZE TEACHERS RENDER US A SERVICE. .") BILL
PLANT COMMENTED NIXON STRIVING FOR A MANDATE TO GOVERN, AND THIS
MANDATE COULD COME ONLY FROM HUMPHREY AND WALLACE SUPPORTERS, so
IN FINAL DAYS OF COMPAIGN SPECIAL APPEALS WOULD BE MADE TO THESE
GROUPS.
HUMPHREY GOT 1:45 COVERAGE IN OHIO APPEALING TO YOUTH TO
GO OUT AND WORK FOR TICKET. "REMIND OLDSTERS THAT NIXON OPPOSED
MEDICARE, REMIND WORKING PEOPLE THAT. ETC. THINK WE'RE GOING
TO WIN? WANT TO WIN? GONNA HELP ME WIN? SOCK IT TO 'EM//"
CRONKITE GAVE 20 SEC TO LEMAY'S CALL FOR HOT PURSUIT IN LAOS
AND CAMBODIA.
JOHN HART NARRATED 7 MIN SPECIAL REPORT ON NIXON AIRBORNE
STAFF WITH CLIPS AND SHORT-INTERVIEWS OF SNEED, CHAPIN, ZIEGLER,
BUCHANAN ET. AL., SPECULATING MANY OF THEM WOULD PROBABLY BE WHITE
HOUSE STAFFERS, NIXON QUOTED AS SAYING HE WOULD HAVE THE YOUNGEST
WHITE HOUSE STAFF IN HISTORY. MITCHELL, KLEIN, AND MCWHORTER
INTERVIEWED ON ORDERLY PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF THE COMPAIGN IN
CONTRAST TO 1960. IMPRESSION PROJECTED WAS ONE OF YOUTHFUL PASSION-
LESS, PROFESSIONAL LOYALISTS STRIVING AND AWAITING FOR A PROGRAMMED
VICTORY BY EMPLOYING ALL THE TECHNIQUES OF MODERN MERCHANDISING.
ERIC SEVAREID CONCLUDED WITH 2 MIN. ANALYSIS OF WHY LBJ
HAS SUDDENLY DECIDED TO GEET INTO THE POLITICAL FRAY. HE CLAIMS
TWO RECENT STATEMENTS BY NIXON BROUGH THE "HONEYMOON" BETWEEN THE
TWO TO AN END: (1) NIXON'S URGING A STEP-UP IN OUR NUCLEAR ARSENAL
AT THE TIME HE IS TRYING TO ARRANGE A VIET CEASE-FIRE WITH THE
RUSSIANS: (2) NIXON'S ALLEGING THAT JOHNSONIAN LIEUTENANTS ARE
CONSPIRING BEHIND HIS BACK TO ARRANGE A PHONEY PEACE.
NBC
LEAD STORY: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN FEVERISH LAST WEEK. HUMPHREY
ANDD NIXON CONCENTRATING ON MAJOR STATES.
NIXON: HERB KAPLOW FILM CLIP WITH NIXON IN ALBONY, N Y 3 MIN.
RN DISPUTED HHH IS WINNING IN NY. COMMENTARY BY KAPLOW THAT
N Y REPUBLICANS ARE WORRIED THOUGH. ESCALATED ATTACKS ON HHH.
"YOU'RE VOTING A NEW TEAM." "GIVE US THE MANDATE FOR CHANGE.
AND WE WILLLSHOW YOU." "THEY (DEMOCRATS) ARE GOING TO ATTACK
BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID THEY ARE GOING T LOSE.
HIMPHREY: JACK PERKINS REPORTS WITH HUMPHREY CAMP IN CANTON,
OHIO, 2 MINS. SHOWS HHH WITH OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNER RONNIE
HARRIS. HHH IS SLIGHTLY AHEAD IN OHIO. HHH SAYS THAT HE'S GOING TO
GIVE THE GOP THE BIGGEST DEFEAT SINCE HARRY TRUMAN.
LEMAY: 45 SECS., COMMENTARY AND FILM, IN DES MOINES, IOWA.
SAYS U.S. TROOPS SHOULD PURSUE ENEMY INTO CAMBODIA AND LAOS IF THESE
COUNTRIES ARE GIVING THEM SANCTUARY. CRITICIZED CLIFFORD FOR
RELEASING FIGURES OF U.S. NUCLEAR CAPABILITY, ETC.
WALLACE: Ls SECS., COMMENTARY ONLY, THAT HE WAS IN HANNIBAL,
MISSOURI AND A BROOKWWSS THROWN AT HIM, BUT MISSED.
POLLS: 3 MIN. SPECIAL WITH JOHN CHANCELLOR ON POLLS. NIXON
AIDES HAVE CHARGED THAT THE HARRIS POLL IS BEING UNFAIR IN THE ONES
IT RELEASES. CHANCELLOR SHOWED BOTH THE HARRIS AND GALLUP POLL
AND GAVE QUOTES FROM INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE GALLUP. "MOST UNUSUAL
YEAR HE'S EVER SEEN." "SHIFTING OF VOTES MORE THAN EVER BEFORE
IN HIS 30 YEARS' EXPERIENCE." CHANCELLOR POINTS OUT THAT POLLSERS
ARE BEING PINNED TO THE WALL THIS YEAR, BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY
OF THE FINAL OUTCOME. BOTH POLLS ARE WITHIN THE ERROR LIMIT OF
3-4% WHICH HE DEMONSTROTED. SANDER VANOCUR GAVE A SPECIAL 6
MIN. REPORT ON CAMPAIGN IN IOWO FOR SENATE. DEMOCRAT HAROLD
HUGHES HAS A HARD BATTLE BECAUSE OF NIXON COATTAILS AND GOP TREND
IN STATE. VIETNAM MAJOR ISSUE BETWEEN HAWKISH REPUBLICAN DAVE
STANLEY AND THE DOVISH HUGHES.
ABC:
(HOWARD K SMITH FOR FRANK REYNOLDS)
LEAD STORY: VIETNAM
LBJ -- IN POLITICS NOW, REMAINED SILENT ALL THIS TIME, BECAUSE
HE WAS A LIABILITY TO HHH. HIS POPULARITY HAS CHANGED FOR GOOD AND
HHH HAS SENSED THIS THUS HIS CALL FOR HELP FROM LBJ. ONE LBJ
AID SAID; "YOU AIN'T HEARD THE LAST OF HIM YET." HE'LL BE BARN-
STORMING THIS LOST WEEK TO GET BACK AT THE CRITICS, AFTER BEING
SILENT so LONG. TIME: 1 1/2 MIN.
HUMPHREY: 25 SECS COMMENTARY ONLY, IS INCREASING ATTACK
ON RN... WE SHOULD EXPECT GOP'S ATTACK TO BE DIRTIER.
NIXON: 30 SECS COMMENTARY ONLY, THOT YOU'LL HEOR A LOT OF
TRICKS FROM DEMOCRATS -- BUT THEY'RE GOING TO STILL LOSE.
N. Y. DAILY NEWS POLL SHOWS HHH PAST RN BY 4%: HHH - 46%;
RMN - 42%; FCW - 8 %. WALLACE: L5 SECS, COMMENTARY ONLY, THAT
POLLS ARE LIERS. BOCKGROUND OF WALLACE, FILM REPORT - 5 1/2 MINS.
EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND. INTERVIEWED BROTHER , MOTHER AND
FORMER SCHOOLMATE.
4 3/4 MIN. REPORT ON MINORITY PARTY CANDIDATES DICK GREGORY,
ELDRIGE CLEVER, FRED HOLSTED AND CHORLENE MITCHELL.
DESCRIPTION OF IDEAL PRESIDENT BY GORE VIDAL AND WILLIAM
BUCKLEY, JR.
NBC
UNTLEY-BRINKLEY LED WITH HUMPHREY ENDORSEMENTS BY MCCARTHY, ABERNATHY,
HHIT
AND MRS MARTIN LUTHER KING. HUMPHREY, 2 MINS. 6:34-6:36, SAYS
MCCARTHY'S ENDORSEMENT "HELPFUL," ALSO FILM CLIP OF HUMPHREY IN
PENNSYLVANIA TODAY WEARING STEEL HAT AND SAYING, "YESTERDAY MY
OPPOSITION CANDIDATE WAS HERE, BUT TOAY THE AIR HAS CLEANED UP.2
TOMORROW, HHH IN NEW YORK.
3:00
RN, 3 MINS., 6:37-6:40. HUNTLEY SAYS NBC GOT 200 CALLS IN PROTEST TO
AD ON LAUGH-IN LAST NIGHT, AND RN AIDES DEFENDING IT AS *PORTRAYAL OF
NUMPHREY AND POLITICS OF JOY IN CONTRAST TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE DAY,"
AND INDICATING THEY WOULDN'T SHOW IT AGAIN. RN IN DETROIT, AND
REPORTER VALARIANNI SAYING THE FINAL WEEK OF THE CAMPAIGN IS MUCH
LIKE THE FIRST WEEK -- AT EACH SPEECH THE PLACARDS, AND THEN THE
SET SPEECH ATTACKING THE DEMOCRATS AND THE HECKLERS WHO NOW BECOMING
ROUTINE. FILM CLIP OF RN SAYING "AMERICA CAN'T AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS
OF THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP WE'VE HAD IN WASHINGTON YOU SAW IT ON
TELEVISION IN CHICAGO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HUMPHREY AND NIXON
CAMPAIGNS IS THAT IN THE NIXON RALLIES THE CHEERS DROWN OUT THE
HECKLERS." IN DETROIT, ROMNEY PERSUADED NIXON TO GO TO A NEGRO HIGH
SCHOOL AFFAIR, "ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN THE CAMPAIGN HE'S DONE SOME-
THING LIKE THIS."
W-2:00
WALLACE, 6:40-6:42, REPORTS $6 MILLION EXPENDITURES TODAY. REPORTER
DOUG KIKER, IN BEAUMONT, TEX., SAYS WALLACE RUNNING MORE AGAINST
POLLSTERS AND PRESS THAN RN AND HHH. FILM CLIPS OF WALLACE BEING
SNIDEST YET -- "THOSE POLLSTERS WANT TO MAKE PUBLIC OPINION, NOT
REPORT IT." AND WHEN SOME HECKLERS STARTED IN, WALLACE SAID, "OK,
YOU REPORTERS, RUN OVER AND GET THAT. AND WRITE ALL ABOUT THE 2-3
PICKETS, AND IGNORE THE THOUSANDS OF OTHER DECENT PEOPLE WHO ARE
HERE."
ALSO, FILM CLIP OF TED KENNEDY ANNOUNCING FORMATION OF MEMORIAL
FOUNDATION FOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY.
CBS
LEAD STORY - MCCARTHY "QUALIFIED ENDORSEMENT" OF HUMPHREY, 3 MINS.
MADE CLEAR HIS CONTINUED DISENCHANTMENT WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
2 MINS., 35 SECS OF THIS WAS FILM OF MCCARTHY MAKING HIS STATEMENT.
HHH-2:
UMPHREY- 2 MINS IN PITTSBURGH
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION FROM HHH.
FEELS GOOD ABOUT HIGH SPIRITS. FILM OF HHH IN T.V. STUDIO
BEING INTERVIEWED ON ENDORSEMENT.
2:35
NIXON - BILL PLANTT REPORTING, 2 MINS., 20 SECS. FILM OF RN SAYING
WHENEVER YOU SEE SOMEBODY ENGAGING IN PERSONALITIES IT IS BECAUSE
THEY RE AFRAID - AFRAID THEY.'RE GOING TO LOSE. THE REAL ISSUE OF
1968 IS THAT LAST FOUR YEARS. THE DEMOCRATS TURNED DOWN THEIR CHANCE
FOR NEW LEADERSHIP IN CHICAGO.
FILM OF NIXON AND ROMNEY IN DETROIT NEGRO AREA AT PRIVATE JOB PLACE-
MENT CENTER WITH BLACK EMPLOYEE OF THE CENTER EXPLAINING THE NEED
FOR THIS TYPE OF OPERATION TO RESTORE PRIDE.
15 SEC. COMMENTARY THAT NIXON PEOPLE WITHDREW COMMERCIAL SHOWN LAST
NIGHT ON NBC WHICH HAD PICTURE OF SMILING HHH OVER SCENES OF RIOTS
AND WAR.
AGNEW - COMMENTARY THAT THE N.Y. TIMES EDITORIAL ON AGNEW BEING RUN
AGAIN THIS MORNING STATING THAT JUST BECAUSE CHARGES ARE OLD DOES NOT
MEAN THEY ARE NOT VALID STILL. AGNEW MADE A POINT-BY-POINT DENIAL OF
CHARGES. AGNEW STAFF MEMBER STATED THAT THEY MAY SEEK LIBEL SUIT
AGAINST THE TIMES. TIME: 40 SECS.
W-:25
WALLACE - ATTACKED NEWS MEDIA IN BEAUMONT, TEX., FILM CLIP, 25 SECS.
SAYS THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY BUT WE DO KNOW.
COMMENTARY THAT ACCORDING TO RECORDS FILED WALLACE'S EXPENSES HAVE
BEEN $5,800,000 AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN $5,200,000.
SPECIAL REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS, 4-1/2 MIN., WITH CHARLES KURALT RE-
PORTING ON "JIMMIE THE GREEK." HE MAKES ODDS ON PRO FOOTBALL BAMES
AND EVERY FOUR YEARS, POLITICS. HE EXPLAINED HOW HE PICKED, MUSKIE,
AGNEW AND LEMAY AS THE CHOICES FOR VICE PRESIDENT BEFORE THEY WERE
SELECTED. HE LISTS THE ODDS IN 1968 TO BE 5-1 NIXON. AN IN DEPTH
STUDY OF NEWSPAPERS FROM AROUND COUNTRY, MAGAZINES, ETC.
INDICATES THAT RN WILL GET ABOUT 330 ELECTORAL VOTES.
ERIC SEVEREID COMMENTARY - 3-1/2 MINS. ON EUGENE MCCARTHY AND HIS
ENDORSEMENT OF HHH. CALLS IT A "QUASI:ENDORSEMENT" WHICH WAS RE-
CEIVED WITH MUCH MORE ENTHUSIASM BY HHH THAN IT WAS GIVEN BY MCCARTHY.
IN THE LAST WEEK OF THE CAMPAIGN NIXON IS GETTING TENSE, AS HHH HAS
A.B.C
(HOWARD K. SMITH FOR FRANK REYNOLDS)
LEAD STORY - MCCARTHY ENDORSEMENT OF HHH. "RELUCTANCE UNDISGUISED
IN ENDORSEMENT. COMMENTARY, 25 SECS., FILM OF MCCARTHY MAKING
STATEMENT, 40 SECS.
HUMPHREY - FILM IN PITTSBURGH, 50 SECS. REPORTER SAYS ENDORSEMENT
HHM-
I'VES CAMPAIGN NEW MOMENTUM AND HHH OBVIOUSLY ENTHUSIASTIC. BUT
FILM CLIP SHOWED HUMPHREY QUITE RESTRAINED, QUIETLY ACKNOWLEDGING
HIS AND MCCARTHY'S LONG FRIENDSHIP, ETC.
2 MINS., 45 SECS., "GAVE MCCARTHY KIND OF AN ENDORSEMENT.
TODAY THAT THE DEMOS COULD HAVE NOMINATED MCCARTHY
INSTEAD THEY NAMED SOMEBODY FROM THE SCHOOL OF OLD POLITICS."
REPORTER TED KAPEL SAID RN'S CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ATTEMPTING TO ATTRACT
DEMOS AND INDEPENDENTS BUT THIS WEEK "HE HAS BEEN BRISTLING" AGAINST
THE DEMO HIERARCHY; HAS ENDED SELF-IMPOSED MORATORIUM ON CHICAGO."
"DISORGANIZED RABBLE AT THEIR CONVENTION SHOWS THAT WE CANNOT TRUST
THEM." COMMENTATOR NOTES THAT "TRUST" IS THE KEY WORD IN HHH'S
CAMPAIGN AND NOW RN IS USING IT HIMSELF AND TURNING THE TABLES.
FILM CLLIP OF NIXON WARNING AGAINST TRICKERY AMONG THE DEMOS:
"THEY"RE PLAYING EVERY TRICK THEY KNOW ALL GROWN UP, WE
DON'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO THAT ANYMORE...BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ARE GOING TO GET THE TREAT ON ELECTION DAY WHEN WE SAY TO THEM, 'GET OUT
OF TOWN, WE'RE COMING IN.7"
WALLACE - 15 SECS., COMMENTARY ONLY, SAYING HE ATTACKED POLLSTERS
AND NEWS MEDIA BUT IS NOW GETTING THE LARGEST AND MOST ENTHUSIASTIC
CROWDS OF CAMPAIGN.
SPECIAL REPORT, 5 MINS., 50 SECS., WITH JOHN COLEMAN IN LAS VEGAS ON
"JIMMIE THE GREEK." BEST KNOWN ODDS-MAKER. HE PINPOINTS EACH
STATE AND MAKES PREDICTION: NIXON WITH ABOUT 330 ELECTORAL VOTES.
