for curtis lemay, jack's hawkish air force chief of staff, this means war. >> curtis he may was ready missile that is he controlled. he was willing to see millions of people killed in a nuclear exchange. >> curtis lemay thought that president kennedy was a playboy, a party boy. weak, not tough. >> lemay and the other joint chiefs meet with the president at the white house. jack covertly records their exchanges. >> i emphasize that we don't have any choice except for direct military action. >> there is this extraordinary scene in which curtis lemay is so disrespectful of the president. >> i think that a blockade and political calm would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals to be a pretty weak response. in other words, you're in a pretty bad fix, mr. president. >> what did you say? >> you're in a pretty bad fix. >> well, you' in there with me. >> the united states of america and the soviet union stand on the brink of nuclear war and the world has no idea. jack keeps a campaign date in the midwest, keen to portray an image of business as usual. but information from cuba for

curtis lemay, george wallace is crazy the curtis lemay embarrasses wallace. you can watch lectors and history every weekend. basically wallace is the inheritor of strom thurmond. they are splitting off of southern democrats. he holds pretty steady but what you see the race in august, what does it look like? graph? read that basically wallace is the inheritor of strom thurmond. what did the democratic convention due to humphrey's numbers? help the? no great in august, is down 16 point straight what you see happening. -- but what do you see happening? he's closing. by the time of the election, it's a within one percentage point. nixon was out campaigning i love this picture. it is cents about talk about. the favor one of my signs as this one. characters or qualification. some of you laugh. if you know what's coming. characters or qualification. us to this part right up for the election, whether it's a matter of treason or not, the chennault affair. many americans don't know what the chennault affair was with a rational died this week. she passed away last. this

curtis lemay, george wallace is crazy the curtis lemay embarrasses wallace. rty. george wallace is crazy, but curtis la may even embarrassing wallace. basically wallace is the inheriter of strom thurmond and the 1948 dixiecrats. but he holds steady. what you see in august, what does the race look like? can you read the graph? what did the convention do to humphrey's numbers, help him? no. in august he's down 16 points. but what do you see happening? he's closing. by the time of the election, it's within one percentage point. nixon's out campaigning, and i love this picture. because it sets up what i'm about to talk about. one of my favorite signs is this one. character is your qualification. some of you laugh, because you know what's coming. and that brings us to this part, right up to the election. whether it's a matter of treason or not, the chinault affair. many don't know what that was, but anna chinault just passed away last week. so this woman was 94, but he was right in the middle. and the wife of famous head of the air force, the flying tigers during world

. >> this is general curtis lemay the guy the bomb tokyo and world war ii. the american commander who george wallace put on as vice president. he had a press conference right after the humphrey thing. general lemay came out and wallace was behind the curtain there. and he was asked immediately if he would use nuclear weapons in vietnam. the general indicated he didn't understand this concern with nuclear weapons. the vegetation was all back. it's a the sand crabs were a little high -- accept the sand crabs were a little high. wallace came out and took him away. and wallace started, he was a 21%. one 1/5 of the nation was going to vote for wallace. the problem with this was he started down in the polls and he was losing his northern catholics. the northern catholics were not coming to nixon they were going home to the party of their fathers. we didn't get any. they all went to humphrey. eventually humphrey got a 15 point bounce in october for his stance and because wallace was declining. >> mainly from wallace and not nixon. >> nixon held at 43%. that was one

his running mate is curtis lemay. so what can you say about this ticket? >> there is going to be law and order everywhere. >> we will pound the hippies back to the stone age. wallace is always good for coffee and he said the only four letter word that the hippies don't use our work -- are work and so. this is probably the lunatic fringe when it comes to american political parties. they get 13% of the popular vote in the election. over 54 delegates, the last third-party to get any delegates. who do you thinks! thank supports him? georgia, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, and arkansas. who else supports? all of a sudden a bunch of blue- collar guys in the north and the midwest, they also look at george wallace as they potential president. what does that tell you? >> there is a huge divide in the nation. >> the divide is they are. this war is starting to bust america. in 1967, it cost $30,000 per bomber parade. -- per rate. it is costing us $9.60 for every dollar of damage we are doing to the north vietnamese and vietcong. if you want big social programs, and

nixon, general curtis lemay became governor wallace's running mate and said he would use a nuclear bomb if he had to to win in vietnam. how do you feel about the use of nuclear weapons in vietnam? >> i do not believe that nuclear weapons should be used in vietnam. i do not think they are necessary and i think nuclear weapon should be reserved only for what we hope will never come in which i think