i take great pride in presenting my friend from minneapolis, mayor hubert h. humphreyand candidate for united states president. >> in november 1948 to make a determined one historic upset and making his area of his own, hubert h. humphrey became minnesota's first democratic senator. >> been a romantic and idealistic person when he went to washington in 1948, think he probably thought this was going to be mr. smith goes to washington and his place of marble monuments just waiting for him to come there and change the world and crusade and very quickly his dreams and idealism collided with reality. >> to reality with a senate dominated by the same dixiecrat he had with his speech the night before and they would not belizean hubert humphrey. >> astrolabe and the destroyer as the democratic property peered hubert humphrey to quote unquote make her lover. -- i never felt so lonesome and so unwanted and all my life as i did in those first few weeks and one says the united states senator. c-span: where did you find the ronald reagan club? >> guest: that was in the humphrey col

this as an aside, my first political memory was 1968, going to the polls, wearing proudly my hubert humphrey button. my dad was a union member. the union got out the vote in michigan and carried the vote for humphrey. to me, that's -- that's great tragedy. yeah? >> your book you briefly identified that the seed that these revolts grew from was called -- i think you call it in loco parentis. i wonder if you could amplify those two. >> in loco parentis basically means the university supersedes the president. it's hard to believe how much control the university had over its student body. you had separate male and female dormitories. up do the very day in the 1980s. if you were visiting a girlfriend or boyfriend, you had to have the dormitory room open. you had dorm mothers, keeping law and order in the dormitory, two feet on the floor at all times if you're sitting on a bed. curfews. and many universities maintained the right to actually inspect off-campus student housing, to make sure -- apartments to make sure there were not items that did not belong there, like birth control pills. and so th

meant hubert humphrey would be in the race with kennedy and mccarthy. four days later, martin luther king was assassinated in memphis. and i grew up in this town of washington, d.c. there were riots up the 7th street corridor, the 14th street corridor. the city was on fire and all over the country there were riots. it must have been a hundred cities. large and small riots. that continued three or four days. and then we came to may, and columbia campus, worst riots on the campuses of all those in the 1960s. and then came -- after one week after we won the oregon primary, with a tremendous victory, bobby kennedy was assassinated in los angeles after he won the california primary. then came the democratic convention in chicago. mr. nixon sent me out to observe. i was in what we call the comrade hilton hotel out there. when all hell broke loose right down in front of us in had grant park. democratic party coming apart in the streets of chicago. we were after our convention and humphrey's convention, we were leading humphrey 43-29, and george corely wallace

hubert humphrey said that the moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children. those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly, those in the shadow, the needy and the disabled. we can clearly do better. was it -- we live in one of the most wealthy countries in the wealthiest nation that the world has ever seen. i want to talk about solutions. the city has decided to flat- find this service providers for many years. if you are not going to increase funding, why not let the non- profits share in the discounts -- that the city enjoys for purchasing, because this would help a little bit. the other thing is that there was an article last week about the city of miami. for approximately 20 years they have had a 1% tax in receipts for restaurants over $400,000. at the time that this was implemented there were 8000 homeless people, and they have not seen an increase in the homeless population even in the economic downturn. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i am robert weber and i served -- served with the city and county -- on the board of bernice c

as you know i voted for hubert humphrey in 1967. i can't imagine they're going to be interested. he said, come on over and have

chicago police rumbled with anti-war protesters, protesting the nomination of vice president hubert humphrey, compelling images of violence and bloodshed. which largely gave the neglected -- always showed the police clubbing the students, but the film at the time from nbc, abc, cbs, never -- seldom ever showed the students -- protesters actually throwing the rocks or throwing things and assaulting the police. the media only showed generally the reaction of the police rather than the provocation. and that spin, that take on events, that historical record from that photo documentary was further reinforced by a 1995 pbs documentary "chicago 1968." where, indeed, we show -- we have a few talking heads from the side of law and order disputing what is being seen, but the film images themselves is one of almost unrelenting, unjustified and apparently unprovoked violence on the part of the police forces. one of the other things the chicago '68 documentary really did not show or rather how they spun was the role abby hoffman, the leader youth international party, one of the organizers of the chicago

