up next, senator barry goldwater except his party's nomination at the 1964 republican national convention. he lost to president lyndon johnson in the general election. ♪ [cheering and applause] ♪ [silence] -- ♪ [applause] ♪ >> at the front base of the speaker's stand, there is a bag of balloons. somebody is standing right over it. that will be fun. ♪ ♪ job, balloongood buster. the sergeant norms are clearing the aisles. ♪ ♪ >> on the stand with senator goldwater are his two sons, daughters, and brothers-in-law. [applause] ♪ mr. goldwater: thank you. ♪ [cheering] ♪ mr. goldwater: thank you. hymn of theattle republic"] glory, glory hallelujah. glory, glory hallelujah. his truth is marching on. glory, glory, hallelujah. glory, glory, hallelujah. . ♪ truth is marching on [applause] [chanting] mr. goldwater: hello. [cheering] my good friends, great republicans, nixon, and your charming wife, pat. , that wonderful republican who has served us for so well and for so long. bill miller and his wife, stephanie. kristen, who has done such a time -- a commendable job. in sharing, this can -- chairing

[cheers and applause] >> when barry goldwater accepted the republican nomination for president in 1964he was a u.s. senator from arizona. elected for five terms, he served as the chair for the intelligence and armed services committee. a pilot, he became a major general in the air force reserve and flew supplies during world war ii. he never graduated from college, dropping out after his father's death, to take up the family mercantile business. born in arizona territory three years before statehood, barry goldwater took 15,000 pictures of arizona landscapes and native americans over his lifetime. the republican national convention was held in daly city, california. ♪ ["the battle hymn of the republic"] >> ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah, his truth is marching on ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ [u.s. air force song] ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ >> at the base of the speakers stand there is a bank of balloons. ♪ somebody is clearing them away. ♪ ["california here i come"] ♪ there is a job. balloon busting. >> clearing the aisle. ♪ ♪ [cheering] >> on the stand, his two sons in law. >> thank you. [live

he supported barry goldwater and admired his beliefs so i participated for the first time at that level c-span: who was next? >> guest: the first was the presidential election in 1960 between nixon and kennedy. my father was a staunch nixon supporter. c-span: what was your mom? >> guest: my mother didn't ever say that she had voted for president kennedy but i then she may well have great she didn't tell my father that. during the early 1960s were we were constantly talking about politics and my family. and i was going to college and becoming involved in politics but i started off as a young republican a member of getting republicans and then i began to. more and study more and decided i had to spend time thinking about my own political beliefs. c-span: was there a moment reset i just don't belong here? >> guest: is more of an evolution. probably started back in high school but i had an excellent government teacher and we had mock debates and as i said i was a goldwater girl but my government teacher made me represent president johnson and made one of my friends who is a staunch democrat

but anyway, we all picked on barry goldwater as the guy we wanted so he had to have a book also. so he had a book. when you run for president, you have to have a book and his book was called "the conscience of a conservative" which soon came out in paperback and also had a big sale. and we all know that actually the book was written by brett thousand else who is the father of the guy that runs that media organization today. but dean manion, dean clarence manion gave it the title and this is the first time people began to call themselves conservative. after the conscience of a conservative came out, this was kind of proof that conservatives were not heartless people. they really had a conscience and we began probably to call ourselves conservatives. and so we were studying all the time and reading widely. reading the books of the ex-communist like budenz and chambers and so -- to know what it was all about and beginning to plan for barry goldwater. we made a try for him in chicago in 1960 and that is when we didn't have enough votes and barry goldwater came out on the tv and said

he went on to defeat barry goldwater in the general election. >> he has a message to give to you, the american people. pres. johnson: chairman mccormack, my fellow americans -- i accept your nomination. [applause] pres. johnson: i accept the duty of leading this party to victory this year. and i thank you, i thank you from the bottom of my heart for placing at my side the man that last night you so wisely selected to be the next vice president of the united states. [applause] pres. johnson: i know i speak for each of you and all of you when i say he proved himself tonight in that great acceptance speech. [applause] pres. johnson: and i speak for both of us when i tell you that from monday on he is going to be available for such speeches in all 50 states. [applause] pres. johnson: we will try to lead you as we were led by that great champion of freedom, the man from independence, harry s. truman. [applause] pres. johnson: but the gladness of this high occasion cannot mask the sorrow which shares our hearts. so let us here tonight, each of us, all of us, rededicate ourselves to keeping

