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A few sidebars on the election. Campaign ‘68 cost (on all levels, federal, state, local) upward of $250 million, of which about one-fifth was spent in the Presidential race, including all the primaries. … At last moment, the big money rolled out for Humphrey. In his report to the Clerk of the House he listed eighteen men who contributed $180,000 each. In that league, Henry Ford II, who has made his conversion from Republican to Democrat firm this year, was a piker: he’s listed for mere $30,000. . . . Closeness of election shows how smart Republicans were to hire Lou Nichols, former chief aid to J. Edgar Hoover, to head 20,000-man staff of experienced poll watchers. According to Nichols, they concentrated on “soft” spots in Texas, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark and Jersey City. . . . Where their hearts really lay: in Jacob Javits’ triumphant headquarters in New York election night, Javits followers cheered whenever the boards showed Humphrey gaining, booed when Nixon did best. . . . Telstar pictures of GIs in Vietnam watching the returns showed the reverse: cheers for Nixon, boos for Humphrey, which could mean considerably higher Nixon plurality when the million-plus absentee ballots from servicemen are toted up. . . . Could have done without: Humphrey’s last-minute endorsement by Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who won his race—without much campaigning—and James Farmer (ex CORE) who ran as Republican in new Brooklyn congressional district, and lost. . . . Move by many on Left to have Negroes boycott the election as a protest fizzled: mostly because there were 250 Negro candidates running in the South, the biggest number ever.

Sen. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, whose defeat was major blow to Democratic liberals, explained just before election day why he was running so hard: “I’m an arrogant snob, Ivy League type, with no common touch,” he said. . . . Worker came up with amusing montage of campaign posters photographed at various rallies: “Nixon’s the One, and Agnew’s Another.” “Wallace, the Fascist Gun in the Land.” “Do It Like You Did in ‘60, Dick” (he almost did) and “Forget the Bomb, Drop LeMay.”

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A few sidebars on the election. Campaign ‘68 cost (on all levels, federal, state, local) upward of $250 million, of which about one-fifth was spent in the Presidential race, including all the primaries. … At last moment, the big money rolled out for Humphrey. In his report to the Clerk of the House he listed eighteen men who contributed $180,000 each. In that league, Henry Ford II, who has made his conversion from Republican to Democrat firm this year, was a piker: he’s listed for mere $30,000. . . . Closeness of election shows how smart Republicans were to hire Lou Nichols, former chief aid to J. Edgar Hoover, to head 20,000-man staff of experienced poll watchers. According to Nichols, they concentrated on “soft” spots in Texas, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark and Jersey City. . . . Where their hearts really lay: in Jacob Javits’ triumphant headquarters in New York election night, Javits followers cheered whenever the boards showed Humphrey gaining, booed when Nixon did best. . . . Telstar pictures of GIs in Vietnam watching the returns showed the reverse: cheers for Nixon, boos for Humphrey, which could mean considerably higher Nixon plurality when the million-plus absentee ballots from servicemen are toted up. . . . Could have done without: Humphrey’s last-minute endorsement by Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who won his race—without much campaigning—and James Farmer (ex CORE) who ran as Republican in new Brooklyn congressional district, and lost. . . . Move by many on Left to have Negroes boycott the election as a protest fizzled: mostly because there were 250 Negro candidates running in the South, the biggest number ever.

Sen. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, whose defeat was major blow to Democratic liberals, explained just before election day why he was running so hard: “I’m an arrogant snob, Ivy League type, with no common touch,” he said. . . . Worker came up with amusing montage of campaign posters photographed at various rallies: “Nixon’s the One, and Agnew’s Another.” “Wallace, the Fascist Gun in the Land.” “Do It Like You Did in ‘60, Dick” (he almost did) and “Forget the Bomb, Drop LeMay.”