mcgovern, george mcgovern, most liberal person nominated for president is influencing one of the most conservative republican races because george mcgovern in the wake of 1968 who led this reform con venges and changed the way delegates were elected. more primaries and fewer caucuses. and caucus had to be open for all sorts of people and it worked pretty well for the democrats and did all these reforms and made the system much more open, and so the republican decided to do the same and one of the things mcgoverning insisted on and no more winner take all primaries. we need proportional delegates. so it's a long process. wanted people be treated fairly. that's one of the reasons why romney cannot quite get the leg up. when he wins, he has to share delegates with santorum and gingrich. so if you want any evidence how losing campaigns have an impact, george mcgovern impacted how the republicans selecting their deflagrates. tom dewey lost to eisenhower. he talked about the man who went the irish wake and was drinking and woke up in a coffin and said, if i'm alive, why am i in a coffin. if

mcgovern had exacerbated it. he came out and for some reason said i'm behind thomas eagleton 1,000%, and, of course, when he did drop eagleton a few days later, he looked like a liar and all sorts of things. so vetting is very important, and i'm sure romney or gingrich or santorum would love to have as much time to think about it. >> we've seen the rise of the superpacs and their influence. how do you see that influencing romney -- >> well, now we're getting out of my book, but that's okay. >> sorry. >> i think maybe some other people saw this on the news, but i think somebody said so far the superpacs have outspent the actual campaign, how many, is it five to one, six to one? so the campaigns respect being run -- aren't being run by the campaigns. it's what the superpacs are say, and in theory, there's no coordination between them. i think we all sort of wink and nod at that. but it's fundamentally changing american politics, and it'll be interesting to see if supreme court decides to revisit the citizens united

military check out this sad run against mcgovern by the nixon campaign. the mcgovern and. he would cut the marines by one. the air force by one third. he couldn't navy personnel by one fourth. he would cut interceptor planes by one of. the navy fleet by one. and carriers from sixteen to six. so you would come for you had this to say about the mcgovern proposal. it isn't just cutting into the fact it isn't just cutting into manpower it's cutting into the very security of this country. doesn't mix and doesn't believe we should play games with our national security he believes in a strong america. to negotiate for peace from strength. tema christopher nixon in an interview decades later mcgovern responding to the nixon strategy saying i tried to convince the public that we needed to take a more critical look at spending in the pentagon and that got me labeled as weak on defense now withstanding the fact that i was a decorated bomber pilot from world war two and i think nixon was a clerk at some kind far away from any guns but the lies worked and nixon won in the biggest presi

mcgovern: mr. speaker, technically this rule allows for consideration of h.r. 4089, the sportsmen's heritage act, a patchwork quilt of four different bills that ease restrictions on guns and hunting. this bill, aesopped to the gun lobby, deserves to be defeated by the house. but that's not the most egregious part of this rule. that's because of the language -- that's because of the language slipped into this rule at the last minute by the rules committee, language that sets the budget numbers for the next fiscal year. language that, mr. speaker, once again ends the medicare guarantee for america's seniors. that's right, mr. speaker, last night the republicans in the rules committee pulled a switcher-radio just before our vote -- switcher-roux just before our vote on the rule. these provisions would effectively enact the ryan budget and require that congress use it as a framework for the rest of the year. the irony is by adopting this language now the republican leadership is admitting that their aw