ON POPULAR VOTES, HE ESTIMATES A TOTAL OF ABOUT 75 MILLION VOTES
CAST. THE MINIMUM FOR NIXON WOULD BE 42% OR 31,500,000. THE
MAXIMUM FOR HUMPHREY WOULD BE 38% OR 28,000,000VOTES. THE MAXIMUM
FOR WALLACE, WHICH IS DROPPING WOULD BE 20% OR 15,000,000. FEELS
THE WORST FOR NIXON WILL BE A 3,000,000 VOTES MARGIN. CHANCES FOR
UPSET ARE 1-5. UNDECIDED LESS THAN 3% AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME.
GUEST COMMENTATOR, FRANK REYNOLDS, WITH HIW VIEW OF THE IDEAL PRESI-
DENT. 3 MINS., 15 SECS. HE MUST RECOGNIZE A LOT OF SILLY THINGS
ARE GOING TO BE SAID ABOUT HIM -- MUST BE ABLE TO IGNORE THE IR-
RELEVANT.
ONLY HE WILL BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITIES. MUST BE A TEACHER -- AT TIMES
MUST DELIVER LECTURES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WOULD BE IN WHITE HOUSE
ONLY FOUR YEARS, BUT ACT AS IF HE'D BE THERE FOR A LIFETIME. WOULD
HEREBY BAN THE WORDS "LAME DUCK." WILL NOT WASTE TIME WITH SILLY
PEOPLE THAT NOW MANAGE THEIR WAY UNTO PRESIDENTIAL CALENDAR AND SPEND
ALL HIS TIME KEEPING THE COUNTRY AT PEACE. "WILL LEAD COUNTRY AND IF
NECESSARY DRAG IT AND TELL THOSE IN THE WAY WHERE TO GO...BUT NOT RUN
THEM OVER WITH HIS CAR." "WOULD NOT TALK THE U.S. TO DEATH." "WOULD
NOT BE JUST A CHEER LEADER." "WOULD NOT LOOK FOR SYMPATHY." "WOULD
NOT DEMAND CONSTANT APPROVAL." FINALLY, "WOULD HAVE TO BE LUCKY..
BECAUSE, HEAVEN KNOWS, HE'LL NEED IT." IMPRESSION; FAVORABLE TO RN.
END. THAT IS ALL FROM HERE TONIGHT GOODNIGHT TO ONE AND ALL...END
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BC -- HUMTLEY-BRINKLY GAVE THE BOLBING HALT FIRST 20 MINS,
UNTIL BRINKLEY, AT 6:48, SUMMARIZED POLITICAL NEWS OF DAY
BY SAYING HUMPHREY WAS IN CHICAGO "PROMISING TO BIND UP THE
WOUNDS, APPARENTLY THOSE THAT HAD BEEN OPENED IN CHICAGO
HHH
EARLIER;" NIXON WAS IN TEXAS SAYING HE WOULD "SPEND A LOT MORE
ON MILITARY HARDWARD AND CITING THE HARRIS POLL.
2:00 HUMPHREY, 6:49-51, 2 MINS., FILM CLIP OF HHH LAST NIGHT SAYING
LBJ'S ANNOUNCEMENT WAS "VERY MEANINGFUL, VERY HELPFUL, WE HOPE
AND~PRAY IT MAY RESULT IN THE PEACE EVERYONE LONGS FOR ...
VERY GOOD NEWS. THERE IS ALSO GOOD NEWS THAT SOMETHING IS
HAPPENING ACROSS THIS COUNTRY," AND THEN HHH WENT INTO USUAL
POLITICAL TALK. PERKINS SAID TODAY HHH UNMENTIONED BOMBING
HALT TODAY. PERKINS SAID HHH AIDES CONFIDENT IT WILL HELP
HHH, UNKNOWN HOW MUCH, AND THEY ARE CONVINCED" THE SLIGHTEST BOOST
WOULD ELECT HUMPHREY."
RN
RN, 1 1/2 MINS., 6:5L-53. REPORTED HERB KAPLOW SAYS RN CAMP
1:30
"TRYING TO ASSESS THE AFFECT, AND NIXON'S REMARKS WERE THE SAME
TODAY AS THEY HAVE BEEN FOR SEVERAL MONTHS." FILM CLIP OF RN SAYING
HE WOULD NOT COMMENT, "BUT THERE IS THIS TO SAY: THERE HAS NOT
BEEE
BEEN ONE MOMENT OF PEACE DURING THE LAST FOUR YEARS. THE LAST
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION ENDED ONE WAR AND HEADED OFF OTHERS."
RN ALSO SAID THE "UNITED STATES MUST ALWAYS BE FIRST. .AND MUST
NEGOTIATE FROM STRENGTH."
w- :15 WALLACE, L5 SEC., 6:53. WALLACE SAYS HE "HOOES ANDPRAYS" THIS
WILL LEAD TO PEACE; IF IT DOESN'T, THEN GO FOR MILITARY VICTORY.
L- 1:00 LEMAY, L MIN., 6:54-55, FILMCLIP OF LEMAY "PESSIMISTIC THAT
THIS WILL RESULT IN SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS. THE ODDS ARE STILL
JUST ANOTHER STALLING TACTIC. .THIS MAY BE DELIBERAT ATTEMPT
BY HANOI TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTION. .I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANYTHING
HERE AT ALL. THE WAR IN VIETNAM IS THE MAIN ISSUE OF THE
CAMPAIGN." BRINKLEY, IN CLOSING COMMENT SAID, "IFT IS IMPOSSIBLE
TO SAY NOW IF THIS HELPS HUMPHREY A LITTLE, A LOT,AND IF SO,
ENOUGH TO ELECTION HIM? A SECOND QUESTION IS ON THE TIMING:
IF IT IS GOOD TO STOP THE BOMBING NOW, WHY WASN'T IT GOOD FIVE MONTHS
AGO? BUT IF IT STOPS THE KILLING OF AMERICAN BOYS, THEN IT IS
A GOOD IDEA, EVEN IF IT WAS FOR THE WRONG REASONS. GOODNIGHT CHET."
ABC -- FRANK REYNOLDS GAVE
ABC - FRANK REYNOLDS GAVIE FIRST L2 MINUTES TO BOMBING HALT, (12 MINS)
TO BOMBING HALT, AND THEN INCLUDED SEVERAL POLITICIANS' COMMENTS,
INCLUDING GEORGE ROMNEY WHO WARNED AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST
L-1:00
BEING "BRAINWASHED." THE FIRST OF THE CANDIATES TO BE QUOTED
WAS CURT LEMAY, L MIN. 7:12-13, WHO SAID HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO
BACK THE PRESIDENT. FILM CLIP OF LEMAY WITH IDENTICAL QUOTES TO NBC.
W- :30 WALLACE, 30 SECS. 7:14, IF THE TALKS FAIL, "LET'S WIND IT UP
1:30
MILITARYILY." FILMCLIP OF WALLACE SAYING HE HOPES THIS MEANS
"A CESSATION OF HOSTILITITES
AND AN HONORABLE PEACE
IF
THIS
IS
THE BEGINNING, I'M so GLAD REGARDLESS OF THE POLITICAL
MOTIVE." RN, 1-1/2 MINS., 7:16-7:18, SAYS IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
THAT HE HOPES THIS WILL BRING PROGRESS TO THE PARIS PEACE TALKS.
AS LAST NIGHT, REPORTER TED KOBBEL SAID, RN IN TEXAS TODAY "TOOK THE
ATTITUDE THIS WAS A NON-PARTISAN MATTER, AND HE SEEMED TO PUT HIMSELF
AT THE PRESIDENT'S RIGHT HAND." RN STRATEGISTS SAY THEY ALL FEEL RN
IS GOING TO WIN ANYHOW, AND IF THE VIETNAM WAR SHOULD BE ENDED BY
JANUARY, so MUCH THE BETTER.
HHH 1:30 HUMPHREY, 1-1/2 MINS., 7:19-7:20, REPORTER LOU CIOFFI REPORTS ON
HHH CAMPAIGN: "TWO MONTHS AGO EVERYBODY THOUGHT HUMPHREY WAS A POLI-
TICAL CORPSE, TODAY HE IS ALIVE AND WELL HHH SPARES NEITHER HIMSELF
NOR HIS STAFF, TALKING, TALKING AND TALKING SOME MORE .... THE CROWDS
ARE RESPECTABLE, BUT NOT AN OUTPOURING, AND HIS WORDS ARE NOT ALWAYS
THE MOST INSPIRING HE PROBABLY IS THE COUNTRY'S MOST EFFECTIVE POLI-
TICAL ORATOR, BUT SOMETIMES HE GETS CARRIED AWAY BY HIS OWN VOICE...
WHAT THERE IS TO SAY IS THAT HUMPHREY IS BACK IN THE RACE, BUT HIS
BATTLE. STRATEGISTS ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE LATE START. IT'S STILL AN UPHILL
CBS - LEAD STORY AND MAJOR NEWS COVERAGE GIVEN TO BOMBING HALT
AND REACTION TO IT.
6:30 6 MINS., GIVEN TO DEAN RUSK'S PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY. FILM
CLIP CONTAINS RUSK'S ANSWER TO REPORTERS QUESTION ABOUT POLITICAL
MOTIVATION OF BOMBING HALT. RUSK DENIED ANY SUCH THING AND DOUBTS IT we
WOULD HAVE MUCH EFFECT ON U.S. POLITICAL SCENE.
M-:20 6:38 MUSKIE - 20 SECS. DISCOUNTED POLITCAL MOTIVE.
HHK 1:00
HHH - L MIN. - FILM CLIP FROM LAST NIGHT. HHH SAID HE SUPPORTS LBJ'S
DECISION. HOPES NEGOTIATIONS CAN NOW MOVE FORWARD. ASKED IF IT
WOULD HELP HIS CANDIDACY, REPLIED HE HOPED IT MIGHT HELP THE
CAUSE OF PEACE AND HELP PEOPLE.
RN
:30 NIXON - 30 SECS. FILM CLIP OF NIXON'S STATEMENT MADE AT MADISON SQUARE
GARDEN RALLY.
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:30 WALLACE - 30 SECS. - FILM CLIP - PRAYS AND HOPES IT BRINGS ABOUT
HONORABLE PEACE.
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LEMAY - 30 SECS. FILM CLIP - MORE PESSIMISTIC - STILL HAS SERIOUS
QUESTIONS. MIGHT BE ANOTHER STALLING TACTIC.
NOTHING ON AGNEW
6:45 CRONKITE REVIEW OF HARRIS POLL - NIXON'S LEAD CUT TO 3%, ETC.
THEN FILM AND COMMENTARY ON WORLD REACTION TO BOMB HALT - PRES. THIEU
REPORTEDLY UNHAPPY.
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TV EVENING NEWS SHOWS 10/21/68
CBS
CHARLES KARALT SUBSTITUTING FOR WALTER CRONKITE.
LEAD STORY: APOLLO 7 RE-ENTRY TOMORROW - 4-1/2 MINS.
LE MAY: 2 MIN. FILM CLIP OF PRESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON AT WHICH
HE CHALLENGED THE IDEA THAT A LULL IN FIGHTING IN VIETNAM INDICATES
HANOI IS MORE INTERESTED IN NEGOTIATIONS.
NIXON: COMMENTARY ONLY ON RADIO TALK TONIGHT, 20 SECS., IN WHICH RN
ATTEMPTS TO ATTRACT WALLACE SUPPORTERS BY SAYING HE CAN GIVE JOBS
AND TRAINING TO NEGROES WITHOUT TAKING AWAY FROM WHITES.
HUMPHREY: 2 MIN. FILM CLIP OF NEW YORK RALLY IN HERALD SQUARE. SHOWS
THAT HE'S CONFIDENT OF VICTORY SAYS CENTRAL QUESTION OF CAMPAIGN
IS "WHO DO WE TRUST TO LEAD AMERICA?" COMMENTATOR NOTED THAT HE IS
CONCENTRATING THIS WEEK IN THREE STATES THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR VICTORY
-- NEW YORK, TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA.
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CBS STATE BY STATE STUDY: SHOWS NIXON HAS LOST GROUND OVER THE PAST
WEEK -- NOW BELOW THE 270 ELECTORAL VOTES NEEDED. REASON FOR DECLINE
SINCE LAST WEEK IS THE SHIFT OF TEXAS AND MICHIGAN TO THE TOSS-UP
COLUMN. NET LOSS FOR NIXON OVER THE PAST WEEK OF 33 ELECTORAL VOTES.
THE RESULTS:
STATES
ELECTORAL VOTES
NIXON
28
256
WALLACE
6
58
HUMPHREY
3 (+DC.)
25
TOSS-UP
13
199
NOTED THAT MANY OF THE STATES IN TOSS-UP CATEGORY LEANING TOWARD
NIXON. WALLACE HAD MADE SLIGHT LOSSES, WHILE HUMPHREY STAYED ABOUT
SAME IN STUDY. SPECIAL REPORT BY WALTER CRONXITE--8-1/2 MINS.
SINCE NO DEBATES, CBS WILL HAVE A "POOR SUBSTITUTE" SHOWING EACH
CANDIDATE ON FILM ON A PARTICULAR ISSUE. FURTHER NOTED THAT NIXON
DECLINED TO APPEAR DIRECTLY, BECAUSE OF WALLACE, BUT HIS CAMPAIGN
MANAGERS PROVIDED FILMS. THE FIRST ISSUE WAS WHETHER THE PHRASE
LAW AND ORDER WAS RACIST.
NIXON--NO, BLACKS SUFFER MORE, AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT WANT IT.
WALLACE--NO, THAT'S ABSURD, ETC.
HUMPHREY-THOSE THAT ARE TALKING ABOUT IT HAVE GIVEN IT RACIAL
OVERTONES--ALMOST OPENLY BY WALLACE AND SECRETLY BY NIXON.
THE NEXT QUESTION WAS WHETHER THE ISSUE OF LAW AND ORDER WAS
SOMETHING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH.
NIXON--NO, NATIONAL POLICE FORCE; HOWEVER, ADVOCATES COMMUNITY COUNCIL$
BETTER TRAINING WITH A NATIONAL ACADEMY.
HUMPHREY--ATTACKED 4-POINT PROGRAM OF NIXON; SAID SHOULD GIVE BLOCK
GRANTS FROM FEDERAL GOVT TO LOCAL GOVTS FOR CONTROL OF CRIME. "LAW
AND ORDER IS NOT CHEAP--BUT NEITHER IS CRIME."
WALLACE-SEEK FEDERAL INDICTMENTS OF THOSE WHO CROSS STATE LINES TO
INCITE RIOTS AND ADVOCATE THE OVERTHROW OF CITIES AND THE GOVERN-
MENT OF THIS COUNTRY. HE ATTACKED ACTIVISTS AND ANARCHISTS AS WELL
AS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
ALL OF THESE SEGMENTS RAN ABOUT 1-1/3 MINS. PER CANDIDATE.
NBC
HUNTLEY LED TONIGHT WITH CONTINUED SPECULATION ON A BOMBING HALT
NBC
HUNTLEY LED TONIGHT WITH CONTINUED SPECULATION ON A BOMBING HALT, AND
THEN GAVE LE MAY'S COMMENT THAT HE WOULD SUPPORT LBJ IF LBJ CALLS
FOR A HALT. 2-MIN. FILM CLIP OF LE MAY CAME AS 3RD ITEM INTO PROGRAM.
HUNTLEY ALSO REPORTED ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR STORY TODAY
GIVING HUMPHREY INCREASED STRENGTH BUT NIXON'S ELECTORAL TOTALS
INCREASING.
NIXON, I-MIN., 6:34-35, FILM CLIP ON MATTER OF DEBATE
HUMPHREY, 2-MINS., 6:36-6:38, FILM CLIP, WITH VOICE CRACKING. HHH
SAYS THE "FORGOTTEN AMERICANS" ARE THE ONES THE REPUBLICANS HAVE
FORGOTTEN. "MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY-RN SAID THEY WOULDN'T WORK.
THE NIXON REPUBLICANS HAVE FORGOTTEN OUR CHILDREN," RE FEDERAL AID
TO EDUCATION. REPORTER JACK PERKINS SAID IN COMMENTARY THAT HHH'S
CAMPAIGN PLAN NOW IS TO COME ON STRONG, AND THEY BELIEVE THEY HAVE
SOME REASON FOR HOPE.
BRINKLEY SAID IN SHORT ITEM THAT DEMOS RAN A TV AD APPEALING FOR
MONEY. THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD GET $15,000, AND THEY GOT $300,000.
HUNTLEY REPORTED ON THE WEDDING 25 MINS. INTO THE SHOW.
ABC
PRE-EMPIED BY OLYMPICS
TV EVENING NEWS 10/15/68
NBC
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HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY GAVE ITS LEAD POLITICAL COVERAGE TO WALLACE, 3 MINS.,
6:36-39, FILM OF WALLACE SPEECH BEING INTERRUPTED BY "ANARCHISTS FOR
H:15
WALLACE." REPORTER SAID WALLACE WAS "ANGRY, FLUSTERED," AND FILM CLIP
SHOWED HIM SAYING , "YOU LITTLE PUNK, COME ON UP HERE." HUMPHREY,
N:15
15 SEC., 6:40, COMMENTARY ONLY, THAT HE WOULD "STOP THE BOMBING,
PERIOD." NIXON, 15 SEC., 6:40, COMMENTARY ONLY, RN SAYS HE IS AHEAD
M-3:000F SKIE, IN EVERY STATE AND HHH WILL BE SWINGING WILDER AND WILDER.