republican nominee barry goldwater at their party conventions. then president trump's announcement on fda emergency authorization to expand access to convalescent plaza treatment for coronavirus patients. ♪ susan: katherine gehl, in your new book, you write the american political system has become the cause of our decline in the barrier to address the problems it exists to solve. when you look at america today, what are you seeing? katherine: first, i'm seeing the same frustration that caused me, my co-author, and so many others to look around and say what we're doing isn't working. and people come at this from any position. so i came to this 10 years ago, first out of the national debt crisis. michael porter came to it out of my invitation but also because he has been doing work on harvard business school on our economic competitiveness and whether we are a country that can grow jobs and grow income levels. and other people come to it from specific policy angles, which is that every policy organization has begun to come to the communication -- r

i could think about senator sanders a lot like barry goldwater, the republican nominee in '64 goldwater wins the white house in part, in many ways, because barry goldwater laid an ideological foundation for reagan what sanders is doing is laying this ideological foundation, and we can't forget -- five years ago, when i'm sitting there with sanders in los angeles having breakfast, talking about a possible presidential run, he was raising things like free college, medicare for all, that were issues that were considered fringe calling yourself a democratic socialist was seen as curious and strange. no one did it, and he brought all of those ideas into the mainstream he has changed american politics and his personality is interesting, his story is interesting to be sure the son of jewish immigrants, grew up in new york, becomes this political outsider in vermont. but as a political figure, historic and two campaigns that changed the way the democrats think about themselves >> seth: you mentioned laying a foundation another foundation that seems to be getting laid right now, is this idea tha

wednesday, barry goldwater. thursday, hubert humphrey. friday, george wallace.nd saturday, george mcgovern. the contenders, all next week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> crowds gathered at the foot of the lincoln memorial on the national mall for a rally organized by reverend al sharpton to bring attention to police violence and racial unrest. the event coincides with the 57th anniversary of martin

wednesday, barry goldwater. thursday, hubert humphrey. friday, george wallace. saturday, george mcgovern. "the contenders" all next week at 8 p.m. next week eastern on c-span. >> president trump is touring storm damage caused by hurricane laura in louisiana and texas and will be receiving a briefing in lake charles. we will have live coverage at 2:30 pm he will also be in orange, texas, near the louisiana border, participating with local responders in a roundtable. that is live at 4:35 p.m. advisor robertty o'brien highlights the trump administration's foreign policy accomplishments, including the recent peace accord between israel and some arab states. he also identifies pressing security challenges. the atlantic council hosted this event.

second ago that the original sin of the modern gop was, with respect to race, was in 1964 when barry goldwaterefuses, who is the republican nomie for president, refuses to say that he would support thcivil rights act. and since then, no republican nominee for president has won a meaningful number of african-american voters. the south flipped after that solidly republican and has mained republican ever since. this is the southern strategy. and even though william f. buckley and some oth leading conservatives who eventually recanted their position and admitted that they were wrong. is it your view that the die was cast after 1964 for republicans and race? >> n i don't think it was cast. i think the fundamental flaw was when i was working on these races all these years, there was this phenomenon of the republican party hiring african-american political consultants to try to teach those candidates who were white, of which most of them were, and those of us working in the campaigns, most of whom were white, how to talk to african-americans. so the conceit there was there's -- the republican party r