. >>> george mcgovern is in stable condition and resting comfortably in a florida hospital. mcgovern, who is 89 years old, is undergoing tests to see why he occasionally passes out and loses his ability to speak. mcgovern, a former south dakota senator, lost in a landslide to richard nixon in the 1972 presidential race. >>> well, the jetblue pilot who had to be restrained by passengers last week has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam. a federal judge wants to determine if clayton osbon was legally sane at the time of the incident and if he's competent to stand trial. >> reporter: good morning. that pilot will be sent to a medical facility for federal prisoners. it's there he'll be tested to determine whether or not he is legally sane and whether he was legally sane at the time that he was wrestled down to the floor of that plane. a federal judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation to determine if the jetblue pilot who allegedly had a midflight meltdown is competent to stand trial. the prosecution requested the exam for clayton osbon. in a motion filed yesterday, the gov

mcgovern was my fondest hope. but never thought it possible. >> would this explain the tricks that many later disvowed? >> i think so. it was not until after the democratic convention that any of us felt we could relax. that infamous letter i sent after the republican convention, i was dead serious. and the one that kwiped about the press kwiping said i would run over my own grandmother, everybody would be at their desks. it was a colorful memo, but i was dead serious. i thought we had to fight every inch of the way to get nixon reelected. and even as we were riding high in the polls at 72, i still figured that there's going to be a surge, there will be democrats going back home. there's a closing of the gap. it never closed. it stayed constant all the way from mcgovern's nomination through the election. >> what was the line, though, that you didn't want to cross in fighting for re-election? >> what was the line? >> were you drawing any lines? not everything was acceptable. >> only line i would have drawn, don't d

a jewish group, i don't know which one it was wrote a letter to both mcgovern and nixon asking for their position on quotas, goals, affirmative action. it was amusing because i saw this as taunt to provide a path back from the mistakes we made and a way of putting mcgovern too far left. sure muff, mcgordvern's respons was full-throated embrace of goals and timetables. i sat down with lyn gardner. lynn was responsible for responding to that and came to me, and i wrote and we wrote together, but i remember writing a draft in which of the letter to the jewish group, whichever jewish group it was, in which i tried to suck out of the goals and timetables it's worst evils by saying we shouldn't be in this and that and this. that letter went off. i don't have a copy of it. you probably do. but i do remember lynn and i reading it, and i remember also lynn was more inclined to the left at that point than i was. i was very hard trying to pull back. you asked about art fletcher's role. the more, of course, we spread affirmative action, the more art was major expostor of our policy. he was the face

and the turning point for him was 1972 when the house democrats nominated george mcgovern.overn hugged a few years before then the head of rules delegation within the convention and changed the rules by the 1970s convention you had a huge number of women, blacks, young radical men as i must've gone radical women and a lot of x going in the delegate and heston felt this was the destruction of the old democratic party he knew emma. and so he became one of the leaders of democrats for nixon and from 72 on he really became a republican and moved further in further to the right. >> ultimately, ytd make your list? what impact did he have? >> he made my list because i'm trying to take 10 people who are not just political, but doing different kinds of politics. i talked about charlie chaplin doing visual politics, because you run your own studio you can do anything you want and put your message on the screen. heston represents what i call image politics that are literally a handful of that yours on the left and the right. we played roles come the same kinds of roles in those roles

intelligence chief for allowing the side well for more on this i'm joined by former cia officer ray mcgoverna well as a former cia officer you were the perfect person to watch what you reckon went on behind the scenes in this prison. well the orders went out from president bush and vice president cheney and that these high high value suspects were to be given enhanced interrogation techniques and that a course meant that it needed a secure place to do them the story broke in a crash many years ago but not its own out of holes pretty much it made it that a small site there was condoned by the secret service at all and by their intelligence people and by their top officials you know how it came to be of course it is probably some money that passed hands i won't get you very interested in the results of this investigation to see how much the head of the intelligence was able to crew from this kind of thing but the general thing is just for iraq wait for me . if if you don't realize i used to be an expert on the soviet union and these the kinds of things stalin did and this is a case that makes

