Video: 'Nixon Speaks On His Future (1961)'

(Wednesday, September 27, 1961, scheduled for 7:00 PST) — Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who had narrowly lost the U.S. presidential race in 1960, announced tonight in Los Angeles that he would not run for president in 1964, and that he would run for Governor of California in 1962, challenging incumbent Democrat Edmund G. “Pat” Brown.

Video: 'PBS Nixon (1990)_1of3' (Sept. 27, 1961, at 51:44)