. ♪ arizona has produced two presidential nominees over the last half-century including barry goldwatergovernorship is controlled by republicans. for the first time, organizations include arizona and the battleground state poll ing. what is going on? >> the latino population has grown and they have increasingly become more politically active. activists and organizers on the ground see the battle between latinos and gop governors, as well as the former sheriff who was known for legally defining a judge's order to stop racially profiling latinos -- those woke up younger generations and made them more politically active. democrats and republicans alike have told me, in the state, trump has accelerated these dynamics and due to his presidency a moderate democrat, which biden has fashioned himself as, could be more viable. >> the debate surrounding arizona's response to the coronavirus has been among the most politicized with president trump praising governor ducey's handling of the pandemic and joe biden ripping the governor. how is the pandemic shipping the election environment? >> arizona

up next, senator barry goldwater except his party's nomination at the 1964 republican national conventionnt lyndon johnson in the general election. ♪ [cheering and applause]

barry goldwater was the donald trump of all time, man. they have not changed.rom let's go to terry detroit, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to make a couple of comments. civil rights has gotten better. said, the other callers wehave doctors, lawyers, have gone to the highest office in the land. so i think civil rights has gotten better. i will comment on racism. .oday it is more covert is every white person racist? no. i think it is more covert today. this, i think donald trump has fanned the flames. i think people forget, the republicans have had their convention. i wish somebody would show a montage of all of the things, incendiary racial things that this president has talked about. the way he has conducted himself. i am not even talking about the policies. some of the policies i admire. i would still vote democrat. , ifst think the conduct obama had been anywhere close to , heconduct of donald trump would have been -- there would have been a lot of angst against him. host: let's go to jermaine who was calling from new york. good morning.

a bit, talked about what i was interested in and this led to my making a speech on behalf of barry goldwater in his presidential campaign that was played on national television. as a result of that speech a group of prominent party members came to me and claimed i was the only one that could bring the party together. tif it was confide divided and split up. i thought they were crazy. i said, pick someone else and i will campaign for us. they kept after us until nancy and i could sleep, and we said what if they're right? finally i made a proposal i would go out on a circuit throughout the state and come back and tell them whether they were right or wrong. i came back and told nancy i thought maybe they were right. so i finally gave in. suddenly it dawned on me i might win and that was the end of show business for me. before that, when you were with the screen actors guild you encountered the evidence of strong left-wing flutes. how important was that to changing your political ideas? >> i don't floe that did changed my ideas so much, but it did give me a real understanding of the communist me

and this led to my making a speech on behalf of barry goldwater that was played on national television and as a result of that speech, a group of prominent party members came to me before the 1966 governor race in california and claimed that i was the only one who could bring the party together. it was quite divided and split up. and win the election. i thought they were crazy. i said you pick someone else and campaign for them. pretty soon, nancy and i could not sleep. what if they are right and we live with ourselves if we keep saying no? finally, i made a proposal to them that i would go out on a circuit throughout the state making speeches and come back and tell them whether they were right or wrong. and i came back and told nancy i thought maybe they were right. so i finally gave in. you know, i was well into the campaign before i realized i would not be back in show business by november when election time came. it suddenly dawned on me i might win and that was the end of show business for me. >> before that, when you were with the screen actors guild in hollywood, you encountered

>> when we think about reagan and the republican party conservatism, i go back to barry goldwater, to 64, to reagan's famous speech. for the sake of this audience, before we take him into the wilderness, which is where you take him here, explain to us how he comes to being. because one of the great distinctions between reagan and trump is that reagan has a strong political history before he challenges the party establishment. >> he had already had a lot of executive experience as head of the screen actors guild. a couple years ago, reagan negotiated the residual's which became important to a lot of old, retired actors and actresses who are out of work, we're still getting stipends and residual's from the work they had done in tv and movies years ago, because the studios would pay the actors and actresses one to pierre on a tv show or movie or something like that, and then they could re-broadcast it and pocket all the royalties with impunity. reagan, in his last term as president of the screen actors guild, negotiated residual's so that their images and their voice was not sold without

