Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT4: Covers the second Nixon administration, landslide election in 1972. Includes footage of the peace treaty being signed between Vietnam and the United States, American POWs coming home.
EST shot of the White House, blooming tulips in immediate FG, top of Washington Monument in BG. MS/TLSs of delegate on the floor of the 1972 Democratic National Convention; Senator & Dem presidential candidate GEORGE MCGOVERN shakes hands, appears at podium. MS Senator George McGovern stumping: "There is no honor in four more years of bombing innocent children across the face of Indochina." Cut to MS of Vice-Presidential candidate Senator THOMAS EAGLETON (D-MO) speaking at a press conference.
DO NOT USE: CU Washington Post headline announcing McGovern-Eagleton split. Still of McGovern and R. SARGENT SHRIVER.
Panning TLS spirited crowd at Nixon headquarters after the GOP drubbed the Democratic ticket in national election; great MS President RICHARD NIXON & Vice-President SPIRO AGNEW smiling, walking on stage, waving to crowd; MCU Nixon at podium: "I've never known a national election when I'd be able to go to bed earlier than tonight."
TLS/MSs of cease-fire being drawn & signed between Vietnam and United States at Majestic Hotel in Paris, France, 1973.
TLS/MSs uniformed American prisoners of war (POWs) returning home to Andrews Air Force Base, being happily welcomed by girlfriends or wives-- members of air force, navy and army branches. (Homecoming.)