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...Jersey, Governor Brendan Byrne summoned the state's nearly forgotten civil defense workers to canvass commercial buildings and offer advice on how to reduce gas usage. School Superintendent Frank Mastoraki of Bridgeton, N.J., played out an exhausting daily ritual that was becoming commonplace for many school officials. He asked local police to telephone him at 4 a.m. with information on road and weather conditions so that he could decide by 6 a.m. whether to open his schools on schedule. Alternating conditions of snow, ice and fog made roads perilous for students who drove cars or rode buses...
...Carter forces saturated the state with television, radio and newspaper advertisements. Hundreds of youthful volunteers were brought from other states, often at their own expense. They formed five-person squads and fanned out across the wintry landscape to canvass neighborhoods. Other volunteers manned banks of telephones to get the Carter message to still more New Hampshire Democrats. On election day the Carter staff tried to ensure that every pro-Carter voter was able to get to the polls on time...
...anticipation. It also culminated a notable Nixon effort to give Republicans at least the illusion of participation in the first replacement of a Vice President in the nation's history. No sooner had Agnew delivered his letters of resignation (see following story) than the President launched a nationwide canvass of party sentiment for a successor. One of the first persons he called into the Oval Office was Counsellor Anne Armstrong. "He asked me to get on the phone and sound out opinion all around the country," she said. And he added: "It may not come to mind...
...telephone canvass of Faculty members revealed general surprise at the renewal of Mid-East fighting, as well as conflicting opinions and analyses of the outbreak...
...They never made any effort to canvass the people, give them literature, or anything that we used to do in the regular organization to pull out the vote necessary to win. These people are amateurs and I'm glad that I got away from them and went to work for a man who knows what politics is all about...