. >> in 1964 a bitter fight inside the gop, conservative senator barry goldwater beat the parties easternlishment and defended his controversial agenda. >> extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. >> god bless, america. >> in 1980 ronald reagan was nomination but conservatism was still a suspect. my first time as the floor reporter i chased stories reagan was offering former president jerry ford a kind of co- presidency to ease concerns reagan was too far to the right. >> your indication is board has agreed to go and will be on the -- >> my indication is from friends very close to jerry ford that he is ready to go and i think that's fantastic. >> but late that night it fell apart. i got the scoop from one of reagan's floor managers. >> the central clearinghouse information for the new and they say it's george bush. >> that's correct so all the stories we heard from gerald ford spirit typical convention rumors. >> eight years later bush was the nominee and tried to reassure conservatives with this pledge. >> read my lips, no higher taxes. >> and guess who i ran into on the conventio

a group of republicans, led by the great, conservative barry goldwater, and by the minority leader of the house, and by the republican leadership. marched to the white house and said to richard nixon, you are unfit to remain in office. you must leave the presidency. we will no longer support you. something similar has got to happen, in some kind of conscience rendering, by republicans, to save us and to save lives in this country. >> you know, carl, we always say that we're concerned about people losing faith in the system. and expecting this type of perfidy but the real shame is the politicians may have lost their sense of dignity and duty that they have for the people that put them there. carl bernstein, as always, thank you for making us better and smarter tonight. be healthy. i miss you. >> good to see you. >> at the white house today, the president holding up a map, okay. i'll show it to you. of all these covid hot spots. all right? they're hot spots. that's what's on the map. okay? if you look at the color queue, most of that is bad, what's on there. he holds it up and says this

she correctly identified people and, of course, barry goldwater was the nominee in 1964. here is another question about politics. "at the time of his appointment to the cabinet, there was publicity that robert mcnamara had to sell his ford holdings. he was the president of ford before he joined the government. do you think it is necessary to penalize public servants in this way? it seems to me that if our cabinet members cannot be trusted to separate personal interests from public duty, they shouldn't be trusted in such important positions at all." eleanor says, "it is customary, and has been for many years, for people accepting positions in government to divest themselves of holdings in any enterprise that does business with the government. it is not a question of distrust. it is a question of influence. that might stem from the fact that they have such holdings. therefore, it is probably a wise decision that no one working in the government should have a considerable interest in any company transacting business with the government." one final question about women in pol

barry goldwater had it, too. so, you know, maybe he can, you know, shoot someone on fifth avenue and someone will just pull the lever for the republicans because that's what they've always done. >> yeah, but that -- so i think these two are related in this way, because i think about this, too, and i agree with you right -- i think that we're in and i've said this a lot on the show. we're in a democratic danger zone. real fundamental, like, does american democracy, like, survive kind of territory. the president talking about already sabotaging the legitimacy. but i do think there's a connection between the two because i think if he was -- if he was polling at 55%, the anti-democratic moves would be more worrisome, and when you see people like -- that have made sort of anti-democratic moves, particularly like erdogan in turkey, there was a period he was both sort of edging away democracy and genuinely popular as a figure. those two things played off each other. the fact that there is a majority of the country that

barry goldwater had it, too. maybe he can shoot someone on fifth avenue and someone will pull the lever for the republicans because that's what they have always done. >> so i think these two are related in this way because i think about this, too, and i agree with you. i said this a lot on this show. we're in a democratic danger zone. real fundamental like does american democracy like survive kind of territory. you know, the president talking about already sabotaging the legitimacy. but i do think there is a connection between the two because i think if he was pulling at 55%, the antidemocratic moves would be more worrisome. and when you have seen people that have made antidemocratic moves particularly like erduwan in turkey, there was a time he was genuinely popular as a figure. i think the fact that there is a majority of the country that does not like this guy itself and the street protests itself actually prove to be like the only check we really have in some ways. like that's the kind of force of gravity on

