two votes for senator eugene mccarthy. senator george mcgovern. tes for our distinguished vice president hubert h humphrey. [applause] >> the north carolina vote is as follows. votes for vice president humphrey. two votes for senator mccarthy. one half vote for senator mcgovern and 12 votes for governor moore. north dakota. 25. dakota, the states that modestly admits being cleaner and greener in the summer and whiter and brighter in the winter, casts seven votes for senator mccarthy, 18 votes for vice president humphrey. [applause] walter: the north carolina but after governor dan moore released the delegates showed 11.5 fewer votes for humphrey than our delegate count indicated for the state which is the largest drop in any of their strength. the greatest difference we have had for any of them. they are 1, 2, or three votes at most except for the seven vote drop in georgia. >> 18 votes for senator eugene votes for vice president hubert humphrey. [applause] >> that was ohio. they also gave two votes to mcgovern and one to ted kennedy. >> they'll hi

from west palm beach florida is kathleen. >> and michael cohen. >> give us a better sense of eugene mccarthy. why he falter as the primary process continues. >> mccarthy is an interesting figure. he's an aloof guy and intellectual and very kind of -- he's got liberal policies and sort of conservative demeanor to him. he was somebody that believed in the political process. he ran because he believed that he was fearful that democrats opposed to the war in vietnam, opposed to johnson's policy were going to create a third for fourth party. he wanted to give them an outlet in the political party to, again, make their voices known. and so he had a very sort of traditional view of politics even though -- his spouse of radical policies as time went on during the campaign. he was also somebody that was a little bit lazy and not somebody like campaigning. he would have a hard time talking to people sometimes and he could be effective on tv and effective politician, he was just not -- he did not like the details of campaigning. mccarthy was somebody that would given speeches. here is my position, you

robert kennedy has to demonstrate how he could be superior, not simply an alternative to eugene mccarthygenuine regret that someone better than i had not offered himself. and i -- >> mccarthy and bobby kennedy were not pals. mccarthy had a rather biting wit. >> i had some of the same regrets, i suppose. i didn't know who the other man was, but i had hoped there was someone better. i couldn't name him right offhand at the time. >> my father didn't like mccarthy. he thought mccarthy was effete. he couldn't picture mccarthy at a cuban missile crisis. >> eugene mccarthy was basically a one-issue candidate. he was a peace candidate. but kennedy had a broader vision in terms of what's happening in the cities, what's happening around race and the issues of poverty. >> we want kennedy! we want kennedy! >> we cannot separate ourselves no matter where we live from the problems and the troubles and the difficulties that face the whole of the united states. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president and the next president of the united states, hubert h. humphrey. >> i shall seek the nomination of t

. >> eugene mccarthy was a senator from minnesota who entered the new hampshire primaries as an anti-warhe young people flocked to his banner. cut hair off put on clean clothes. they were going clean for gene. >> it's crucial you pay crossattention to the appearance you are presenting. >> good afternoon we are representing senator mccarthy seeking the democratic nomination for president. >> when mccarthy chose to be a candidate i dropped out at the end of the first semester and went to work for the campaign. the issue was vietnam. >> you have to say that this war has gone too far. >> what makes 1968 such a pivot alyear in american history is that an incumbent president couldn't hold his party together. >> there there be a split in the democratic party they're getting vocal saying if the king republicanings nominate a liberal or moderate and the conservatives will support lyndon johnson? that possible. >> yes. >> is that possible? >> yes. [ laughter ] flonase sensimist. it's the fuel that helps power color this stunning and hair this healthy looking, every time you color. it's the oil-pow

. >> eugene mccarthy was this senator from minnesota who entered the new hampshire primary as an anti-vietnamung people flocked to his banner. they cut their hair off. they put on clean clothes. the saying at the time was they were going clean for gene. >> it's just crucial you pay very close attention to the appearance you are presenting. >> good afternoon. we're representing senator mccarthy who is seeking the democratic nomination for president. >> when mccarthy chose to be a candidate, i dropped out at the end of the first semester and went to work for the campaign. the issue was vietnam. >> you have to say that this war has gone too far. >> what makes 1968 such a pivotal year in american history is that an incumbent president couldn't seem to hold his party together. >> will there be some kind of split in the democratic party? they're all getting quite vocal. >> yes. they're saying that if they nominate a liberal or republican, democrats will support him, and the conservatives in the republican party will support lyndon johnson. >> yes. >> is that possible? >> yes. [ laughter ] get a sun