3 MINS., 6:41:6:44, JACK PERKINS COMMENTARY, FILM OF MUSKIE
AND EXTENDED FILM CLIP OF HIS SPEECH "WHICH WAS UNUSUAL IN
NOT MENTION THE ELECTION AND CAMPAIGN ONCE." FILM SHOWED
MUSKIE SAYING "WE CAN'T WRING OUR HANDS AND SAY WE WOULD HELP THE
BLACKS IF ONLY THEY WOULDN'T RIOT." THEME OF HIS TALK WAS ON POSSI-
BILITY OF BLACK REVOLT. AGNEW, 2 MINS., 6:41:6:43, FILM OF NEW JERSEY
SPEECH SHOWING AGNEW SAYING "RIGHT OF DISSENT IS THE WHOLE ISSUE OF THE
CAMPAIGN THE COURTS HAVE LAID IT DOWN, AND LAID IT DOWN RIGHTLY... BUT
IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND VIOLENCE, AND
FOR THAT WE WILL NEVER STAND."
JOHN CHANCELLOR SPECIAL ON NEW LEFT AND TRADITIONAL CONSERVATIVES NOW
WORRYING ABOUT THE SAME THINGS: CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.
ABC
OLYMPICS PREEMPTED
CBS
IKON. a MINS FOURTH
PLEASE DISREGARD ABOVE LINE
N-3:ONIXON, 3 MINS., FOURTH ITEM INTO NEWSCAST. RN CLAIMS HHH USING
W-3:20
TACTICS OF FEAR AND SMEAR, AND IN PRIVATE RN SURVEYS, RN AHEAD
IN ALL AMJOR STATES. POLLS SHOW HE IS EVEN WITH WALLACE IN THE
it-2:00
SOUTH. WALLACE HAD SECOND ITEM OF SHOW, 31/2 MIN. WALLACE NOW
ON BALLOT IN OHIO, AND FILM OF WALLACE BEING HECKLED IN OHIO, AND
WALLACE QUOTE, "WHY DON'T YOU PUNKS 6ET OUT OF THE AUDITORIUM?"
HUMPHREY WAS THIRD ITEM, 2 MINW., IN HIS BOMBING POLICY HE SEEMS
TO BE MOVING CLOSER TO A BOMBING HALT. SINCE HIS VIET SPEECH THERE
HAS BEEN LESS WAR HECKLING. ERIC SEVEREID COMMENT, 3 MINS., "DO
POLITICAL POLLS CREATE PUBLIC OPINION AS WELL AS SAMPLE IT?" SEVEREID o
CONCLUDES POLLS DO AFFECT PUBLIC OPINION, THEY INFLUENCE ISSUES THEY
ATTACK AND THOSE THEY SKIP OVER. ALSO BANDWAGON EFFECT.
TO: LARRY HIGBY
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TELEISION EVENING NEWS COVERAGE ANALYSIS-OCTOBER 7, 1968 TO OCTOBER 11.
THE BREAKDOWN FOR EVENING NEWS COVERAGE LAST WEEK MAS:
and that
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NIXON
2:00
6:00
13:45
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HUMPHREY
20:05
7:55
14:15
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10:20
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1:15
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4:00
HUMPHREY AND WALLACE AGAIN RECEIVED GREATER QUANTITATIVE COVERAGE
THAN NIXON, BUT THE OVER-ALL IMPRESSION WAS FAR FROM FAVORABLE FOR
THEM.
ALL THREE NETWORKS RAN SEVERAL MINUTES FOOTAGE OF LBJ'S RADIO EN-
DORSEMENT THURSDAY NIGHT (PRIME TIME HUMPHREY COULD NOT OTHERWISE
HAVE BOUGHT FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY). OFFSETTING THIS PLUG WAS
THE FACT THAT MUCH HUMPHREY COVERAGE FLOWED FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
DISCUSSING HOW BADLY HIS CAMPAIGN IS GOING, THEREBY DAMPING THE
MOOD OF BOUYANCY CAREFULLY CULTIVATED THE WEEK BEFORE BY 0'BRIEN.
THE GENERAL TONE OF THE REST OF THE HUMPHREY COVERAGE WAS DEFENSIVE
AND DESPERATE: HIS CONTINUED LASHING OUT AT WALLACE AS A RACIST
BIGOT AND HIS PRESSING OF NIXON FOR TV DEBATES. THE LATER POINT
WAS ASSISTED BY THE HOUSE-SENATE PARLIAMENTARY STALLS ON THE EQUAL
TIME BILL, THE BLAME FOR WHICH WAS PUT ON THE REPUBLICANS BY THE
NEWSCASTERS.
THE NETWORKS DEVOTED ABOUT AS MUCH TIME TO INTERPRETIVE COMMENTARY
OF WALLACE AS THEY GAVE HIMON STRAIGHT NEWS REPORTING. HIS MAJOR
NEWS DEVELOPMENTS WERE THE PRESS CLUB FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH AND
THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT LE MAY WOULD GO TO VIET NAM. THE PUNDITS
NOTED THAT WALLACE SEEMS TO HAVE STALLED, BUT THEY ARE TREATING
HIM AS A SERIOUS CANDIDATE.
ACTUAL COVERAGE OF NIXON ACTIVITIES DURING THE WEEK WAS SPARSE.
?
ABC AND CBS USED NO CAMPAIGN FOOTAGE. NBC SHOWED SEVERAL MINUTES
IN FLINT AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. ALL THREE NETWORKS HAD SPECIAL
REPORTS ANALYZING NIXON STRATEGY (PARTICULARLY HIS AVOIDING DEBATE
WITH HUMPHREY) THAT PROBABLY DID HIM LITTLE GOOD.
MUSKIE'S COVERAGE, WHICH HAD BEEN MOUNTING DURING THE CAMPAIGN,
DROPPED OFF. ON CBS AND NBC IT CONSISTED OF DENUNCIATIONS OF
NIXON AND REPUBLICANS FOR BOTTLING UP THE EQUAL TIME BILL AND
REFUSING TO DEBATE. ABC TREATED HIM SYMPATHETICALLY ON THE
HECKLERS.
BY AND LARGE, TV COVERAGE OF THE CAMPAIGNS AND CANDIDATES LAST
WEEK WAS SUPERCILLIOUS IN NATURE AND PROBABLY HELPFUL TO NONE.
IT SEEMED AS THOUGH THE NEWSCASTERS AND ANALYSTS WERE IMPATIENT
OVER THE LACK OF DEVELOPMENT OF ANY GENUINE ISSUES, OR INTENT
UPON SHOWING THAT THOSE RAISED (EXCEPT TV DEBATES) WERE NOT WORTHY
OF SERIOUS CONSIDERATION. VERY LIKELY THE MORE EXPOSURE A CANDI-
DATE GOT LAST WEEK THE WORSE OFF HE WAS.
END. THAT'S ALL FROM HERE FOR TONITE...GA OR END.END...
TV EVENING NEWS COVERAGE - MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1968
CBS:
CBS' WEEKLY ELECTION ANALYSIS SHOWS DROP IN RN'S STRENGTH, THOUGH
STILL ENOUGH TO WIN (289 ELECTORAL VOTES). MAIN REASON WAS NEW YORK
WENT FROM NIXON COLUMN TO TOSS-UP SIDE. HHH GAINED SLIGHTLY.
COMMENTARY ON AGNEW AND MUSKIE BEING IN N.Y. AND LE MAY IN WASHINGTON,
AND THEN ON TO VIETNAM, 10 SECS.
IN DEPTH REPORT OF AGNEW CAMPAIGN, 6 MINS. SHOWED HIM IN CROWDS,
GOLF COURSE, GIVING SPEECH ON HHH DEBATING DURING THE PRIMARIES THIS
YEAR; DISCUSSED TROUBLES, INCLUDING "SOFT ON COMMUNISM," "POLACK"
AND "FAT JAP" REMARKS. THEN FILM CLIP OF HIS APOLOGY IN
HAWAII. INTERVIEW ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND APPEALS TO BACKLASH, AGNEW
DENIED AND CALLED SELF MODERATE. BUT "THE SOUTHERN SPELL STRONG"
IN CAMPAIGN." CLIP FROM FLORIDA SPEECH--INTRODUCED WITH PLAYING
OF DIXIE. COMMENTATOR SHOWED SIMILARITY TO WALLACE IN RHETORIC--
LAW AND ORDER ISSUE; ALTHOUGH AGNEW DENIES THEY ARE THE SAME.
SHOWED HHH SPEECH AFTER NIXON SELECTED AGNEW--QUOTES WASH. POST
EDITORIAL ON SELECTION. INTERVIEWED ON QUALIFICATIONS--AGNEWS
FEELS HE IS WELL QUALIFIED.SUMMATION: HIS STRENGTH IS THAT HE HAS
RAPPORT WITH ORDINARY MIDDLE-CLASS WHITES, THE KIND OF GUY WHO
WOULD BE PRESIDENT OF THE P.T.A.; THIS MAY BE A CAMPAIGN
STRENGTH, BUT A WEAKNESS AS V.P.
NOTHING ON NIXON AND HUMPHREY.
ERIC SEVEREID COMMENTARY ON 90TH CONGRESS. DISCUSSES WHAT SITUATION
WILL BE WITH NIXON AS PRESIDENT AND A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS--COMPARIES
WITH WHEN IKE HAD DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS.
ABC:
PRE-EMPTED BY OLYMPICS.
NBC:
HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY GAVE GOOD COVERAGE TO LE MAY, AGNEW AND MUSKIE
TONIGHT IN THE FORM OF SPECIAL REPORTS.
AGNEW, 3 1/2 MINS, 6:38-6:41, REPORTED BY JACK PERKINS, "GENERATES
so LITTLE EXCITEMENT IN CROWDS IT LOOKS UNREAL." AGNEW TRYING
TO AVOID MISSTATEMENTS, ALTHOUGH "HE TURNS A COLORFUL COLLOQUIAL
PHRASE." PERKINS SAID IF ONE WORD CHARACTERIZES AGNEW'S CAMPAIGN
IT'S "ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM."
MUSKIE, 2 1/2 MINS, 6:42-6:45, SEEMS TO ESTABLISH RAPPORT WITH
CROWDS" AND SHOW "CERTAIN EASY WARMTH." "WHEN HE SPEAKS THE
CROWDS LISTEN." FILM CLIP OF MUSKIE SAYING: "WE CAN'T IGNORE
THOSE WHO ARE DENIED EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, AS RICHARD NIXON WOULD
APPEAR TO DO. WE CAN'T BUILD A WALL BETWEEN THE HAVE'S AND HAVE
NOT'S AS GEORGE WALLACE WOULD."
NIXON, 15 SECS., 6:38.
LE MAY, 3 1/2 MINS., 6:35-6:38, FILM OF PRESS CLUB APPEARANCE IN
WASHINGTON. LE MAY SAYS SOME REPORTERS TRYING TO DISTORT HIS
VIEWS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS. LE MAY SAID VIET NAM WAR COULD BE WON
WITH CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AND "OF COURSE, NOT" REGARDING THE
NECESSITY OF USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS THERE. BRINKLEY SUMMARIZED THAT
RATHER THAN HALT OR SLOW DOWN BOMBING OF VIET NAM, LE MAY WOULD
"EXPAND IT."
CLOSING FEATURE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO IKE.
MORE MIN PLS
TV EVENING™ NEWS OCTOBER 17, 1968
Haldenson Frank
NBCs RW GOT LEAD POLITICAL ITEM, I MIN., 6:33-6:36, FILM OF HIM IN
PENN. SAYING "WNEN THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO NEGOTIATE...
N-1:00 WE SHOULD GIVE MIN EVERY CHANCE... I WILL NOT MAKE ANY
STATEMENT THAT MIGHT PULL THE RUG OUT FROM UNDER MIM."
H-3:00 RUMPAREY 1 MINS., 6837-6840, FILM OF DETROIT APPEARANCE AND
ann SAYING "SEORGE MAELAGE ms A UNION-BUSTING GOVERNOR YOU
WANT WILLACE ("NO"S IN BASKGROUND) YOU MANT NIXON? ("NO"S)
YOU WANT NUMPHREY-NUSKIE?" HERBERT KAPLOV IN COMMENTARY QUOTES
MRM AIDES AS SAYING RACE IN MICHIGAN "VERY CLOSE" BUT THEY
THINK THEIR CANDIDATE IS NOVING," AND KAPLOW SAYS SOME INDICA-
THO# THAT "THE MESSAGE MIGHT BE GETTING THROUGH."
W-3:0MALLACE, 8 MINE., 6:41-6944, WABLACE GOES TO ALABAMA TO BET SOME
REST BECAUSE NE IS "COMPLETELY PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTED." FILM OF
WALLACE VISITING WHAT BRINKLEY CALLED THE "SMACK" IN NEW MEXICO
WHERE ME ONCE LIVED, AND BEING MARASSED THERE.
HELSON . LEONARD RACE IN WISCONSIN, $ MINS., 6845-6848, WITH
SANDER WHOCUR.
HUNTLEY LED WITH JACKIE TONIGHT, AND CONCLUDED WITH FILM OF LBJ
GETTING BIG LAUGHS AT AB SMITH DINNER.
ABC, OLYMPICS
CBS: RWs FIRST POLITICAL ITEM, 10 MIN. INTO SHOW, FOR 30 SEC.
COMMENTS THAT IF A BOMBOHART WOULD NOT ENDANGER AMERICAN LIVES
N- : 10 AND WOULD LEAD TO AN HONORABLE PEACE, THEN ME'S FOR IT.
R#, MH. LBJ AT NEW YORK DINNER, 6:40-6844.
W-1:00 WALLACE, I MIN., 6844-6845, CALLS OFF CAMPAIGNING FOR TWO DAES
TO REST.
M-1:30 MUSKIE, 1.5 MIN, 6849-6:47, IN CHICAGO, CROWDS SPARSE AND QUIET.
ATTACKS WALLACE AS DEMABOQUE.
SEVEREID COMMENT, 8 MINS., 6:48-6:51, NIGHLY FAVORABLE DISCUSSION
OF MUSKIE, SAYING HIS SUCCESS IN CAMPAIGN IS DUE TO PEOPLE'S
FEELING THEY CAN TRUST MIM.
CRONKIT LED WITH JABKIE AND ROGER NUDD CONCLUDED WITH ANALYSIS
OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ELECTION THROWN INTO CONGRESS.
END.
L 10/21/68
TV EVENING NEWS SUMMARY, WEEK OF OCT. 14-18.
To Slabamper
NBC/CBS
NBC/CBS
NBC/CBS
NBC/CBS
NBC/CBS
TOTAL
10/14
10/15
10/16
10/17
10/18
FOR WEEK
RN
0:15/0
0:15/3:00
2:30/0:30
1:00/0:35
3:00/3:00
14:05
HHH
0/0
0:15/2:00
2:30/1:30
3:00/0:05
0:15/3:00
12:35
GCW
0/0
3:00/3:30
0/0
3:00/1:00
2:00/0
12:30
STA
3:3:/6:05
2:00/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
11:35
ESM
2:30/0:05
3:00/0
0/0
0/4:30
0/0
10:05
CELM
3:30/0:05
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
3:35
TOTAL
RN
HHH
GCW
STA
ESM
CELM
NBC/CBS
7:00/7:05
6:00/6:35
8:00/4:30
5:30/6:05
5:30/4:35 3:30/0:0
THE CAMPAIGN TOOOK SECOND PLACE TO OTHER BREAKING NEWS DURING THE
WEEK THE SPACE SHOT EARLY IN THE WEEK, JACQUELINE ON THURSDAY, AND
THE PARIS PEACE TALKS ON FRIDAY. NEARLY EACH NIGHT THE POLITICAL STOP
BEGAN WELL INTO THE NEWSCASTS.
THE TIME ALLOTTED THE CANDIDATES SEEM TO BE MORE EQUALIZED THAN IN
O THER WEEKS. NIXON HAD SLIGHTLY MORE TIME THAN HUMPHREY FOR THE FIRST
WEEK SINCE IN SEPTEMBER. AGNEW ALSO HAD MORE SPACE THAN MUSKIE FOR
THE FIRST TIME SINCE VE STARTED KEEPING TABULATIONS.
IN MID-WEEK NIXON GOT COVERAGE ON BOTH NBC AND CBS WITH CLAIMS THAT
HUMPHREY IS USING THE TACTICS OF FEAR AND SMEAR AND THE NIXON AIDE'S
STATEMENT THAT RN NOW IS LEADING IN ALL MAJOR STATES. CBS-NBC GAVE
NIXON THE LEAD POLITICAL ITEMS THURSDAY NIGHT WITH HIS STATEMENT THAT
"WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO NEGOTIATE. WE SHOULD GIVE HIM EVERY
CHANCE WILL NOT MAKE ANY STATEMENT THAT MIGHT PULL THE RUG OUT FRO
UNDER HIM." NBC'S DOUG KIKER, TRAVELING WITH NIXON, HAD SPECIAL REPORT
FRIDAY SAYING THAT ALL OF RN'S RALLIES ARE SMOOTH WITH BIG CROWDS AND
GOOD ADVANCE MEN. CBS' DAVID SCHUMACHER HAD LENGTHY REPORT FRIDAY NIE
WITH RN'S QUIPS ABOUT HUMPHREY AND HIS STATEMENTS ABOUT PEACE NEGOTI-
ATIONS.
