Today 140 million Americans have voted for the new President of the United States. With his lead in the opinion polls, can the incumbent Richard Nixon lose?
On election night:
Ludovic Kennedy will be in New York with a studio full of prominent young Americans to discuss the campaign, the war, the quality of life in America today and the problems that will still be there in 1973. Robert MacNeil in the New York results studio gives the election news, watches the presidential candidates waiting, and expects a firm projection of who has won between 12.30 and 1.30 am.
Austin Mitchell in London asks Britons: what does the result mean to us?

11.40* Late Night News; Weather

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(Results continue all night on Radio 2)
(If Bob Hope - and John Wayne..: pp 17-18)