ABC News - Republican Convention footage - 1968-08-06
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[0:02] John F Kennedy wrote the book in 1960
[0:05] Barry Goldwater read it in
[0:07] 1964 Richard Nixon has added some
[0:09] chapters for
[0:11] 1968 the book is entitled how to control
[0:14] the convention floor and win the
[0:16] nomination what Kennedy invented
[0:19] Goldwater improved on and Nixon hopes to
[0:22] have perfect it is a highly polished
[0:25] system of communications and
[0:26] organization linking the candidate to
[0:29] the convention
[0:30] the candidate himself may be miles away
[0:33] but he is now closer to the action than
[0:35] ever before he's in a position to
[0:38] bolster a shaky delegation or to sway
[0:40] one of his opponents it's no wonder that
[0:43] candidates here are so sensitive about
[0:45] their Communications command posts the
[0:48] secrecy surrounding them is thicker than
[0:50] cigar
[0:52] smoke these innocent looking trailers
[0:54] outside convention hall are the
[0:56] electronic strongholds for Reagan
[0:58] Rockefeller and Nixon the Nixon trailer
[1:00] in particular arouses curiosity although
[1:03] clearly unidentified it's about as
[1:06] inconspicuous as Fort Knox why all this
[1:08] mystery and security and what does it
[1:10] all have to do with nominating a
[1:12] candidate while work was still in
[1:14] progress we went straight to the man who
[1:17] knows get your seating chart and see if
[1:20] you can't locate your own delegation so
[1:22] that you'll know where it is this is
[1:24] Richard Klein de the man who helped
[1:26] Mastermind goldwater's first ballot
[1:28] victory in ' 64 and now hopes to do the
[1:30] same for Nixon Klein heads a core of
[1:33] Nixon agents who have infiltrated every
[1:35] delegation in search of
[1:37] votes we have the the Nixon field
[1:40] organization the men who have bee