conservative senator barry goldwater beat the party's eastern establishment and defended his controversial theliberty is [. >> chris: that was my first time at a convention, working as an intern and walter cronkite's ankle booth. i couldn't believe people got paid to have so much fun. in 1980, ronald reagan was the nominee. but conservatism was still suspect. my first time as a floor reporter i chased stories reagan was offering former president jerry ford a kind of copresidency to ease concerns reagan was too far to the right. >> i think that's the strongest ticket we can possibly feel. >> your indication is that fort has agreed to go? >> my indication is from friends very close to forward that he has agreed to go and i think that's fantastic. >> chris: but late that night it fell apart. i got the scoop from one of reagan's floor managers. >> the central clearinghouse of information for the reagan campaign and they say it's george bush. >> that's correct, george bush. >> all the stories we've been hearing about gerald ford? >> are typical convention rumors. >> chris: eight years later, bu

wednesday barry goldwater. thursday hubert humphrey. friday george wallace.ge mcgovern. the contenders all next week 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. [applause] >> crowds gathered at the foot of the lincoln memorial or a rally organized by reverend al sharpton to bring attention to police violence and racial unrest. the event coincides with the 57th anniversary of martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech. >> congresswoman ayana pressley. she is an activist, a legislator, survivor and the first woman of color to be elected to congress from the commonwealth of massachusetts. throughout her career as a public servant, she has fought to ensure those closest to the pain

i think barry goldwater would've applauded all those things. and pretty sure he would have.ime, he probably would've said something like why didn't trump's mother wash his mouth out with soap. and make him understand that we don't need a potty mouth except goldwater would not have used the word potty. >> how did you become known as a conservative historian or the historian of the conservative. >> i don't think i am. i think the historian of the conservative movement is george nash. he wrote a marvelous book several years ago now called intellectual history of the conservative movement since 1945. thus the bible. that's the premier we refer to want to know what happened 40s, 50s, 60s, up into the 70s. george nash 's painstaking brilliant historian. account him as the historian the conservative movement. it so happens i written some books and written some biographies and written some histories may be m coming up libby from fifth or sixth maybe i'm making my way up in this race. i didn't start out to be a historian. it really started out all those years ago to be a novelist. th

monday, do, tuesday, stephenson, wednesday, barry goldwater. thursday, hubert humphrey. friday, george wallace. and saturday, george mcgovern. -- next week at eight bam 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> this is president trump and other state and local officials looking over storm damage in lake charles, louisiana where hurricane laura came ashore thursday morning. ever was the most powerful to make landfall in the state and thousands remain without power in the area. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] >> later, the president moved on to orange county, texas about 30 miles from lake charles and met with officials including governor grade -- greg abbott and senator marco rubio, the president took some questions after the briefing. >> are at rest, let's go. >> thank you very much everybody, i'd appreciate you being here. we love the state, it has been a great state for me and a great step -- state for everybody in this room. arere here to help, we joined by governor greg abbott, a special man. he is

certainly didn't identify as a liberal in the 50s or in the 1960s, harvard but then when he came to barry goldwaterconservatives of the republican convention in 1964. and he also had a very unusual relationship with right in the republican what party . and the conservatives as well. and that's one of the interesting things about kissinger's predicament. you may explain why he's a controversial figure . and they really attacked them from the left. but he had many enemies on the right as well. in particular in the 70s about the soviet union. carla: so the book is called the idealist . is a rather interesting take on kissinger. but it describes him as the ultimate realist. so your choice which you explain the book is really not in notion of idealism. it's more of a notion of idealism. can you explain for the audience at home, what you mean by idealist when it comes to kissinger in light as our notion is not the description that you are using rated. niall: it is true that most people think of henry kissinger as a realist. and the things that they throw around our march. he writes about that. in busines

but when he encounters barry goldwater's supporters at the 1964 republican convention, he was appalled. and he alwaysed had a very uneasy relationship with the right of the republican party. it may explain why he's a controversial figure. he had enmaines on the left -- enemies on the. left, christopher hitchens who really attacked him, but he also had enemies on the right, the debates in the 1970s about whether detente with the receive crete union concern. [inaudible] >> so the book is called the idealist, which is a rather contrarian take on kissinger who was even the most timely description is described as the ultimate realist,s if not a direct descendant of machiavelli. your choice of words or is not a notion of idealism, it's more of a conti notion of ideal. can you explain what you mean to the people at home? our notion is, of course, communism, but that's really not the description you're using. >> guest: i was really struck by the fact that they were critical of the book about the congress, the essay is highly critical. the maestro of 19th century real politic. so i started to t

