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this has, of course, not been -- has been a difficult time. tonight at 9:00 eastern daylight time, the president of the united states will address the nation on radio and television from his oval office. >> people have begun to just sort of gather outside the white house, just stand near the gate there on pennsylvania avenue and across the street. >> this applause you hear, what has happened is a moving van has just pulled up over at the white house. >> the hard fact is no one really knows what's going on in the president's mind. one thing is certain, it's difficult for everyone to live with this tension much longer.

>> is anyone getting anywhere as you can see? i don't think it is. >> okay. >> hey, you're better looking than i am. why don't you stay here. let me see, get these lights. my eyes always have -- you'll find when you get past 60, that's enough. my friend always wanted to take a lot of pictures. i'm afraid they'll catch me picking my nose. good evening. this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office. each time i have done so to discuss with you some matter that i believe affected the national interest.

okay. >> we are standing by now for president richard millhouse nixon, 37th president of the united states. >> the explanation of this man and what has happened to him, i think maybe we won't all fully understand. we never really knew who he was. >> good evening. this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office. >> it's as though he has needed enemies from the beginning, not only for political reasons, to give him his own identity ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> my mother was a quaker and my father was a methodist. but when they married, they compromised. they both became quakers, of course. we were poor. we had very little. we all used hand me down clothes. i wore my brother's shoes. my brother below me wore mine. when i was 10 years of age, we had the store and service station. it was mostly study and work, not much play.

>> they knew that when father told them to do something, there wasn't any question about it. when he spoke, he meant exactly what he said. >> i looked at it this way. he didn't believe in any of the modern melgt odds of raising children. he said, you spare the rod, you spoil the child. it was a happy home. let me describe it another way. sometimes i think we judge happiness in these days as being a life in which there are no problems. that isn't my estimate of happiness. in our family we had many great problems. we had many great crises. when i was in high school, my youngest brother died of

tuberculin meningitis, and he was detd. then my oldest brother harold had two beuberculosis. my mother stayed with him in arizona. it was a difficult time from the standpoint of the family being pulled apart. >> he and dick were real buddies, but the tuberculosis got him. harold died. i think when you lose an older brother, you suddenly have to take on the role of elder son. ♪ ♪

>> they always had the drive of my father behind me saying, look, i had to quit when i was in the 6th grade. you're going to do better. >> when we came in as freshman, dick was something of an opportunist. he wasn't athletic, but he went out for the football team. this, i feel, was deliberate because the image served him well since it would contribute toward his election as student body president and as a leader on campus. ♪ ♪ >> i worked my way include college and through law school. in 1940, probably the best thing that ever happened to me happened. i married pat. she was a beautiful girl, and she was a very remarkable

person, too. her mother died when she was about 9 years of age. her father died swhen she was 1 and still graduated from usc with honors. >> in 1942, i went into the service. if was convinced this aggression was sweeping the globe, no one could stand aside. >> how sweet the rewards of peace. >> i received a wire from an old friend, the banker in our old town in whittier, california, saying we're looking for candidates for congress. i was off. >> richard nixon from the very

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down one's opponent in every way one can. >> by a whirlwind of charges and innuendos, the anticommunist democratic incumbent jerry voorhhis was made to seem pro communist. >> the first campaign was the most exciting. there's nothing like winning the first one. >> as far as mrs. nixon was concerned, she liked adventure. she thought it was very important to live an exciting life. and, frankly, going to congress would be exciting, she thought.

>> representative nixon, what do you think congress can and congress must do to deal with this problem of foreign espionage within our own government? >> i think the first thing that congress must do is to continue to expose these activities through the committee on unamerican activities. >> the facts regarding the sinister communist conspir city and other subversive activities should be brought to the american public. >> i am not and never have been a member of the communist party.

