because i know you were very close to humphrey. >> you know, hubert and i, i loved hubert. and i was thrilled when he became vice president. and i would say in retrospect he would have been better off if he hadn't been vice president. i think he had a great career in the senate. everybody loved him. this was really tough. he wrote a memo to then president johnson as the new vice president warning him about the war in vietnam. it's one of the most prescient, carefully reasoned possible documents for the president to read. and the president took it as an insult and froze humphrey out of any meaningful involvement in the johnson administration for the better part of half a year. humphrey felt it deeply. and i feel that humphrey went around and to do even better at supporting the war to try to get back into the president's graces. humphrey writes about this in his own autobiography. it's really a painful couple of pages. and a i don't think humphrey -- humphrey loved johnson, but i don't think he ever got over that treatment. tell one story. in order to get an airplane to fly t

hubert humphrey was senator, living in washington and her anwainwind od hoh swirl.nd you know, i think it must have been hugely exciting and she was bowled over by him really and fell in love with him. thintht makenectly theort of lwaali to do. i mean, the contrarian experience of her life and that caused her lots of you know, doubt and pa i think. d sh ind of ata o inhiperanll relationship, she looked for a way out, trying to find her way, not to have to embrace what was clearly her destiny, you know, too nck ohethisa. french equivalent of a fulbright and went over there and became a francophile and had a very interesting experience, got to know ver mrll sy ienby him. but in some sense her mentor, her destiny and he and away after she was there for a year or so came and got her and brought hehome and married her. coter d., she had three children in very quick succession. she was then given -- she was at georgetown university and i got the government dertment to teaca variety of pocshembf ruding psonitin tian as very insistent that her schedule be that of any other

host: a then maybe we can lk about, then, when she met heduio ife tpatrick, and then moatit through hubert humphrey, to that wing of the democratic party you alluded to at the beginning which she began to get involved in as a graduate student. >> guest: afteshe got her masters dege, it wouldave i rouly 1950 -- her father's patience in supporting her kind of finally ran out. he had been vaguely reassured when she chose political science, as her discipline -- use t w" ishing, at least. and seemed to be real -- a real discipline. and she had to fend for her and had to get a job. shet d totond ou s'd w f a while and pursue her ph.d with knoyman on the side, and she got introduction to the state department, largely from knoyman, and was interviewed by wog ttae department. one was herbert marcuzo, who later becam somebody she loathe because he was a sort o ne a neftual godther iss f jnnthat never stopped. th antiamericannism of it, and it's kind of revolutionary culture, but she was iri he man, but she also had an interview with a man named evan kirkpatrick, who worked inside the state departmen

at this time, hubert humphrey was senator, living on washington in her as her husband was called, wasn not swirl and introduced her to that swirl. and you know, i think it must've been hugely exciting. was still in love with him. it was exactly the sort of thing that a woman like "political jer values is likely to do. it cost her father's doubt it pain you think. and she kind of after a year or two working there and falling into this impetuous relationship, she looked for a way out, trying to find a way not to have to embrace that was clearly her destiny, you know, to be with this man. she accepted a scholarship to go to france, a french equivalent of the fulbright and went over there and became a francophile and had a very interesting experience, a very martial i can move, very much in the spy him. but curt was in some sense the mentor of the destiny and in a way after she was there for a year came and got her and brought her home and married her. >> now, when jean came back from france and completed the phd, she is three children she was the government department to teach a variety

cisco chamber of commerce, ken bailey, julie christensen, john franklin, john hirsch berger, ryan hubert. the opposition has been from stephen worsley and generally from john gollinger, and otehrs. -- and others. continuing public process, there will be no less than eight public meetings on this topic, including this meeting and the previous operations committee. all opportunities for the public to weigh in on the process for it should the commission select terry grimm, staff will do the following -- hold a meeting in the community to introduce him. in addition, after a successful lease negotiation, we will go back to the city to present the negotiated terms before we come back to the commission for recommendation to approve those terms. we will then come to the operation committee to consider recommending to the board of supervisors. we will then go to the budget finance committee, the full board of supervisors, and the mayor will have the offer -- the ultimate decision. that concludes my part of the presentation. i would like to have terry grimm come up and introduce himself. i am more

cisco chamber of commerce, ken bailey, julie christensen, john franklin, john hirsch berger, ryan hubert. the opposition has been from stephen worsley and generally from john gollinger, and otehrs. -- and

