i take great pride in presenting my friend from minneapolis, mayor hubert h. humphrey, candidate for united states senator. >> in november of 1948, harry truman won a historic upset, and making history of his own, hubert h. humphrey became minnesota's first democratic senator. >> being a romantic and ide idealistic person when he went to washington in 1948, i think he probably felt that this was going to be mr. smith goes to washington, the place of marble monuments were just waiting for him to come there and change the world in a crusade and very quickly his dreams and idealism collided with reality. >> the reality was a senate dominated by the same dixie crats humphrey had angered with his civil rights speech the summer before and they would not go easy on hubert humphrey. >> after all, i had been the destroyer of the democratic party, the enemy of the south, hubert humphrey, the, quote-unquote, nigger lover. but i never felt so lonesome and unwanted in my life as i did those first few weeks and months as united states senator. >> where did you find the ronald reagan

>> it's pretty much everywhere. >> here is -- as everybody knows at least our age that hubert humphrey ran for president in '68, but here's this difficulty of going in and out of vietnam and what he sees from your documentary. >> position to the war grew and since humphrey was defending it, humphrey lost his credibility with not only his traditional liberal constituencies but many others as well. >> humphrey, remember, had positioned himself as the champion of the liberal wing of the democratic party. and it appeared to us that he traded that in for power. >> he seemed very quickly almost like a caricature of himself. given what he believed and how he was by nature, by temperament versus what people were seeing every night on their television screen. >> 300 body bags coming back every week. things that i don't think johnson or humphrey anticipated. the endlessness of it. the being lied to about the pentagon about a few more bombs >> by the end of humphrey's first year as vice president, there were nearly 200,000 american troops on the ground in vietnam. but there was another war going

hubert humphrey wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons now, before it mushrooms.ow. humphrey. there is no alternative. >> so, let me first go to jessica larkins and stephen kinney from st. peters college, get your reaction to those two ads, 1968. jessica, let's start with you. >> hi, yeah, i think that both of those ads are extreme little scary, you know? i mean, if i was to vote for president nixon, i might want to vote for him, you know, based on his ad but then i look at humphrey's ad, shoot, maybe i am afraid of president nixon, because i don't want the bomb to be in the wrong hands. i think both were very scary. >> stephen, what about you? >> i agree. and i want to say that i think in contemporary era, certainly candidates can use war images to influence the public. however, i don't know that we could use sort of the same method. nixon's ad had images of foreign wars on foreign lands and almost insinuating this is what america could look like. i don't think people would buy the same idea if we had images of afghanistan and any other war. the same with humphre

hubert humphrey used to say that he was an optimist because he looked out in the field of pessimism and there was too much competition. [laughter] but i think we have a lot to be optimistic about. when we met in san francisco recently, i really wanted to come back, because what you have done here is probably more than most cities in the country, and i invite you to continue to push washington. because what you have done is you have continued to raise this issue, and i think that will kind of give us the ammunition to move the program forward. i also want to recognize the employer here, because we get a lot of credit to employees for working hard and doing their job, but it really is employers, small businesses that are going to turn this around. and you articulated it. what they have done here in bringing this shop, opening this shot up here, helping to rejuvenate a community, but also to provide some pretty damn impressive pastry in the process. i am glad to be here, and i hope to be invited back at some point. thank you. [applause] >> and i will introduce the owner of pastry cupboard.

political advantage because it land blasted and implicated the concerns of democrats, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey john kennedy. it was fine, as far as he was concerned. he called up mr. dixon and then henry kissinger, who at first was also not determined to pursue this or the ones who finally raised the issue to something of importance from mr. nixon and then the question is, so how did he respond? the first thing he did was to seek a prior injunction through but they actually enjoin the american society from discussing the subject. it was the same kind of an approach to an issue when a reconnaissance plane was shut down. now, since i thought about this point earlier, i ran and looked for this little piece of paper, which happens to be the record of the national security council meeting. the first and only national security council meeting that mr. nixon held in the context of the pentagon papers leak. it was held at 3:30 p.m. on the 17th of june, 1971. mr. nixon both opened and closed the meeting. he opened by saying that a number of u.s. presidents, if you wanted to get something into the new y

hubert humphrey was a liberal, and republican goldwater was a hardcore conservative. they came and they went, but none of them left for the reasons given last week of snowthe moderate senator who said she was just tired of fooling with the modern senate with it's my way or the highway mentality. it was no longer a place to accomplish anything. snowe is not the first to say that, just the first to say it aloud, the senate will be the worse for her absence, but will survive. what does it say about politics when serious people conclude that serving in the united states senate is no longer worth their time and effort? that's the part that should worry the rest of us. back in a minute. >> bob: that's it for us today. stay with cbs news for all the latest. and join us tuesday for the special super tuesday coverage. start with cbs this morning, tliet through with scott pelley and the evening news and special reports throughout the evening as the night unfolds. thanks for watching "face the nation". we'll see you right here next week. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by

