A narrow defeat in his 1960 bid for the Presidency, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon had never lost at the California Polls. This fall that record is tested again as Nixon meets incumbent Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown for the ...See moreA narrow defeat in his 1960 bid for the Presidency, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon had never lost at the California Polls. This fall that record is tested again as Nixon meets incumbent Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown for the state's top elective post. Taped live from Burbank, California Nixon is queried on such subjects as his program for California, his future political plans, win or lose, and his use of the "soft-on-Communism" issue in the campaign. Members of the panel are Benjamin Bradlee, Newsweek; Earl Mazo, Nixon's biographer and New York Herald Tribune reporter; Tom Pettit NBC News; and "Meet the Press: producer Lawrence E. Spivak. Ned Brooks moderators. Written by
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