what is it all about? you tell us. ask any of these guys what they are fighting for, and they cannot put it into words. maybe it is just the pride in the marine corps. a job to do. and wounds don't count. and it dead men tell no tales. my kingdom,, the site will be will be done. , and that life ahead

goes double for our own sons lies. and yours. for this is everybody's fight. a doctrine of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness shall not perish from this earth. remember us. and remember us, and good luck. american history tv on c-span3 on six p.m. eastern. edward ayres looks at the end of the civil war. >> we see the first convergence of the road that will become reconstruction in the summer of

1864, especially august 1864. that is a specific day. let me see if i can make the case for you. at the beginning of the summer no president of the united states had won a second term since andrew jackson. isn't that amazing? >> at 7:00 the congressional gold medal ceremony for civil over 50 yearst >> ago a summer preacher and educator, reverend frederick douglas read as president of the dallas county voters league invited reverend martin luther king, reverend ralph abernathy and the members of the seven christian leadership conferences to help lead some as voting right process.

today, we bestow the congressional gold medal on the brave foot soldiers. .> sunday morning at 10:00 from the 1988 presidential campaign of jack cap, as he answered the questions from usa today. >> while i am conservative on , i am -- fiscal policy progressive with regard to my belief in the republican party being a lincoln party, a party of black and white and blue and white collar and of all people. conservative,sive i am appeared defending the status quo. on real00 eastern america, the 50th anniversary of the gemini eight manned space mission. we will show the film, gemini eight. analyst in the program

sit down and analyze the flight. they know it is a three-day mission. its mission include rendezvous in space with a target vehicle, the first docking in space, and a to our space walk. for the complete american history tv we can schedule, go to c-span.org. campaign 2016 continues on tuesday with primaries taking place in missouri, illinois and ohio, north carolina and florida. live coverage of the election results and fewer reaction begins at 7:00 eastern time. taking you on the road to the white house on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. campaign adsal from the republican and democrat nominees in 1964. first and asked for barry goldwater, followed by lyndon

johnson's campaign. >> on october 18, 1960, speaking and heads of a net when he was running for vice president, linda johnson said i don't want some bearded dictators 90 miles off rubbing his nose at us. him on thete segment, here is buried goldwater, who calls into account for this administration's colossal bungling on cubic -- cuba and castro. >> the same dictator is still off thumbing his nose at us. us aay of pigs has left dark blot on our national pride. the u.s. must provide the leadership, which will deal effectively with the problems of cuba, and will stop the spread of communism in the western hemisphere. he isyour heart, you know right. folk for barry goldwater.

-vote for barry goldwater. just why theyw wanted to call this a concession. i don't feel guilty about being a republican. in the whole family is a republican family. . voted for dwight eisenhower i voted for nixon. when we come to senator goldwater, it seems to me we are up against of a very different kind of man. wrong, a friend of mine said to me, listen, just because a man sounds a little irresponsible during a campaign doesn't mean he will act irresponsibly. man,hite house makes the is the very. i don't buy that. what i think makes the president

, his judgment and experience, are the men behind him. his advisers. the cabinet. ideasy men with strange are working for goldwater. you hear a lot about what these guys are against, but what are they for? the hardest thing for me about this campaign is to sort out one goldwater statement from another. a report will say some -- senator on such and such a day, said -- and then goldwater , i wouldn't put it that way. i cannot follow that. says herious when he wouldn't put it that way. i don't get it. a president to mean what he says. least he johnson, at is talking about facts. bill.s, we have a tax cut you get to carry home ask number of dollars every payday.

we have a nuclear test ban and there is x percent less radioactivity in the food. by goldwater, i can't figure out what he means by the says -- the things he says. israven fear of death running across america. what does that mean? that people don't want to fight a nuclear war? i don't. when i read some of the things he says about total victory, i get a little worried. thath i was as sure goldwater is against war as some of these other things. i wish i could believe that he has the imagination to shut his eyes and picture what this country would look like after nuclear war. sometimes i wish i had been at

the convention in san francisco. i wish i had been a delegate. , and id have fought wouldn't have worried about party unity. if you unite behind a man you do not believe in, it is a lie. those people who got control of the convention, who are they? when the head of the ku klux klan -- when all these weird groups come out in favor of the it arete of my party, they are not republicans or i'm not. i thought about just not voti inn theg saying you don't care who wins. i think my party made a bad mistake in san francisco. i will have to vote against that mistake. vote for president johnson on

november 3. the stakes are too high for you to stay home. you can watch more from past campaigns on road to the white house rewind, sunday at 10:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span three. >> i am a history buff. seeing the facets of our country and things how they work. seeing presidency and american artifacts. with american history tv, it gives you that perspective. >> next saturday, march 19, american history tv will be live from ford's theatre in

washington dc where john wilkes inth shop president lincoln 1865. they are hosting an all-day symposium on the president's life and career and legacy. authors will discuss his views on emancipation and reconstruction. today, starting at 9:05 eastern time live on c-span3 american tv. up next, prison gulf war recountsstephen wiehe his operation in desert storm. a -- an perspective of observer, he described the soldiers day-to-day activities, the harsh conditions and the pressures of wartime. about one hour. >>