mcgovern splits his time between florida and south dakota. former senator was the democratic presidential candidate in 1972 losing in an historic landslide to incumbent president richard nixon. nixon later resigned during the watergate scandal. george mcgovern is 89 years old. >> it's that time of the year again. d.c. forestry crews will begin spraying ginkgo trees later tonight. it's all in an effort to keep the unpleasant odor of the fruit from the female ginkgos from stinking up neighborhoods. the spraying begins in wards 1, 2, and 6 where the female trees are most prevalent and continue in other wards over the next two nights. >>> forestry officials tell us there is no need to move your parked cars. ginkgos are often considered one of the most beautiful trees in the nation's capital. there are about 900 of them across the city. but the fruit is slippery and smelly. it also stains just about everything it touches. >>> google has a new toy to give you a different perspective on things. it's called project glass. the company released a video

mcgovern introduced an amendment -- mcgovern, introduced an amendment. as the gentlelady said, that has nothing to do with the price of gas, getting rid of subsidies to oil companies doesn't make gas more affordable. but the question is, why are we giving money to oil and gas companies at a time when we have a national deficit? why don't they pay taxes like every other company? i was a small businessman before i got here and the companies that i was involved with had to pay taxes. what i don't understand is why economically a tax subsidy is any different than an expenditure subsidy and economists across the ideological spectrum would agree, a government giveaway in corporate welfare is a government giveaway in corporate welfare whether it appears on the tax line or the expenditure line. specifically with regard to ending tax breaks to the oil and gas industry. mr. mcgovern's amendment, which is unfortunately ruled out of order for this bill, would end the section 451 credit for producing oil and gas for margal wells and the section 43 credit for enhanced

. >>> former presidential candidate and senator george mcgovern is in the hospital this morning. he's known for his loss against richard nixon in 1972. the governor's daughter says tests are being run to fine out why he occasionally passes ow and loses the ability to speak. he was hospital lazed several times for exhaustion and once for fall and hitting his head before an interview with c-span. >> they take on the chicago cub this afternoon. the team comes into the southbound with its highest expectation since moving to washington. manager david johnson says he's optimistic about the 2012 campaign. >> everybody thinks we have a chance to win. high heaps. 's the great thick about baseball, gets offer to a good start and excitement on opening day. i mean it's just -- it's always been special, always going to be special. >> first pitch is scheduled for 2:00. the nationals' home opener is a week from today against the senate red. all right, go gnats. >>> howard university students looking for answers after they suspended student athletes. the school says they suspended the athletes a

19. >> bill: '76. >> 1976, even when the challenger was -- i mean discredited, stay with mondale, mcgovern, and goldwater, even in those cases, he got the undecided vote. >> bill: okay. i'm not going to argue with the analysis. >> the undecideds still went to the challenger. >> bill: absolutely. the heavy odds are that if you aren't sold on president obama at this juncture you are probably not going to be sold on him. he is not going to have anything new. there are no new rabbits coming out of that hat. i have got to ask you did you just hear the debate between the two democrats and me. >> yeah, i did. i think they forgot that when obama took office we were spending $3 trillion now we're spending $3.8 trillion. >> they didn't forget it but the party has to coalesce around a message that's what you get. that's what we got tonight. the democratic message is that president obama is a responsible cost cutter. and i'm just standing here going i know that's what you are going to put out there. that's what you will see in the tv ads. i'm responsible i want to get this down. you are looking at the

nixon didn't mention mcgovern's name. if the president wants this done, he ought to have biden do it and have his cabinet officials do it but for the president of the the united states he's just damaging himself. >> and add to this now the second attack, and we will get into this in more detailbut we are vetting the president, we are showing him in his own words then and now. but now he's attacking the supreme court of the united states. what do you think? >> think we have a radical returning. he has moved up and beyond that. the one thing he's got going for him, he's a likable guy, he's the president. he talks about red state, not blue state, the united states of america. why would you throw all that away seven months before the election? it looks like almost a panic if it's not an effort to define romney because they are afraid romney will be able to define himself as a pretty decent guy who is going to come in and do the job. >> i think, pat, i think that's very well-said. i think the president is hurting himself but i

