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7 Convention
delegates until Chairman Joe Martin's gavel signalled the final adjourn¬ ment - NBC reported all the news. Many times, for example with our exclusive coverage of Thursday night's Michigan caucus, we were ahead
of the news .
"Our 'walkie-lookie' TV cameras, used for the first time, gave f ellow-Americans their most intimate glimpses of activity on the convention floor. NBC's regular TV cameras inside the hall and out
let nothing of significance escape.
"The true spirit of NBC here at the halfway mark between con¬ ventions can best be summarized by the phrase ’you ain't seen nothing yet,' We are planning a number of special pre-convention programs for this week. We are preparing for even more extensive sound and picture reporting when the Democrats convene ten days from now. The Democrats
are coming and NBC is ready."
For the Republican Convention, Bill Henry, Ben Grauer and
David Brinkley provided televiewers the running commentary while H.V. Kaltenborn, George Hicks and Robert Murphy gave the radio commentary.
A team of NBC commentators including John Cameron Swayze, Morgan Beatty, James Fleming, Merrill Mueller, Richard Harkness, Earl Godwin, Bill Chaplin, Alex Dreier, Leif Eld, Bob Letts, John Thompson, Jim Hurlbut, Frank Bourgholtzer, Ned Brooks, Clifton Utley and Henry Cassidy carried the ball at other times. Lawrence Spivak of "Meet the Press" fame, ana Theodore Granik, founder and moderator of "American Forum of the Air, interviewed top political figures. Martha Rountree and Robin Chandler brought televiewers and radio listeners the distaff point of view.
Bob Hope kidded the delegates and the day’s events in a nightly fiveminute program that was the talk of the convention city.
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