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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, December 26, 1972
Nixon landslide
was not record
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon’s landslide re
election victory—now officially
tabulated—falls short of the
most one-sided presidential
election in U.S. history.
Official vote canvasses from
the 50 states and the District of
Columbia showed Monday that
Nixon did not quite break
former President Lyndon B.
Johnson’s 1964 record of 61.6
per cent of the total popular
vote. Nixon’s percentage was
60.9, just .1 higher than
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s land
slide in 1936.
In numbers of votes, howev
er, the tally showed that Nixon
won the 1972 election with a
record-breaking 47,186,390
votes, nearly 4 million more
than Johnson’s 43,129,484 in
1964, the previous popular vote
record.
Sen. Goerge S. McGovern got
29,169,585 votes, 18,016,805 less
About people
Polish Cardinal asks
end to bloodshed
WARSAW (UPI) -Cardinal
Stefan Wyszynski, Roman Cath
olic primate of Poland, asked
American Catholics on Christ
mas Day to stop “the bloodshed
of the innocent children and
brothers in Vietnam.”
“I express my hope that the
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American episcopate, realizing
the appeal of the Pope, will do
its best so that the blood of the
innocent children and brothers
in Vietnam will not be shed,”
Wyszynski told a congregation
of 2,000 at Warsaw’s St. John’s
Cathedral.
DREAM COMES TRUE
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
Danny Roberts’ dream of
becoming a San Francisco
fireman came true—ll years
earlier than he expected.
The nine-year-old youngster is
Engine Company 41’s biggest
fan, friend and volunteer
worker.
Sunday, Fire Chief Keith
Calden made Danny “an
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than Nixon. His percentage of
the total popular vote was 37.7.
Rep. John Schmitz, the
American party candidate, ran
third with 912,022 votes, 1.1 per
cent of the total. Seven other
candidates, led by Dr. Benja
min Spock of the Peoples’
party, got a total of 216,532
votes, or .3 per cent of the
total.
The total turnout was 54.8 per
cent of the Census Bureau’s
estimated 139,563,000 voting-age
population. That was the lowest
turnout since 1948, when 51.3
per cent of the voting-age
population went to the polls.
In carrying 49 states with 521
electoral votes on election day,
Nixon also came in second to a
Democrat. Franklin Roosevelt
got 523 electoral votes in 1936,
carrying 46 states. Nixon’s
recorded electoral vote will be
520 because one of Virginia’s
electors last week cast his
ballot for John Hospers of the
honorary member of Engine
Company 41, by the order of
the officers and men of the
company.”
A red wagon, officer’s belt,
citation, a fireman’s card and a
box of candy went along with
the Christmas presentation by
Calden, with Engine 41 friends
looking on outside Danny’s
house.
MESSAGE FROM PRINCE /
HONG KONG (UPI) -Prince
Norodom Sinahouk, head of the
exile government of Cambodia,
told the North Vietnamese
people in a message from
Peking that “No escalation of
the armed agression of the
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U.S.A, can bend our knees,” the
New China News Agency
reported today.
The official Chinese agency
quoted Sihanouk as saying:
“Our choice is made, no
escalation of the armed aggres
sion of U.S.A, can bend our
knees. The U.S. Air Force, the
strongest and the most murde-
Libertarian party, who got 1,537
popular votes.
McGovern got 17 electoral
votes, 14 from Massachusetts
and three from the District of
Columbia.
The popular vote totals of the
other six candidates:
5p0ck—70,972 in eight states.
Linda Jenness, Socialist
Workers—6o,79s in 13 states.
Louis Fisher, Socialist Labor
—44,385 in nine states.
Gus Hall, Communist—23,2o9
in 11 states.
E. Harold Munn, Prohibition
ist—B,7B9 in 2 states.
Evelyn Reed, Socialist Work
ers—6,392 in three states.
All of the presidential figures
are based on official vote
canvasses, the last of which
were not completed until West
Virginia certified its results on
Friday afternoon, Dec. 22.
National vote totals published
before then were, of necessity,
based on unofficial figures.
rous of the world and of all
times, has already sustained
the most disastrous and the
most ignominious defeat in its
history, which is inflicted on it
by the supremely heroic and
talented defenders of the soil
and air of the DRVN (North
Vietnam).
CITIZENS PROTEST
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.
(UPI) —Harry L. Sears,
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chairman of President Nixon’s
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Natalie Wood, actor Robert Wagner and daughter Na
tasha, 2, on the way to Los Angeles. The Wagners
split, then were remarried.
GREENWICH, N.Y. (UPI) —
Walter Fish, his wife and their
four children came home just
before midnight Christmas Eve
to find their front door had
been forced open. x
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Pope
Christmas wish brought cheers
By BARRY JAMES
VATICAN CITY (UPI) —
Pope Paul VI expressed con
cern for persons living amid
war, hunger and oppression in
his annual Christmas Day
message to the world and
brought loud applause when he
read a Christmas wish in
Vietnamese.
The 75-year-old leader of the
world’s Roman Catholics did
not refer directly to the
Vietnam. War during a 10-
minute speech from the balcony
of St. Peter’s Basilica. He
referred to the war several
times in earlier speeches.
Instead, he said, he wanted to
devote a special thought to
places where there is still war,
hunger, suffering and distress,
“whenever the coming of justce
and peace is still awaited.”
After his speech, his third of
the day, the Pope gave his
traditional “urbi et orbi” —to
the city and the world—
Christmas blessing and wished
New Jersey re-election cam
paign, promised to pass along
to the President a message
from some 100 local citizens
who protested renewed bombing
in North Vietnam in front of
Sears’ home Christmas Day.
“I was surprised and disap
pointed at the renewal of
bombing,” Sears told newsmen.
However, he said, “There’s
nobody in my opinion who
wants more desperately to end
the war than he (Nixon) does.
I’m not at this point prepared
to abandon him.”
Ijeaders of the demonstrators
handed Sears a page-long
statement calling on those
“who were responsible for the
re-election of the President to
disavow their role.”
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stolen from under the Christ
mas tree. When they looked in
the refrigerator, they saw that
even the famiily turkey had
been taken.
the world a Merry Christmas in
16 languages.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims
and tourists cheered as he read
brief greetings in the various
languages. Loud applause
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swelled up when he read the
greeting in Vietnamese.
Most of his noontime speech
dealt with a call for commit
ment by Christians to live by
the their faith.
The Pope started Christinas surface.
Day with a midnight mass at a The Pope wore a white hard
railroad tunnel site about 30 hat with his splendid papal
miles north of Rome following robes and prayed with about
a visit among men working 200 workers in the muddy,
nearly two miles below the damp tunnel.