spiro agnew to you recognize. spiro agnew was the jerry rubin of the right. one of nixon's first order is to shut agnew up and don't let him talk. you can't shut spiro agnew off. he goes on the david fall shawnee says that think it was murder too andy's horrified the white house but he went on to say come he went on to sort of say well it was murder to but it was inexcusable murder to. you can. more about that and then the next night, friday night what i call the night of the and you might remember this photograph. richard nixon gets a press conference and he thinks it's very successful. he goes back to his bedroom and he can't sleep. he makes 87 calls in three hours , 30 of them to henry kissinger and finally it 3:30 he shakes his ballet and he said have you ever been to the lincoln memorial? you have to understand the white house at this point is ringed by d.c. transit buses. the 82nd airborne are sleeping in the executive office building basement. there are tens of thousands of demonstrators at the mall to protest especially the kent state shootings in rich

of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ nixon selected maryland's governor spiro agnewnning mate for the office of vice president.

united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> nixon selected maryland's governor spiro agnewte for the office of vice president. it was now time for the democratic convention. and mccarthy and vice president humphrey were the leaders in the democratic race. ron and dottie went to chicago as part of the new hampshire delegation. there they continued their protests along with many other delegates who also wanted to see a more detailed plan for peace as the party's campaign theme. ♪ we shall overcome ♪ we shall overcome ♪ we shall overcome one day >> other demonstrators protested against war in the city's streets. and these protests erupted into a confrontation with police that drew the concerned attention of many americans. the delegates shared that concern. but first they had to fulfill their obligation to nominate a democrat for the presidency. as the balloting went on, it became clear that vice president humphrey had the support of the convention. ron and most of the new hampshire delegates were pledged to vote for mccarthy, and they honored that pledge. >> i cast 20 votes f

for this and that becomes the story line.w spirit agnew one of nixon's first order you can't shut spiro agnew up. he says i think that it was a murder, too but they went on to say that it was sort of excusable. you can read more about that. then the next night you might remember this photograph he gives a press conference he thinks that it's very successful and he goes back and he can't sleep. he makes 87 calls and finally a three-time go 30 cents if you ever been to the lincoln memorial, you have to understant the white house at this point they are sleeping in the executive office building basement and there are tens of thousands of demonstrators on the mall to protest the kent state shootings and nixon thought that this would be a great time to show the lincoln memorial so they go down and ae couple of these are demonstrators that are sleeping down there and i love the expressions. you know they are thinking what drug did i take. so this goes on and he says they've never seen the fbi secret service so petrified in my life. they leave there and he says have you ever seen that house of repres

professor mann: here's one that's making fun of nixon's vice presidential candidate, spiro agnew, whorofessor mann: finally, here's a spot that was produced by the same guy who was involved in one of the people involved in the first one we saw, also relying on the people's fear of nuclear war. >> do you want castro to have the bomb now? [explosion] >> do you want any country that doesn't have the bomb to be able to get it? of course you don't. where does richard nixon stand on the u.n. treaty to stop the spread of nuclear weapons? he says he's in no hurry to pass it. hubert humphrey wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons now, before it mushrooms. hubert humphrey supports the u.n. treaty now, as do the 80 countries who have already signed it. bomb now. humphrey. there is no alternative. paid for by citizens for professor mann: i hope you see the change. and we're going to look a little next time we meet, we'll spend a few more minutes looking at some of these other spots from 1968 and also two or three from elections thereafter. and look at a little bit about how emotion was used

of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ nixon selected maryland's governor spiro agnewhis running mate for the office of vice president. it was now time for the democratic convention. and mccarthy and vice president humphrey were the leaders in the democratic race. ron and dottie went to chicago as part of the new hampshire delegation. there they continued their protests along with many other delegates who also wanted to see a more detailed plan for peace as the party's campaign theme. ♪ we shall overcome ♪ we shall overcome ♪ we shall overcome some day >> other demonstrators protested against war in the city's streets. and these protests erupted tone -- into a confrontation with police that drew the concerned attention of many americans. the delegates shared that concern. but first they had to fulfill their obligation to nominate a democrat for the presidency. as the balloting went on, it became clear that vice president humphrey had the support of the convention. ron and most of the new hampshire delegates were pledged to vote for mccarthy, and they honored that pledg

so that's how spiro t. agnew was chosen by mr.ixon, and i tell you, the press corps, because of that incident in baltimore where he read the riot act to the civil rights movement the , press was outraged. mike wallace came up to me cursing, what do you so and sos think you are doing? you just lost the election. wallace was a friend of ours. he traveled with us, he was not a hostile threat, but he was just outraged. so i go upstairs, and there's nobody up on the 17th floor but richard nixon himself, and he says, hey pat, let's watch , agnew's press conference. so i said, right right you are, , and so i go in and we're watching tv, and agnew is up there being as tougher as he can be in the press conference, and the press is going after him, and agnew is really holding his own. and i'll never forget what nixon said to me. he turned to me and said buchanan, i think we have , ourselves a hanging judge here. and he turned out to be. so then i had one more , experience i want to tell you about. and that is when we got this mission bay ou

. >> we mentioned vice presidential candidates, nominees, richard nixon, of course, choosing spiro agnew. hubert humphrey chose edmond muskie. how did that alliance come together? >> well, he had known him for quite a while, and everybody, of course, wanted him to have a southern candidate. and he said i want someone who i think would be a good president if something happens to me. and you know, the assassinations were very fresh. and they knew that a vice president is a heartbeat away, as they said. he wanted someone that he liked and someone that was stable. it didn't really help him much politically. he wasn't thinking along those lines. but i should say, too, that he also was little known as he also spoke to nelson rockefeller about being his vice president. crossing party lines. which would have been pretty remarkable. nelson rockefeller gave 24 hours and said he just couldn't do it. just couldn't do it. they were friends. rockefeller didn't have any special liking for nixon. >> next telephone call is from annandale, virginia. you're on the air. >> caller: hi, susan and gentleman. i