Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign lesson learned from 1960, the campaign employed 100,000 workers to oversee election day polling sites to prevent a recurrence of what many Republicans viewed as 1960's stolen election. Nixon went on a whistle-stop train tour of Ohio near the end of October. From the back of the "Nixon Victory Special" car, he bashed Vice President Humphrey as well as the Secretary of Agriculture and Attorney General of the Johnson cabinet, for farmers' debt and rising crime. At this time, the campaign released two controversial television advertisements, juxtaposing a smiling Humphrey with images of the Vietnam War and the chaos at
Richard S. Salant claiming a "chilling effect" on broadcast journalism that would result from compliance. Among Salant's other concerns during his tenure with CBS News were, a) his concern that television news was becoming primarily an entertainment vehicle, b) the pressure that he felt from the White House via CBS president, William S. Paley, to fire Daniel Schorr for his reporting that reflected poorly on the administration of Richard Nixon. In his book, "Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S Salant", he cited Stanton's assessment upon his retirement that CBS had become so large