wednesday, barry goldwater. thursday, hubert humphrey. friday, george wallace.nd saturday, george mcgovern. the contenders, all next week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> crowds gathered at the foot of the lincoln memorial on the national mall for a rally organized by reverend al sharpton to bring attention to police violence and racial unrest. the event coincides with the 57th anniversary of martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech. >> our next speaker really needs no introduction and stays on the frontline. congresswoman ayana pressley. she is an activist, a legislator, survivor and the first woman of color to be elected to congress from the commonwealth of massachusetts. throughout her career as a public servant, she has fought to ensure those closest to the pain are closest to the power. prior to her being elected to congress she served on the boston city council for eight years and was the first woman of color elected to the council in its 100 year history. congresswoman ayana pressley. [applause and cheers] >> good morning, beloveds. today i am think

barry goldwater said it was. so much that he was a racist but hess against lyndon johnson's civil rights act because he thought it was unconstitutional. in 1968, nixon and wallace said the important thg is not just justice in this country. more important than that is law and order in keeping the streets of the cities safe. you know, judy, i'm wriing this book on modern presidents and racial justice. this is a thread that goes through our history. it wasn't supposed to be tt way. >> it is truly part of how we define ourselves as americans, ist it? goes back to the beginning as we've been relearning this year. it goes back to thvery beginning of this country when the europeans me to this country and upeedhe lives of millions of native americans. >> absolutely ri that has gone on for centuries. what we now have is a situation where these differences are sometimes exacerbated for political purposes. 1988 as you remember george h.w. bush ws a very fine man, but that was a campaign that made use of very clearacial over

and since 1964, when barry goldwater who opposed the civil rights act was running for president on thesince 1964, african-american have voted roughly between 85% and 95% for the democratic candidate. it just happens. it's a perfectly rational reason. african-americans perceive the republican party as hostile to african-americans' interests and aspirations and with good reason i would argue. certainly in most of those elections. but that's just the way it is. so that point that biden was making was, as you said, that's a valid point. about the latino community. i think there may indeed be a tendency, among some democrats, to see latino as a political umbrella term in a way that it isn't and i would suggest that anyone with experience in florida elections would immediately disabuse people of that notion. because, yes, absolutely. but, you know -- but democrats have an advantage in the trump era, because of how hostile trump has been on issues that are really important to many segments of that diverse latino community, immigration for example. and not all latinos see immigration the same

monday, thomas dewey, tuesday, adelaide stephenson, wednesday, barry goldwater, thursday hubert humphreyiday, george wallace , and saturday george mcgovern, "the contenders" all next week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. with darlene superville us, before we talk about the convention, the president announced yesterday that federal troops will be going into kenosha, wisconsin. can you talk about that decision-making and the announcement of that? guest: we have seen the president talking about sending federal troops into cities immediately in the aftermath of the killing of george floyd in minneapolis in may. , there was a death lot of protesting, peaceful, sometimes not so peaceful of his death at the hands of the minneapolis police department. they have been on a law and order team since then, and what happened in kenosha this week is a continuation of the president's focus on law & order, wanting to bring control back to the streets of american cities. the federal government is now sending in some federal law enforcement personnel into kenosha to bring

after that, speeches by president lyndon johnson and republican nominee barry goldwater at their party conventions. then president trump's announcement on fda emergency authorization to expand access to convalescent plaza treatment for coronavirus patients. ♪ susan: katherine gehl, in your new book, you write the american political system has become the cause of our decline in the barrier to address the problems it exists to solve. when you look at america today, what are you seeing?

wednesday, barry goldwater. -- saturday, george mcgovern. the contenders all next week at 8:00 p.m.astern on c-span. ♪ >> you're watching c-span. you're unfiltered view of government created by america's cable television companies as a public service am brought to you today by your television provider. next, remarks by democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris on the coronavirus and its impact on the u.s. economy. senator harris: good afternoon.