it was at adlai stevenson's 1956 convention that jack kennedy became a national star, after narrowly losing his efforts to be chosen as stevenson's running mate, he was invited to introduce the nominee. >> i give you the man from liberty bell, the next democratic nominee and our next president of the united states, adlai stevenson! [cheers and applause] chris: just four years later it was jack kennedy's convention. listen to the themes we would later hear at his historic inaugural. >> the new frontier of which i speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. it sums up not what i intend to offer to the american people, but what i intend to ask of them. the new frontier is here whether we seek it or not. chris: after his brother's assassination, robert kennedys addressed the 1964 convention in atlantic city eulogizing his brother and then doing what he needed to do. >> we must not look to the past, we must look to the future with the same effort, the same energy and the same dedication that was given to president john f. kennedy must be given to president lyndon johnson an

a lot of people came out for adlai. two days after the election i was not allowed to communicate with the mayor because of the committee we had it up but i had dinner with at least after the election. we talked about, wait a minute, how do we keep the momentum with the tech community? i said, it was at that dinner we said, let's start an organization that all the tech companies joined and rally around making san francisco a better place. our first initiative is all about jobs. san francisco has a jobs board called hire sf. a lot of the tech companies did not know that. i did not know that. we have a majority sf city member companies which represent 90% of the tech population in san francisco. there are posting all their new jobs on hire sf. we're using the existing infrastructure. we want to get more companies in san francisco to hire san franciscans. and so we're going to develop initiatives around that. there is a big mismatch in the qualifications of those who are not employed in san francisco versus the jobs the tec

robert reich, adlai stevenson's old words could not be more relevant to today's campaign. >> exactly. but, you know, there has been a change over the years. i've been involved in about is six, possibly seven presidential campaigns. i've never seen such bald-faced lies as i am hearing in this campaign from republicans. i mean, there are obfuscatioobf there are sort of -- and politics is riddled with half-lies and half-truths, and there are mendacious statements, but these are actual bald-faced lies and they're doing them repeatedly. i think the reason they're doing them is they know they have so much money. they've got $1 billion, and if you tell a big lie over and over again, even though the mainstream media, even though everybody else who knows the facts are trying to get out the facts, it doesn't matter. you tell the bald-face lied over and over again with $1 billion behind you, then some people are going to believe it. and if they believe it, they might vote for you. >> let's listen to the latest message that mitt romney has approved about medicare. >> some think obama care is the

adlai stevenson was the choice of then-president harry truman.e later lived to regret his backing of at least in some. he considered him ineffective as a leader. host: thomas whalen is a professor at boston university. he is our guest on "washington journal." the first call for him comes from myrtle in temple, texas. caller: my response is he is looking at it as a professor or author. i disagree with him saying conventions do not matter. it stimulates the grassroots and gives 61012 people at the grass- roots level to let them know what the issues are. many times they do not watch television. he is looking at it as a professor. that is all. guest: i look at it from a generational point of view. if you are under 50, you are not going to be spending all your time watching the convention coverage. we're going to be doing e-mail, twitter, other types of communication to keep up-to-date on the world around us. i think people over 50 rely on television as their main source of information. i think it is a generational divide. as the greatest generation r

he later went on and became a speech writer for adlai stevenson and in a funny way became an ambassador to the dominican republic. that is when he became respectable. when he was not so respectable he exploited issues of class and political corruption and crime and justice in chicago and he wrote for harper's magazine. he wrote a beautiful piece about the hickman case which intrigues me even more because you think something like this, one of the big magazines then as it is now and he had a huge reputation. why didn't people take it up from there and write something more about it. i will cut his autobiography and from little snippets in his story i realize i ended up finding out a lot about the case from a source i did not expect at all which was the cook county coroner's office because at the time the coroner's office was charged with investigating what they would call suspicious death. that could be anything from a car crash to a plane crash to probable murders and they would hold public hearings and take sworn testimony from everybody involved. i am sure it was filled with the usual p

adlai stevenson was the choice of then-president harry truman. he later lived to regret his backing of at least in some. he considered him ineffective as a leader. host: thomas whalen is a professor at boston university. he is our guest on "washington journal." the first call for him comes from myrtle in temple, texas. caller: my response is he is looking at it as a professor or author. i disagree with him saying conventions do not matter. it stimulates the grassroots and gives 61012 people at the grass- roots level to let them know what the issues are. many times they do not watch television. he is looking at it as a professor. that is all. guest: i look at it from a generational point of view. if you are under 50, you are not going to be spending all your time watching the convention coverage. we're going to be doing e-mail, twitter, other types of communication to keep up-to-date on the world around us. i think people over 50 rely on television as their main source of information. i think it is a generational divide. has the greatest generatio

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saturday at 9:30, we will have adlai stevenson, followed by george olympic govern, jamie carter and barackerage of the democratic convention starts next week. every minute, every speech, live on c-span, c-span radio and online. featured speakers tuesday night feature the san antonio mayo and first lady michelle obama. next week, elizabeth your warren and former president bill clint, and thursday, vice president jobe -- joe bidenen and president obama. >> we offer opportunity. we demand responsibility. we will build an american community again. the choice we offer is not conservative or liberal. in many ways it is not even republican or democratic. it's different. it's new and it will work. [cheers and applause] >> tout your own opinion. convention humber at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> three members of the russia punk band pussy rottino were recently sentenced to three years in joel:. police are looking for other members of the band. two members have fled the country. it has sparked worldwide debate on freedom of expression and the state of church and state. the panel for national interests