that's how lindy boggs worked.as an institutionalist and someone who cared about the history of the house. and she loved to tell visitors about it and wanted folks to know about the richness of the history of this place. >> we are indeed a nation that is a majority of women. we also are a nation where the majority of women who are heads of households with children under 6 years of age are in poverty. we also -- >> as women started gaining power and the second wave of feminism got going in the 1970s, something happened that was really kind of wonderful and it's called supersisters. and it happened in 1978 when a little girl in new york who collected baseball cards and was pretty young, i think she was 8 or 10 years old, came to her mom and says i have no baseball cards with girls on them. and her mom said, i don't know. that's crazy. she developed a series of 70-some cards of important women, mostly present, but some past, and got a grant from new york state to produce them. and they became trading cards and they we

but what kauffman saw was bleak. >> on labor day, he had 47% for boggs, 19% for biden. >> but it washe first year 18-year-olds could vote and young voters saw a candidate who was promising that he understands what's happening today. 50 years later, this time as a political elder trying to connect with young voters, it's still his mantra. >> they have this funny feeling that kale boggs just his heart wasn't in it. he had been talked into running one more time by richard nixon. >> and then we snuck up on him, boggs, this was the nixon landslide election and everybody expected no democrat to win and that was truth. >> we won by a rousing 3100 votes. >> i'm sure biden is expected to win a tune of more than 5 million votes. >> so much more to see and learn about joe biden's ambition, tragedies, his dramatic fight and race of his lifetime. don't miss fight for the white house, joe biden's long journey tonight at 10:00 eastern here on cnn. that it for me today. i'm monica brown. see you back here at 4:00 p.m. eastern. up next, my colleague wolf blitzer picks up the coverage with a special e

boggs, this was the nixon landslide.xpected no democrat to win and that was the truth. >> we won by a rousing 3100 votes. >> reporter: i'm sure the president-elect is very relieved to have secured a wider margin in the 2020 presidential race to the tune of more than 5 million votes. >> gloria, thank you. you can learn more about joe biden's life and career in our cnn documentary, joe biden's long journey. that airs tonight at 10 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> still to come, the u.s. reported another day of record covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. experts say hospitals may have to start rationing care. what does that mean? dr. saju matthew is with us next. everyday you're eating acidic foods; you're constantly weakening that enamel structure. pronamel repair allows more minerals to penetrate deep into the enamel layer and it repairs it. it is pretty phenomenal. but i'm not a new customer. a deal on a smartphone, well, actually now, new and existing customers can get our best smartphone deal. it's historic. that is

and lindy boggs was prevailed on to run for the seat. had four years been her's eye and ears of the district. she ran his campaign back home, particularly as he moved at the leadership ladder in the house. and she knew his office, and his agenda intimately. she came into congress, and it was unlike the shirley chisholm's, she kind of had a quiet determination to push women's right along. there is a great story that she has in her memoirs in getting an assignment to the banking and currency committee, there was a bill before the banking and currency committee that would provide equal access to credit. and when the bill was being marked up in the committee, the draft came around and she looked at it, and it said the equal access to credit without racial, age, veteran status, discrimination, but it said nothing about sex or marital status. she had just become a window, and have you had all of the finances transfer over to her, this was fresh in her mind. she quietly took a pencil and inserted the phrase sex or marital status. got up, walk t

cale boggs was loved. i mean, he was loved. >> once again, biden asked valerie to run the show. >> i remember saying to him, joey, i can't run a statewide campaign. i don't know how to do that. remember, he's 28, 27, i'm 25, 26. he said don't worry about it, valerie, we'll figure it out. >> she reached out to a local democratic party activist ted kaufman. >> so i went down and talked to him. so you're running on civil rights. you're running on environment. you're running on tax reform. and those are really good issues. silence. i said but i don't think you have a chance at winning. >> you said what? >> i don't think you have a chance of winning. you don't have a chance. cale boggs is like -- cale boggs is incredible. you've been in this for two years. you look like you're 25 years old. this is a race to run in order to make these issues you care about. i say you can do that, but there is no chance you can win. >> and his reaction to that was? >> well, just come and help me. just come and help me. we'll see