19. >> bill: '76. >> 1976, even when the challenger was -- i mean discredited, stay with mondale, mcgovernd goldwater, even in those cases, he got the undecided vote. >> bill: okay. i'm not going to argue with the analysis. >> the undecideds still went to the challenger. >> bill: absolutely. the heavy odds are that if you aren't sold on president obama at this juncture you are probably not going to be sold on him. he is not going to have anything new. there are no new rabbits coming out of that hat. i have got to ask you did you just hear the debate between the two democrats and me. >> yeah, i did. i think they forgot that when obama took office we were spending $3 trillion now we're spending $3.8 trillion. >> they didn't forget it but the party has to coalesce around a message that's what you get. that's what we got tonight. the democratic message is that president obama is a responsible cost cutter. and i'm just standing here going i know that's what you are going to put out there. that's what you will see in the tv ads. i'm responsible i want to get this down. you are looking at the sta

. >> the antiwar delegates would be led by eugene mccarthy and senator george mcgovern of south dakota the general election, humphrey needed their support. mcgovern was on board, but mccarthy hesitated. >> mccarthy told me in early august, prior to convention that he would be able to come out somewhere in the middle of september. after all, cheat and myself had a rather long friendship and we were hoping the friendship was surprised. >> time is running out and the only way humphrey could avoid fad in chicago was to bring together a johnson and antiwar democrats. with only days remaining until the convention, hunt and nixon were invited to the lbj ranch. while nixon's visit was well publicized, johnson's forbade humphrey to tell the press. humphreys at the opportunity to present johnson with his own proposal to end the war and unite the party. >> i presented reducing forces, reducing bonding and medina struck in vietnam and negotiating our way out of it. he was furious with me. i remember he said that to son-in-law's in your proposal would leave them at the mercy of the enemy. he became

. >> former presidential kate george mcgovern is in the hospital. his daughter says tests are being run to figure out why he occasionally passes ow and loses his ability to speak. late last year the former south dakota senator was hospitalized several time for exhaustion and once for falling and interviewing his head before an interview with c-span. >> all right. the wait is finally open. the nationals open the 2012 season this afternoon. they take on the chicago cubs at wrigley field. first pitch is scheduled for 2:20. the nationals enter the season with high expectations. some experts pick them to make ta playoffs even. we'll have to wait to see them play in washington. their home opener is a week from today against the cincinnati reds. >> playoffs, wouldn't that be nice. >>> also today president obama will sign a bill that will help small businesses grow. he'll sign the jobs act. it's designed to help start-ups and small businesses get financing. it leaves investors vulnerable. >>> ahead on "news 4 today," a cherry controversy. >>> plus, there is

was trying to figure out ways to extricate ourselves from the almost drive towards sure enough mcgovern's response was a full-throated embrace of goals and timetables. i sat down with lynn gardner. lynn was responsible for responding to that and came to me, and i wrote and we wrote together, but i remember writing a draft in which of the letter to the jewish group, whichever jewish group it was, in which i tried to suck out of the goals and timetables it's worst evils by saying we shouldn't be in this and that and this. that letter went off. i don't have a copy of it. you probably do. but i do remember lynn and i reading it, and i remember also lynn was more inclined to the left at that point than i was. i was trying to pull back. i asked about art fletcher's role. the more, of course, we spread affirmative action, the more art was major expoexpostor of our policy. he was the face of the policy. interesting enough, arnie weber, who was george's protege from business school at chicago, was someone i tended to clash with constant constantly, was strongly opposed to the affirmative action go

on the night shift at brigham young women's hospital in boston, some people like nurse steven mcgovern say they actually do better working nights. >> even when i was younger, i was a night person. i would have trouble sleeping at night, i was up all night. >> but most like nurse paula ashy said they never catch up. >> i average maybe four hours a day. and even on my nights off, i average maybe three and a half, four hours of sleep. yeah, so i'm always tired. >> a battle with continuous exhaustion waged by millions with no relief in sight. robert bazell, nbc news, new york. >>> still ahead as "nightly news" continues, the teacher who said she was fired by her catholic school for fertility treatments. now she's taking the church to court. >>> and later, talk about a rough landing. the plane you did not want to be on. >>> in indiana tonight, a former teacher at a catholic school is suing the diocese of ft. wayne. she said she was fired from her job because she was trying to get pregnant using the fertility treatment ivf. the case could lead to another league showdown over religious and re

