MLB1949: "1968 Presidential Campaign: 'Nixon's the One!'"

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SUMMARY: It is not until early Wednesday afternoon, November 6, 1968, that the 1968 Presidential Election has been decided. When Illinois finally went into the Nixon column, the contest was settled. Late that morning, Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey (the nominee of the Democratic Party) called former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon (Republican) to concede the race; a call from Alabama Governor George C. Wallace (American Independent Party) followed shortly thereafter. This video shows the Nixon family on stage as the new President-Elect makes his appearance and addresses the nation early on Wednesday afternoon from a downtown-NYC hotel ballroom. Nixon is gracious and humble in victory, knowing full well--from eight years before--how the defeated Humphrey must have been feeling at the time. A Nixon appearance before the assembled media was never better than the one here, in this 7-minute video. This is the first official appearance as President-Elect of the man who would -- from the onset of his Administration -- almost immediately begin to bring home from VietNam the more than 560,000 American troops he inherited from the failed War President, Lyndon B. Johnson. It took him four full years to ultimately convince the intransigent North Vietnamese Communists to agree, but Nixon had publicly promised -- beginning in 1969 -- to end all U.S. hostilities against North VietNam...but ONLY if all the American Prisoners of War were released from captivity and returned to the United States! (The anti-war demonstrations in America would not intimidate Nixon, as they had Johnson, who had given up and declined the Democratic Party re-nomination for President.) After finally and successfully "bombing the North Vietnamese back-to-the-bargaining-table" in December, 1972, Nixon could terminate the war, and the American POWs came home to America. May God Eternally Bless Richard Milhous Nixon, our 37th President!

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