>> the question is whether or not he has committed perjury before this committee. >> mr. nixon, i urge that your committee members abandon such verdict first and testimony later tactic. >> his was good looking, suave, sophisticated, ivy league manner. he was a very effective witness. >> at the time, everybody was backing him. everybody wanted to drop it completely. everybody was advising nixon to drop it, that it would kill his career. >> but somehow, i had a feeling. there's something about that fellow that doesn't ring true. >> it is the intention on unamerican activities to pursue

this investigation until we put the spotlight on those high officials in the state department who are responsible for selling this country down the river. >> i am holding in my hand a microfilm of the most confidential highly secret state department documents. this microfilm was made for the purpose of transmitting these documents in reduced form to the soviet union. >> we knew there we had the hard evidence this lacked before and this involved espionage. that was what eventually brought his indictment and conviction of perjury. >> ever one-time government official will lose all civil rights after a year in prison.

>> mr. nixon got a great deal of political mileage out of the conviction. had a great deal to do with his future career. >> i'm dick nixon, one of your united states congressmen from california. i'm now applying for a new job. that of united states senator. >> 1950, nixon ran against congresswoman helen gahagen douglas. it was a very rough campaign, filled with a certain amount of

uniunidough. he called helen douglas a pink lady. >> i was against the american for activity and for communism. 30 tricks designed to avoid a discussion and issue. >> anything was acceptable if it guaranteed success. >> in california, congressman richard nixon wins easily. >> i know of no person who could have been selected for this high position and high honor by the republican party of the nation.

is there niezgoda objection? richard m. nixon republican nominee for vice-president. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's a good day for california. >> there he is. he is a very personable young man, and will undoubtedly be an asset to the republican ticket.

>> the whole nixon family considers it a great privilege to work for the election of president eisenhower. although little trisha and julie are too young for active campaigning, mrs. nixon will travel with me throughout the country and you will find she is the et best campaigners on record. >> i will certainly do what i can. >> after all, i was only 39 years old. and to be considered for vice-president, particularly running with general eisenhower for whom i had enormous respect, was to me something you on the antti dreamed about. only dreamed about. >> the headline in the new york

post newspaper said secret rich men's trust fund keeps nixon style far beyond his salary. >> a revelation of senator nixon, the vice-presidential candidate, was receiving to what amounted to a private salary, from private persons in california, is becoming a major political story. some republicans are demanding that nixon withdraw from the race. >> in my judgment, men dishonest in government should be put out. >> everybody who thought that i could not survive on the ticket -- but, you know something about miracles and politics. miracles don't happen. they don't happen unless you make them happen. cooking class? art festival.

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been questioned. i want to tell you my side of the case. not one cent of the $18,000 or the other money of that type ever went to me for my personal use. i am going at this time to give a complete financial history. first of all, i've had my salary as a congressman and as a senator. i have received a total of $1600 from a state -- approximately $1500 a year -- we've inherited a little more. we have a house in washington. we have a house in whittier, california, which cost 13,000 -- i have a 19504 oldsmobile. we havant any stocks and bonds. my wife is sitting over here. she doesn't have a's mink coat

but she has a respectable coat. one other thing i should tell you because they'll be saying something about this, too, we did get something, a gift, after the election. you know what it was? it was a little cocker espanol dog, black and white, spotted. our little girl trisha, 6-year-old named it checkers. the kids, like all kids love the dog. regardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep it. and now finally you wonder whether or not i'm going to stay on the republic ticket. let me say this. i don't believe i ought to quit because i am not a quitter. and incidentally, pat is not a

quitter, but the decision is not mine. i am going to ask you to wire or write the republican national kme whether you think i should stay on or whether i should get off. whatever their decision is, i will a by it. >> all those in favor of nixon continuing as a candidate will say aye. >> aye. >> completely vindicated, i feel he acted as a man of courage and honor. as far as i'm concerned, stands higher than ever before. >> once u. fought the battle and have one, then you have a

letdown. >> a high peak that brought nixon to tears. that was that, and a short time later, nixon was back on his chartered airplane he had interrupted. >> it was a land slide for the eisenhower/nixon ticket. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we leave washington on midnight, october 5th. from there we go down to the pacific over to new zealand, to australia, up to indonesia, to

jakarta china, famosa, korea, japan, then down in manila. >> for the sake of millions in the world who depends on our leadership -- >> washington d.c. and the four week good will tour of the european -- >> eight south american nations. >> communists are making an all-utah. eventually, the free world was brought to its knees. for four days now, some of the 20th century's most extraordinary diplomatic maneuvers have been taking place in moscow.