as you know i voted for hubert humphrey in 1967. i can't imagine they're going to be interested. he said, come on over and have an interview. catty-corner from the corcoran art gallery. we sat down and talked. it turned out he had gone to yale ten years earlier than i had, been very involved in the political union, i think with the conservative party, had known bill buckley, had gone on from there to become editorial page editor for the new york "herald tribune," jack whitney's paper and had written the 1964 editorial endorsing lyndon johnson over barry goldwater, but also had become very close to richard nixon and was hired by knocks on to come in as one of three key speech writers. it was ray price, pat buchanan and bill safire. and jim khiel was the boss, the head of the speech writing team. ray was one of the three principal speech writers, very gifted writer, a lovely lilt to his writing. jim khiel moved out or retired from government and ray moved up to the number one job and he was looking for an administrative assistant. i went in to have this interview. because we both h

everett dirkson and democratic leader hubert humphrey. the president mastered the touch of each pen to the paper. immigration leader martin luther king receives his pen, a gift he said he would cherish. the department of justice will open force the law if necessary and jay edgar hoover is president. another pen is reserved for the kennedys and the attorney general is entrusted with a half dozen. now in this summer of 1964 the civil rights bill is the law of the land. in the words of the president, it restricts no one's freedom, so long as he respects the rights of others. >> governor doug wilder is joining us from richmond, virginia, as we reflect back on the most important piece of the legislation in the 20th century. we want to welcome students from the washington sent the center and george mason university participating in the c-span washington classroom. governor wilder is now anned a adjunct professor. governor, thank you very much for being with us. >> steve, my extreme pleasure, always to be with you. >> let's take a step back at t

it started in the west virginia primary where kennedy was running against hubert humphrey. >> kennedy was younger, more energetic candidate, but kennedy's father, joe kennedy didn't want to count on that. so money was spread around in west virginia. >> kennedy joked that his father vision had him, quote, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. i'll be damn if i going to pay for landslide. he defeated richard nixon but some say j.f.k. seemed to be the one with something up his sleeve. >> the word went out, illinois needed to go to kennedy. ballots were manufactured. other ballots disappeared. >> do you think that president kennedy stole the election? >> many people have said yes. >> eric: some republican leaders said that nixon should challenge the result. >> my congratulations to senator kennedy for his fine race in this cane. >> 40 years later, another finished second but he did not go away so quietly. it was 2000, bush versus gore, what looked like a late night victory for bush, ended up with govern re reretracting. voter fraud and intimidation and suppression. multiple lega

it started in the west virginia primary where kennedy was running against hubert humphrey. >> kennedy was younger, more energetic candidate, but kennedy's father, joe kennedy didn't want to count on that. so money was spread around in west virginia. >> kennedy joked that his father vision had him, quote, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. i'll be damn if i going to pay for landslide. he defeated richard nixon but some say j.f.k. seemed to be the one with something up his sleeve. >> the word went out, illinois needed to go to kennedy. ballots were manufactured. other ballots disappeared. >> do you think that president kennedy stole the election? >> many people have said yes. >> eric: some republican leaders said that nixon should challenge the result. >> my congratulations to senator kennedy for his fine race in this cane. >> 40 years later, another finished second but he did not go away so quietly. it was 2000, bush versus gore, what looked like a late night victory for bush, ended up with govern re reretracting. voter fraud and intimidation and suppression. multiple lega

and focusing on hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, and richard russell. robert mann then did a more recent book. he's done an abridgement of that book probably for classroom use and then he did a more recent book on russell lawn of louisiana, nice biography of him. >> anybody else? >> oh, i like -- in terms of institutional history, i like my friend ross baker, no relation, up at rutgers university, who has written two very good books on the senate. one in the 1980s called "friend and foe in the senate" about the nature of friendship in the senate. and he really does a lot of interviews. he doesn't attribute who told him what, but he got into the fiber of the institution. and he's done another work probably for classroom work, "the house and senate" the differences between the two profoundly different bodies. i like the work of barbara sinclair a professor at ucla who has made a career of analyzing as a political scientist the inner working of the senate. >> how is writing for you? hard, easy? when you have to actually write. >> easy. which is dangerous.

