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his candidate was george mcgovern. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, let's put watergate in front of us. please welcome max holland. [ applause ] >> thank you very much for that introduction. before i get started, i would like to thank the staff of the kansas city public library for making this event possible. it's a very well oiled machine. i'm very impressed with its deficiency. i'd also like to thank my publisher, the university press of kansas, especially jen chin for getting the book in the right hands. it's great to be back in the midwest. i went to journalism school up the road in lincoln, nebraska. in fact, i was attending journalism school when the film "all the presidents men" came out, and i was suitably impre impressed. i was among those who would flock to journalism school after watergate. i never forgot one of the first lessons i learned from a journalism professor who had worked at the "lincoln star." he said, remember, every person you interview puts on their pants one leg at a time just like you do, which was another way of saying not to be intimidated by anyone y

george mcgovern. in a family with one nixon voter and one mcgovern voter. of great time to come of it age with carter and iran contra and then i had my own off firm 14 years then in 2008 putting our kids on the bus and everybody was complaining about the robocalls. one dae said he had no landline. i have a cellphone and nobody knows what i think. i thought i needed to start a company. i stopped in november we have the startup company we were a of finalist than the south by southwest competition and it has been a great. >> host: and people want to sign of what is the website? votifi.com. >> host: founder and ceo of votifi, louis aronson. >> another company on display rehab the seattle. what is your company? [inaudible] we have a camera that can see like the electronic by to help you avoid accidents and with cars and pedestrians and bicyclists m&a thain to help the driver >> host: where did the idea come from? ninety-three% of accidents are because of the driver. 80% is due to intervention. [inaudible] how can we help the driver? replacing the driver is impos

everybody i know voted for george mcgovern. everyone she knows voted for george mcgovern. work for the new yorker. who else would they have voted for? they d't -- theroit thftay a t speaking about honest liberals. i am speaking about the left. a minority but they run the show. liberals basically are afraid to confront them on the caus. thonely vewoabemca thonavey about rationality or truth. you look at that. i look at that. they just know that they are right. they know they areght. e tyoten ulism idea contrary to there's, i just look at this and wondered if people have -- we reallyid away with the full beargs or what? erybodknwhgn n sotle or aeal or a bag of popcorn. when you look at the picture on the sonogram everybody knows that abortion is the taking of an nocent human li. er tweo t o 'tavchlden. they and love each other but can't get married in a real sense because marriage is never about individuals who are involved. it is always about children. the only way you get children is through a man and woman. opitstnite.t it is all about or jndoned but societies have always

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i worked in my first campaign in 1972 for george mcgovern. in my family, i had when nixon vote for and won the governor -- then you had watergate, the carter years, iran contra -- i always stayed involved, but then i took more of the traditional path into the practice of law. i had my own law firm for 14 years. then, in 2008, we were putting their kids on a bus stop and everybody was complaining about the robocalls. one guy was not complaining. i asked him why -- he did not have a land mine. i realize i should start a mobile phone-based polling company. nobody knows what i think about anything. i left the practice of law in november. we have to start a company -- we have been fortunate to have folks bring us down here today. i was just down in austin at south by southwest, where we were finalists in the accelerator competition for hot new mobile companies. it has been great. a lot of fun so far. >> if people want to sign up, what is the website? >> www.votify.com. >> president and founder of votifi. -- votifi.com >> here on display is mobiley

it's george mcgovern and walter mondale. a key address from robert caro. at 2:00 and 10:00 p.m., the writings and observations of french aristocrat and his conceptions of liberty, equality and community and commentator michael barone. american history tv wednesday july 4th on c-span 3. >> the life of a sailor included scrubbing a deck and working on the sails and climbing the lost. the gun drill practice and by the end of the day, you are ready for rest. you don't get a full eight hours of sleep. it's four hours on, four hours off. >> this weekend on american history tv, the life of an enlisted man on the uss constitution during the war of 1812. >> the sailor lived in fear over being whipped. it was always carried by a petty officer in a bag and the thing a sailor never wanted to see was petty officer getting ready for a nothinging. it's a phrase we still use today. don't let the cat out of the bag. we don't want to see them coming out of the bag. >> that's sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern and specific. more from the contenders. our series on key political figu

nixon was supposed to be felt's ticket to being director, and he certainly didn't want to elect george mcgovern. but let me also stress that merely by understanding what felt was up to doesn't exonerate nixon or exculpate what he did or corruptions of power. but telling this story tells an important story about the media's full role. once we have this fairytale dissipate, we can really understand the importance of the role of the media played in 1972. and make no mistake, i do believe it played an important role, just not the exaggerated view that's common. the press, the attention of the press was very critical because once you listened to presidential recordings, you immediately realize that what was -- especially in those days when the media was different than it is now, what was on the front page of the "washington post," "the new york times" often drove the agenda that they in the white house, they had to react to it or say something. so the fact that the "post" was just covering watergate was important. it no doubt influenced the judge who was trying the case. he supposedly said that to b

