Nixon First To Vote In California Amid Broad Election
President Nixon and Pat voted early in San Clemente as California voters faced a high turnout and a slate including 22 ballot propositions while weather affected turnout. Nationally Nixon was forecast to win a landslide as McGovern urged victory in South Dakota.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Nixon
Pat
San Clemente
White House
Washington
California
San Diego
Sacramento
Sierra
John G. Schmitz
American Independent Party
Richard M. Nixon
George S. McGovern
Great Plains
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Dixville Notch
New Hampshire
McGovern
Calif
Sioux Falls
S.D
Mitchell, S.D
Massachusetts
Ohio
Michigan
Cook County
Chicago
Pittsburgh
New York City
New York
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Oklahoma
Texas
Florida
Georgia
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Maine
Vermont
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Justice Department
Richard G. Kleindienst
Independence
Harry S Truman
Truman
Glimpses of Elections and Voters in a 1968 Context
The piece recalls voters entering a Nazarene Nursery School booth and notes humor about a child sleeping. It reflects on Truman Dewey polling in 1948 and contrasts turnout figures 85 million and 61 percent. It lists minor party candidates: Schmitz Fisher Jenness Spock Munn Hall Green Mahalchik Hospers.
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Nazarene Nursery School
Eric Hoffman
John G. Schmitz
Louis Fisher
Socialist Labor
Linda Jenness
Socialist Workers
Benjamin Spock
People’s
E. Harold Munn
Prohibition
Gus Hall
Gabriel Green
Universal Party
John V. Mahalchik
America First Party
John Hospers
Lompoc Voters Mobilize as 1972 Election Opens
Lompoc Valley turnout nears record as 22 state propositions and local bonds join presidential and congressional votes. Voters fill ballots at multiple sites including Los Berros School and Lompoc City Hall. Peak turnout expected by midnight with 40 percent counted.
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Lompoc Valley
United States
Lompoc
J.E. Lewis
Los Berros School
Mission Hills
First Presbyterian Church
Crestview Terrace
Timothy Lemacchi
William Ketchum
36Th
Congressional District
Calvary Baptist Church
Vandenberg Village
City of
W. Don. MacGillivray
Gary Hart
Santa Barbara
Charles M. Teague
Ann Sweet
Lewis
Nixon calls peace talks demands unreasonable says Hanoi radio
United Press International reports Hanoi Radio criticizing President Nixon for demanding changes to the draft Vietnam peace treaty as unreasonable and unrealizable. Nixon, ahead of the election, pledges a lasting peace and a breakthrough in talks with the North Vietnamese government. He insists on details to ensure the pact endures and rejects signing any treaty “with dishonor.”
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United Press International
North Vietnam
Nixon
Hanoi
Vietnam
Lansky Arrested in Miami After Global Escape Bid
Meyer Lansky 70, famed underworld financier, was arrested by federal agents on arrival in Miami from South America. He was escorted off a Braniff jet by FBI officials and booked on income tax evasion and illegal gambling charges after a months long bid for asylum.
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Miami
UPI
Meyer Lansky
United States
Lansky
Braniff
South America
Kenneth Whittaker
FBI
Israel
Peru
Switzerland
Argentina
Paraguay
Customs and Immigration
Britain feels force of price freeze in 90 day plan
London reports that Prime Minister Edward Heath imposed a 90 day freeze on pay prices rents and dividends to curb inflation. The Labor opposition vowed to fight the legislation to turn the action into law while organized labor attacked the move. Gloria Tubbins and other housewives complained to government switchboards hours after the announcement.
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London
UPI
Britain
Edward Heath
Labor
Heath
Organized Labor
Gloria Tubbins
County supervisors clash over stricter environmental input rules
Tempers flared as county supervisors debated stronger environmental data from private developers under county guidelines. Clyde challenged Tunnell on a motion for the Technical Review Committee to report, sparking calls of dereliction of duty. The discussion referenced Forest Service input, a major lot split case for Tip Top Ranch, and a negative declaration approving the split.
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Grant
Clyde
Tunnell
State Supreme Court
Forest Service
Keith B. McDonald
Don Vaughn
National Forest
Santa Ynez Valley
G. Raymond Cornelius
Tip Top
Refugio Pass
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George McGovern
Richard Nixon
Board of Supervisors
Raymond D. Johnson
Isla Vista
Ron Turner
George H. Clyde
Curtis Tunnell
Charles F. Catterlin
Daniel G. Grant
Tunnel
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