. >> senator eugene mccarthy has conceded defeat in his bid for the democratic presidential nomination as is lined up, i think senator eugene mccarthy really would have conceded defeat in his heart of hearts a month or two ago. >> the nomination was really not in question anymore. >> mr. mcgovern. >> it was not going to be mccarthy and it was not going to be mcgovern. it was going to be hubert humphrey. that was a done deal before the convention opened. the focus became on a peace plank in the democratic party platform, felt strongly by those of us who had been in the kennedy campaign or mccarthy or mcgovern campaign. >> this is the moment of truth for the democratic party. it was the issue of vietnam and deeply-held feelings that the killing had to stop that motivated robert kennedy to become a candidate for president. a bullet stilled that voice, but he's here today, and if he were alive today, he'd be on that platform speaking for this minority plank. thank you. >> this is still a volatile convention as you see here with this demonstration on the floor. would stop the bombing now wi

campaign is vietnam and that is why lyndon johnson declared he wasn't seeking reelection and why eugene mccarthy'sandidacy was becoming so popular because he was antiwar and kennedy was also an antiwar candidate. robert kennedy showed himself able to talk to that part, coming apart racially in a way that they couldn't talk about and that is why so many hopes were grafted onto the campaign as he was picking up on this sort of vacuum that had developed. he attended the funeral then on april 9 and walked through alongside better after his brother, another figure who had his brother assassinated. you mentioned around the world there was a great appreciation for king. in the united states it got pretty simplified. around the world was very nuanced view or did they get the simplified version of the i have a dream speech? >> is a good question. it isn't to say dependin doesn'n which way you are talking about, he had a different meaning. what i mean is per instance in a lot of places in europe where there were strong leftist student movements and antipathy for raising the vietnam war and in those places h

. >> bobby's rivals for the nomination are president johnson and eugene mccarthy, a senator from minnesotast 15 days into bobby's campaign johnson makes a shocking announcement. >> i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. as angry protests mount over the war in vietnam johnson quits the race in favor of his vice president hubert humphrey. >> hubert humphrey has the establishment behind him. what bobby has is the imagination of the american people, the idea he could restore the kennedy legacy and the kennedy dynasty. >> four days after johnson's announcement bobby heads to a campaign rally in indianapolis. on the way he is told that the reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. has been shot. >> when he arrived in indianapolis the authorities there asked him not to go. the crowd hadn't yet learned that king had been killed, but there were riots erupting elsewhere in response to it. and they were worried about his safety, and he insisted ongoing. >> the police tell him you can't go there. the mayor of the city says you can't go there, and he said, you know,

. >> let's put the year in context, we are talking about eugene mccarthy, the senator to challenge a sitting president in his own party. that announcement was made on november 30, 1967. president johnson fairly defeats mccarthy. he didn't lose the primary it was just his margin of victory. >> he one by four points, i believe. the part he one was extraordinary and i think showed his dissatisfaction within the parties. bobby kennedy actually used that. the party is divided. >> that's right, the party was clearly, there was a huge division. one thing worth pointing out though about the new hampshire vote, 20% voted for george wallace, it wasn't a bunch of hippies saying we shouldn't bring johnson home. he wanted a way out of vietnam. they didn't care if it was withdrawal or escalation, they wanted to find a way to bring troops home, there's a lot of this, he didn't run on a mass form, and he send a message to washington about how you feel about the war effort and he could bring in people not just opposed to the war but he could bring in more moderate, conservative voters who supported th

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led to overtt campaigns against the war by leading democratic candidates, eugene mccarthy, particularly kennedy -- robert kennedy who tried to pick up that mansell. mantle.p that even though johnson and kennedy it had an on raise -- uneasy relationship they had worked together quite productively on civil rights issues. the search for peace though -- the north vietnamese were not interested. they wanted to win on the battlefield. the soviet union was a different matter. the soviet union began to raise the question of these overtures to the north vietnamese. out thesehould put talks taking place in paris. more from 1968 and the johnson white house. [video clip] on march 31, president johnson had avoided a halt to all bombing programs expect over the dmz, an area where massive numbers continue to fall. as a result of this decision, the much awaited truce talks with hanoi began. december, president johnson's chief negotiator at there stillported had been no substantive discussions. the north vietnamese negotiators clung to their long-held demand that all bombing must stop before they would

. >> another significant player, senator eugene mccarthy. >> thomas is joining us from maryland. >> i find it interesting in the conversation that you are having, it seems like they are coming cross, to me, that they were just in a white world. a white supremacist world with porks, whether you were liberal or kefort conservative, there were still white supremacy, i notice that you are talking about regan and you showed the first clip the walter cronkite, you were talking about what was addressed to white people, for white people, by white people. primarily, you have not talked about the south and minorities and the great suffering that went on internally in this country, white supremacy was at the root of it, rayingon and johnson were forced to accept black people as people. lets be real. you are a journalist and photographer, lets get down in the dirt, lets be real about what is happening in america, it was not just about white people. all of of your pictures show white people. the police crushing people's skull under the command of a white person, lets be real about what is really g

around the world. [ change in captioner ] before long, there was a campaign against the war in eugene mccarthy, but particular robert kennedy and that was prior to his assassination to come out explicitly against the war, which had earlier avoided because he knew it would antagonize johnson and even though they had an uneasy relationship, they had worked together quite productively on civil rights. so it all -- the north vietnamese were not interested in peace, they wanted to win on the bad build and they were confident they could do that in the chinese in particular were encouraging them to do that. the soviet union was a different matter. they began to raise the question of overtures the north vietnamese, but the north vietnamese were not interested in listening to that. >> and these talks were taking place in paris from 1968 and in the johnson white house. >> on march 31, president johnson had ordered a bombing halt in all areas of north vietnam except the immediate panhandle above the dmz, an area where massive numbers of infiltrators continued the war. as a result of this decision a much

