A political broadcast based on American youth promotes Republican nominee Richard Nixon prior to the 1968 Presidential Election. Still images show young people on a dance floor, studying, as soldiers, in laboratories and as engineers, doctors, scientists and construction workers.
Oregon State University (OSU) Department of Oceanography's 80-foot research vessel, R/V Acona, seen in waters off Newport, Oregon, United States. Using a boom on the foredeck, the crew lowers a container, takes a water sample and retrieves it. (Note: Reportedly, one of the two persons seen near the end of the footage may be Hugh Dobson, a technician from BC Canada, who worked for OSU Professor Kilho Park.) One of the two persons near the end of the footage looks like Hugh Dobson who was a technician from BC Canada who came to OSU to work for Professor Kilho Park (this insert provided by Iver Duedall, OSU graduate student 1963-66; spent time on Acona on cruises--most of the time I was seasick)
U.S. Army intervention during rioting in Baltimore in wake of Martin Luther King assassination. Field grade Army officers discuss their mission in a command center after the military has been dispatched to restore and maintain order in Baltimore Maryland in the wake of riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, in 1968. Next, a major is seen communicating on a telephone. A soldier is also seen speaking on a telephone.
Democratic National Convention of 1968 held at International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois United States. Speaker or chairman at the meeting stands on speaker's podium and calls the convention in session. Democratic representatives from all states present at the Convention. Placards for seating arrangements of Democrats from different states. Democrats discuss and talk with each other. Press photographers take photos.
Self-portrait of Republican nominee Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon what he felt like when he was a boy. Childhood pictures of Richard Nixon. Nixon says he never thought of becoming the President of the United States and wanted to become a railroad engineer. He recounts his past and speaks how he got interested in law and politics.
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 that how he got into becoming a member of U.S. House of Representatives in 1947. Nixon replies that soon after World War II ended some Whittier Republicans approached him about running for a seat in the United States House of Representatives and he accepted. A picture of Nixon during his campaign in 1946. He says America is a great country because American people are competitive and it does not mean competition in the destructive sense. He considers America a great country in terms of competitive people and says that competitive spirit is a great driving force in any nation. And he says it is the reason why politics appeals to him.
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