CBS WEEKLY ELECTION ANALYSIS ON MONDAY NIGHT SHOWED SLIGHT DROP IN
NIXON'S STRENGTH ALTHOUGH STILL WITH ENOUGH TO WIN.
CBS'S HERB KAPLOW, IN COMMENTARY WITH ST. LOUIS FILM CLIP, SAID
WEDNESDAY THAT HUMPHREY IS STILL SEARCHING FOR AN ISSUE TO IGNITE HIS
CAMPAIGN. THE CLIP ALSO SHOWED HUMPHREY JOKES ON NIXON ("HE HAS BEEN
THINKING HE IS PRESIDENT FOR S0 LONG THAT BY NOV. 5 THE PEOPLE WILL
THINK IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE.") THERE WERE CLIPS BOTH THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY NIGHTS ON HUMPHREY IN DETROIT, WITH CBS SHOWING HIS NEW THEME
SET TO MUSIC OF "OLD TIME RELIGION."
WALLACE GOT MOST OF HIS SPACE TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN BOTH CBS AND NBC
SHOWED CLIPS OF THE HECKLERS IN HIS AUDIENCE POSING AS HIS OVERLY-
ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS, AND WALLACE'S ENSUING FRUSTRATION. NBC ALSO
SHOWED HIM BEING HARASSED AT HIS NEW MEXICO HOME VISIT.
IT WAS A GOOD WEEK FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, WITH BOTH AGNEW
AND MUSKIE GETTING ALMOST AS MUCH TIME AS THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
MUSKIE AGAIN CAME OFF STRONGLY, SHARING IN NBC 'S IN-DEPTH TREATMENT OF
THE THREE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES MONDAY, AND ALSO THE SUBJECTS 8
AN NBC FEATURE TUESDAY AND CBS THURSDAY. MUSKIE'S HARLEM SPEECH GOT
CONSIDERABLE SPACE. NBC'S JACK PERKINS SAID TUESDAY IT WAS UNUSUAL IN
THAT IT DID NOT MENTION THE CAMPAIGN ONCE, AND THE NEXT NIGHT ON THE
JOHNNY CARSON SHOW, CHET HUNTLEY SAID IN A GUEST APPEARANCE THAT THE
HARLEM SPEECH WAS "PHENOMENAL." ERIC SEVEREID DEVOTED HIS EDITORIAL
ON CBS THURSDAY NIGHT TO A HIGHLY FAVORABLE DISCUSSION OF MUSKIE. CBS
RAN AN IN-DEPTH REPORT ON AGNEW CAMPAIGN MONDAY NIGHT, INCLUDING HIS
"SOFT ON COMMUNISM," "POLLACK," AND "FAT JAP" REMARKS. THE SUMMATION
WASTHAT AGNEW HAS STRENGTH WITH ORDINARY MIDDLE-CLASS WHITES, "THE
KIND OF GUY WHO WOULD BE GOOD PRESIDENT OF P.T.A., BUT THIS COULD BE A
WEAKNESS AS VICE PRESIDENT."
CORRECTION: UNDER NBC/CBS, 10/14, FOR STA, REPEAT STA, IT SHOULD
BE 3:30/6:05, NOT 3:3:
TV NEWS SUMMARY --- NBC --- -OCTOBER 23, 1968
HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY LED WITH SPECULATION ON BOMBING HALT TONIGHT,
AND THEN GAVE COVERAGE TO EVERY ONE OF THE SIX PERSONS ON THE
THREE TICKETS EXCEPT LEMAY.
RU-205
RN, L5 SEC., 6:32, URGES MIGHIGAN VOTERS, NOT TO GO ON "THIRD PARTY
KICK." COMMENTARY ONLY.
W-2:15
WALLACE, 2 1/2 MINS., 6:32 - 6:34, FILM OF WALLACE RESPONDING TO
HECKLERS, SAYING, "YOU UP THERE HOLDING THAT SIGN -- OH! I
THOUGHT YOU WERE A 'HE' -- BUT YOU LOOK LIKE A 'SHE.'' TO ANOTHER,
"GO AHEAD, AND THROW SOMETHING ELSE." REPORTER DOUG KIKER SAYS IN
COMMENTARY THAT "THIS IS HAPPENING NOWADAYS EVERY TIME
WALLACE SPEAKES," AND AS A RESULT HIS CAMPAIGN FOR FINANCES AND VOTES
IS SUFFERING.
M-3:30-WALLACE'S FOREBEARERS CAME TO NEW ENGLAND IN THE '20S TO FIGHT THE
MINS., 6:35 - 6:38, FILM OF MUSKIE IN NEW JERSEY SAYING
ITALIANS, THE POLES, AND LITHUANIANS. WE'VE GOT TO DEFEAT HIM so
HIS KIND IS NEVER HEARD IN AMERICA AGAIN." REPORTER CHARLES QUINN
SAYS MUSKIE IS PREACHING UNITY, FREEDOM AND UNDERSTANDING "AS THE
ONLY MESSAGE FOR AMERICA IN 1968."
A-:15
AGNEW, 15 SEC., 6:38, IN MISSOURI, SAYS JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION HAS
"COURTED IRRESPONSIBLE DISSENT." COMMENTARY ONLY.
NUMPHREY, 2 MINS., 6:39 - 6:41. SAYS RN'S SELECTION OF AGNEW WAS
CHEAP POLITICS," AND RN "ON HIS WAY TO DEFEAT." "
REPORTER JACK PERKINS SAID THINGS ARE GOING RIGHT IN TEXAS FOR
HUMPHREY, AND HE HAS BOTH YARBOROUGH AND CONNALLY SUPPORTING HIM.
PERKINS SAYS "CROWDS ARE GROWING, MONEY IS COMING IN, AND THE
CANDIDATE IS RECHARGED." FILM CLIP OF MRS. LBJ IN TEXAS CALLING
HUMPHREY "A GREAT SENATOR, A GREAT VICE PRESIDENT, AND A WARM AND
GOOD FRIEND."
TV NEWS SUMMARY --- CBS --- OCTOBER 23, 1968
LEAD STORY: PARIS PEACE TALKS. NO VISIBLE SIGN OF PROGRESS AS THOUGHT
THERE WOULD BE TODAY.
WALLACE, IN OHIO, FACED BY HECKLERS. FILM AND COMMENTARY ON
INTEGRATION ISSUE.
LEMAY, AT FLORIDA PRESS CONFERENCE, AND THEN WALLACE HEDGING ON IT
TO REPORTERS THIS MORNING. SHOWS HIM PUTTING DOWN HECKLERS WITH
SUCH STATEMENTS AS: "CAN'T TELL THE HE'S AND SHE'S APART."
"GO AHEAD, THROW SOMETHING ... YOU'RE BRAVE."
with
COMMENTATOR NOTED THAT THE WALLACE CAMPAIGN IS ONE OF DIFFERENCES
AND DIVISIONS. BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OF THE TICKET AND BETWEEN THE
2:40
PEOPLE IN HIS CROWDS. TIME: 2 MIN., 40 SEC.
NIXON -- FILM COMMENTATOR MENTIONS THAT DIFERENCE BETWEEN RN IN
1960 AND RN IN 1968 IS THAT HE IS WAY AHEAD -- GIVES HIM TIME TO
THINK. EXAMPLE TODAY WAS VIETNAM. THERE HAS BEEN GREAT CONCERN
ABOUT THE ISSUE THIS WEEK AMONG HIS STAFF. SHOWED RN CASTIGATING
HHH ON HIS HAVING A "LOOSE TONGUE" AND BEING ON ALL SIDES OF THE
ISSUE. COMMENTATOR FELT THAT NIXON WAS TRYING TO MOVE AS CLOSE TO
LBJ AS POSSIBLE IFTHERE IS SUCCESS,
CLOSER THAN HHH, AND IF THINGS DON'T GO WELL IN PARIS, THEN AFTER
ALL, IT'S THE DEMOCRATS THAT ARE RUNNING THE SHOW RIGHT NOW.
TIME: 2 MIN, 15 SEC.
MUMPHREY -- COMMENTARY THAT HHH SAID RN WAS COMPROMISING ON PRINCIPLE
IN CHOOSING AGNES. WHAT WOULD HE DO AS PRESIDENT? FILM CLIP,
COMMENTATOR NOTING THAT HHH IS TRYING TO PUT OLD COALITION TOGETHER
AGAIN. HHH TELLING MEXICAN-AMERICAN GROUP THAT HE IS "SOMEONE WHO
BELIEVES IN PRINCIPLE AND WILL STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT." DEFENSE
OF LBJ SHOULD BE NOT JUST BY HHH, BUT BY ALL THE TEXANS FOR WHAT THE
REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN SAYING. CHIS VOICE WAS CRACKING BADLY.) HE
SAID THAT HE IS GOING TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE, WHICH IS IN THE AMERICAN
TRADITION. COMMENTATOR NOTED THAT THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN VOTE IS
CRUCIAL TO HHH'S SUCCESS IN TEXAS, ONLY BECAUSE IT IS A THREE-WAY
RACE. TIME: 2 MIN, 30 SEC.
TV EVENING NEWSCASTS 10/22/68
NBC
NUNTLEY-BRINKLEY LED WITH APOLLO LANDING, OF COURSE. BRINKLEY.
COMMENTING ON BOMBING HALT, CITED LBJ UPCOMING NEWS CONFERENCE AND
SAID "SOMETHING MAY BE ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
FIRST POLITICAL ITEM WAS HUNTLEY ON POLLS. HIS OPENING STATEMENTS
SAYING GALLUP SHOWS HUMPHREY GAINING ON WIXON" AND SINDLINGER
SHOWING A GAIN OF THREE POINTS FOR HUMPHREY.
RN, 3 MINS. 6:40-6:43, ON WHAT HUNTLEY CALLED "ONE OF MOST HECTIC
N
3:00
DAYS OF CAMPAIGN. FILM CLIP OF RN IN OHIO SAYING "DURING THE PAST
FOUR YEARS THERE HAS BEEN A GREAT CRISIS IN THE AMERICAN SPIRIT..
LET'S REMOVE DARKNESS LET THERE BE A NEW DAWN. HERBERT KAPLOW
PROVIDED COMMENTARY. HUNTLEY REPORTED BRIEFLY ON RN'S RADIO TALK
CALLING HMH'S SOCIAL SECURITY PROPOSAL "A DECEPTIVE PROMISE THAT
CAN ONLY LEAD TO INFLATION.
H:
HUMPHREY, 15 SEC., 6:43, CAMPAIGNING IN TEXAS WITH A BETTER RECEPTION
THIS TIME FROM CONNALLY AND YARBOROUGH. COMMENTARY ONLY.
35
WALLACE, 15 SEC., 6:43, "HECKLED MERCIFULLY" IN WISCONSIN AND HIT
W
WITH AN APPLE CORE. COMMENTARY ONLY.
JOHN CHANCELLOR SPECIAL ON BLACKS IN WATTS, WITH ONE LOU SMITH
INTERVIEWED, SAYING THE BLACKS CANDIDATE WAS KENNEDY. AND HE GOT
KILLED. SMITH ALSO SAID: "NIXON ISN'T SAYING MUCH OF ANYTHING THAT
ANYONE CAN UNDERSTAND, MUCH LESS RELATE TO
AS BAD AS WALLACE LOOKS TO US, HUMPHREY DOESN' LOOK THAT MUCH BETTER."
CBS
CHARLES KURALT FOR WALTER CRONKITE.
LEAD STORY: 5 MINS. ON APOLLO FLIGHT RE:ENTRY.
N-2:00
NIXON: 2 MIN. FILM CLIP OF WHISTLESTOP THROUGH OHIO. I MIN. ON
WHISTLESTOPS IN GENERAL--TECHNIQUES OF THE PAST; ALMOST AN ANACHRONISM.
1 MIN. OF NIXON ON TRAIN PLATFORM ASSAILING HHH ON FOREIGN POLICY.
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY BY JURALT OF 15 SECS. TOTAL TIME, 2:15.
HUMPHREY: 1-1/2 MIN. FILM CLIP OF инн IN TEXAS. COMMENTARY THAT HHH
H
1:30
IS NOT ONLY RUNNING AGAINST NIXON AND WALLACE, BUT TRYING TO PATCH UP
HIS OWN PARTY AS WELL. PICTURES OF нни WITH CONNALLY AND YARBOROUGH
AT AIRPORT; COMMENTARY SAID; ONE COULD ASSUME HE'S HAVING SOME
MEASURE OF SUCCESS. SHOWED SCENES OF HIS FT. WORTH RALLY -- DESCRIBED
AS LARGEST NOON-HOUR CROWD OF HIS CAMPAIGN. SHOWS инн ASKING QUESTION:
WHO CAN AMERICAN PEOPLE TRUST--THAT'S THE WORD, TRUST -- TO LEAD
AMERICA?
:15 WALLACE, 15 SEC., COMMENTARY ONLY ABOUT HAVING HECKLERS THROW EGGS.
ROCKS. ETC., AT HIM IN OSHKOSH, WISC., INCLUDING AN APPLE CORE THAT
HIT HIM.
he
:15LE MAY: 15 SECS. COMMENTARY ONLY. SAID THAT INTEGRATION IS ANSWER
TO RACIAL PROBLEMS. THINKS WALLACE AGREES.
CONTINUATION OF SPECIAL SERIES ON FILMS OF CANDIDATES IN ABSENCE OF
DEBATES. TONIGHT'S QUESTION: "WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE THE FEDERAL GOVERN-
MENT DO TO HELP THE CITIES?
HHH: CITIES ARE IN DIRE TROUBLE -- INCAPABLE OF GETTING OUT OF IT
WITH THEIR INCOME BASE -- GRANTS, REVENUE SHARING TO MEET NEEDS. ONLY
STRINGS WOULD BE TO SET UP PROPER FORMULA FOR STATES. THERE ARE MANY
NEEDS -- IMMENSE NEEDS. WHEN YOU MEET THESE NEEDS, YOU GET MORE ADDED
INCOME FROM THESE PEOPLE THAN YOU WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE TO SPEND TO
SOLVE PROBLEMS. TIME, I MIN., 50 SEC.
Tobl
RN: TAX CREDITS -- HUMAN INVESTMENT ACT -- TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY:
N-
5:00 (1) TO SET UP JOBS FOR THESE PEOPLE.
(2) PRIVATE INDUSTRY; BRING BUSINESS INTO THESE AREAS.
&
(3) MAKE AVAILABLE LOANS FOR THESE PEOPLE so THEY CAN BRING
3
:30
RESIDENTS INTO PRIVATE INDUSTRY, NOT ONLY AS WORKERS, BUT
155
OWNERS AND MANAGERS -- LET THEM GET A PIECE OF THE ACTION.
TIME: 1 MIN., 25 SECS.
GCW: USE POVERTY MONEY THAT'S BEEN GOING DOWN DRAIN FOR TRAINING-
APPRENTICESHIPS, ETC. BRING PRIVATE INDUSTRY INTO OPEN, BROAD AREAS
TO SPREAD PEOPLE OUT. GIVE MONEY BACK TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND STATES
IN BLOCK GRANTS INSTEAD OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF IN WASHINGTON
DICTATING HOW IT'S GOING TO BEST BE SPENT. TIME: 1 MIN., 55 SECS.
ABC
PRE-EMPTED BY OLYMPICS
END
THAT'S ALL FROM HERE FOR TONIGHT...GA OR END.
TY, TU. END.
TV EVENING NEWS COVERAGE - THURS. OCT. 10, 1968
NBC NEWS
NO DIRECT COVERAGE OF THE TOP CANDIDATES WAS GIVEN TONIGHT, OTHER
THAN A 20 SECOND SQUIB THAT WALLACE WILL SEND LEMAY TO VIETNAM ON IN-
SPECTION TRIP.
LEAD STORY OF 1 MIN. THAT PRESIDENT ASKED WARREN TO STAY ON THE COURT.
WARREN'S DISLIKE FOR NIXON GIVEN BY ANNOUNCER AS REASON FOR ORIGINAL
WARREN OFFER TO RESIGN S0 THAT JOHNSON COULD APPOINT SUCCESSOR.
CLIPS OF JOHNSON'S RADIO ADDRESS IN SUPPORT OF HUMPHREY GIVEN FOR
3:15 MIN. PORTION SHOWN WAS LBJ'S EXPLANATION THAT "THERE IS A DIME'S
WORTH OF DIFFERENCE" BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR CANDIDATES. "NIXON IS THE
ONE
WHO CAST THE TIE-BREAKING VOTE ; NIXON IS THE ONE
AGAWT AID to
WHO ETC. ETC."
SAID MEDICAR WOULD 06 MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF LATEST GALLUP POLL AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
SURVEY GIVEN FOR 45 SEC.
WRAP UP OF CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON TV DEBATES GIVEN FOR 3 MIN. CLIP
OF MUSKIE DENOUNCING REPUBLICANS FOR REFUSING TO DEBTE RAN FOR 30 SEC.,
FOLLOWED BY 20 SEC. OF DIRKSEN EXPLAINING THAT DEMOCRATS KILLED A DEBATE
BILL IN 1964 "IF IT WAS FISH THEN, WHY IS IT FOWL TODAY?" (ANSWER
DESK CHECK OF THE ROLL CALL VOTE ON AUGUST 18, 1964, SHOWS THAT MUSKIE
VOTED WITH HUMPHREY TO TABLE THE DEBATE BILL).