political advantage because it lambasted and implicated the concerns of democrats linden johnson, hubert humphrey, john kennedy. it was fine as far as he was concerned. alexander hague calling up mr. nixon and then henry kissinger who at first was also not determined to pursue this were the ones

political advantage because it lambasted and implicated the concerns of democrats, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey, john kennedy. it was fine as far as he was concerned. alexander haig calling up mr. nixon and then henry kissinger who at first was also not determined to pursue this were the ones who finally raised the issue to something of importance for mr. nixon. and then the question is so how did he respond? the first thing he did was to seek prior injunction against "the new york times" to suppress the public press from reporting the immediate story. not simply what american presidents typically do in a leak case which is order an investigation for the leaker, but to actually enjoin the american society from discussing the subject. it was the same kind of an approach to an issue that mr. nixon displayed when he ordered air attacks on north korea when a reconnaissance plane was shot down. now, since i thought about this point earlier, i ran and looked for this little piece of paper, which happens to be the record of the national security counsel meeting, the first and only national security co

i was one of those who would vote for hubert humphrey and didn't. so we got richard nixon.at was smart. last night's >> do you see a challenge coming to the supreme court's ruling on corporations that people click >> well, the question is whether there is a possible challenge coming to the supreme court and citizens united corporations of people. i think so and i'll tell you what i base it on is one of my heroes, rush michael i had on my radio show last week. rush michael is the only senator and a peach react and i love him. of not rushmore for that. and of course, he's really appalled at what is happening today with more corporate money, more soft money than ever before and more secret money than every e. fuller. and rest thinks that it's backfiring, but republicans now realize they have unleashed a monster in the super packs are killing them. this is a super pack collection. this is not being run by this election and come by candidates. it is being run by anyone -- rick santorum is an exception in missouri and standing behind him is oster freed -- i love that name. [laugh

this politics, the stalwart democrat for all the hiss days, supported fdr and truman and hubert humphrey. he was very vocal about that. and in the 1970s, a republican president awarded him the presidential medal of freedom. his marriage, which we would certainly think was destined to fail, lasted 68 years. the marriage to this 15-year-old girl leased 68 years, and i was fruitful, and a lot of people talk about not being able to live with someone else. will and aerial durant literally couldn't live with one another. they died within days of each other, will durant in his 90s, aerial durant in her 80s, and even his religion, the catholic church, ex-communicated him, they came around, too. not only administering last rights but by the end of his days in 1960s, you actually had catholic universities inviting him to give the graduation day speeches, commencement addresses. it was hard to dislike will durant. one intellectual disliked him intensely for pared of time in 1926 when durant was on the cusp of fame and the story of philosophy was on the best seller list, he was invited to give a key

richard nixon, hubert humphrey, jack kennedy. barry goldwater. that takes us into the '60s.n ronald reagan and finally clinton, then, okay, that's a total of eight since world war ii. name some more stars. some heroes that have grabbed us with their magnetism. in this 21st century, obama and hillary clinton. ten possible heros to lead the country in over 60 years. scarce. and that's the word for it. scarce. so the real problem today, i think is the few young people willing to enter the derby to put their souls out there for our inspection and approval, for our excitement. and this, ladies and gentlemen is why we are forced to watch. for me, people like me to cover this sparse arena we see before us today. one lifetime wannabe who decided he wanted to be president after his father had failed. a couple of ideologues and an opportunist. not much of a field. the horror is not so many that so many will have to choose from among this tattered brigade fluting itself across the parade ground. the real horror are these four wanted to show up for muster. hardly anyone today wanted to

kennedy defeated hubert humphrey from the neighboring state of minnesota in 1960 in a huge upset thatthe nomination or it was jimmy carter upsetting mo udall here in 1976. this primary has a history of sending a message to the nation. then again on june 5 comeuppance -- on june 5, the eyes of the world will be on wisconsin. america will decide beginning here on june 5 whether or not we are going to go forward into the optimistic future of limited government and lower taxes and a return to time-honored values, or whether or not we will continue to go down the path of government bankrupting future generations and government policy being in the hands of public-sector union bosses instead of taxpayers. i believe, on june 5, governor walker will be retained as the governor of this date and we will do -- we will look towards the bright future. [cheers and applause] you know, the pundits and the press are continually amazed by the persistence and the endurance of the pro-family conservative voters. they have been writing our obituaries for 30 years. saying we were going to go away. well, you