senator george mcgovern, my god. a world war ii bomber pilot who received the distinguished flying cross for his heroism. a history teacher, member of the house, elected senator in 1962. opposed the war in vietnam vigorously. the democratic candidate for president in 1972. actually i got to know him best -- i was the counsel for the democratic party then, and george call immediate one day and from south dakota. >> his vice presidential candidate, john eagleton, got into trouble. he said how do you change the candidate for vice president. i said, i don't know. he said, you better find out, you're my lawyer. he left the senate, stayed in the senate in 1980, he's done lots of work for food for peace. this july, if i'm right, george, you will celebrate your 90th birthday, 90 years young. walter mondale, vice president of the united states under jimmy carter. don't we wish we had men like that in washington today. i got to -- he was the attorney general of minnesota, then he would be, he was appointed senator in 1964 to t

risk of -- at the expense of religions whose doctrines have become undifferentiatable from the george mcgovern platform in the 1972 presidential election. second way that we've remained an exceptional nation is we are as we were at tocqueville's time arguably we're not a century a ago in the progressive era, but i would submit are again, is we are a property owner's democracy. most persons in the course of their working lives accumulate significant amounts. hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property in the form of real estate and financial estimates. we're in an economic downturn period now. by no means the most severe in our history. but the fact that most americans, i believe, continue to look forward to and with good reason to accumulating property means they're less likely to sign up to be a member of a herd of timid industrial animals. finally, i believe a case can be made that american voters have not supinely ratified the creation of soft despotism. they've tended to resist it. when parties in power have tried to expand the size and scope of government, they've been sharply rebu

george mcgovern. in a family that i had one nixon voter and one mcgovern voter in our family. it was a great time to come of age with watergate and the carter years and iran-contra and the falling of the wall. and i always stayed involved, i but then i took a little bit more of a traditional path into the practice of law. had my own law firm for 14 years, and then in '08 we were standing at a bus stop putting our kids on the bus, and everybody was complaining about the robocalls. one guy wasn't complaining, and i asked him why, and he said he didn't have a land line, and i right then and there said i ought to start a mobile phone-based polling company because i live in a 301, and i never answer my phone, and no one answers what or how i think except on game day. and so i left the practice of law in november, and we got this start-up company, and we've been really fortunate to have folks help us out here today. we were just down at austin at south by southwest where we were a finalist for hot new mobile compa, and it's been great, you know, it's been a lot of fun so far. >> hos

the other george, less obvious, would be mcgovern. the republicans ever since the george mcgovern campaign of 1972 has been kind of a republican truth that the republicans can fall back on election time even when it isn't necessarily true that the democrats are weak on defense. and the fact that this isn't true shows up over and over again at the time of the persian gulf war the shock and awe of american high-tech weaponry that we saw at the beginning of the war actually was developed in the late 1970's in the pentagon of jimmy carter under a guy with a high-tech background named william perry. democrats and repblicans have both been familiar with issues and the use of force, and it's not a black and white democrats weak on defense issue. so the problem in writing this book was the had all worked aside one another in one administration after another. when i began talking to the obama foreign policy team, one of the most surprising things i found was the underlining generational tensions to be specific "obamaians" thought of themselves

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. >>> ever since george mcgovern was dovish about vietnam there's a stereotype about all democrats beingoreign policy doves. republicans likes nixon and both bushes were elected because dems portrayed them soft on the gulf war. to supporters obama has destroyed that image. despite thanks to a steadfast disapproval of the iraq war, obama has shown himself to be a hawk, killing bin laden, aggressively hunting terrorists around the war. this is the first election in decades where the republicans cannot easily use foreign policy against the democrat. the challenge for bottom on foreign policy it's different. bill clinton's generation had come to take it for granted the u.s. was and would remain the world's dominant power. the obama generation saw itself as struggling to hold on to that designation for another few decades. james, how does the obama white house work to maintain that position of united states in dominant position? >> i think it's trying to recast american foreign policy to emphasize military strength much less, after all military power had its limits in iraq. and trying to revi

[laughter] in 1972, clinton is task by george mcgovern to run texas. as lost causes go, it is one of the great lost causes. [laughter] who is the only ally that they had? lyndon johnson. except for he was not sure either. the day comes when the government goes to the ranch, right after the convention just before they realized that tom eagleton might not be the best vice presidential candidate. bill clinton, the cochair of texas and mcgovern, and taylor branch, who would eventually be part of the clinton administration, flipped a coin about which one of them -- quentin says that taylor comes back from the meeting, which do not go well, by the way. a signed picture for clinton of lbj. that is as close as clinton got two leading lbj. what is great about the american presidency is that we all remember a motorcade going by. ronald reagan, on the back of the train somewhere in iowa -- i think it was the morning. i would not count on it. everybody has their creation stories that clinton never met lbj. he told us that he thought, as all presidents do, because