actually they need to record and so i think transmission of interaction is much more similar to mcgovern story where we have a sort of luxury of over three hours and having people you know. personally lose much more time sort of conversation. so so i have more sympathy with these people who are into the means we have for understanding but the constraints of the medium are one of the conditions for pets but they're not the only potential so that there is also the constraints of that will provide station behind you so how did you get to know r.t. and why did you choose your political cost of your first program we have seen artie's reportage on the attacks on wiki leaks for a number of news and not reporting to the journal you mean quite supportive when we were looking what international protocol we wish to partner with as opposed to national broadcasters we looked to see what was the penetration into the united states. and he had higher penetration in the united states and around zero zero zero people is the really inventive stunt but the b.b.c. has it and i think the whole start running t

but mcgovern is 89 and refuses to take it easy.gtime senator challenged richard nixon for the white house back in 1972, but lost in a landslide. >>> the illinois convenience store that sold one of those winning mega millions lottery tickets is getting its ceremonial check for 500 grand today. but in maryland, the mystery over another of those winning tickets is still deepening. an attorney for the baltimore woman who claims to have the ticket says he has not seen it and he doesn't even know if she has it. he also says all the hoopla surrounding her claims is causing a spike in her blood pressure. >> oh, poor woman. >> unavoidable spike had she not gone public with all the drama. that she has it. now can't find it. now she says it's hidden in the mcdonald's somewhere underneath the mcflurry machine. >> just hope it doesn't get lost in the fryer. oops. just got charred. got burned. >> her attorney, her lawyer is asking the media to stay away. >> we're not going anywhere. that's the rule. >> until you stop acting bizarre and tell us w

. >>> former south dakota senator and presidential candidate george mcgovern hospitalized this morningughter says he's under going tests after brief spells of passing out and losing his ability to speak. george mcgovern is 89 years old. >>> not just another day at the white house, where a water main break caused quite a show. a construction crew mistakenly hit the main. the leak was quickly plugged. jay carney later joked that the workers were drilling for oil as part of the president's energy initiatives. clever, of course, conservatives were saying, yeah, that's the strategy they got. >> very clever on both parts. >> thank you very much, christine. 19 minutes past the hour. lobbying washington. is it a good thing? how one big wig is explaining that. >>> steamboat, springs, colorado, has amazing views. snow capped peaks and mountains of garbage. the city has set a goal to be 100% waste freebie 2014. cups, plates, utensil, even trash cans are sealed so customers can't throw anything away. people do it for you. >> grab and go. >> what is compostable, what is recyclable. we put in our co

representatives ted deutsche and jim mcgovern have introduced constitutional amendments are for natural persons only, not corporations. do you agree with that? do you support amending the constitution in that way? >> amending the constitution is a serious matter. and i'm not sure what they're attempting to get at. but i'll take a look at it when i see it. >> dr. boehner, cbs news. >> nancy pelosi said a couple minutes ago that using this preventative health fund is going to hurt women's health. i want to hear your sense on that. do you believe that this doesn't affect any sort of issue with women's health? >> well, we've already taken $4 billion out of this funds. it was used to help pay for the payroll tax credit. many democrats voted for it. the president signed it into law. so i think they've made clear the precedent is there that they don't believe that this money is essential to their program. that's why it's being made for here. >> mr. speaker -- >> have you spoken to anyone associated with the romney campaign? >> it's been a while. i've made it a habit to not talk to the candidat