senator, and you have the richard russell senator at the university of georgia and you have the hubert humphrey school of public affairs at the university of minnesota. how many are there? >> margaret chase smith library in maine. >> have you been to these places? >> yeah. one of the things that i'm happiest about in recent years is the establishment of something called the association of centers for the study of congress, and to answer your specific question there are about 40 of those centers. basically surround the papers of a significant senator. people can go there and do research. but these centers need to talk to one another because they all have common problems. and so now they are working together. >> okay. i can hear somebody saying who pays for that, and i know the money comes out over here, and why is this necessary? >> no, no, in that case, that's entirely private. >> some of these centers have federal money that have either been given to them to start them or some aspect of it. >> it's hard to generalize about that, some comes from leftover campaign cash when a senator retires. so

it started in the west virginia primary where kennedy was running against hubert humphrey. >> kennedyounger, more energetic candidate, but kennedy's father, joe kennedy didn't want to count on that. so money was spread around in west virginia. >> kennedy joked that his father vision had him, quote, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. i'll be damn if i going to pay for landslide. he defeated richard nixon but some say j.f.k. seemed to be the one with something up his sleeve. >> the word went out, illinois needed to go to kennedy. ballots were manufactured. other ballots disappeared. >> do you think that president kennedy stole the election? >> many people have said yes. >> eric: some republican leaders said that nixon should challenge the result. >> my congratulations to senator kennedy for his fine race in this cane. >> 40 years later, another finished second but he did not go away so quietly. it was 2000, bush versus gore, what looked like a late night victory for bush, ended up with govern re reretracting. voter fraud and intimidation and suppression. multiple legal case

it started in the west virginia primary where kennedy was running against hubert humphrey. >> kennedy, more energetic candidate. kennedy's father, joe kennedy didn't want to count on that. so money was spread around in west virginia. >> kennedy joked that his father advised him, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. in a close general election, kennedy defeated richard nixon who democrats had long nicknamed tricky dick but it seemed that j.f.k. had something up his sleeve. >> the word went out that illinois had to go to kennedy so ballots were manufactured. >> do you think he stole the election? >> many people have looked at the evidence have said yes. >> many people nixon should challenge the result. but they believed it would divide a damaged nation. >> my congratulations to senator kennedy. >> 40 years later, a vice president didn't go away so quietly. it was bush are versus gore. which looked like a narrow win for bush, a month of recounts and hundreds of lawyers descending on florida and counter charges of bad ballots, voter fraud, intimidation and suppression. multiple

producer mick caouette c-span: when did you first think about doing a documentary of hubert humphrey? >> guest: it would have been the late fall of 1999. i was working at the minnesota historical society. and i ran across the country collection which is just enormous. this will hundred manuscript boxes, large minister to boxes, 10,000 films, 10,000 photographs, 5,000 audio tapes, and i started a documentary work earlier, maybe three weeks earlier and what was no one lummis? it was a gold mine of material. then i learned more about him. i grew up in minneapolis, he is part of my childhood but i didn't know about him and he was kind of forgotten in minnesota but all the material just, you know, was delete kutz releases that's why started. as i dug into it, it was wonderful. c-span: who was he? >> guest: who was he? use more of a humanitarian than a politician frankly. he used politics as a religion, he wanted to be a creature and saw it as a better people than church and that's how he used politics. c-span: 25 years in the senate? >> guest: i believe it was 25, may be closer to 30 becau

