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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 4, 1968
'Don't waste votes'
Johnson makes final appeal for HHH-Muskie
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Johnson, in a final appeal on behalf of Hubert H. Humphrey, urged the American people Sunday not to sit out the election in protest nor waste their votes on a "spoiler" candidate.
In urging that all qualified voters go to the polls on Tuesday, the President said: "I hope that every American will use his vote in November, not squander it by sitting this one out, not waste it by giving it to a spoiler."
Johnson did not mention by name either Humphrey's Republic rival Richard M. Nixon or third party candidate George C. Wallace. But he strongly endorsed both Humphrey and his running mate, Sen. Edward S. Muskie, as men of "the experience, the intelligence, the compassion—and the broad understanding—to command America's confidence in this White House."
The paid political broadcast carried on television by NBC was taped at the White House in advance before Johnson left Washington for Texas Friday.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey all but ruled out Sunday releasing any of his electoral votes to prevent a possible deadlocked presidential race from being thrown into the House.
The prospect would come about if neither Humphrey, his Republican rival Richard M. Nixon nor third party candidate George C. Wallace could obtain the 270 electoral votes required to win in Tuesday's election.
The Democratic presidential candidate, in stronger terms than he has used before, said the Constitution practically bars him from giving his electors to another candidate in the event none receives a majority of the popular vote.
The vice president predicted that he would get a plurality in Tuesday's balloting.
"I don't think there's any doubt about it," he said.
Later in the program, however, Humphrey spoke less optimistically about his chances. He said he had a "great momentum" going for him, but that no one could tell what the result would be until Tuesday.
Nixon-
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Richard M. Nixon said Sunday if he is elected President he would be willing to go to Paris or Saigon before his inauguration to help get the Vietnam peace talks "off dead center."
The GOP presidential candidate, appearing on a nationally televised panel program, said he wanted to cooperate with President Johnson in any helpful way and that he was not making the suggestion as a "grandstand stunt."
Nixon was winding up his campaign in California whose 40 electoral votes could swing the election. The former vice president will remain in Los Angeles until Tuesday morning when he flies to New York.
Answering newsmen's questions on the NB program, Meet the Press, Nixon also said that despite contrary opinions of some of his aides he did not believe President Johnson was playing politics.
ATLANTA (UPI)—George Wallace said Sunday that if there is an electoral deadlock he will throw his support only to a candidate who vows to carry out the promises the third party candidate has made.
Wallace-
In a television interview (ABC-Issues and Answers) Wallace said questions about the possibility that none of the three candidates would get an electoral majority were "hypothetical" because he expected to win outright.
But when pressed for what he would do in case no candidate gets the required 270 electoral votes, Wallace said "whoever becomes the President is going to have to promise the American people what we have promised them—is it not me."
Wallace said the promises he would exact would be a return to local government, "stop taxing the little man to death," a crackdown on "anarchy" in the streets, cutting off foreign aid to countries that do not aid the United States in Vietnam, stopping efforts to supply the Viet Cong by American citizens, and the establishment of the strongest military capabilities in the world.
Agnew—
More on the War Against the Young: Martin Duberman says those in power in our universities are blind to student principles.
James Dickey on Allan Seager and Theodore Roethke.
No More Vietnams? Is it even realistic to insist on this? ...
Where does the Vietnam experience leave us in our relations with the U.S.S.R. and China? (The first of two excerpts from a conference at the Adial Stevenson Institute in Chicago.)
Better Government Association of Chicago has shown that "more ghosts may show up at Chicago's polling places.
CANTON, Ohio (UPI)—Republican vice-presidential candidate Spiro T. Agnew called on Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark Sunday to report to the American people on an FBI investigation of alleged vote frauds in Chicago.
Agnew amde the call in a formal statement which he issued at Canton, Ohio, but he did
not deliver it to the rally where he spoke.
He said an investigation by the Chicago Daily News and the
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