and he said, you know who had this office when hubert humphrey was vice president? and i said, no, sir, i don't. he said, it's funny, neither does anyone else. and then he said, two things are going to happen to you in the next few weeks. he said, the first thing you're going to conclude is that this job that you have is really important. and then you're going to decide that there is one thing more important than the job, itself, and that's the fact that you have it. and he said, i don't know how to tell you this, but neither one of those things is true. well, when you -- and i've often thought that everyone who comes to washington should have a boss who tells him that. somebody gets elected to congress, and this was the end of the so-called revolution of 1994, in the summer of 1995. the new speaker of the house, mr. gingrich, called his caucus together and said, the single most important thing we need to do is be re-elected. so here are the cardinals of the appropriations committee. anything you need, they will give you. because all of a sudden, that job was import

got to know -- he was attorney general of minnesota, then he was appointed senator in 1964 to take hubert humphries' a place when lbj was elected president and humphry vice president. 1966 he was elected in his own right, democratic party nominee for president in 1994 and ambassador to japan for four years in the 1990s. he is still practicing law in minneapolis, and when he was vice president, i think it's fair to say that no one was more responsible for my getting the job as secretary of hew than you are. wonderful, wonderful man. bill moyers. [ applause ] one of our -- one of our country's most prolific and respected journalists. a 40-year run on public broadcasting with a new series this year, i think it's "moyers & a company." he helped organize the peace corps. he was press secretary and a close confidante of lbj, publisher of newsday. when bill called me, i was working in the pentagon. when bill called me and said you got to come over here and work in the white house. and i said well -- he said, no it will be fun. bill, i never knew what fun was until i started working for lyndon jo

so everything we did there, and johnson was leading, hubert was in there and the rest, began with how can we make this a bipartisan program. every civil rights bill of any significance ended up in dirksen's office. if you wanted a civil rights act, sooner or later you went to see dirksen. and if he would sign on, you could pass it. if he wouldn't, he wouldn't. i remember i handled fair housing. and it looked finally they were going to pass it. and phil hart said to me what can i do for you. i said i would like my name on this bill soy tell the folks back home i'm getting something done. he said can't do that. why not? dirksen's name goes on the bill. and that's how we got things done. now it seems to me that whole dialogue, everything that is a train wreck. there is no sense of getting things done or serving broader purposes. and we got to do something about it. johnson did in his time. i don't think it's being done now. >> well, what happened? what caused this change? ervin? >> i think what we have seen over the years is what might be called the emptying out of the center. richard sc

practically already made and a civil rights bill that hasn't even passed the house and it's november and hubert humphrey told me yesterday everybody wanted to go home. we have a tax bill that they haven't touched. we just got the letter -- not letter upon any of them to keep going. and i guess they'll say that i'm repudiating but i'm going to ask the congress to just stay there until they pass them all. they won't do it, but we'll just keep them there members year to do it, and they just won't give up an inch. >> uh-huh. well, this is mighty fine. i think it's so imperative. i think one of the great tributes is to try to enact some of the great progressive policies he sought to initiate. >> i'm going split them all and i'm going to do my best to get other men to do likewise. i never needed it more than i do now. >> you know you have it. and feel free to call on us for anything. >> thank you so much, martin. >> all right. >> call me -- >> i sure will. call me when you're down here next time. >> i certainly will. >> let's get together. any suggestions you got, bring them in. >> fine. i certainly

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but the democratic primary involve the wisconsin primary, hubert humphrey and john f.annedy, and the west virgin primary, same two contenders, and humphrey is almost like a stalking horse. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: a fellow who is kind of saying he is operating on his own but really at the bee lest of behess of someone else. humphrey wanted to be on his own but lyndon johnson wanted it more because johnson wants power more than anyone ever but lyndon johnson wants to do it the indirect way, the back-slapping, in the cloakroom sort of way, and if he's going to get the nomination, that's howl he is going to get it. so he does not enter any primaries. he enters the democratic race like a week before the convention convenes in los angeles. and you know he almost pulls it off. he almost pulls it off. because jack kennedy is not nominated until -- until they call the roll on wyoming. now there's no state that begins with z, okay? that's far down in the role call. robert kennedy says if jack doesn't win it on the first ballot, he doesn't within at awesome but th

hubert humphrey has a leg up because he comes from next door in minnesota. he does a little better at the polls when they get it wrong. they get it wrong. and humphrey exceeds expectations in the delegates. he goes on to west virginia and the polls, which have been up for jack kennedy before wisconsin, i guess before the folks there realized that he was a catholic, they take a downturn. kennedy then really perfects -- perfects his style going for the people. and i think that the poverty of the people in west virginia, kind of changes them because it is just terrible and awful they are. and i think it opens his eyes to some things, which he had been shielded from, even as a senator from massachusetts. >> we wanted to give you a taste of what david writes about, and now it is your turn if you have questions for them. we will begin with joel in davidson, north carolina. >> caller: nice to hear from mr. david pietrusza. my question is, what are the obstacles to unifying the major leagues by resolving the designated hitter rule? >> guest: to unify the major leagu