ABC NEWS
LEAD POLITICAL STORY WAS REPORT THAT SENATE REPUBLICANS REFUSED TO
PROVIDE A QUORUM FOR THE TV DEBATE BILL. MUSKIE GOT 1:25 SEC. FILM
TIME TO DENOUNCE DIRK!F
TV EVENING NEWS 9/30/68
CBS - NIXON, 30 SEC., STARTING AT 6:36. COMMENTARY ONLY, ON
RN
Haldem
POSSIBLY RESIGNING FROM CLUB WHICH DISCRIMINATES.
HUMPHREY, 4 1/2 MINS., 1ST ITEM. CBS POLL SHOWING HHH RUNNING
3RD. FIL ON HUMPHREY IN UTAH INTERSPERSED WITH COMMENTARY ON
HHH IMAGE.
AGNEW. NOTHING.
MUSKIE. NOTHING.
WALLACE, 3 MINS. FILM ON WALLACE IN CHICAGO WITH INTERVIEWS OF
PERSONS THERE.
ABC - NIXON, FIVE SEC., STARTING 7:05. SCHEDULE ONLY.
HUMPHREY, 3 1/2 MINS., 1ST ITEM, FILM ON UTAH AND SPEECH ON
DISSENTERS.
AGNEW. NOTHING.
MUSKIE. NOTHING.
WALLACE, 2 1/2 MINS., THIRD ITEM, FILM AND COMMENTARY ON
CHICAGO VISIT.
GUEST COLUMNIST STEWART ALSOP, 3 MINS., ON NIXON.
NBC - NIXON, 15 SECS., STARTING AT 6:36. FILM ON NIXON AND ROMNEY.
HUMPHREY, 2 MINS. 1ST ITEM. FILM ON HHH IN UTAH. GALLUP POLL.
AGNEW. NOTHING.
MUSKIE. NOTHING.
WALLACE, 2:25 MINS., STARTING AT 6:33. FILM ON WALLACE IN
CHICAGO, WALLACE SAYING HE WOULDN'T DEBATE IF HE WERE NIXON
EITHER.
THE ANSWER DESK HAS PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF KEY ISSUES A LARGE
NUMBER OF PERTINENT QUOTES RELEVENT TO TONIGHT'S HUMPHREY SPEECH.
IF YOU REQUIRE ANYTHING MORE THAN YOU HAVE OF THIS TYPE (OR ALREADY
RECEIVED FROM THEM) PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND WE'LL RUN THE FULL
TAPE OF QUOTES FOR YOU (ABOUT 25 MINS)
GA
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WW@PK8@@HTV EVENING NEWS -- OCT. 1, 1968
Holdeme
NBC - NIXON, 2 MINS. STARTING AT 6:38. FILM AND COMMENTARY ON NIXON
RESPONSE TO HUMPHREY BOMBING PROPOSAL.
HUMPHREY, TWO SPOTS OF 3 MINS EACH, STARTING AT 6:35 AND 6:42.
FILMS ON VIET SPEECH, ON HHH BEING HIS OWN MAN, AND ON NASHVILLE
SPEECH RE WALLACE.
AGNEW, NOTHING.
MUSKIE, NOTHING.
CBS - NIXON, 3 MINS., STARTING AT 6:38. FILM ON RESPONSE TO HHH SPEECH.
HUMPHREY, 3 MINS. STARTING AT 6:35. FILM ON VIET SPEECH.
AGNEW, NOTHING.
MUSKIE, NOTHING.
SPECIAL, ERIC SEVAREID ANALYSIS ON HUMPHREY SPEECH, CITES EFFECT
CHUCK ROBB HAS ON LBJ VIET DECISION-MAKING.
ABC - NIXON, 25 SEC., STARTING AT 7:03. FILM ON REACTION TO HUMPHREY
SPEECH.
HUMPHREY, 2 MINS., STARTING AT 7:01. FILM ON VIET SPEECH.
AGNEW, NOTHING.
MUSKIE, NOTHING.
ALSO, FRANK REYNOLDS COMMENT ON HUMPHREY SPEECH, "IT SEEMS TO
ME HUMPHREY DID NOT DO WELL LAST NIGHT HE WOULD NEED A RESPONSE
FROM THE COMMUNISTS, AND THIS IS NO DIFFERENT FROM JOHNSON."
REYNOLDS SAYS NIXON OPERATING FROM SOUND POSITIO
END OF TRANS.
RMN VA
MIN PLS
TV EVENING NEWS COVERAGE - OCTOBER 3, 1968
TOP POLITICAL STORY OF THE DAY WAS WALLACE'S CHOICE OF LE MAY FOR HIS
RUNNING MATE. ALL NETWORKS CARRIED THE ENTIRE PITTSBURGH PRESS
CONFERENCE LIVE THIS MORNING (10 AM EDT), BUT EVENING NEWS SHOWS CON-
CENTRATED ON 3-4 MIN. COLLOQUY BETWEEN LE MAY, THE PRESS, AND WALLACE
EXPLAINING WHAT THE GENERAL MEANT WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD NOT SHRINK
FROM USING ALL WEAPONS NECESSARY TO WIN THE WAR IN VIETNAM. PRESS
WAS FAIRLY SUCCESSFUL IN TRYING TO PAINT LE MAY AS A NUCLEAR ADDICT.
NBC:
NIXON, L0 SEC. COMMENTARY THAT HE WAS IN ATLANTA TODAY AND THINKS
HE CAN BEAT WALLACE.
HUMPHREY, LO SEC. BLURB THAT HE WAS CAMPAIGNING IN WEST VIRGINIA
TODAY.
AGNEW, NOTHING.
MUSKIE, NOTHING.
WALLACE, LEAD STORY, 1 MIN. ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS SELECTION OF LE MAY,
BLUS 5 MIN FILM CLIP OF PITTSBURGH PRESS CONFERENCE.
ABC:
NIXON, 3 MIN. REPORT BY TED COBBLE ON ATLANTA PARADE. QUOTED NIXON
AIDE AS SAYING RN HOPES HHH WILL DO BETTER IN GEORGIA THAN NOW PREDICTED
RN EXPECTED TO CARRY ATLANTA, BUT REST OF STATE CONCEDED TO WALLACE.
HUMPHREY, 2 1/2 MIN FILM COVERING MOTORCADE IN WEST VIRGINIA. HHH
SHOWN IN HAPPY MOOD AS HE CRIES TO CHEERING CROWD, "MR. NIXON, I'M
GONNA STING YA AND STING YA UNTIL YOU TAKE UP MY CHALLENGE." LATER IN
BLUEFIELD, "THE REPUBLICANS NEVER GAVE YOU A DIME." COMMENTATOR NOTED
THAT HHH NOW MAKING TOUGHER, SHARPER SPEECHES AND THAT HHH CROWDS
CHARACTERIZED BY MORE BLACK PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER CANDIDATE. ALSO
CONCEDED THAT IT IS DOUBTFUL IF HHH HAS GAINED ANY NEW STRENGTH WITH
HIS FORAY INTO THE SOUTH, BUT THE CAMPAIGN INALLY SEEMS TO BE ROLLING.
AGNEW, NOTHING.
MUSKIE, NOTHING.
WALLACE, LEAD STORY, 3 1/2 MIN. FILM CLIP OF PITTSBURGH PRESS CON-
FERENCE FOLLOWED BY 2 MIN APPRAISAL OF LE MAY DEVELOPMENT BY HOWARD
K. SMITH. SMITH NOTED THAT LE MAY COMMANDED THE BOMBER FORCE THAT
DROPPED THE FIRST A-BOMB ON JAPAN, AND HAD URGED BOMBING VIETNAM BACK
INTO THE STONE AGE, CALLED ATTENTION TO HHH'S BOMB HALT PROPOSAL
AND CONCLUDED IT IS TIME FOR NIXON TO STATE WHERE HE STANDS.
BILL LAWRENCE GAVE A 2 MIN. REPORT ON THE OPTIMISM BUILDING UP IN THE
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HQ AS A RESULT OF HHH'S BOMB HALT
SPEECH AND THE RELEASE OF POLLS SHOWING HHH LEADING IN 18 STATES.
MAIL IS POURING IN ALONG WITH MANY SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS. DNC ASSESS-
MENT OF THE CAMPAIGN AT THIS TIME: RN 205 ELECTORAL VOTES, HHH 189,
GW 72, AND UNDECIDED 72.
N 4:10 CBS:
NIXON, 2 1/2 MINS. FILM OF PARADE IN ATLANTA. RN SAYS IT IS
GREATEST ATLANTA RECEPTION EVER. COMMENTARY: RN "OFFERING CONTRAST
H3:10N STY STYLE TO WALLACE." QUOTES RN AIDE AS SAYING ONLY-LY 1/3 OF WALLACE
IS RACIST, AND 2/3 IS "NATURAL CYNICS," IN REPLY TO WHICH RN
SPEAK OF "FORGOTTEN AMERICAN." TO 2ND PART OF WALLACE'S CAMPAIGN,
THAT HHH AND RN ARE "TWEEDLE-DUM AND TWEEDLE-DEE," RN NOW POINTS OUT
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO. AND THIRD PART OF RN STRATEGY IS NOW TO
SAY THAT A VOTE FOR WALLACE IS A VOTE FOR HUMPHREY.
HUMPHREY, 30 SEC., COMMENTARY ONLY, HHH SAYS OF LE MAY THAT TO
SPEAK OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS "SO LIGHTLY IS TO SHOW NO CONCEPTION OF THE
REALITY OF THEIR TERROR."
AGNEW, NOTHING.
MUSKIE, NOTHING.
WALLACE, 6 MINS FILM CLIP OF PITTSBURGH PRESS CONFERENCE.
ERIC SEVEREID COMMENT ON LE MAY (3 MIN): AS GOLDWATER'S STATEMENTS
ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS MISINTERPRETED IN 1964, so LE MAY'S MAY BE, AND HIS
STATEMENTS TODAY ARE NOT LIKELY TO DIE AWAY. LE MAY SEEMS TO BE SAYING
HE WOULD STEP UP WAR AND BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM, ALTHOUGH HEAVY B
BOMBING OF NORTH VIET ALREADY HAS NOT BROUGHT END TO WAR.
I HOPE THAT IS MORE WHAT YOU WANTED ON THE COVERAGE ... PLS LET US
KNOW IF IT INXXX ISN'T.
TV EVENING NETWORK NEWS COVERAGE
Holdeman
- NIXON, 30 SEC FILM CLIP OF WM. & MARY AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY SPEECH
HUMPHREY, 15 SEC COMMENTARY OF HHH REMARKS ON WAR DISSENTERS AND
THEIR SCUFFLES. LEFT UNFAVORABLE IMPRESSION.
FORTAS, LEAD STORY, 4 MINS.
JOAN KENNEDY, 45 SEC FILM AND HER STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF HHH
AND INTENTION TO CAMPAIGN FOR SEN. BAYH.
WALLACE, 4 MIN., NO FILM, SPECULATING ON NAMING OF GEN. LE MAY
AS RUNNING MATE.
ERIC SEVEREID GAVE 3 MIN. SUM-UP OF THIS YEAR'S ELECTION
PROCESS, KNOCKING ALL CANDIDATES BY NAME, AND SCORING THE SENATE
FOR ITS CLOTURE VOTE.
NBC - NIXON, 30 SEC FILM CLIP OF WM. & MARY SPEECH.
HUMPHREY, 20 SEC. CRITICIZING WALLACE'S CAMPAIGN TACTICS,
PLUS 2 MIN. FILM CLIP OF HIM GREETING GOP TRUTH SQUAD.
AGNEW, 8 SEC. COMMENTARY OF HIS REMARKS CRITICIZING HHH BOMBING
HALT PROPOSAL.
MUSKIE, 8 SEC. FILM CLIP SAYING REPUBLICANS HAVE NO VIETNAM
POSITION.
ABC - FORTAS, LEAD STORY, 4 MIN.
NIXON, 2 MIN FILM OF WM. & MARY SPEECH. FAVORABLE COMMENT THAT
N3
RN WAS RAISING HIMSELF ABOVE POLITICS.
HUMPHREY, 2 1/2 MIN. FILM CRITICIZING WALLACE. COMMENTATOR
NOTED HHH STATEMENT THAT HE IS NOW ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY.
AGNEW, 1 MIN. FILM CRITICIZING HHH BOMBING HALT PROPOSAL, CON-
TENDING IT UNDERCUTS PARIS NEGOTIATORS.
MUSKIE, 45 SEC. FILM CONTRASTING TODAY'S PROSPEROUS ECONOMY WITH
THAT OF EISENHOWER YEARS.
WALLACE, 2 1/2 MIN. COVERAGE OF WALLACE RALLY. L MIN INTERVIEW
DENYING HHH CHARGE OF SIMILARITY TO HITLER AND RECALLING THAT
HHH USED TO GIVE CLENCHED FIST SALUTE AT POLITICAL MEETINGS AT
BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER.
HG?SVWCQ/OV&L--M
RMN VA
RMN VA
RNC DC
WE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN CUT OFF WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU
NEEDED FROM US??????GA
ON THE WALLACE COVERAGE WAS THERE ANYMENTKON OF WALLACE ASKING HHH
WHAT HE DID DURING THE WAR?
AS I RECALL ONLY THE MENTION IN THE ABC INTERVIEW OF THE CLENCHED
FIST SALUTE HOWEVER I DID NOT WATCH ALL THE PROGRAMS SORRY
;ET E MAKE A SUGGESTION. CAN YOU GIVE US ON THESE REPORTS A LITTLE
MORE OFTEN YOUR OWN PERSONAL EVALUATION OF WHETHER THEY ARE FAVORABLE
UNF VORABLE ETC. GO AHEAD AND USE YOUR OWN JUDGMENT
DO YOU WANT THE ONE'S THAT I SAW TONIGHT EVALUATED?
RIGHT
OK I WATCHED INTERMITTENTLY THE CBS AND ABC AND AS I RECALL
THE WALLACE CLIP ON ABC WAS THE USUAL OF THE DEMONSTRATORS PLAYING
INTO HIS HANDS WITH LARGE CROWDS THE INTERVIEW CRITIZING HHH
WAS IN HIS USUAL STYLE AND I BELIEVE QUITE EFFECTIVE TO THE AVERAGE
VIEW
ON THE WHOLE IT JUST REINFORCED WHAT WALLACE HAS BEEN SAYING
ON THE RN CLIP, I THOUGHT IT CAME OVER REAL WELL, AGAIN I BELIEVE
THAT THIS WAS ABC. HE MADE A POINT TO STRESS THAT RN HAD CALLED
FOR ORDERLY DISSENT, ETC. AND THAT WAS IN FACT WHAT GREETED HIM
OUTSIDE THE HALL NOT DISRUPTION ALSO IT MADE A POINT ABOUT
HIS TURNING MORE STATESMANLIKE IN THIS SPEECH TOXXX RATHER THAN
BEING IN A CAMPAIGN STYLE. ON WHOLE VERY EFFECTIVE.
THE ERIC SEVEREID COMMENTARY WAS CRISP AND TO SOME EXTENT BRUTAL
TO ALL
BESIDES THAT I DON'T THINK I WAS IN THE ROOM FOR THE REST
WAIT
I DID SEE THE AGNEW BIT ON ABC AND THE REPORTER PINNED HIM TO A
WALL AND QUESTIONED HIM ABOUT HIS CRITICISM OF HHH BEING SO HARSH
USING THE PHRASE AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY AND FINALLY
GOT STA TO SAY THAT THIS WAS IN EFFECT WHAT HHH WAS DOING IMPRES-
SION WAS THAT STA WAS BEING A LITTLE TOO HARD NOSED REPEAT OF THE
SOFT ON COMMUNISM STUFF AGAIN EXCEPT WORDED MORE EFFECTIVELY.
THAT'S ABOUT ALL I CA XXX CAN REMEMBER WISH I COULD BE OF MORE
HELP. IN THE FUTURE WE WILL ENDEAVOR TO GIVE THESE A FINER EVALUA-
TION AS WELL AS CONTENT ANALYSIS FOR YOU. GA
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED?
NO THATS ALL FOR TONIGHT THANKS
Coverage 9/ 30 - 10/4
Summary of TU News
Two events dominated coverage of this week
Warn. They whe Heaphrey's Viet Now
Speech and Wallace choony he May
an a memoring mate...
Humphery received a total of 10 minter
of combined Network Coverage with regard
in connection with his pronoms
plur oradditional right. 7 minter coverage the following
Wallace received
from
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yesterday
reporting September 26, 1968
needed
TV NETWORK EVENING NEWS COVERAGE:
done
to
NBC - NIXON, 2 min., (3rd item into program), film of Nixon refusal
Lphore
HRH
to make Vietnam proposals Favorable.
<
sundally
HUMPHREY, 2 min., (2nd item into program), film of foreign
policy address. Favorable.
M
AGNEW - nothing.
MUSKIE - Nothing.
Rosewill giveto HRH.
WALLACE, 20 sec., (4th item into program), commentary only on
Romney's calling him a racist. Unfavorable.
SPECIAL ON VOTER. SURVEY, 3-1/2 min. film. All three voters
interviewed (in De Kalb, Ill; Calif. ; and Washington, D. C.) prefer
Nixon. Very favorable
ABC
NIXON, 3 min. 20. sec., (11 min. into program), commentary quoting
aide as saying Nixon to intensify attacks on Humphrey, film on St.