boggs, this was the nix one landslide year.ed no democrat to win and that was the truth. >> we won by a rousing 3,100 votes. >> on election night, i remember it as if it was yesterday. i stood on the floor and i said, i will never, ever think anything is impossible again in my entire life. ♪ happy birthday >> he turned 30, the eligible age to serve, three weeks later. he and amelia already had a picture-perfect young family, a baby named naomi and two toddler boys, joseph biden iii, or bo, and hunter. the quintessential young family was moving to the nation's capitol. >> for six weeks were were on top of the world. he was the dragon slayer. we were the bright young hope of the democratic party, and it was completely joyful. >> on december 18th, amelia was supposed to go with her husband to washington, but decided to stay behind to buy a tree and christmas gifts. >> i went with joe to washington to interview staff. senator byrd told my brother -- offered joe to use his office, which we did. >> and then came the phone call. >> it

boggs.he had been governor of the state for two terms, he had been member of congress for three terms. and he was running for a third term in the united states senate. kale boggs was loved. >> once again, biden asked valerie to run the show. >> i remember saying, joey, i can't run a statewide campaign. i don't know how to do that. remember, he is a he 28, 27. i'm 25, 26. he said don't worry about it, val, we'll figure it out. >> reporter: she reached out to ted kaufman. >> so i went down and talked to him. i said so you're running on civil rights. you're running on -- on -- on environment. you're running on tax reform. and those are good issues but i don't think you have a chance of winning. >> you said what? >> i don't think you have a chance of winning. you don't have a chance. kale boggs is like -- kale boggs is incredible. you've been in this for two years. you look like you're 25 years old. this is a race to run, in order to make these issues that you care about. and i say you do that b

but how would it be possible to restore boggs to the natural state in an industrialized country like germany, the largest oil and gas deposits in the north sea, off the coast of starving. i in no way the plans would mean pumping would continue here. but in the opposite direction, after those deposits are eventually exhausted. but with the c o 2 from european industry really stay underground or will it become a time bomb? i think we can use the example that oil and gas is in the ground and it stays there until we try to take it out. and what we're doing essentially is the reverse. we're replacing c o 2 in the ground. the headquarters of the norwegian petroleum directorate is also here and stuff it makes decisions on the results is undergoing a with c issues. drilling licenses and inspects rock formations. creature is a geologist who has long been searching in the drill core archive for the optimum sediment into which the 1st industrial carbon dioxide will be injected. we have been looking at possible storage options for many years. i think i started with this in 2006 and one of the 1s

but how would it be possible to restore boggs to their natural state in an industrialized country like germany, the largest oil and gas deposits in the north sea, off the coast of starving that in no way the plans would mean pumping would continue here. but in the opposite direction, after those deposits are eventually exhausted. but with the c o 2 from european industry really stay underground or will it become a time bomb? i think we can use the example that oil and gas is in the ground and it stays there until we try to take it out. and what we're doing essentially is the reverse. we are replacing c o 2 in the ground. the headquarters of the norwegian petroleum directorate is also here in stuff and it makes decisions on the resources on the north sea issues drilling licenses and inspects rock formations. free just released as a geologist who has long been searching in the drill core archive for the optimum sediment into which the 1st industrial carbon dioxide will be injected. we have been looking at possible storage options for many years. i think i started with this in 2006 and on

but how would it be possible to restore boggs to their natural state in an industrialized country likegermany, the largest oil and gas deposits in the north sea, off the coast of starve and die in no way. the plans would mean pumping would continue here. but in the opposite direction, after those deposits are eventually exhausted. but with the c o 2 from european industry really stay underground or will it become a time bomb? i think we can use the example that oil and gas is in the ground and it stays there until we try to take it out. and what we're doing essentially is the reverse. we are replacing c o 2 in the ground. the headquarters of the norwegian petroleum directorate is also here instead, it makes decisions on the resources under the north sea issues drilling licenses and inspects rock formations. creature is a geologist who has long been searching in the drill core archives for the optimum sediment into which the 1st industrial carbon dioxide will be injected. moved i've been looking at possible storage options for many years. i think i started with this in 2006 and one of t

