00:42:57 - 00:46:33 Election Day. At a CTA L stop, 17th Ward organizer (Alderman Alan Streeter's Chief of Staff) Terry Peterson encourages people to vote. Bill Banks, 36th Ward Committeeman, talks positively about the work done by David Wilhelm for Mayor Daley during his election bid. David Wilhelm offers his opinion on the day's result, ""For the first time in a long time, maybe since Bobby Kennedy, we have a real coalition of white ethnics, downstate rural voters and black voters. It's been unifying rather than divisive... It was The Plan. See, The Plan worked."" Warren Mitofsky, Voter Research and Survey Exit Poll Director, talks about the historical significance of exit polls. ""We don't know if Abraham Lincoln got elected because voters were opposed to slavery. We have no idea. Today we know that Ronald Reagan got elected not by a conservative mandate, but by a rejection of Jimmy Carter."

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6:30 A.M.

00:00:00:15 SOT Rudy Giuliani: Ronald Reagan was a leader, which is a combination of being a visionary and a practical person who can achieve results. (0:11) /

1964 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION ROLL CALL. GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN. ELECTRONIC BOARD WITH CONVENTION RESULTS. REPUBLICAN NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT. GOLDWATER WINNING BY LARGE VICTORY. YOUNG REPUBLICAN LICKS HIS LIPS, NERVOUS APPREHENSION OF ELECTION OUTCOME. GOLDWATER SUPPORTERS CHEER.

DOCUMENTARIES & NEWSREELS

INTV/W FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN ABOUT THE ELECTION IN NICARAGUA. 15:57:40:00 INTV/W REAGAN. HE SAYS HE IS PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION. HE SAYS THE US SHOULD NOW HELP REBUILD NICARAGUA. 16:03:57:00 REVERSAL. 16:04:32:00 COVERAGE OF A SOCCER GAME. CI: PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, RONALD.

Republican US presidential candidate Ronald Reagan prepares to answer questions from reporters as he arrives at an event in Los Angeles.

16MM ELMO TRF, GOOD COLOR, 1972 ELECTION DNC AND RNC & ELECTION DAY WITH NATURAL SOUND, 1968 ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND ANALYSIS ;THIS WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE, montage of illustrations, faces from the DNC and RNC, signs and balloons, and-Colonel Sanders, 'Boycott Lettuce', Ted Kennedy, people jiggling inflated elephants, Pan Nixon, Ronald Reagan ;Man banging gavel at podium, 'DNC 1972', boy scouts & girl scouts carrying flags, McGovern posters, Wallace posters ;The slogan on the Wallace posters: 'Send Them a Message'Charlie Chisolm supporters, state banners, WS, McGovern, amusing Nixon poster, balloons dropping, Nixon & Agnew; McGovern waving from motorcade, supporters along road, McGovern speaking, brass band playing, Nixon speaking ;'Polling Place', 'Vote Here Today', people - guess what?- voting, McGovern voting, speaking, Nixon speaking ;Nixon taking oath, inaugural procession, kids watching parade from window, spectators waving little flags, marching band ;'Spirit of 76' float, Nixon applauding parade, astronauts!, Marine Corp marching band, more floats and stuff ;Woman using super 8 movie camera, more parade, spectator chomping cigar, sunset over Capitol dome; THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN NATIONAL POLITICS, THE ELECTION, Nixon standing amid confetti, tickertape parade ;Nixon speaking, unpleasant CU Wallace chomping cigar, speaking, cords going to podium, bad singer, Wallace supporters; Woman looking at microfiche, mainframe computer, poll results, cabin, Humphrey with strategists, protesters interrupt speech ;The V/O says the protesters stole Hubert's right to free speech, sure, he's Only the vice president, when does he have any say ;Humphrey on Air Force One, campaigning, tv ad, soldiers unearthing corpse, lining up body bags in Vietnam, Wallace press conf ;LeMay and Wallace press conf, color bars on monitors, editing political ad, Nixon in jet, speaking, LBJ address on cease-fire ;Humphrey speaking, union & black Humphrey supporters, balloon release, candidates campaigning...computer reels; Nixon boarding plane, jet t/o, Aerial countryside, jet in flight, Wallace shaking hands, NX Nixon & wife deplane ;Dusk NYC skyscrapers, election headquarters, Humphrey speaking, Walter Cronkite announcing Nixon winning election on b/w tv ;Nixon with wife & daughter, speaking, political analyst t/h, Nixon inaugural address, Aerial Empire State bldg ;Aerial canal thru city- Chicago? Aerial L.A., Aerial Washington D.C. ;