Louis appearance and commentary that Nixon showing Kennedy qualities
with crowds and now getting big response from youth. Very favorable
HUMPHREY, 2 min. 20 sec. (3rd item), film on San Francisco parade
and foreign policy address. Commentary that Humphrey still not breaking
with LBJ. Neutral
AGNEW, 5 sec., on spending day in Annapolis. Neutral
MUSKIE, 15 sec., on facing anti-war protesters again. Unfavorable.
WALLACE, 1-1/2 min. (3rd item), film on Romney calling him racist.
Very unfavorable.
Commentary Howard K. Smith: 3 min., analysis of Humphrey proposal:
"I hope George Ball has better luck in his new job. "
TV NETWORK EVENING NEWS COVERAGE (Continued) September 26, 1968
CBS
NIXON, 1 min., 35 sec. (3 mins into program) film on St. Louis
speech. Favorable
HUMPHREY, 3 min. 5 ;sec. film and commentary on Ball resignation
and foreign policy address. Favorable.
AGNEW, nothing.
MUSKIE, nothing.
Commentary: 3 min. by Eric Sevaried on Humphrey chances for
Presidency. Unfavorable
RMN NY
TO: BOB HALDEMAN
FROM: JACK CARLEY
SUBJECT: DAILY REPORT
DATE: 4 NOVEMBER 68
THIS IS THE LAST OF THESE REPORTS. SAFE FLIGHT BACK TO
SAV OR THE VICTORY.
DELAWARE
2. BUCCI POLL:
RN-45%, HHH-41, GW-14
THE SPECIFIC BREAKDOWN:
RN
HHH
GW
UND
DEMOCRAT
19%
62%
15%
4%
REPUBLICAN
76
12
6
6
INDEPENDENT
40
36
17
6
TOTAL
41.8
40.6
12.7
4.9
ADJUSTED
45
41
14
JACK JORDAN REPORTS THAT DELAWARE HAS BEEN A GOOD BAROMETER OF
NATIONAL SENTIMENT. FOR INSTANCE, IN THE LAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS, IT HAS COME "WITHIN .03% OF THE COUNTRY IN DECIDING THE
OUTCOME
FLORIDA
1. BILL MURFIN PREDICTS A 125,000 PLURALITY FOR RN. HIS ESTIMATE
IS RN-40%, HHH-26%, GW-34%. HE FEELS THE BOMBING HALT IS
HAVING NO EFFECT.
ILLINOIS
2. THE FINAL CHICAGO SUN-TIMES POLL:
RN-46.86
HHH-39.64
GW-13.50
BASED ON THESE FIGURES, THEY PROJECT A 425,000 PLURALITY.
IOWA
2. DES MOINES REGISTER STATEWIDE POLL:
RN-57%, HHH-38, GW-5, UND-5
MICHIGAN
1. THE STATE REGISTRATION IS UP 200,000 FROM 1964. IN DETROIT IT
IS DOWN SOME 54,000 BUT WAYNE COUNTY AS A WHOLE IS UP 83,000.
ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN REPUBLICAN AREAS ARE VERY HIGH, AND THE
FAVORABLE AREAS ARE QUITE READY TO GET OUT THE VOTE.
AGNEW APPEARANCE YESTERDAY FILLED A HALL OF 1100 AND HAD THE
SAME NUMBER WAITING OUTSIDE.
2. DETROIT NEWS POLL, PUBLISHED TODAY:
RN-38%, HHH-47, GW-11, UND-4
ELLY PETERSON DISPUTES THESE FIGURES AND REPUTES THAT THE SAMPLE
WAS TAKEN IN THREE AREAS (WAYNE, MCC ONE, AND OAKLAND), TWO OF WHICH
ARF DEMOCRATIC (WAYNE AND MCCONE).
MINNESOTA
1. RN VISIT TO ROCHESTER HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL. AN INTENSIVE EFFORT
TO GET OUT THE VOTE IS UNDERWAY.
2. A TELEVISION POLL SHOWS RN GAINED IN THE LAST MONTH. IN SEPTEMBER
HHH LED 47-32, BUT IN OCTOBER THE GAP WAS 47-45.
MISSOURI
2. ST. LQUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT STATEWIDE POLL:
RN-38%, HHH-32.2, GW-15.9%, UND-13.9
KENTUCKY
1. OUR PEOPLE ARE CONFIDENT THAT RN WILL CARRY STATE. THERE SEEMS
TO BE NO VISIBLE MOVEMENT TO HHH. ELECTION DAY ACTIVITIES READY.
NORTH CAROLINA
1. GENE ANDERSON PREDICTS RN WILL RECEIVE 38-40% OF THE VOTE, AND
THE REST WILL SPLIT EVENLY BETWEEN GW AND HHH. ELECTION DAY
ACTIVITIES READY.
NORTH DAKOTA
1. A STRONG GET-OUT-THE VOTE DRIVE IS UNDERWAY.
PENNSYLVANIA
2. BUCCI POLL:
RN-46, HHH-42, GW-12
SOUTH CAROLINA
1. HARRY DENT PREDICTS RN WILL CARRY THE STATE. HIS ITEMIZED
PREDICTION IS RN-40%, GW-30%, HHH-30% BECAUSE RN IS PICKING
UP GW VOTE AS HHH GAINS STRENGTH NATIONALLY.
SOUTH DAKOTA
2. REPUBLICAN POLL SHOWS RN-58%, HHH-26, GW-10. TREMENDOUS
ENTHUSIASM.
TENNESSEE
1. B OB FARRIS PREDICTS RN WILL WIN STATE BY 50,000, AND SENATOR
HOWARD BAKER FORECASTS A 75,000 MARGIN. ELECTION DAY ACTIVITIES
ARRANGED.
Nixon Agnew
Campaign Committee
450 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 661-6400
26 October 68
TO: Bob Haldeman
FROM: Jack Carley
SUBJECT: Daily Reports
ILLINOIS
The Chicago Sun-Times Poll for 27 October is:
RN-45.88
Dirksen-59.66
Oglivie-53.14
HHH-38.76
Clark-40.34
Shapiro-46.86
GW-15.36
As for the last two days, all three Republicans are losing
strength. Compared to the previous poll, RN is down .54% and
HHH is up .80%. This pattern is a continuation of the apparent
trend since 23 October.
NEW JERSEY
A straw vote at Union College (Union County) favored RN.
RN-45%
HHH-20%
GW-23%
Und-12%
NEW YORK
John Gilhooley reports that the New York Daily News Poll to be
published tomorrow will show that RN is now behind in New York.
The results are:
RN-41.9
HHH-46.1
GW-8.0
Und-4.0
The previous poll had given RN a two-point lead.
PENNSYLVANIA
The Erie Times published a poll covering the 24th Cong. District,
which is about even in party registration and was carried by
JFK in 1960(97,000 to 93,000).
230
Nixon Agnew
Campaign Committee
450 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 661-6400
PENNSLYVANIA (Continued)
RN-49.4
HHH-35.6
GW-13.8
Dick Gregrory-1.2
The paper also did a poll for the 23rd C. D. but included only
three counties (Warren, Denange, McKean)in the sample. It is
a Republican area, and the results agreed.
RN-48.5
HHH-30.3
GW-21.2
230
Nixon Agnew
Campaign Committee
450 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 661-6400
25 October 68
TO: Bob Haldeman
FROM: Jack Carley
SUBJECT: Daily Report
In addition to the fourteen states reported, there are interesting
polls from two other states, Maryland and Washington, which you
might ponder.
MARYLAND
From an integrated district in Baltimore that is 3-1 Democrat in registration
RN-32.1%, HHH-14.1%, GW-9.8%, Und-44%. The pattern is repeated in
a district composed of "poor whites". RN-41, HHH-15.3, GW-7.3, Und-36.2.
The undecided vote is enough to raise eyebrows.
WASHINGTON
From the Seattle Post Intelligence (25 October) via Craig Truax, the
Quayle Poll for the state:
Date
RN
HHH
GW
Und
20 Sept
43
31
12
14
22 Oct
37
36
9
18
230
FLORIDA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
Bob Lee and Dick Danner are now working in Florida. At
present, Wallace seems to be running 60-70% in Northern
Florida. Notwithstanding that fact, the contest is
very close between RN and GW. Lee will report his
estimate of which way state will go on Monday (28 October).
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Fort Myers News Press (29 September)
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR .PROGRAM:
Alan Peterson has toured all operations in the state and calls the
response "very good". Especially rewarding is the response in
Black neighborhoods. As a matter of mechanics, Peterson is
wisely bridging the
ethnic and race barriers by employing
black operators in black neighborhoods and recruiting Spanish=
speaking voters in the Miami area in their own tongue. The
Miami operation for Mexicans and Cubans is being handled as
separate from the general program.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
ILLINOIS
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
The registration in Cook County is down 140,000, but the suburbs
around Cook County have increased by 110,000.
2. POLLS:
No SUN-TIMES POLL ON SATURDAY
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
KENTUCKY
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
Aside from organizing the court houses in order to get 20% of
the vote, the Democrats are not recognized as a major .party.
Any efforts by the emocrats hurt Wallace.
The Cook campaign is strong and should help RN.
2.
POLLS:
Thirteen University polls reveal RN has about 50% of the
student preferences.
]
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
Reports indicate that there are 400-500 volunteers each day
from Lexington and
600 a day for the past three days in
Louisville.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
MICHIGAN
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Detroit Free Press
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
MISSOURI
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
Kirksville (NW part of state) TV Poll: RN-35, GW-30,
HHH-25, UND_10
From St. Louis High Schools:
RN
HHH
GW
Southwest (98% white)
39%
30%
31%
St. Louis High (private)
40.5
51.3
9.2
The Bride (Catholic)
29.7
49.8
20.5
Parkway
59
29
11
Upper Middle St. Louis (100% Blk)9
91
0
"
"
"
(90% black)
8.2
90
1.2
From the Univ of Missouri
55.5
35.5
9.95
St
Louis Globe-Democrat Poll
RN
HHH
GW
Und
(Same as 1960 sample)
City of St. Louis (Reg: 270,000) 26.5
50
11.2
12.3
County of St. Louis (Reg: $70,000)41.8
28.6
15.5
16.1
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
NEW JERSEY
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
Nesson Gross has been concentrating a major portion of his
recent time on the New Jersey visit on Saturday His problems
were in Jersey City, but he is satisfied everything will be
fine at each stop.
Although the Bergen Evening Record (the largest newspaper in
Northern Jersey) feels RN will win, there is no indication
of an endorsement for anyone as of now.
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Perth Amboy Evening News (24 October)
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
NEW YORK
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
County Chairmen in general are annoyed with the New York Daily
News poll of last Tuesday because they think it inaccurate. For
instance, contrary to the results of the poll, the editors of
the Buffalo Evening News (which has endorsed us and the Buffalo
Courier Express both feel RN will win the county in excess of
30,000 vote plurality.
Seven County Chairmen from Western New York are reputedly so
incensed by the poll that they intend to prove it wrong. In
New York City the infamous poll has resulted in more activity
and spending of money by the local organizations.
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Albany Times Union
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
NORTH CAROLINA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Charlotte Observer
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
OHIO
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Salem News (21 October)
Napoleon Northwest Signal
Manefield News
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
PENNSYLVANIA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
Northampton County: Democrats lead 2-1 in registration, but it is
lowest since 1952. Poll gives RN-36, HHH-44, GW-4, and Und-16.
A ballot poll taken at Scott's Paper Plant in Philadèbphia, which
comprised 64% of the blue and white collar workers thera(787votes),
gave RN-420151.3%), HHH-206(26.1), GW-123(15.4), Und-28(9.2).
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Suburban and Wayne Times (wkly, 3 Oct)
Butler Eagle
Leader Vindicator
Meadville Tribune
Democrat Evening Standard
Wilkes-Baree Times Leader Evening News
Lancaster New Era
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
SOUTH CAROLINA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
A direct mailing of 700,000 copies of the "Thurmond Speaks" brochure
is being made to all registered voters.
POLLS:
RN is receiving 60-85% "on all college polls. "
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR . PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
TEXAS
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
San Antonio Light
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
RMN-PA
RMN NY
28 OCTOBER 68
-
TO: BOB HALDEMAN
FROM: JACK CARLEY
SUBJECT: DAILY REPORT
IN ADDITION TO THE FOURTEEN STATESNORMALLY REPORTED, THERE IS
INFORMATION FROM TWO OTHERS THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST.
WASHINGTON
THE 25 OCTOBER REPORT CONTAINED A COMPARISON OF TWO QUAYLE
POLLS, ONE TAKEN IN LATE SEPTEMBER AND THEOTHER IN THE THIRD -
WEEK OF on
GUMMY JOHNSON OF WASHINGTON HAS PRODUCED ANOTHER POLL, THE
CENTRAL SURVEYS REFGIONAL POLL, WHICH DIFFERS FROM THOSE OF
QUAYLE.
23 SEP-30 OCT
REP
DEM
"
IND
RN
43
76
21
33
29
5
50
11
HHH
29
5
50
1=
GW
a
UND
16
10
15
45
18 OCT-24 OCT
REP
DEM
IND
RN
43
84
16
33
HHH
37
5.5
63
: 24
GW
6
3
6
"10
UND
14
6.5
14
33
ACCORDING TO JOHNSON, QUAYLE RUNSTHREE TO FOUR PERCENT MORE
DEMOCRATIC THAN THE CENTRAL SURVEYS, AND THE SURVEYS, IF PAST
EXPERIENCE I$ ANY GUIDE, ARE TWO TO THREE PER CENT MORE DEMOCRATIC
THAN THE ACTUAL VOTE. HOWEVER. THIS ANALYSIS IS SUBJECT TO
QUESTION BECAUSE THE QUAYLE POLLS ARE ALMOST THE EXACT SAME AS
THE CENTRAL SURVEYS IN GAUGING DEMOCRATIC VOTE. IT SHOULD BE
NOTED ALSO THT THE CENTRAL POLL OF LATE OCTOBER DID NOT INCLUDE
THE 4TH C.C., THE SECOND MOST REPUBLICAN DISTRICT IN THE STATE.
INDIANA
-IN A POLL OF 4,000 STUDENS AT INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, RN WAS
PREFERRED 2-1. ALSO, THE TERRE-HAUTE STAR ENDORSED RN.
-CALIFORNIA
2. FIELD POLL )18:21 OCTOBER, 977 SAMPLE):
RN-50, HHH-34, GW-9, UND-6
OF THOSE MOST LIKELY TO VOTE:
RN-52, HHH-33, GW-8
ELIMINATING WALLACE FROM THE BALLOT:
RN-49, HHH-20, NEITER-18, NO OPINION-13
FLORIDA
1. THE DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE STATE FROMBOB LEE WILL BE GIVEN
TOMORROW.
-2. FROM A 14,000 SAMPLE POLL OF ALL COLLEGES, RN-51%, HHH-32, GW-16.
3. THE PERRY CHAIN OF NEWSPAPERS (18 NEWSPAPERS IN 12 CITIES) WILL
:-
START A SERIES OF ENDORSEMENTS THIS WEDNESDAY.
ILLINOIS
-
2. THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES POLL SHOW RN GAINING BACK WHAT HE LOST
LAST WEEK.
28 OCT
29 OCT
RN
46.29
46.39
HHH
38.26
38.52
GW
15.45
15.09
3. WAUKEGAN NEWS-SUN
MOLINE DI SPATCH
ROCK ISLAND ARGUS
BLOOMINGTON PPANTAGRAPH
-CHICAGO AMERICAN IS EXPECTED TO ENDORSE RN ON 3 NOVEMBER.
NICHIGAN
3. LANSING STATE JOURNAL
PORT HURON TIMES-HERALD
-MISSOURI
-
2. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS DIVISION:
RN-36
HHH-50.9
GW-7.5
UND-5.6
3. CAPE GIRADEAU SOUTH EAST MISSOURIAN
CARTHAGE PRESS
-NEW JERSEY
-1. THE GENERAL ESTIMATE IS THAT RN IS HOLDING FIRM, AND THERE IS
"NO PANIC" IN THE RANKS. IN ADDITION, THERE IS STILL ADVERSE
COMMENT OVER THE MEDICARE ISSUE HERE, FOR THE RN SATURDAY STATE-
MENT DIDN'T GET ADEQUATE COVERAGE. ANYTHING TO SQUELCH THE
HHH ADS WOULD BE HELPFUL.
3. NEWARK NEWS
BERGEN EVENING RECORD
PATERSON CALL
ASBURY PARK PRESS
LONG BRANCH RECORD
CAMDEN COURIER-POST IS EXPECTED TO ENDORSE RN SOON.
TEXAS
L. ALAN SHIVERS IS ON A STATEWIDE TELCAST THIS WEDNESDAY. THE
ROCKEFELLER RADIO TAPES IN SPANISH ARE ON TH MEXICAN-AMERICAN
RADIO STATIONS.
2. MERRILL-WIRTHLIN REPOLLED PREVIOUSLY UNDECIDED VOTERS.
RN-37%
HHH-46
GW-17
BASED ON THIS BREAKDOWN OF THE PREVIOUSLY UNDECIDED 13%, THEY
W PROJECT THE STATEWIDE RESULT AS:
RN-48%
HHH-33
GW-24
TEXAS
THE FOLLOWIN ARE COLLEGE POLLS.
COLLEGE
RN
HHH
GW
SOUTHERN METHODIS UNIV.
