The Nixon - Lodge Ticket Footage

The Nixon - Lodge Ticket
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	Catalog #:	363494
	Clip Number:	363494-1
	Orginal Film:	033-061-01
	Timecode:	00:26:00 - 00:32:10
	Location:	Chicago, Illinois
	Year Shot:	1960 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	ELECTIONS: Conventions ELECTIONS: Nomination LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Illinois, Chicago PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Mamie PERSONALITIES: Lodge, Henry Cabot PERSONALITIES: Nixon, Richard M. POLITICS: Political Party, USA, Republican
	Description:	A graphic summary of the Republican Party's Nominating Convention. Highlights of GOPs gala, hundredth-anniversary Republican Convention. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is acclaimed by one million Chicagoans as he arrives in the windy city. The Midwest metropolis, scene of the President's first great political triumph in 1952, gives the chief executive an unforgettable welcome. A rousing ovation as the convention itself greets Ike and Mamie. In a stirring speech, the President strongly endorses the Republican bid to the nation. Following Ike's appearance, the convention nominates Vice-President Nixon as the standard bearer in the presidential campaign. Later Mr. Nixon announces his choice of U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge as his running mate. With Nixon's first ballot victory and the choice by acclamation of Nixon and Lodge for the Republican candidates, the lines are drawn for what promises to be one of the most stirring and momentous presidential contests of the 20th century. MS VS interiors of convention floor, delegates, signs. Large photos hang of (left to right) Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln, and Richard Nixon). Press photographers snap away as Ike and Nixon chat. MCUS - President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon sitting on sofas. Motorcade travels along street past confetti-throwing Chicago crowds. MS - President Eisenhower standing up in a convertible waving to the cheering crowd, Secret Service run alongside. Signs at convention thank Ike. MCUS - Convention picket signs, Ikes Our President - Well Done Mamie And Ike - Thanks Mr. President. MS - President Eisenhower and his wife Mamie waking up to the podium. MCUS - The audience waving their hankies MCUS - President Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie both with huge smiles on their faces. President Eisenhower addresses the convention, "It's been in this manner of comparative national prestige, I challenge him to this test. Will he agree to the holding of free elections, under the sponsorship of the United Nations to permit people everywhere in every nation on every continent to vote on one single simple issue. And that is, Do you want to live under a communist regime or under a free system such is found in the United States?" (long applause) Shots of the convention crowds voting. MCUS - Republican Congressman Halic of Indiana. " The chair declares therefore that Vice President Richard M Nixon has been unanimously nominated to be the candidate of the Republican Party to the office of President of the United States." (applause) CUS Signs - We Want Nixon - Nixon For President - Illinois wants Nixon - Threes a Stop Light hanging from a wire and there's a sign that reads, Stop and think and Go with Nixon. MCUS - People dancing around carrying signs In another location, Henry Cabot Lodge and wife wave at press conference. Lodge answers reporter's question, says he is optimistic of their changes for victory, while flashbulbs flash. Newsman " How do you feel about the chances of a Nixon-Lodge ticket?" Ambassador Lodge answers, "Oh, I'm very optimistic. I think, I think it will be a fighting campaign. I think it will be exciting and interesting campaign, but I'm optimistic of the outcome because I think people taking the situation of the United States and the World today, very seriously. And their right and they ought to. I think their worried about the world and its like a man who's going to have an operation, he wants the best doctors. And I think the voters will want to have in the White House the man who's the most experienced the most intelligent, the most trained, who's a real pro. And I think that I think will convince a lot of people to vote for Richard Nixon." MCUS - Richard Nixon sitting down with his wife, two daughters and his mother. Back in Chicago, candidate Richard Nixon poses with wife, children, mother for press photographers. Nixon speaks glowingly to listening journalists of Eisenhower's splendid record. Vice President Nixon speaks of President Eisenhower, "When I think of the burdens that he has carried, the responsibility, that has been his. When I think also of the splendid record he has made in every way, in particularly, the dignity, decently and immense good will and feeling and affection that he has brought to the Office of the Presidency. I realize for any man, be it Mr. Kennedy or myself, to follow in his foot steps will be a tremendous responsibility. A challenge that will be very difficult for us to meet."