PHOTO OP OF PRESIDENT REAGAN MEETING WITH REPUBLICAN LEADERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

BARS. CUTAWAYS. VS OF A PRESS CONFERENCE W/ RONALD REAGAN. GOVERNOR REAGAN COMMENTS ON THE RESULTS OF THE RECENT MID TERM ELECTIONS. HE SAYS THE ELECTIONS WILL BODE WELL FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. HE SAYS HE HAS NOT CLOSED THE DOOR ON A 1980 PRESIDENTIAL BID. HE SAYS THE US SHOULD DEVISE A MASTER PLAN TO COUNTER THE MASTER PLANS FOR COMMUNIST NATIONS. REAGAN COMMENTS ON ECONOMIC ISSUES. HE SAYS THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION'S ECONOMIC PROGRAM WILL NOT WORK. HE CALLS FOR REDUCED GOVERNMENT SPENDING. HE DISCUSSES THE REEMERGENCE OF RICHARD NIXON. HE NOTES THE ECONOMIC EXPANSION IN JAPAN OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS. CUTAWAYS. CI: PERSONALITIES: CARTER, JIMMY (ABOUT). PERSONALITIES: NIXON, RICHARD (ABOUT). PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, RONALD.

U.S. Vice-President Walter Mondale and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill (D-MA) side by side on the Speaker's Platform as Teller and U.S. House Representative Augustus Hawkins (D-CA) reads the electoral votes for the state of Wisconsin "seems to be regular in form and authentic" and that Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush received eleven votes for President and Vice President, respectively. Teller and U.S. Senator Charles Mathias (R-MD) follows the same protocol for the state of Wyoming, whose three electoral votes go to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush for President and Vice President, respectively. House of Representatives rostrum with adult Caucasian male and female clerks seated below appointed tellers; House Reps. William Louis Dickinson (R-AL) and Hawkins, along with Senators Mathias and Wendell Ford (D-KY). Vice-President Mondale stands and announces that with all the states' certificates being opened and read, the tellers will make final ascertainment of the result. Mondale stands and waits, saying, "It doesn't look good." Tellers tallying the totals, passing a few long sheets of paper between them. Rep. Hawkins and Sen. Mathias, together, give the results to Vice-President Mondale.

OFF AIR COVERAGE OF ELECTION NIGHT 1980. AUDIO BEGINS CR:128. ABC CORRESPONDENTS, FRANK REYNOLDS AND TED KOPPEL SERVE AS THE ANCHORMEN. TAPE BEGINS PRIOR TO THE CLOSING OF THE ELECTION POLLS. CR:148 MEDIUM TWO SHOT OF PRES ELECT, RONALD REAGAN W/HIS WIFE, NANCY. VS OF THE RESULTS OF THE US SENATORIAL RACES. CR:246 MS INTV/W TERRY NOLAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NCPAC). CR:382 MS INTV/W VERNON JORDAN, URBAN LEAGUE PRES JORDAN GIVES HIS VIEWS ON WHAT THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN MEANS TO THE FUTURE OF THE BLACK AMERICANS. CR:521 MS OF PRES JIMMY CARTER'S ADDRESS PRIOR TO HIS DEFEAT. CR:532 VS OF REAGAN W/WIFE, NANCY, AT HIS VICTORY CELEBRATION. THE REAGAN CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN JOIN THE NEWLY ELECTED FIRST FAMILY. CR:776 VS OF VICE PRES ELECT GEORGE BUSH AT HIS VICTORY CELEBRATION. CI: POLITICS: ELECTIONS, PRESIDENTIAL, 1980. PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, RONALD. PERSONALITIES: JORDAN, VERNON. PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, NANCY. PERSONALITIES: CARTER, JIMMY. PERSONALITIES: NOLAN, TERRY. PERSONALITIES: BUSH, GEORGE.

Ronald Reagan, Republican Party candidate for the U.S. presidency, says although he didn't win the Rhode Island state primary, he was happy to win Montana and South Dakota.

Primary debate sponsored by the League of Woman voters between Ronald Reagan and George W H Bush, moderated by Howard K Smith / Bush and Reagan answer a question from the audience about illegal immigration. Ronald Reagan / George Bush Debate on April 04, 1980 in Houston, Texas (Footage by Getty Images)

INTV W/ SENATOR ROBERT BYRD (D-WVA) AND SENATOR ROBERT DOLE (R-KANS) ABOUT THE MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS. 07:33:47:20 Bars. 07:38:58:22 GMA remote intv w/ senator robert byrd (D-WVA) and senator Robert dole (D-Kans). They analyze the results of yesterday's election. They discuss the impact that democratic victories in the senate will have. byrd and dole say that a tax increase does not appear likely. Dole says he expects to seek the position of minority leader. Byrd says he is hopeful that president ronald reagan will cooperate w/ the new democratic senate. Dole says that president reagan will definitely have more difficulty advancing his program now that both houses of congress are controlled by democrats. the intv is conducted by david hartman. CI: PERSONALITIES: BYRD, ROBERT. PERSONALITIES: DOLE, ROBERT. PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, RONALD (ABOUT). POLITICS: US ELECTIONS.