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...campaign to avoid mistakes born of weariness, was looking-and sounding-a bit tired. He was making occasional small fluffs, as when he declared his intention to move into "1400 Pennsylvania Avenue." The White House address is 1600; Nixon's Washington headquarters is at 1400, in the old Willard Hotel that will soon be razed. And the candidate showed a tendency to re-create his rough "old" Nixon style...
First, there is a neat, pink, numbered card that allows visitors to enter. Then there are receptionists to make sure that strangers do not stray into just any of the 250 rooms in Washington's financially troubled Willard Hotel, which has been taken over by United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew. Finally, there is a typical Nixon executive-cool, nononsense, briskly with...
Anyone who still had doubts about the legendary efficiency of Richard Nixon's campaign organization, reports TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont, would lose them after glimpsing the operation at the Willard. Compared with the one-floor warren that passes for the Democratic National Committee and Hubert Humphrey's campaign headquarters across town, the Nixon show is a lesson in the power and effectiveness of supreme organization...
Reserve Army. At the Willard, 600 full-time workers toil, helped by 1,300 part-time volunteers. No one scurries down the carpeted corridors; no voices are raised ("Miss Gaylord, tell the visitor precisely what you do here. About three minutes will do, thank you"). The Nixonites have put on magnetic tape more than 1,100,000 names and addresses of a reserve army of workers. National Director John Warner says his goal is 5,000,000 names by Nov. 5. Within 72 hours, Warner boasts, leased computers across the nation can crank out 5,000,000 letters...
Others include versatile eight-letterman Isadore Zarakov '27, track stars Willard Tibbetts '26 and Ellsworth Haggerty '27, Arthur Conlon '22, a three-year baseball letterman. Ned Bigelow '21, coach and star of the hockey team, and gridder R. Keith Kane '22, also of the 1920 Rose Bowl squad, and now a member of the Harvard Corporation...