but how would it be possible to restore boggs to the natural state in an industrialized country like germany, the largest oil and gas deposits in the north sea are here off the coast of starving, or in no way the plans would mean pumping would continue here. but in the opposite direction, after those deposits are eventually exhausted. but with the c o 2 from european industry really stay underground or will it become a time bomb? i think we can use to example that oil and gas is in the ground and it stays there until we try to take it out. and what we're doing essentially is the reverse. we are replacing c o 2 in the ground. the headquarters of the norwegian petroleum directorate is also here in stuff it makes decisions on the resources under the north sea issues drilling licenses and inspects rock formations. creature free is a geologist who has long been searching in the drill core archives for the optimum sediment into which the 1st industrial carbon dioxide will be injected. and we have been looking at possible storage options for many years. i think i started with this in 2006 a

behind in the polls, facing a werful opponent: united states senator cale boggs, an ally of presidentrd nixonk >> joe biden me about getting involved in his campaign. i stard off by telling him that "there's no way you can win." t cale boggs w candidate for the senate. he'd been a two-term congressman. two-term governor. two-term senator. he was beloved arod the state. so i said that he couldn't win. >> "audacious" is a good term to applto biden back then. this is a guy who wasn't yet old enough to hold the seat. >> narrar: it was a time of crisis in the country. the vietnam war had divided americans... >> opposition to the war in vietnam has set off monstrations in several major cities. n rator: ...igniting social unrest. in delaware, racial tensions boiled over. >> the national guard was called t in several cities to put down riots. one of these cities was wilmington, delaware. >> narrator: black residents were angry. joe biden saw an opportunity to draw on his personal experience with race-- back when he was 19, working at an inner-city pool. >> he was a lifeguard. he was one of th

cale boggs was the candidate for the senate.te he'd been a tw congressman. two-term governor.erm senator. he was beloved around the state. so i said that he couldn't win. >> "audacious" is a good term to apply to biden back then. this is a guy who wasn't yet old enough to hold the seat. >> narrator: it was a time of crisis in the country. the vietnam war had divided americans... >> opposition to the war in vietnam has set off demonstrations in several mar cities. >> narrator: ...igniting social unrest. in delaware, racial tensions boiled over. >> the national guard was callec out in severalies to put down rts. one of these cities wasin on, delaware. >> narrator: black residents were angry.bi jon saw an opportunity to draw on his personal experience with rac- back when he was 19, working at an inner-city pool. >> he was a lifeguard.he as one of the two white guys. he was a tall, slim, uh... young-looking, good-looking, elvis presley-looking kind of guy.kn >> that's how he g some of the guys who were in the gangs. he just seemed to have natural instinct for getting to know peopl

. >> joseph biden, 29 years of age, a democrat according to our abc decision desk has beaten boggs. >porter: and with that, he became one of the youngest ever elected to the senate. but soon after, a different kind of unthinkable. his young family was involved in a terrible car accident, killing his wife, neilia and his infant daughter and badly injuring his two young sons, beau and hunter. two weeks later he was sworn in at their hospital bedside. >> so help you god. >> i do. >> reporter: biden would later marry jill jacobs, an english teacher, and have another daughter ashley. he would never give up on those grade school dreams of becoming president. >> today i announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america. >> reporter: launching a bid for the white house in 1987 and again two decades later, both unsuccessful. when he finally made it to 1600 pennsylvania avenue, it was as vice president to barack obama. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: the two built a deep, personal bond. >> this also gives the internet one l

thank you my name is therese humphrey boggs, i am 66 years old and i live in portage indiana. i spend my life working as a nurse watching people struggle to afford prescription drugs. i never thought it would happen to me. until 2003, when i was diagnosed with multiple grade trellises. after my diagnosis, i began taking copaxone which caused $1800 per month at that time. and after oneyear , i wiped out my savings. and after that, i had to rely on grants to cover the cost. in 2017, lost my grandson at that time the price of paxil had risen to $6000 a month. i could no longer afford it so i went without the drug. when i was not on the drug, i lost short-term memory and experienced declines in my cognitive function 30 business is difficult for me to enjoy the things that i love . such as spending time with my grandchildren. my condition should progress faster just because drug companies want to make a few extra bucks. this drug company price gouging needs to change . as each of you were to reform the system i hope that consider patientslike me . thank you. >> thank you and i now