REPUBLICANS: Back to the Battle

Favoring his game left knee ever so slightly, Vice President Richard Nixon slipped out of Walter Reed General Hospital a day ahead of schedule last week and back into the heat of the campaign. His doctors pronounced him recovered from the staph infection that had bedded him down for eleven days, yielded to his argument that he deserved a full weekend with his family before this week's 9,000-mile, 14-state foray.

Candidate Nixon put his final week of enforced confinement to good use. He worked on the fine points of strategy and schedules with aides, named some citizens' committees to campaign...

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