before long it led to overt campaigns against the war by leading democratic candidates, eugene mccarthy, particularly kennedy -- robert kennedy who tried to pick up that mantle. even though johnson and kennedy it had an on raise -- uneasy relationship they had worked together quite productively on civil rights issues. the search for peace though ultimately -- the north vietnamese were not interested. they wanted to win on the battlefield. the soviet union was a different matter. the soviet union began to raise the question of these overtures to the north vietnamese. host: we should put out these talks taking place in paris. more from 1968 and the johnson white house. [video clip] narrator: on march 31, president johnson had avoided a halt to all bombing programs expect over the dmz, an area where massive numbers continue to fall. as a result of this decision, the much awaited truce talks with hanoi began. during december, president johnson's chief negotiator at the talks reported there still had been no substantive discussions. the north vietnamese negotiators clung to their long-held d

. >> another significant player, eugene mccarthy.>> that was during the campaign and he was the first mainline politician to rise up against lbj. >> thomas is joining us >> good morning, gentlemen. i'm interested in the conversation that you're too journalists are having because it seems like they're coming across -- they were in a white world with perks and whether you will liberal or conservative it was still white supremacy, but the reason i am coming out this way is that i noticed that you're talking about reagan and showed the first clip of cronkite. you were talking about what was addressed to white people for white people by white people. you haven't talked about anything that dealt with people of minority and what was really going on internally in this country. and white supremacy was at the root of that. reagan, johnson, let's be real. you are a renowned journalist and photographer. but let's get down in the dirt and let's be real about what is happening in america. was not all about white people in all your pictures show white students and the police being like they are toda

led to overtt campaigns against the war by leading democratic candidates, eugene mccarthy, particularly kennedy -- robert kennedy who tried to pick up that mansell. mantle.p that even though johnson and kennedy it had an on raise -- uneasy relationship they had worked together quite productively on civil rights issues. the search for peace though -- the north vietnamese were not interested. they wanted to win on the battlefield. the soviet union was a different matter. the soviet union began to raise the question of these overtures to the north vietnamese. out thesehould put talks taking place in paris. more from 1968 and the johnson white house. [video clip] on march 31, president johnson had avoided a halt to all bombing programs expect over the dmz, an area where massive numbers continue to fall. as a result of this decision, the much awaited truce talks with hanoi began. december, president johnson's chief negotiator at there stillported had been no substantive discussions. the north vietnamese negotiators clung to their long-held demand that all bombing must stop before they would

area before long, it led to overt campaigns against the war by leading democratic candidates, eugene mccarthy, particularly robert kennedy who tried to pick up that mantle. martin luther king, prior to his assassination, had come out explicitly against the war, which he earlier avoided because he knew it would antagonize johnson. men had an the two uneasy relationship, they had worked quite productively together on civil rights issues. the search for peace though ultimately what caused it to elude johnson was the north , the enemies were not interested in peace. they wanted to win on the battlefield. the chinese in particular were encouraging them to do that. the soviet union was a different matter. the soviet union began to raise the question of peace overtures to the north vietnamese. but the north vietnamese were not interested in listening. host: we should put out these talks taking place in paris. more from 1968 and the johnson white house. [video clip] narrator: on march 31, president johnson had ordered a bombing halt to all areas of northern vietnam except over the dmz, an area where

and the sense that he could bring back in, say, the eugene mccarthy supporters, the anti-war supportersnow, robert kennedy just, you know, very fascinating -- so, you know, to the caller's point, we'll never know, of course. in some ways, it might have been harder for him to have won the nomination than the general election. because if he had won the nomination, he would have had more daylight between the democratic party, which he would then lead in lyndon johnson. he would not -- because he was an opponent of johnson, because he was much more of vociferously anti war and, of course, the great unanswered question is, could he sustain electorally a coalition of african-americans, latinos, and working class white voters around issues of economic justice. and, of course, you know, we'll never know. but that was -- that's one of the great what-if debates, i think, of modern american history. >> but in terms of that debate, i think it's worth noting that those working class white voters were getting very restless about where the democratic party was taking the country. and where the democra

led to overtt campaigns against the war by leading democratic candidates, eugene mccarthy, particularly kennedy -- robert kennedy who tried to pick up that mansell. mantle.p that even though johnson and kennedy it had an on raise -- uneasy relationship they had worked together quite productively on civil rights issues. the search for peace though -- the north vietnamese were not interested. they wanted to win on the battlefield. the soviet union was a different matter. the soviet union began to raise the question of these overtures to the north vietnamese. out thesehould put talks taking place in paris. more from 1968 and the johnson white house. [video clip] on march 31, president johnson had avoided a halt to all bombing programs expect over the dmz, an area where massive numbers continue to fall. as a result of this decision, the much awaited truce talks with hanoi began. december, president johnson's chief negotiator at there stillported had been no substantive discussions. the north vietnamese negotiators clung to their long-held demand that all bombing must stop before they would