>> khrushchev was a very capable unpredictable leader who would test my mettle. >> this, mr. khrushchev, is one of the advanced developments in communication that we have in our country. it is color television, of course. >> translator: we wish you success. you can show us american possibilities, and then we can say -- the soviets will overtake america and wave, bye-bye. >> this increases the abilities of communication, and this increase in communication will teach us some things and it will teach you some things, because, after all, you don't know everything.

>> translator: if i don't know everything, i would say you know absolutely nothing about communism. >> all that i can say from the way you talk and the way you dominate the conversation, you would have made a good lawyer yourself. [ applause ] >> i think the action many times, he felt here at last he met a man of his own mettle and worth arguing with. >> it was common for reporters who followed him to say, i hate the guy, but -- and then would come a reluctant statement that nixon was representing his nation well. >> emerging from the long shadow of eisenhower, he became leader of the republican party. and after eight long years, nixon supreme chants came in 1960.

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declare that vice-president richard m. nixon has been unanimously nominated to be the candidate of the republican party for the office of president of the united states. >> he's been downtown in his suite at the sheraton watching on television, looking at us looking at him looking at us. >> could we have a word from

mrs. nixon, please? >> i still feel it's all a dream. when i was teaching school 20 years ago, i never knew that this event would happen tonight. >> mr. vice-president, why do you want to be president of the united states? >> these lights are a little warm, as you notice, and i, i think this nation has a destiny. i think every individual has a destiny. >> richard nixon. >> and i am convinced that if america does not give the world, the free world, the leadership that it needs, the cause of freedom will die forever. >> just be quiet, you're going to have dick nixon. [ applause ] >> with faith in america and in her people, i accept your nomination for president of the

united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's the centennial convention of the republican party. a hundred years since the nomination of lincoln. it has come now from abraham lincoln to richard nixon. ♪ ♪ ♪ everyone is voting for jack ♪ cause he's got what all the rest lack ♪ ♪ everyone wants to -- jack, 'cause he's on the right track ♪ ♪ he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes ♪ ♪ >> i first met kennedy as a congressman. he was very intelligent. he was very personable. however, i, i sensed that he was

very shy, frankly, as i was. i thought we were rather alike in that respect. but we were very different in many ways. he, of course, had all the money he needed for personal purposes. he never had to fight his way up. he never had to worry about losing in a campaign for fear that he wouldn't have a job. >> it is time, in short, for a new generation of leadership. >> he was one that attracted the people, who wanted a young courageous man in the presidency, and yet one who was suave, smooth, de bona ire, and

graceful. >> the next president of the united states, richard m. nixon. >> thank you very much. ♪ ♪ >> he's advanced by people who intend to vote for nixon because he has more experience than kennedy, particularly in foreign affairs. ♪ ♪ >> based on the record crowds, and they have been record crowds, press, please note, bigger than any that anybody has ever had. ♪ ♪ >> this isn't a test of looks, it's a test of what you've got upstairs. >> a can or two, please, right

here. >> what am i seeing? what do you want me to do, this? >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> mr. nixon arrived at the studios first. >> it doesn't show. am ion this side? >> i think he's supposed to stand here. in other words, you say we now have questions, gentlemen, then we move over here, right? >> right. >> good? >> but the master tactician made one major tactical mistake. >> david, will you hit the one-minute button please? and the cut, please. >> you want to cut quickly? >> we figure when you see 30 seconds -- >> all right.