the once the standoff prominently in my memory would include hubert humphrey who was perhaps one of the greatest centers of all time although i think somewhat of a tragic figure because of what happened to him during the vietnam war when he was vice president. he really invented the modern senate. the role to some extent. he communicated the senate to the public on the disarmament and civil rights particularly, and he was one of the great senators. the 60's and the 70's, the jury probe found moments in american history. coming back to what i remember is the question of the civil rights movement and the profound impact that have on this country but it wasn't only martin luther king jr., there was the black panthers, the assassination of the early 60's of president kennedy and what that meant to the country. clearly the war in vietnam profoundly impacted the whole nation dividing us and so forth. the rapid speed by which president johnson of the society and the impact that had. the cultural movement, woodstock and women's movement, the environmental movement, etc., etc.. talk for a moment

it started in west virginia primary where kennedy was running against hubert humphrey. >> he was a younger energetic candidate. but kennedy's father, joe kennedy didn't want to count on that. money was spread around in west virginia. kennedy said his father warned him. >> richard nixon democrats long nicknamed tricky dick. some say jfk seemed to be the one with something up his sleeve. >> word went out that illinois needed kennedy. ballots were manufactured. other ballots disappeared. >> you think president kennedy stole the election? >> many people who went back and looked at the evidence said yes. >> some republican leaders said nixon cou nixon should challenge the result but he said it would upset our already divided nation. >> 40 years later another two term vice president finished second in a close race. he did not go away so quietly. it was 2000 bush verses gore. looked like a late night narrow margin victory of bush ended up with him retracting his concession. charges and counter charges a bad ballot. voter fraud, intimidation and suppression. mum ti multiple legal cases and supreme

kennedy defeated hubert humphrey from the neighboring state of minnesota in 1960 in a huge upset thatim to the 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, 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 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 know, as mark twain famously sa

i'm going to say something about hubert humphrey, what he used to say. i used to say it for years, and i did not have to say it anymore because government was going along so well and everything was pretty good, but i have to say it again. a test of a country, a test of democracy is those who take care of the children at the dawn of their life, take care of people at the twilight of their life, older citizens, and take care of people in the shadows of their life, the port, the disabled. barbour has lived by that. she has made sure those people are always taking care of. we hear a lot about politicians. i don't even think of her as a politician. i just think of her as barbara, who works for the people of maryland and this country. [applause] you know, barbara lives by one thing at -- honor thy mother and father. honor thy mother and father. that is a commandment she grew up with, uh commanded she has lived by. it is good public policy to live by. barbara has woven that police and robert legislative priorities. one of the things she is most proud of, streng

and he had not locked up the nomination before the 1972 convention because hubert humphrey had challenged the results in california. so the mcgovern campaign was completely preoccupied with fighting this challenge to the delegate selection, and they didn't resolve it until the wednesday of the convention itself, and the vice president presidential come nation was due the next morning, and they were exhausted. they started up, so they had a meeting on the morning of thursday, and be they have the to put the name before the convention, like, at 4 p.m. so they have 40 names they're starting with on the list, 40 names. part of the problem was mcgovern was sure he was going to get teddy kennedy for his running mate. kennedy kept putting him iewf, so that wasted hours. then finally he tried mondale, and he tried gaylord nelson, a whole bunch of people, and everybody said, well, no, i just can't do it. so less than an hour to go, and they finally pick up the name of tom eagleton, and everybody goes, well, yeah, smart guy, senator from missouri, catholic, urban, good with labor. so they call up e

you had walter and senator hubert humphrey both of whom congratulated kelso and celebrated the idea iso democratize. my problem is this is no discussion at all and it assumes the tax system has loopholes is a good system. that is unfortunate. >> tell people where they can find that plan. >> cesj.com. >> should be scrapped the whole plan? >> we have to have the tax system. >> ryan repudiated the 18th century. and what put together the constitutional convention with the property-tax come abraham lincoln instituted the first income-tax but teddy roosevelt running as a third-party candidate split the vote and got the 60th amendment adopted. >> you basically say we have a framework? >> with all sales taxes the attacks that is the scientology movement. oddly enough it is called the fair tax but a must be an acronym. [laughter] and you have those little they want to tax the middle class. kelso was an interesting character. we do have it is called employees' stock ownership plan that has turned into a shelter. >> you need reform. >> any item is a loophole. >> that is what my mother always said

