Daytime view of Chicago landmarks, including Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park in Chicago. Exterior view of Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News newspaper building. Cars, traffic, and pedestrians on sidewalks along streets of Chicago, including Michigan Avenue, with Prudential Building rising in background. Democratic National Convention of 1968: Democratic representatives from all states descend from a parked United passenger airplane at airport outside Chicago. They greet and shake hands with each other. Cars on roads approaching city of Chicago. Posters in the city welcoming the democrats including one on a highway overpass that reads, "Welcome Delegates. Democratic National convention." Another, smaller fountain in a city park of Chicago and view of buildings along street. Convention attendees inside International Amphitheater hallways, moving from room to room and registering. An African American boy wearing a hat with a "McGovern" sticker hands out stickers endorsing George McGovern. The boy shakes hands with a delegate and smiles. Delegates in conversation together. Staff assisting delegates, man typing at typewriter, monitoring television feeds. Men journalists in a room working at typewriters (has appearance of a newspaper or journalist news room also.) Several African American women typing.
Presidential candidate Richard Nixon's answers to a panel during a special television program in Michigan. A panelist questions about Ambassador Paul in the General Assembly session of United Nations. The whole house of audience breaks into laughter as Richard Nixon replies to him. Pat Nixon sits among the studio audience.
Lincoln Park demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Hippies walk through park. People walk with banners. Crowd of demonstrations with signs at Conrad Hilton hotel (720 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, United States). Sign: 'Welcome To Chicago', Stop the War', and Resist in Prague Saigon Chicago'. Paper on road.
Self-portrait of Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon what did he think when he made a decision to run for the President of the United States in 1968. A picture showing Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon. The interviewer asks if he felt any strain on the family. Nixon says he thought of his family first. A picture showing his wife Pat Nixon and daughters Julie Nixon and Tricia Nixon. Nixon calls this presidency more of a challenge in terms of America being involved in the Vietnam War and in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. A photograph shows Richard Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon, daughters Julie and Tricia and Julie's husband David Eisenhower at a beach. He says that present time is different from World Wars I and II because now America is a great power and there should be a best possible leader to lead the nation. Nixon states that America needs a kind of leadership that would obtain peace and avoid war and surrender. A picture of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nixon.
The keel laying of supercarrier USS Nimitz (CVAN-68) at the Newport News Ship Building & Drydock in Newport News, Virginia, USA during the Cold War. The crowd gathers around the keel of the USS Nimitz. Journalists take photos. Washington State Senator Henry M. Jackson authenticates the keel laying. Senator Jackson uses a hammer to strike a rivet on the keel. Senator Jackson is assisted by an officer believed to be retired Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Jr. The man assisting Senator Jackson holds the rivet in place. Crane carries the keel off. Sign on top of keel reads "USS NIMITZ, CVAN-68, KEEL LAID JUNE 22nd, 1968.". United States Navy officials, guests gathered in a group to watch the ceremony. View of men in the empty drydock. The keel is seen hanging from crane hook, the USS Nimitz sign on top of keel. Some workers down in empty drydock wait for keel to be laid on blocks which is lowered slowly. The keel being laid on the blocks as guests watch the ceremony.
Presidential candidate Richard Nixon appears before a panel of citizens in a program, Michigan, United States. The television program is named 'Man in the arena'. The panel sits in the center of the studio. Audience seated in the studio. Stanley Krajewski seated in the panel asks Richard Nixon a question about his stand on Soviet Russia and Czechoslovakia. Richard Nixon states that as a President he would use economic and diplomatic powers of United States. He says that he is against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Audience applauds Richard Nixon as he answers in the arena.
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