Nixon wins 1968 Presidential Election (Huntley/Brinkley)

[hadrons]

Run time: 02:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbxsjrHifBc   Posted on YouTube: June 16, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 17, 2008 By DU Member: hadrons Views on DU: 2669

 
Election night 1968 (11/06/1968) from The Huntley-Brinkley Report. Nixon just edges out Humphrey in an election closer than 1960 I believe. Illinois was just called for Nixon which put him over.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. The 1968 election was crazy.

Nixon won the popular vote by only 511,944 votes (less than 1% of the entire vote), yet he KILLED Humphrey in the electoral college, winning 301-191.

[King Bacon Fat]

10. Nixon won several big states by tiny margins...

California (40) by 3.08%.

Ohio (26) by 2.28%.

New Jersey (17) by 2.13%.

Missouri (12) by 1.13%

Put these four in Humphrey's column and he'd have won.

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1968&f=0

[Janeite]

2. They don't seem too happy, do they?

Or maybe just tired. Thanks for sharing this vintage political clip.

[hadrons]

3. I think a little of both ....

I should have Nixon's speech up tomorrow (lots of creepy McCain-like smiles) and I'll try to have the Humphrey concession speech and the round-table discussion at the end of the broadcast.

Edwin Newman made it clear he saw no mandate or love for Nixon in the results.

[John Gauger]

4. "Brought to you by new Vicks NyQuil"

Wow.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Now that was a news team

Those were the days when an American could watch a network newscast and feel ha had an overview of what happened during the day.

[whistle]

6. I remember watching this broadcast, I was in my first term of grad school

...and thought then that that although Nixon said he had a secret plan to end the Vietnam War it was no secret he was going to accelerate the war with all his "Peace with Honor" bullshit during his campaign. Thanks for posting

[Seabiscuit]

7. I think we're the same age.

b. 1945?

[swilton]

8. But All Those Bells and Whistles are Gone

And I don't miss them - nor do I miss the color, and to think that Huntley and Brinkley presented this information without flash-backs and on-the-scene reporting clips from the man in the street in Chicago.

IMHO for all the gains that we have in the entertainment world of high-tech news reporting, we have lost exponentially in substance of the news broadcasts as well as the integrity of the news reporters.:banghead:

[MinM]

9. Arthur Bremer and George Wallace - Déjà Vu all over again

Watching those results -- I can see why some argue that George Wallace was the one candidate The Committee to Re-Elect Nixon did not want back in the mix --

"I have no evidence, but I think my attempted assassination was part of a conspiracy." — Governor George Wallace