- Title: USA: Senator McGovern Chosen As Democrat Candidate
- Date: 13th July 1972
- Summary: 1. SV Senator Ribicoff making speech (SOUND ON FILM) 0.11 2. SV Mrs. McGovern and crowd applaud 0.16 3. SV Illinois delegate calling out votes and Mrs. McGovern listening (2 shots) (SOUND ON FILM) 0.48 4. SV McGovern speaking at headquarters (SOUND ON FILM) 1.25 SEN. RIBICOFF: "George McGovern is the man for America's future. And I nominate Senator George McGovern for the Presidency of the United States." ILLINOIS DELEGATE: "The great State of Illinois, which will play an integral part in the selection of the next Democratic President, next November. And will unite behind a Democratic ticket and pave the way for the rest of the states to do so, casts thirty and one-half votes for Senator 'scoop' Jackson. And one-hundred and nineteen votes for the next President, Senator George McGovern." (Cheering drown out last part of previous). SEN. MCGOVERN: "I make a flat pledge that if I become President of the United States, eery American soldier, every American prisoner, every American now involved in the war in Southeast Asia, every bomber will quit flying, all American military aid to General Thieu will cease. And I don't have the slightest doubt, that within ninety days of my inauguration, every American troop and every American soldier will be home. And that's the pledge I make to you." Initials OS/222 OS/231 THE SOUND ON FILM INCLUDES A PORTION OF SENATOR RIBICOFF'S NOMINATION SPEECH, PART OF THE VOTE BY THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION, AND REMARKS ADDRESSED TO RADICALS BY SENATOR MCGOVERN. TRANSCRIPTS FOLLOW.
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- Location: USA MIAMI BEACH FLORIDA
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