Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller's withdrawal, together with the Baltimore riots that followed Martin Luther King's assassination, profoundly altered Agnew's thinking. Agnew was so certain that Rockefeller would announce his entry into the Oregon primary that he invited reporters into his office to watch the Governor's press conference on TV. Through some incredible oversight in New York, no one had bothered to inform Rockefeller's most ardent admirer that Nelson was about to quit the race instead. Agnew had to bear his disappointment and humiliation in public. Though the New Yorker apologized handsomely, Agnew never forgave him. Nixon became more...
Circus Side. NBC this year took a hard-news approach. The only real news, the network obviously decided, was the shifting of votes between Front Runner Nixon and his opposition. But since there was very little "erosion," as possible vote shifts were invariably called, NBC viewers had to watch two days of model reporting in pursuit of a nonstory. CBS, on the other hand, tended to cover voting trends offscreen. Canvassing every single delegate, some since February, the network organized a running "CBS News Delegate Count." Since all that produced on the air was the latest totals,* CBS could devote...
...field men when he thought they did not question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that the nominating speech for Senator Hiram Fong "will tell us more than we want to know about Hawaii." And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett...
...kids would reach out their hands to me to try to touch me. I'd look up at the guard, and he'd shake his head. The kids would start crying and yelling 'Daddy.' I couldn't do nothing. Just sit there and watch my kids crying...
...voting tomorrow night, because we can't see anything from our seats." To the extent that the Convention takes place in the Convention hall, television is bigger and better than the real thing. This disturbs me somewhat, because I didn't have to fly to Miami to watch television...