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Lawmakers - Presidential Candidates
Lawmakers - Presidential Candidates
Lawmakers - Presidential Candidates
Paul Duke - report on Senators running for President, trying to convince their home state voters that the campaign will help the state.
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A frozen pond in New Hampshire with children ice skating. Various shots of skaters.
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Shots of informally produced campaign signs in store windows announcing meet-and-greets for George McGovern (D - South Dakota) and Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina).
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Truck passing old brush factory in Manchester, New Hampshire. Snow is on the ground. Interior of brush factory
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Sign welcoming Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina). Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina) and entourage with TV crews, walking through for the factory's traditional Candidate visits. Man using power router to cut brush handles as Senator Ernest Hollings watches. Senator Ernest Hollings greeting workers.
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Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina) says it's difficult to be a Senator and candidate at the same time, says that gives Mondale an advantage. It is very difficult, very difficult, because what you must do - I mean look at what s happened. Fritz Mondale is out there leading because he hasn t had to hold a job for three years. He s running free.
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Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina) entourage motorcade pulling off a snow-lined rural road. Hollings in a firehouse, shaking hands with Firemen.
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Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina). says "name recognition" is a problem. (You get used to it fast.) It s a good lesson in humility. That name recognition problem unless you are a Vice President or an astronaut, you better start running for four years and really get out of a job - just totally do nothing else.
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Sign outside office Ernest Hollings South Carolina . Workers in Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina) office. Hollings inner office, with a conspicuously vacant desk.
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Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina). Says he's missed many votes to campaign, but no important ones. I missed a little less than half of the votes. I don t feel badly because I didn t miss anything last year. We just didn t do anything. We didn t solve any budget problems. I was there for those important votes.
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Shots of workers in Senator Ernest Hollings campaign office.
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Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina) says that he has to separate his office and campaign staff and keep track of expenses. You just set those rounds. The first thing you ought to do if you re going to run for President is get an auditor. And watch all expenses as well as all allocations. And definitely open your own office and run it from there.
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Cokie Roberts standing on side of stereotypical small-town New England road, with white houses, snow falling adding to large snowfall already on ground. Roberts says, being a former Senator is working to George McGovern s advantage.
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George McGovern (D - South Dakota) speaking to a young man in a college library, shots of young adults and McGovern staffers mingling. A Professorial-type at front of a classroom introduces McGovern, notes that many were probably very young when he ran against Nixon in 1972.
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George McGovern (D - South Dakota) I don t have any name recognition problem or face recognition I m not sure what an advantage that is but my mug is pretty well know around the country. It s amazing to me driving down the streets in cities where people don't even know I m coming to town, it can be pitch dark outside and if they just catch a glance of the car I have people saying Hey, George, go to it. That s encouraging. Shot of McGovern and aide walking in snow, away from camera, towards cars, driving away in snow.
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DO NOT USE Clip of 1972 Campaign film, younger Senator George McGovern (D - South Dakota) shaking hands in street, riding in parade, crowds of supporters
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The 1972 Democratic Convention, George McGovern (D - South Dakota) and running mate Thomas Eagleton raising arms after accepting nominations.
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George McGovern (D - South Dakota) discussing the trauma of being stomped by NIXON in 1972, felt like a stranger in the Senate after campaigning for so long. I went through a period of about a year when I felt very odd in the Senate. I almost felt like a stranger. I had to get re-acquainted with my colleagues. I went back under conditions of an overwhelming defeat and I wondered if some of the Senators thought that maybe I had taken some of their friends down in defeat with me in close contest. The first year wasn t all that pleasant. Then I went back and plunged into a race for re-election to the Senate. I proved I could get re-elected. When I came back, maybe it s my imagination, but I thought they were welcoming me back to the club for the first time with open arms. I d proved my mettle again.
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George McGovern (D - South Dakota) serving on Senate Church Committee. V.O.-defeated in Reagan landslide of 1980, McGovern now free to campaign without Senate duties.
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George McGovern (D - South Dakota) says being free of Senate duties helps. Just being free of those roll calls helps a lot. Now, I have to concede when I was in the Senate I missed a lot of roll calls, but I didn t miss any where my vote would have made the difference in the outcome of a particular vote. And what that meant is that frequently I d be someplace like Portland, Oregon and find myself flying all night to make a roll call vote in Washington and then be due back that night in Seattle.
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George McGovern (D - South Dakota) greeting voters in what looks like a union hall.
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Senator Ernest Hollings (D - South Carolina) Talking to people in a factory cafeteria (?) and an office. Voiceover talks about his platform.
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Shots of George McGovern (D - South Dakota) meeting people on the street, v.o. says that legislative experience is a must for the President.