69.1%
19.4%
11/5%
ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
69.6
8.8
15.9
LAMAR STATE
43.4
25.9
30.7
SOUTHVESTERN UNIVERSITY
69.0
23.7
4.8
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIV.
54.9
18.6
13.3
UNIV. OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL
44.5
33.2
4.0
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
68.3
17.5
14.0
UNIV. OF TEXAS (EL PASO)
52.0
28.0
14.0
SAM HOUSTON STATE COLLEGE
53.9
16.5
29.7
TEXAS WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY
49.5
40.5
7.9
VIRGINIA
2. HIGH SCHOOL POLLS HAVE BEEN RUNNING RN, HHH, GW. HOWEVER, NO
BLACKS HAVE BEEN INVOLBED IN THE SAMPLES TAKEN. HAD THERE BEEN
BLACKS, THE POLLING ORDER WOULD HAVE BEEN HHH, RN, GW.
3. DANVILLE REGISTER. IT IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE 121-YEAR
HISTORY OF THE NEWSPAPER THAT THEY HAVE ENDORSED A REPUBLICAN.
EVEN MORE STARTLING IS THE FACT THAT IT IS LOCATED IN THE HEART OF
WALLACE COUNTRY AD WAS EXPECTED BY OUR LEADERS oTo ENDORSE WALLACE.
END.
ADDENDUM
23 SEP-30 OCT
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12
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14
11
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OCT 29, 1968
TO:
BOB HALDEMAN
FROM: JACK CARLEY
SUBJECT: DAILY REPORT
CALIFORNIA
3. D'ITALO-AMERICANO (ITALIAN NEWSPAPER IN LOS ANGELES)
SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER
VALLEJO TIMES-HERALD
VALLEJO NEWS CHRONICLE
4. THERE ARE 120,687 VOLUNTEERS AS OF 25 OCTOBER, WHICH
REPRESENTS A GAIN OF 50,000 IN ONE WEEK.
FLORIDA
1. BOB LEE REPORTS THAT THE ORGANIZATION FINISHED MAKING
25,269 TELEPHONE CALLS. THE RESULTS ARE:
RN-9016 (35.8%)
GW-4327 (17.0)
HHH-2499 (9.9)
UND-9427 (37.3)
BASED ON THESE FIGURES AND OTHER INFORMATION, LEE PROJECTS
THE FINAL VOTE TO BE:
RN-760,000
GW-640,000
HHH-600,000
3. TAMPA TIMES
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 35,308 PERSONS HAVE VOLUNTEERED. A SPECIFIC
ANALYSIS OF THE JACKSONVILLE AREA, WHERE GW IS REPUTEDLY
STRONG, INDICATES THE WALLACE STRENGTH IS ON THE WANE. FURTHER-
MORE, THERE IS STRONG FEELING THAT RN WILL RECEIVE A LARGER
BLACK VOTE THAN EXPECTED.
ILLINOIS
2. THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES POLL FOR 30 OCTOBER:
RN-46.41
HHH-38.48
GW-15.11
IT BY
BASED ON THE LAST WEEK, THE POLL HAS EVENED OFF AND LITTLE,
IF ANY, CHANGE IS EXPECTED. THE PAST HISTORY OF THE POLL
IS THAT IT IS USUALLY WITHIN 2% OF THE CORRECT FIGURE.
HOWEVER, WHEN THERE IS A LANDSLIDE IN THE MAKING, IT TENDS
TO UNDERESTIMATE THE WINNER'S STRENGTH (E.G., ITS FINAL
FORECAST FOR LBJ IN 1964 WAS 3% BELOW THE ACTUAL VOTE, AND
THE SAME WAS TRUE FOR MAYOR DALEY'S LAST ELECTION.)
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, THERE ARE 67,064 VOLUNTEERS. THAT IS AN
AN INCREASE OF 26,000 IN A WEEK.
KANSAS
2. STATEWIDE POLL USING A SAMPLE OF 1% FROM EACH COUNTY:
RN-59.3%
HHH-23.7
GW- 8.3
UND- 8.7
KENTUCKY
1. GOVERNOR NUNN AND SENATORS MORTON AND COOPER BEGIN A STATEWIDE
TOUR ON THURSDAY.
ADS ARE NOW RUNNING IN MAJOR DAILIES.
4.
AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 7536 PERSONS HAVE VOLUNTEERED.
MISSOURI
2.
THE FOLLOWING ARE POLLS TAKEN BY THE ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT
FOR THE 9TH C.D. (NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI, 22 COUNTIES) AND THE
10TH C.D. (SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI, 19 COUNTIES). THE RESULTS
ARE INTERESTING WHEN COMPARED WITH THE RACES FOR GOVERNOR
AND SENATOR.
9TH C.D.
10TH C.D.
RN
42.3%
41.7%
HHH
25.2%
22.6
GW
17.9
23.8
UND
14.6
11.9
SENATE
EAGLETON (D)
45
44.7
CURTIS (R)
32.2
32.3
UND
22.8
23
GOVERNOR
HEARNS (D)
50.8
65.7
ROOS (R)
29
24.2
UND
20.2
10
CONGRESSIONAL
BOND (R)
36
(D)
34
LANGRATH (R)
40.9
(D)
42.9
UND
16.2
IT IS DICK HERMAN'S OPINION THAT THE COMPARISON OF RN'S
STRENGTH TO THAT OF GOVERNOR HEARNES INDICATES WE ARE GETTING
DEMOCRATIC VOTES. HE ALSO FEELS THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE TO WIN
THE CONGRESSIONAL SEAT IN THE 9TH DISTRICT.
MISSOURI CONT.
4. THERE ARE NOW 70 TELEPHONES IN OPERATION IN ST. LOUIS,
KANSASCITY, AND SPRINGFIELD. ALAN PETERSON SAYS THAT THEY
ARE GETTING3000 VOLUNTEERS EACH DAY. THE LATEST FIRM FIGURE
IS THAT 5791 PEOPLE HAVE VOLUNTEERED AS OF 25 OCTOBER.
MICHIGAN
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 57,686 PEOPLE HAVE VOLUNTEERED. THAT
REPRESENTS A GAIN OF 25,000 VOLUNTEERS IN A WEEK.
NEW JERSEY
1. BALLOT SECURITY STATEWIDE PRESS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD
TOMORROW WITH L.G. NICHOLS.
THE ADS HAVE NOT BEEN CANCELLED FOR TODAY AND WILL RUN ON
THURSDAY ALSO.
THEY HAVE RECEIVED THIRTY NEGATIVE TELEPHONE CALLS ON THE
LAUGHING HHH AD OF LAST NIGHT. THEY ARE ALSO STILL GETTING
QUERIES ON MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY.
SOME CALLS HAVE CRITICIZED THE RESPONSES FROM THE "LISTEN-
IN" AS BEINGTOO CLOSELY TIED TO THE JOHNSON POLICIES.
3. LAMBERTVILLE BEACON
MESSENGER GAZETTE (SOMERSET COUNTY)
PLAINFIELD COURIER
ATLANTIC CITY PRESS
FREEHOLD TRANSCRIPT
CAMDEN COURIER-POST
PATERSON NEWS
4. THERE ARE 35,379 VOLUNTEERS AS OF 25 OCTOBER.
NORTH CAROLINA
1. THERE ARE DIRECT MAILINGS TO 67,000 FARMERS AND 60,000 BLACKS
BEING SENT OUT.
2. AMONG BUSINESSMEN, THE NORTH CAROLINA FINANCIAL NEWS FINDS
RN-67%, HHH-25%, GW-8%.
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 36,612 VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN RECRUITED. THAT
REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 28,400 OVER THE LAST WEEK.
OHIO
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 72,145 PERSONS HAVE VOLUNTEERED. THAT
REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 17,000 IN A WEEK.
PENNSYLVANIA
2. ALLENTOWN REPORTS THE FOLLOWING POLL OF NORTAMPTON COUNTY
ASREPORTED BY THE MORNING CALL.
RN-36%
HHH-44
GW-4
UND-16
REGISTRATION IS 55,000 TO 30,000 IN FAVOR OF THE DEMOCRATS,
THE LOWEST FIGURES SINCE 1952. EISENHOWER CARRIED THE
COUNTY IN BOTH 1952 AND 1956, BUT JFK BARELY WON IN 1960
(41,000 TO40,000). IN 1966 GOVERNOR SHAFER LOST IT BY
35,000 TO 31,000.
THE SAMPLE FOR THE COUNTY WAS SELECTED BY COMPUTERS, BASED
UPON THOSE DISTRICTS WHICH MOST CORRECTLY REFLECT THE
ACTUAL VOTE FROM 1960 AND 1966.
3. SLOVAK-AMERICAN (MIDDLETOWN, WEEKLY)
HAZELTON STANDARD-SPEAKER
UNIONTOWN EVENING STANDARD
CHARLEREI VALLEY INDEPENDENT
CAMP HILL WEST SHORE TOWER (WEEKLY)
HOMESTEAD MESSENGER
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 66,710 PEOPLE HAVE VOLUNTEERED. THAT
REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 29,180 IN ONE WEEK.
SOUTH CAROLINA
L.
1. RADIO PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN INCRASED FROM 26 TO 82 STATIONS,
AND THREE SPOTS A DAY ARE BEING USED. IN ADDITION, NEWS-
PAPER ADS ARE RUNNING IN ALL MAJOR DAILIES.
2. COLLEGE POLLS CONTINUE TO HOW RN GATHERING 60-70% OF
THE VOTES.
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 18,752 VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN RECRUITED.
THAT IS AN INCREASE OF 11,500 IN A WEEK.
VIRGINIA
1. THERE IS A "BIG REACTION" TO THE LAUGHING HHH AD, ALL OF
WHICH IS ADVERSE.
2. SEVEN KEY PRECINCTS IN THE FIRST C.D. (VIRGINIA BEACH) WAS
TAKEN TWO WEEKS AGO.
RN-36%
HHH-12
GW-17
UND-42
DESPITE THE HIGH PERCENTAGE OF UNDECIDED, SAM CARPENTER FEELS
THE OUTLOOKIS GOOD FOR RN.
3. NORFOLK LEDGER-STAR
NORFOLK VIRGINIA PILOT (IT IS THE LARGER OF THE TWOPAPERS,
AND ITS ENDORSEMENT WAS UNEXPECTED.)
4. AS OF 25 OCTOBER, 16,304 VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN RECRUITED.
THIS IS AN INCREASE OF 4,000 OVER THE LASTWEEK.
END
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RN
October 28, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Haldeman
FROM:
Higby
SUBJECT:
Summation of Daily Reports (October 25, 26,28)
Polls:
Washington: Seattle Post Intelligencer
RN
HHH
GW
Undecided
20 Sept
43%
31
12
14
22 Oct.
37%
36
9
18
Florida: Alan Peterson reports phone call operation in full swing
and ready for all-out effort in State
All Colleges - 14,000 sample
RN 512 , HH#3290, GW 16?o.
Perry Chain of Newspapers (18 in 12 cities) will start
series of endorsements this Wednesday.
Kentucky: Thirteen University polls show RN has 50% of student
preferences. RN 51%, HHH 32%, GW 16%.
Michigan: Endorsed by Detroit Free Press.
Missouri: St. Louis Globe Democrat Poll
RN
HHH
GW
Undecided
(St. Louis
County)
41.8
28.6
15.5
16.1
New York: Daily News Poll seems to have incensed county leaders,
causing them to redouble efforts throughout the state.
Endorsed by Albany Times Union.
-2-
Pennsylvania:
Endorsements by 6 daily newspapers.
Polls in Erie Times.
RN
HHH
GW
7
*24th Cong. Dist.
9.4
35.6
13.8
23rd Cong. Dist.
48.5
30.3
21.2
* Carried by JFK in 1960 97,000 to 92,000.
South Carolina: 700,000 copies of "Thurmond Speaks" brochure to
all registered voters.
6010859.
RN receiving on all college polls.
Illinois:
Chicago Sun Times poll (Oct. 29)
RN
HHH
GW
46.29
38.52
15.09
California:
Field Poll 18-21 October 977 sampled.
RN-50, HHH-34, GW-9, Undecided-6.
Texas:
Alan Shivers on Statewide this Wednesday
Rockefeller Spanish radio tapes are running.
Merrill-Wirthlin now estimates results will be:
rn-42%, HHH-33%, GW-24%
Virginia: Danville Register endorsed. First time in 121-year
history of newspaper that it has endorsed a Republican.
It is located in heart of Wallace country.
Nixon Agnew
Campaign Committee
450 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 661-6400
Halloween, 1968
TO: Bob Haldeman
FROM: Jack Carley
SUBJECT: Daily Report
NEIGHBORS FOR NIXON
Alan Peterson called to give a general rather than state-
by-state report. According to his people, there was a large,
adverse reaction to the Laughing HHH ad. On the brighter
side, the response among Blacks in the South to the program
has exceeded normal Republican expectations. In addition,
favorable commentary (100 letters per day) is being received
on the Neighbors Brochure (the foldout "Nixon Stands").
In addition to their normal functions, the Neighbors
will attempt to contact all their volunteers with regard to
the Los Angeles telethon. Peterson's estimate is that they
can reach 15 million potential homes this way. Finally,
all the phones they have been using throughout the campaign
will be turned over to the regular Republican Party organizations
to use in getting out the vote.
NEW JERSEY
1. Nelson Gross asked that RN be as specific as possible on
Medicare, Social Security, and inflation. It is his impression
that HHH's attacks on RN mean to convey the notion that
RN is for "planned unemployment." In fact, Gross says
HHH has charged RN with just that in the state.
2. From Princeton University, the student poll:
HHH-35%
RN-28.1
RoGregory-10.9
GW-4.4
3. Newark Journal
Post Eagle
Bridgeton Evening News
Dover Daily Advance
Morris County Daily
Nixon Agnew
Campaign Committee
450 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 661-6400
Halloween-2
ILLINOIS
2. The Chicago Sun-Times Poll continues to show RN gaining.
Yesterday
RN-47.27 (46.83)
HHH-38.33 (38.21)
GW-14.40 (14.96)
VIRGINIA
1. Notwithstanding Newsweek, Time, et al., Sam Carpenter feels
"bullish" about the state. He remains firm that RN will
carry it.
2. An overwhelming number of college polls give RN a large
lead. On 24 October this report contained such a poll from
Longwood College, which gave RN 79% as HHH's 11%. The
same trend is evident in both Mary Washington College (Fredericks-
burg) and Stratford College (Danville, 5th C. D.).
In addition, the State Chamber of Commerce conducted a poll
through its local chambers (some 50 key areas were involved).
Its survey:
RN-41%
HHH-31
GW -24
Und-4
Nixon Agnew
Campaign Committee
450 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 661-6400
Halloweeen-3
PENNSLYVANIA
2. Bucci Poll:
RN-47.5%
HHH-41.5
He projects RN victory by 350,000. Wallace is getting his
votes in a mixture of 14% Democrats and 9% Republican.
MICHIGAN
1. Both Senator Brooke and Governor Hickel did well in the state.
2. Kellogg Community College (Battle Creek) student poll:
RN-55.5%
HHH-31.8
GW-13.7
Among the faculty:
RN-67.9%
HHH-25.1
GW-7.0
3. Marquette Mining Journal
Escanaba Daily
Monroe Evening News
Grand Rapids Press
Also the newspapers in Ipsilanti, Iron Mountain, Mount Pleasant,
and Alma.
OK END.X
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RMN NY
TO: BOB HALDEMAN
FROM: JACK CARLEY
SUBJECT: DAILY REPORT
DATE: NOVEMBER 1, 1968
MARYLAND
PRECINCT CANVASSES:
24TH PRECINCT (27TH WARD), BALTIMORE (REPUBLICAN AREA):
19 OCTOBER - RN-30.6%, HHH-13.8, GW-9.3, UND-46.3
30 OCTOBER - RN-35.4%, HHH-24.4, GW-8.7, UND-31.5
45TH PRECINCT (27TH WARD), BALTIMORE (DEMOCRATIC AREA):
23 OCTOBER - RN-40.9%, HHH-15.5, GW-7.3, UND-36.3
30 OCTOBER - RN-33.8%, HHH-27.1, GW-15.5, UND-23.6
PENNSYLVANIA
3. ELIZABETHTOWN CHRONICLE
QUARRYVILLE SUN
STRASBURG NEWS
LITIZ RECORD
MANHEIM STIEGEL NEWS
NORTH CAROLINA
1. ESTIMATES ARE THAT IT IS STILL A VERY CLOSE, THREE-WAY RACE.
RN TREND CORRESPONDS TO DECLINE IN GW STRENGTH.
L4.
STATE ESTIMATES ARE 17,600 VOLUNTEERS CALLING ON 150,000 HOMES.
HOWEVER, THE BIG SURPRISE IS THE NUMBER OF BLACK VOLUNTEERS.
TENNESSEE
2. FROM DAVIDSON COUNTY, THE LATEST POLL SHOWS A STARTLING CONTRAST
TO THE ONE TAKEN NEARLY THREE WEEKS AGO.
3 WEEKS AGO
LATEST
RN-22%
RN-35%
HHH-30
HHH-30
GW-34
GW-26
UND-14
UND-9
LA RUE FEELS THAT IF THIS POLL IS ACCURATE AND THE TREND CONTINUES
THERE IS NO DOUBT BUT THAT RN WILL CARRY STATE. MIDDLE-TENNESSEE
(NASHVILLE) IS SWING VOTE AREA AND PRECURSOR OF OUTCOME.