the country's former intelligence chief for allowing the covert signed former cia officer ran into mcgovern says it's time for officials to be held accountable. these high high value suspects were to be given and hands carry asian techniques and that of course meant that it needed a secure place to do them the story broke in a crash many years ago but not it so now i have the poles pretty much it made it that a small site up there was condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials know how it came to be eight of course it is probably some moneyed past hands i want to be very interested in the results of this investigation to see how much the head of intelligence was able to crew from this kind of thing my hat is off to the polls i have to see kudos to paula for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is a noun and it has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists now is it is a puzzle the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no i

evidence the previous former intelligence chief is already facing charges former cia officer ray mcgovern explains the significance of the revelations. these high high values suspects were to be given enhanced interrogation techniques and that of course meant that he needed a secure place to do them this story broke in a press many years ago but not until now and the polls pretty much it made it that a small site up there was condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials who chose to call it finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is a noun day has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened and the cheney bush regime are continuing anywhere else in the world when these types of painful and severe cuts and austerity in italy the autonomous region of south tirol in the cradle of the alps stands as one of the country's few islands of pros

war in vietnam and the presidential race with south dakota senator jorge mcgovern. and throughout the month of may c-span radio brings you some of richard nixon's phone calls with future presidents ford, reagan and george h.w. bush, with key white house advisors alexander hag and charles collison and fbi director j. edgar hoover starting may 5th and airing every saturday in may. the nixon tapes on c-span radio. >>> welcome back. you're listening to "washington today" here on c-span radio, some news today, late this afternoon on capitol hill the house is going to vote friday on a republican bill that would prevent interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this summer. it would be paid for by cutting money from the president's health care overhaul law. the announcement from john boehner coming the same day the president was wrapping up his two day three state tour to college campuses. yesterday in north carolina and colorado, today in iowa at the university of iowa. it was a rather abrupt announcement by the speaker of the house who said that the president

. >> i'm ray mcgovern from professionals for sanity. >> please speak up, sir. >> okay. i see a kind of surreal aspect to this discussion. there are two elephants that are in the room that are either referred to by euphamisms or not at all. one is the domestic political considerations. what is meant by that is the israel lobby and our president's intention to march in lockstep with israel. that's number one. number two are the facts. and this is my question. it is widely recognized, not only by the u.s. intelligence community, but by the israeli community, intelligence community and by both defense minut ministers that iran is not working on a nuclear weapon. the way it's phrased is iran has not yet decided to work on a nuclear weapon. english tells me they're not working on a nuclear weapon. we have all this rhetoric about we have to stop them from doing. and if they're not working on a nuclear weapon, how do we stop them from not working on a nuclear weapon? the last thing here is that the defense minutister of israel ga an interview on the 18th of january. he was aske

existing evidence the country's former intelligence chief already faces charges former cia officer ray mcgovern explains the significance of the revelations. these high high values suspects were to be given enhanced jury asian techniques inadequate meant that they needed a secure place to do them the story broken address many years ago but not until now and at the polls pretty much it needed that a small cited air was condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials who doze topola so finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is a noun that has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened and cheney bush arcades healing anywhere else in the world. turning now to our is breaking news story thirty two people confirmed dead after a passenger plane crashes in russia's year olds just a for takeoff eleven have been rescued and taken to the hospital all o

even george mcgovern said that we cannot persuade everyone to start a business. we have to get them and high-school. >> we know about obamacare and what it may do but researcher program under the radar. >> every area? i was told today somebody announce the federal government requires all private contractors to hire 7 percent disabled people. once they start paying for health care they tell you what you can eat and have exercise police to run laps. do pushups health care is big it will pay group first is medicare. people our age who and people don't know they get back to earth three times what they paid because we rue the refuse to die. we want the cool stuff that we can get. >> the question raised by bill clinton referring back to this state's with those gifts when you look gab bad private charities united states provides and the grants made to foreign nations we are the most generous in the world but it is where they made. >> you answer your own question. it is not true what they say because private individuals give. what right does my government and have to for