professor of government and political science at the anil t i l of minnota. '30s had as a student hubert humphrey and became humphrey's mentor and, ultimately, his great friend. and kind of built a litil apratuerld coeror i ic pic on humphrey, but orville friedman who later became governor of minnesota and sort of as a junior member, walter mondale, although he came a little later. but,ounow, wthumy ev kirk pat kirkpatrick -- excuseme --ad kicked the communists out of the fringes of the decratic party once and for al. d adnpaf t urtoiauring rld war ii, so he had that experience and always had these intelligence connections. so he saw something inje anenugerasis e ane d been himself married a couple of times already -- which she didn't fully know, i think, the full story of that -- he became a mentor as well as an employer. heijo for him was editing some papers captured by the nazis, soviet prisoners that they had taken tat showed the ntthuat s t. hendviofis hell of totalitarianism. and so he, you know, he introduced her to all this. it must have been a swirl of grandeur and excitement fo

look at this -- we found this footage of hubert humphrey back in 1965. >> mr. chairman, mr.nt, my fellow americans, i ask you this. what did the sign on the door of the whorehouse say? wear clothes. beat it. >> jimmy: you see what i'm saying? mrauls mrauls [ applause ] so that -- goes way back. i think dirty jokes should be an official duty of the vice president. you know, joe biden says a lot of nutty things when he speaks in public. never seems to get him down. he keeps doing it. he's figured out a way to capitalize on it and raise money from their campaign. >> this summer, don't miss your chance to see america's funniest number two. joe biden, vp of comedy. >> those warms were awful thin, i wonder how the hell my parents did it, but that's a different story. >> every laugh. >> as barack says, a three-letter word. jobs. j-o-b-s. jobs. >> every gaffe. >> god rest your soul and, um -- wait, your mom -- your mom is still alive, your dad passed. god bless her soul. >> the joe biden vp of comedy tour. you'll vp your pants laughing. >> i promise you, the president has a big stic

hubert julian, or something like that. he called himself a black eagle.y couple of years he would -- advertisers would pay him to go over harlem and a red devil suit and jump out with a parachute, and he would travel behind a marquee. he and chamberlain were best of friends. finally, finally julian said, he built this claim he was going to be the first american flyers to fly from new york city to liberia, and i guess it was a pretty rickety plane because he invited chamberlain to fly with him, and chamberlain kind of cocked his eye at him and said you're not really good to fly into, are you? yeah, come along with me. and the plane actually took off and it within about three seconds it landed in the east river and julian was in the hospital for about a week or something like that. and i don't think he ever tried again. but he's a really fascinating character. and i think he went on an aviation. but chamberlain was, and, the only person -- chamberlain was the only one of the flyers in the orteig prize to get along with levine, and he was the only one, this

we went to lunch and he told meal a story how lyndon johnson at the time hubert humphrey was getting the nomination for president in chicago, he sent him to chicago, johnson sent him, he said, to, what's going on and make sure that, you know, that humphrey-- i'm trying to remember this well. you probably kow this. >> actually, i'm not-- i'm not sure about it. >> rose: but basically said to him, he told me, johnson said, "you go to chicago. just make sure and keep why you were feet to the fire" with respect to vietnam at that time. he didn't change on vietnam until during the campaign as you know. >> no, johnson really kept his feet to the fire. >> rose: that's a story you'll be telling. he went back to texas after announcing he was not going to run, and the presidency ends and richard nixon is elected president. >> yes. >> rose: people say that he was ready to die. >> well, you know, there are -- >> rose: he was in his 60s. >> yes, he dies at 64. >> rose: yeah. >> you know, there are a number of things that happened without my saying-- because i haven't arrived at a conclusion on tha

again, but nixon was able to convince johnson he probably agreed with his vietnam policy more than hubertthat election so he wouldn't be helping humphrey succeed him. in the last days johnson discovers that nixon was secretly sabotaging the vietnam peace talks in order to avoid a break-through that would have tipped the election to humphrey. johnson has to decide whether he's going to call him out on this, and it's 1968, the country's been in flames for most of the year. he decides not to. but, of course, that means nixon comes into office knowing that johnson has incredible dirt on him and really needs to keep johnson happy. don't let him go off the reservation, don't get him talking about what he knew. >> well, my favorite thing is that this man named don kendall told me a story, he was the head of pepsi-cola and when non cage into office he needed to have somebody talk to johnson about some sensitive matter. he sends kendall down as his friend. johnson is working on his memoirs and hating it, says i don't remember anything that happened in these days, the only chapters that are good at

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