VIRGINIA
1. ALL TANGIBLE INDICATORS SHOW RN VICTORY. HOLTON IS HEDGING, BUT
HE THINKS HHH WILL FINISH 2ND.
2. COLLEGE POLLS
MADISON (HARRISONBURG)
RN-448
HHH-106 GW-69
UND
WASHINGTON & LEE(LEXINGTON)
59.7%
24.5
6.6
OLD DOMINION (NORFOLK)
50.4%
30.6
15.3
DADNEY LANCASTER COMMUNITY
43%
24
29
COLLEGE (CLIFTON FORD)
HAMPTON-SIDNEYCPRINCE EDWARD
66%
11
11
COUNTY)
POPCORN
POLL (AS OF 31 OCTOBER):
RN-43%, HHH-22, GW-34
3. VIRGINIA GAZETTE (WILLIAMSBURG, WEEKLY)
CALIFORNIA
2. A PRIVATE POLL TAKEN FOR CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE PETE MCCLOSKEY:
RN-39%
MCCLOSKEY(REP)-48%"
RAFFERTY(REP)-20%
HHH-25
WHITTAKER(DEM)- 6
CRANSTON(DEM)-41
GW- 7
UND -46
UND - 39
OTHER-1
UND-28
MCCLOSKEY IS THE DOVISH CANDIDATE THAT DEFEATED SHIRLEY TEMPLE
BLACK IN THE PRIMARY FOR THE NOMINATION. HIS DISTRICT IS MAINLY
IN SAN MATAEO COUNTY.
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RMN-GR
RMN NY
MIN PLSTO: BOB HALDEMAN
FROM: JACK CARLEY
Chronologically separate forder
SUBJECT: DAILY REPORTS
OCT 23,1968
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS COMPILED ON 23 OCTOBER. AS THIS IS
THE FIRST OF THESE REPORTS, THE DATA IS UNSURPISINGLY INCOMPLETE.
THE FIRST COMPLETE REPORT WILL BE COMPILED TOMORROW.
THE FOLLOWING AREAS THAT WILL BE ANALYZED ARE:
GENERAL PPOLITICAL INF
MIN PLS POLLS
PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS
NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAMS
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES
WHEN THERE IS NOTHING TO REPORT IN A PARTICULAR STATE OR FROM A
SPECIFIC AREA, IT WILL BE ELIMINATED RATHER THAN LISTED WITHOUT
COMMENT.
THE PROCEDURE ADOPTED IS THAT THE INFORMATION BE GATHERED IN THE
LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND THE REPORT WRITTEN FOR
TRANSMISSION TO YOU BEFORE THE NEXT MORNING.
ILLINOIS
POLLS: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES (24 OCT 68)
RN - 46.98%
DIRKSEN-60.91%
OGLIVIE-54.45%
HHH- 37.73%
CLARK-39.09%
SHAPIRO-45.55%
GW - L5.29%
KENTUCKY
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION: THERE ARE SLOW BUT
STEADY GAINS FOR RN, AND THE WALLACE SUPPORT IS
BEGINNING TO MELT.
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM: THE FIRST REPORT IS EXPECTED
TOMORROW.
NEW JERSEY
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION: GENERAL OUTLOOKIS
SATISFACTORY.
2. POLLS: AN INFORMAL POLL WAS TAKEN IN A JERSEY CITY
(HUDSON COUNTY) DEPARTMENT STORE TODAY. THE ORDER OF
FINISH WITHOUT SPECIFICS WAS RN, GW, AND HHH.
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS: THE NEW BRUNSWICK EVENING NEWS
ENDRSED THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICKET. NEW BRUNSWICK IS
THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY SEAT.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANES: ATTEMPTS ARE BEING MADE TO STRENGTHEN
THE HUDSON COUNTY ORGANIZATION.
NEW YORK
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORATION: FROM RITA HAUSER COMES THE
FEELING THAT THERE IS A GENERAL SOFTNESS IN THE JEWISH VOTE,
WHICH SEEMS TO BE SLIPPING TO HHH FAILURE TO APPEAR ON
MEET THE PRESS OR FACE THE NATION IS DRAWING ADVERSE COMMENT.
THE GENERAL FEELING IS THAT RN IS AFRAID TO MEET HARD
ATTACKS OR SHOW HIMSELF IN NEW YORK CITY. HER OPINION IS
THAT PEOPLE FEEL THE CAMPAIGN IS IN TROUBLE IN NEW YORK AND
NEEDS A FRESH, -UGH APPROACH BY RN WHERE HE ELIMINATES
THE SPEECH AND SAYS SOMETHING NEW AND DIFFERENT.
2. POLLS: THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS STRAW POLL (24 OCTOBER)
SHOWS RN'S LEAD OF 4% CUT TO 2%. PETER FLANIGAN REPORTS THERE
IS CONTINUING, HARD EVIDENCE THAT HARRIS IS DOING THIS POLL.
SINDLINGER'S DAILY SURVEY, WHICH DERGE STILL DISCOUNTS,
SHOWS AN INCREASE OF .3% AMONG THOSE WHOM VOTERS WANT TO SEE
ELECTED PRESIDENT IN THE LAST WEEK. HOWEVER, THERE IS A 3.4%
DECLINE AMONG THOSE WHO PLAN TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
(RN-38.1, HHH-31.0, GW-10.4, UND-L9.6, AS OF 22 -CT.).
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS: TWENTY ORTHODOX RABBIS, ALL OF
WHOM ARE DEMOCRATS, WILL ENDORSE RN TOMORROW. THE GRAND
COUNCIL OF EMERALD SOCIETY, A MAJOR IRISH - AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION; WILL ENDORSE RN. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY
HAVE EVER ENDORSED A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
NORTH CAROLINA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION: ASSESSMENT IS THAT THERE IS
NOW A THREE-WAY RACE WITH A DEVELOPING TREND TOWARDS RN.
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM: AFTER THE FIRST WEEK OF THE
PROGRAM, 6318 VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN RECRUITED IN CHARLOTTE,
WINSTON-SALEM, GREENSBORO, RALEIGH, DURHAM, AND FAYETTEVILLE.
TEXAS
1. THE TRUTH SQUAD WAS IN TEXAS AND RECEIVED AS MUCH PRESS
COVERAGE AS HHH DURING HIS VISIT.
2. POLLS:
DALLA MORNING NEWS POLL (900 INTERVIEWEES)
RN-35 GW-28 нин-20 UND17
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM: THE GOT DISREGARD WORDS
AFTER COLON (THE FIRST REPORT IS EXPECTED TOMORROW.
VIRGINIA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION: TELEPHONE BANKS ARE BEING
INSTALLED IN ROANOKE AND NORFOLK TO SUPPLEMENT THE
NEIGHBORS FOR NIXON EFFORT. ALSO, TWO MEN WITH 200,000
FLYERS AND BUMPER STRIPS HAVE BEEN SENT TO RURAL AREAS
FOR DISTRIBUTION.
GOP CHAIRMAN SAM CARPENTER ISCOPTIMISTIC.ABOUT STATE AND
FEELS THAT GW AND HHH WILL RUN ABOUT EVEN. AFTER HAVING
WORKED WITH BLACK LEADERS, CARPENTER FEELS INROADS
WERE MADE. HE PREDICTS RN WILL CARRY NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
ASSESSES GW STATEWIDE IMPACT AS LIMITED.
WALLACE IN ROANOKE THIS EVENING.
2. POLLS: NORTHERN VIRGINIA (TAKEN BY LIN HOLTON, PRIVATE
CANVASS): RN-45, HHH 35, GW-28 (21 -CT)
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT (PROFESSIONAL POLL): RN-28,
HHH-28, GV-29,UND-L5 (5 -CT)
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT (PROFESSIONAL POLL,
CONGRESSIONAL RACE): REPUBLICAN-50, DEMOCRAT-33, UND-17.
(5 OCT).
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM: THE PRGRAM IS ACTIVE IN
RICHMOND, WILLIAMSBURG, HAMPTON, AND NEWPORT NEWS.
END DAILY REPORT
Nixon Agnew
fale
Campaign Committee
450 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
(212) 661-6400
Diff
24 October 68
TO: Bob Haldeman
FROM: Jack Carley
SUBJECT: Daily Report
Attached is the report for today. Added to the list of states
is South Carolina, making a total of 14.
Outside of the figures given in individual states for the
Néighbors Program, some general comments were made by
Alan Peterson to me. The essence of them is that the
program is making excellent inroads. into the South.
Proof of this fact is the almost immediate response from
Southern blacks to it. Also, there is a better response
in normally Democrat and Independent areas in the South
than Republican ones. As of now, 14 million pèèces of
literature have been mailed, and 300-400 letters are
received daily in Washingtorj. Finally, there is the
obvious generation of excitement after RN has visited
an area, estimates varying from twice to thrice the
normal response.
On Friday a general poll from Wave I will be included in
the report accofding to Peter Flanigan.
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24 Oct
CALIFORNIA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Long Beach Press Telegram
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
As of 18 October, state has 310 phones and recruited 70,436 volunteers;
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
FLORIDA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
As of 18 October, state has 147 phones and recruited 10,560 volunteers
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
ILLINOIS
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
Chicago Sun-Times Poll (25 October publication) :
RN-46.42
Dírksen-60.44
Oglivie-53.98
HHH-37.96
Clark-39.56
Shapiro-46.02
GW-15.62
From yesterday's results, all three Republicans have lost ground.
RN- - .56 (HHH-+.23, GW-+.33); Dirksen- - .47 (Clark added that amount);
Oglivie- - .47.
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Chicago News
Chicago Sun-Times (copy of endorsement attatched)
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
As of 19 October, state has 189 phones and 41, 183 volunteers.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
KENTUCKY
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
As of 18 Oct, there are 60 phones that began operation 21 Oct.
No figures on volunteers available as yet.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
MICHIGAN
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Dearborn Press
Battle-Creek Enquirer-News
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
As of 18 Oct, there are 130 phones in operation that have
recruited 32,783 volunteers.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
MISSOURI
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
Governor Hearnes is not making any meaningful efforts for
HHH. He seems to be concentrating on form instead of
substance. Labor leaders are concentrating on persuading
union members to vote for HHH instead of GW.
2.
POLLS:
The following are local polls:
Hannibal (11 October, 1000 sample) : RN-49, HHH-13, GW-36
Columbia (1 Oct): RN-28, HHH-24, GW-9
Mexico, Mo. (23 Oct): RN-54, HHH-26, GW-19
St. Louis County (10 Oct): RN-47.5, HHH-18.2, GW-18.7
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Kansas City Star
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
80 Phones began operation on 21 October, and there are no
figures avalible on volunteers now.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
NEW JERSEY
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
There are 84 phones that produced 31,220 volunteers.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
NEW YORK
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
Rita Hauser reports a very positive seaction in New York City to
the news that RN will appear on Face the Nation this Sunday. In
addition, "everyone here is looking forward to the Friday night
show. "
Hauser also senses great concern that RN deal with the NYC Teachers'
strike. Anohher "crucial issue" is appealing to the Jewish Civil
servant and the NYC union vote.
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
NORTH CAROLINA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
There is a perceptible increase in Campaign morale and a feeling
that Wallace is beginning to fade. "Thurmond Speaks" brochures
are being distributed on a statewide basis next week and a special
67,000 mailing to farmers. A 2,000 mailing of the "Stop Wallace"
brochure is going to Negro Ministers, and an organized bumper
strip blitz is said to be operative in 67 counties.
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
Supplementing yesterday's figures of 6318 volunteers is the
further information that 86 phones have recruited 7518 volunteers.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
A Ballot Security Program is being started.
OHIO
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Akron Beacon-Journal
Toledo Blade
Toledo Times
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
149 phones have turned on 55,850 volunteers.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
PENNSYLVANIA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
2. POLLS:
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
PhiladepphiaNews
Harrisburg News
Harrisburg Patriot-News
Williamsport Sun-Gazette
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
137 phones have made for 37,530 volunteers.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
SOUTH CAROLINA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
They feel the campaign is both well-organized and well-financed.
2. POLLS:
Undetermined college polls show RN receiving 60-70% of the vote.
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
The program started on 14 October and called 48,000 people in
Columbia, Greenville, and Charleston. Columbia got 2000+
volunteers, Greenville 2500+, and Charleston 2200+. The
program is being initiated in 7 additional areas.
Exact fügures received indicated 70 phones in operation and
6974 volunteers.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
TEXAS
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION:
Overall campaign adjudged as one of our best efforts. Indications
are that it is both well-organized and financed. For instance,
there is a $900,000 budget allowance for 1 October until Election
Day. The polls (see below)reveal an a favorable trend.
2. POLLS:
The results of the latest statewide poll, which was just finished for
us, were: RN-38, HHH-38, GW-21, Und-3.
Amarillo Daily News Poll, a scientific sampling of the Cong. Dist.,
gives RN-37, HHH-24, GW-33, Und-6. A Baylor University Poll, which
"traditionally" runs 20% ahead of the state vote, gave RN 70%.
The canvass results in Waco were RN-37, HHH-24, GW-24, Und-25,
Declined to answer-14 (these are pure numbers and not percentages).
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
There are 139 Phones and 27,613 volunteers as of 18 Oct.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
VIRGINIA
1. GENERAL POLITICAL INFORMATION: Lin Holton reports that State Sen Ken
Robinson (Winchester) feels things are going well and the Wallace
strength is not particularly strong. The 3rd District (Richmond) feels
there is a RN majority there. A local Negro Baptist organization,
which lays claim to 2000votes, endorsed RN. Chairman of Fairfax
County, which has 45,000 votes, predicts RN will get 55% on the basis
of canvassing and past experience. HHH will be 2nd and GW last.
Finally, Sam Carpenter estimates that the absentee ballots will
reach at least 45,000 with particular emphasis in the Military, which
he feels will help RN.
2. POLLS: The following arerandom, non-professional local polls:
Roanoke:
1. Professional Engineer Group polled at last night's meeting.
RN-13, HHH-1, GW-2, Und-2
2. Telephone canvass of 583 registered voters from precincts of
incomes of $10,000 and more. RN-346, HHH-34, GW-10, Und-50,
Declined to answer-143.
Prince Edward County: Longwood College, predominantly a girls'
school, took a straw poll (436 votes). RN-79%, HHH-11, GW-10. Area
itself described as "hardrock Wallace country" because of race stand.
3. PUBLICATION ENDORSEMENTS:
Alexandria Journal Fairfax Journal, and Arlington Journal, all
under common ownwrship, endorsed RN last week. These papers are
in Northern Virginia.
The Southern Baptist Headquarters in Atlanta endorsed RN, which
should have favorable effect on some Virginians.
4. NIXON NEIGHBOR PROGRAM:
In the Tidewater area, a preliminary report indicates a good
response to the program. Statistics will be given tomorrow on
how many people have volunteered. However, it is certain that
the number of people who volunteered increased after RN visit.
Specific information is that there are 29 phones and 12,365
volunteers recruited as of 18 October.
5. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES:
News Summary
(Chot
Friday, September 20, 1968
Larry O'Brien attacked RN again. Quotes RN
is "a cosmetic candidate" whose "make-up is wearing
thin." "The American people will not forget that it
nothing nail pin
was RN who called
Truman a traitor. It was RN who
not true
accused
Stevenson of giving aid and comfort to the
Communists. And there is one I personally will never
forget. It was RN who in
1960
called JFK a
bare faced liar."
Handem 3
Chatin
Here we go again !
when in hell are we
young to get some answers
out which will he prident as? -
2 think this is high priority
why nota big mailing of Ushing
give me a report
to to give the his to o Brans Dow road attacts
all editors - commitation etc
[Chest
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1968 -- NEW YORK TIMES
"O'BRIEN ATTACKS ROLE FOR AGNEW"
By Robert H. Phelps
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Lawrence F. O'Brien, the
Democratic National Chairman, said that it was apparent
that Governor Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland had been delegated
to "travel the low road" in the Republican campaign this
year.
"It saddened me. It is apparent to me that Agnew
has been delegated by Mr. Nixon to travel the low road -
and with the tradition of Nixon campaigns, the low road is
the rock bottom."
to
identical
defend what dongney
what gelegatty w out)
(Chot
MEMO TO RN
From Buchanan
September 13, 1968
Hubert is starting to get pretty personal and pretty
nasty here. I also note that Lawrence O'Brien seems to be
getting a good press for his comments about RN. He is sep-
arate I believe from their operation. Our own stuff I think
is as god or better, but they invariably fold Bob Ellsworth's
comments in underneath your story and it doesn't get the
headline it should. Does RN think kt might be possible for us
to get someone apart fromthe campaign plane
in New York with
a real instinct for the jugualr who would issue these nut-cutting
stateements we are getting out. O'Brien is fortunate in that he
is a former Cabinet official, a celebrity of sorts in his own right,
and that he gets up there and gets out some pretty good stuff.
Our surrogates are not getting the AP wire the way that O'Brien
is. I am beginning to wonder if maybe we should have Spiro start
firing off the gut-busters for the P.M.s or something. Yhry sure
as hell sit ap and take notic of whe way he wraps thedm. He is
making Musskie look feeble.
BUCHANAN
Chot
- try hanging on Klein ?
one
- a who else - Rhyne?
n both tancounly