Word: re-electing
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SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING in New York to cover President Nixon's Veterans Day motorcade through Westchester County, I went to the Hotel Roosevelt Headquarters of the New York Committee to Re-Elect the President to pick up my credentials from the Secret Service. Being a student newsman, and thus twice damned as far as the Nixon people were concerned, I had some trouble getting a press card; I passed the time wandering around the NYCREEP headquarters...
Whether they were sufficiently entranced to re-elect him was in fact the major issue of the campaign, since he had acquired as many opponents as supporters during his four years in power. As TIME'S Ottawa Bureau Chief Lansing Lamont reported last week, Canadians "remember the sense of expectancy that Trudeau generated in 1968, but have come to realize that he has generally governed Canada with more cautious pragmatism than panache." The Prime Minister was also suffering from television overexposure and a perilously short temper. Once he had demanded of Western farmers: "Why should I sell your wheat...
...Nixon Administration is marshaling all its great resources to re-elect the President, and not the least of those resources is the ability to attract campaign donations. There is scarcely a business, union, profession or special-interest group whose well-being cannot be affected by Washington or whose leaders would not like influence there...
Larry Goldberg of The Committee to Re-elect the President, whose staff position deals with winning the Jewish vote, accepted for national distribution this position paper written by Caplan and two other professors...
...reporters pressed in closer. Did it bother Mrs. Nixon that Martha Mitchell had said she was manhandled by a security agent now with the committee to re-elect her husband? "I don't know anything about what happened in her [Mrs. Mitchell's] room," she replied. Finally, someone asked what Pat thought of her daughter Julie's comment that she would willingly die for the South Vietnamese government. Again, Pat said she was not familiar with Julie's comment but that, yes, "I would be willing to die" to save the freedom of 17 million South...