>> by doing it, it allowed president nixon to campaign against george mcgovern and his piece tomorrow slogan. people admired honorable peace in a few years as opposed to instant peace with dishonor. the big move that the president had was really a veto. when there is not a war and they are not commander in chief, whatever the president campaigned as -- when i am president we will have milk and honey. when i am president, we will close guantÁnamo. when i am president, we will fix this problem. the truth is if the senate sends the bill that he likes, it takes 50 senators to pass it. if he does not like it, it takes is the seven senators to override him. he is the 800-pound center, if you will. the 17-pound gorilla, if you want. i will skip the successors, because i have gone on longer than i was supposed to. i wanted to talk about obama today, because he is really running the truman strategy of 1948, which is the same as bill clinton in 1996, which is basically trying to paralyze and take away the operating space of the challenger, by giving senators and congressmen from that party, the

and by doing it and allow president nixon to campaign on peace with honor against george mcgovern speech tomorrow. people, on average, preferred honorable piece than a few years to instant piece with dishonor. these big moves, the big moves the presidents have are really the veto. a president, when there is not a war and they're not commander-in-chief is whenever they campaigned as, the government. when i am president we will have milk and honey. and i am president we will close guantanamo. when i am president will fix this problem. the truth this, if the senate since in the bill that he likes it takes 50 senators to pass. if he doesn't like it takes 67 to override him. so he is the 800 pounds senator, if you will, the 17 senator guerrilla, if you wanted. and i'll skip the successors because i have gone on longer than i was supposed to. i wanted to talk about obama today because he is really running the truman strategy of 1940 gatehouse which is the same as bill clinton 96 which is basically trying to paralyze and take away the operating space of the challenger by giving senators and con

. >> the reason people are vetted today with the intensity to which they are because in 1972 george mcgovernad a history of psychiatric treatments. jimmie carter had his lawyers investigate these guys. it's gone on from there and got enmore and more intense. >> some would argue with that. but in general that's probably true. let's take a look at this year's top candidates for vp. mitt romney has nard his list to three people, rob portman of ohio, bobby jindal and tim pawlenty. he describes the risk for each man. here's what he had to say. portman's risk is his ties to president george w. bush. used to be his budget director. pawlenty's risk is attack on romney. and bobby jindal's is faith-based extremism in the fact that he's written about spiritual warfare among other things. ted frank is not working with the romney campaign but what issues did he say he would look for if he were doing the vetting process? >> that's the kind of stuff you look at. the purpose of the vetting process, part of it is to uncover any skeletons. you're doing it so you have a full plate of information so you can sor

. >> george mcgovern. some people are still willing to say they voted for him.uy and a great american. the hammer fell on penn state yesterday. eager to know what you think about it. we talked yesterday morning about the fact that the hammer was about to fall on the ncaa mark emmet, the president of the ncaa who had the news conference after our show ended yesterday morning, we expected. there were rumors that penn state might get the death penalty, meaning, of course all football would be banned from the campus for a few years at any rate. as it ended up. they didn't get the death penalty. i think they got worst because they are dead but they are still alive. yeah, but they are dead. you know what i mean? it's sort of like the in-between land where they can play football, but they can't really reap all of the rewards of it. so mark emmet yesterday, let's start with what he said was just a zero tolerance for the kind of permissive -- for the kind of criminal behavior and willingness to kind of cover it up and go along with it that penn state exhibited. >> you ca

tom eagleton and george mcgovern, big example in 1992, and then when you look at it, it's basically about you qualified to succeed. you've got to pass that threshold, steve. and are you qualified to succeed, do no harm, get out in the campaign trail, play the little role of attack dog, do it in a way that's responsible. >> host: you said a vp making a difference in one occasion. are you referring to 1960, kennedy-dyson ticket? >> >> guest: absolutely where he delivered texas. some say not legally, and three southern states, absolutely. i mean, it's tough to find another election -- you might go back to the 19th correctoryo century and find it marginally so but certainly not in modern times. >> host: nortonberg, new jersey, democrat on the line, good morning. >> caller: good morning. my question to the gentlemen is about the swing states, when you go to pennsylvania, the idea they put on there, i don't have nothing against i.d.s, per se, what my problem is why was that not done two or three years before a national election, not just a few months. who affects people that cannot have it. i c

they had a big fight over whether to support george mcgovern. there have been some seminal moments. one afternoon in the summer of 1976, i met my future husband in georgia on the high school softball fields as the staff of jimmy carter playing the press. we forget how competitive he was. he always got the secret service on the campaign staff team so they clobbered the reporters every gain. who knows what those agents might be up to later. we had a romantic dinner after that first game. he immediately drove to atlanta because he had a date with the an airline attendant. [laughter] or those unforgettable moments in cnn, hanging chads. i wish i would have the presence of tim russert to transcend technology with a simple chalkboard. to look ateral ways this election. all of them lead to the conclusion that this will be a very close outcome. this is more stark this share then usual. the conditions versus the candidates. they decided majority of american voters believe the country is on the wrong track. most believe they're not better off than they were four years ago. that is bad news fo

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