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and richard nixon was the great debater. >> hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? >> it's like a brick wall. >> good evening. and now for the first opening statement by senator john f. kennedy. >> we discuss tonight domestic issues, but i would not want that to be any implication to be given that this does not involve directly our struggle with mr. khrushchev for survival. therefore, i think the question before the american people is, are we doing as much as we can do? i should make it very clear that i do not think we're doing enough, that i am not satisfied as an american with the progress that we are making. this is a great country. >> kennedy was standing up there very comfortably. >> if the united states fails -- >> and i expected the tiger to come out of his corner and rip

apart this young challenger. >> i think it's time america started moving again. >> the things that senator kennedy has said, many of us can agree with. there is no question but that this nation cannot stand still. and i subscribe completely to the spirit that senator kennedy has expressed tonight. our disagreement is not about the goals for america, but only about the means to reach those goals. >> within the first two minutes i was convinced that nixon simply was not going to fight back. >> he went in with the idea that he had to come through as the nice guy, not the tough guy. he was trying to be too polite. he was afraid of the tricky dick thing. >> the vice-president in his campaign has said you were naive and at times immature. he has raised the issue of leadership. why do you think the people

should vote for you rather than the vice-president? >> i've been there the same period of time that he has, so that our experience in government is palpable. >> i can only say that my experience is there for the people to consider. senator kennedy's is there for the people to consider. >> nixon was not up for the game. >> i think one party is ready to move in his program and the other party is giving lip service. >> while senator kennedy says we are for the status quo, i do believe that he would agree that my proposals are just as sincerely held as his. >> he was soft. he was evading punches. >> he had a gray suit on against a gray bianca ground, and he looked sallow. >> a two-term vice-president thoroughly wilted. >> i don't want historians ten years from now say these are the years we ran out of the united

states. >> in one hour mr. nixon elevated his opponent to the level he had attained in eat years himself. >> it is as vivid as the light suit and how much he stands out. the other point is if it had been in color it would have been different. the light suit in color is fine. it's in black and white, always wear a dark suit. >> what's jack got that the rest haven't got? the bright white teeth. >> it was rough. many in the media who are more frankly suckers for style than average people. >> and his lovely wife.

>> but the media being, shall we say, not particularly in my corner, generally speaking, they're just against me. >> mr. vice president there's some that say i don't know what it is, but i just don't like the man. >> mr. nixon, in that first debate, a great deal was made of your appearance on television. >> well, i have often said there wasn't much that could be done with my face. >> sometimes it's important for a potential leader to go through the fire. that's how you learn how to win. >> up to this point, you haven't seen anything yet. >> this election is still wide open and could be close or it could be a landslide either way. >> 65 million americans or more

go into booths to secretly vote their choice. >> i run against a candidate that reminds me of the symbol of this body. >> whom will the voters choose? it's a tremendous decision. it might well be the most crucial one they'll ever make. >> the people of the united states realize that they're not going to go down that road.

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tuesday november 8th is election day all over the country. everyone had said this would be a close election. >> across the united states it's been a very calm day. all despite the record turnout across the entire nation. >> it's been one of the most arduous campaigns we have ever had and vice president nixon when he ended it was grey with fatigue. he hoped sometime to write a book about running for president and he hoped the title of it should be the exquisite agony.

now begins the exquisite agony of waiting to see how it all turned out. >> 415,000 votes for nixon. nixon is leading in states that would give him 173 in extra votes. it's just neck in neck. let's see how the ibm is looking at these returns this evening. >> 1% of the nation's precincts reporting, indicates that richa richa richard m. nixon will be elected tonight. >> first to the popular vote as it now stands. >> kennedy has moved ahead in the popular vote. on the electoral board nixon is

still holding on to the lead but it's so narrow at this point. >> in maryland -- >> missouri is over into the column. >> kennedy has a slight lead in texas. this will be important. >> this turns into a seesaw battle in quite a few of the states all night long. >> it's now reached roughly 14 million. >> kennedy in the lead by about a million. >> kennedy ahead. very close still. >> we just heard from los angeles from vice president nixon's election night headquaters that his aids say he remains confident of victory. >> i have a philosophy that this country is a country of destiny. i happen to believe that our

people know how to select a man for president that the times need and that the country needs. >> the hands go up. >> our great presidents have really articulated what people felt at the time. and it was because they were representative of the tide of the times that they were president. >> mr. vice president -- you almost convinced me there for a moment. >> john f. kennedy becomes president elect of the united states. >> just think how much you're going to be missed. you don't have nixon to kick around anymore. >> we see cities envelope in smoke and flame. we see americans hating each

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