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Show v lorn'' ; y y m ; v . I , 1 - j - i f , X Vs I Janet Samuelson Greg Call Rick Voss itacreate bandwagon effect" . . . "returns have little effect" ... "dynamic fence sitting" iBxon squeaks past HHH By Bailord Shaw Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-Republican Richard M. a, completing an epic comeback from political Mowly won election Wednesday as the 'dent of the United States, .mediately pledged full efforts "to bring the .People together." Elng Vice President, Hubert H. Wdr!,-; he.critical late-counting states of Ml 1 umia' Nixon harvested ,287 electoral Wn! needed to succee(i Lyndon B. 'fcpublipfn? . and t0 return the White House M hands after eight years of Democratic "lKrNSn VfCtory was so narrow-he received ibki u pPular vote-that it failed to ocratic aSJ0 i RePubIican resurgence to crack ;,ft, DiA , . f Congress. Republicans did, Bwein ? u House and five Senate seats senior's chairs. Lead Teetered "i'Jn J16 avalanche of nearly 70 million ;tffJMt Miv' ; ' the Popular vote lead teetered ilk 93 pet rP f Vice President Humphrey. ; lt in midaftP the total vote tabulated, the 29Sn?on showed: Nixon 29,519,667, Sofe'ectoNin a, .' including votes from two partv Alabama. more tChandldate Georie C. Wallace received the total t!"6 million votes-about 13 per "Parsed 1' former Alabama governor's :t the electin -Paign threatened for a time to states ii i nt the House. but he carried C,e as thea ln deepest Dixie. :7l )hnsnn VOtfS Were beinS counted, both NcoSan(iand Vice President Humphrey Uon and unity in the shift of executive power to Mr. Nixon and his running mate, Gov. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland. The changeover will come with their inauguration Jan. 20. Sent Telegram Vice President Humphrey sent a telegram to the president-elect, saying "you have my support in unifying and leading the people." Conceding defeat, Vice President Humphrey in a quavering voice told several hundred cheering supporters in a Minneapolis hotel: "I've done my best. I've lost. Mr. Nixon has won. The democratic process has worked its will, so let's go on with the urgent task of uniting this country." Flashed Victory Sign A half-hour later, as the stock market advanced with word of his victory, a smiling Mr. Nixon flashed the victory sign with upraised hands and told a jubilant crowd in a New York City hotel that "Bring us together" will be the motto of his administration And he reaffirmed his pledge to cooperate with Johnson in the postelection period "inbringm peace to the world." The Vietnam war was ar rridmg issue of the turbulent presidential campaign, nd Mr. Nixon said before the election he would go to Saigon or Paris if necessary to get peace negotiations off dead center." The man who lost to John F. Kennedy by 120 000 votes in the 1960 presidential race-but came back to become the first candidate in this century to y,.n the presidency on the second try-headed for three days of " EnouTe6, stop in Washington to visit former Presided Dwight D. Kisenhov whom h served eight years as vice president. Eisenhower is j rlcuperatfng in Waiter Reed Army Hospital trom a . series of heart attacks. |