hubert humphrey had a version of that. list -- we can't help ourselves, we are getting way ahead of ourselves, the way we often do, the republican race for president isn't over. but we are already on to speculation. the speck ielgzulation is centering mainly on two people, but there will be a long list. the two people are, of course, senator marco rubio from florida, a nontraditional choice that will please conservatives and senator ron portman from ohio, a more traditional choice, fully vetted with a lot of experience in congress and the executive branch in washington. >> you mentioned rob portman, a guest columnist wrote that the nominees see seeking runningmates from key swing states don't hold up to scrutiny, historically peeking. explain that? >> it's interesting. the nominee for president tries to find somebody who, first of all, most importantly, fits with him. there has to be a chemistry there. they're the best person to judge that. is that chemistry there? second, they want to pick someone clearly qualified for th

no one suggests that either you our your opponent, hubert humphrey, have a good deal of it.but it's the way i feel. and i think it's true. >> and he calls you, imam, forgive me, his words, not mine, a lunatic. you haven't answered the question, mr. president. you would love to control this piece. >> absolutely. are you kidding? >>> we're remembering mike wallace after his death over the weekend. it was clear he was not afraid to ask the indiscreet question. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> and i'm charlie rose. erica hill is taking a well deserved day off. >>> billionaire warren buffett struck a nerve last year when he said that america's wealthiest people should not have a lower tax rate than the middle class. now senate democrats are pushing for a vote next week on the buffett rule, a proposed tax hike for people who make more than $1 million a year. new york senator chuck schumer is a prime mover behind the proposal. senator, good morning. >> good morning. welcome to our table. >> nice to be here. >> welcome. >> it's good to have you here

you had walter ruther, whom i worked for some years ago, and senator hubert humphrey. both of whom congratulate did kelso and supported the idea of democratizing ownership. the problem i have is that there is no discussion at all about the system. it is assumed that the tax system as a whole is a good system. we will tinker with it in terms of what we do. that is unfortunate. there is a plan i'd like to call to the attention -- >> i would like you to tell people where they can find that plan on the web. >> it is cesj.org. >> i will go to bob mcintyre. you have been dealing with this forever. do we have a claim we should work in? >> we have to have a tax system. >> ron paul will not agree with that. >> he has not just repudiated the 21st century. he has repudiated the 18th century. george washington put together the constitutional convention that gave us the federal government power to tax. abraham lincoln instituted the first income tax. teddy roosevelt ran for president as a third-party candidate and split the republican voted. >> you are basically saying we have a fr

two of the heroes, you had walter abruzzo who worked for some years ago and senator hubert humphrey, both of whom congratulated kelso and supported the ideas of democratizing the ownership. the problem i have is there is no discussion at all about the system and it assumes the tax system as a whole is a good system. tinker with it in terms of what we do and i think that is unfortunate and there is a plan that i would like to call to the attention -- >> i want you to tell people where they confine the plan on the web. give them a website. >> excellent. ce cesj.org. >> i appreciate your good insights here as the will go to bob mcintyre. should we just scrap the whole tax system? is the system itself the crisis or is this -- to we have a frame we should work in that week and working? >> we have to have a tax system. >> i'm not sure ron paul -- >> ron paul has not just repudiated the 20th century but the eighteenth century. you may recall that we put people on mount rushmore because they were tax heroes. george washington putting together the constitutional convention that gave us the fe

i think the first example of something similar coming to mind is hubert humphrey trying to take californialy the way to do this would be to get republican leaders in texas to take this to the rnc and the rnc has coordinated with mitt romney giving it a thumb's up saying we'll change the rules. and it's not clear that texas is slam-dunk state for rick santorum. they're trying with success to get the press to take serious their claim that they can drag this out and win delegates, i think it's getting less true every day. >> molly, why not just bow out rather than risk being embarrassed in a greater way. as we look at pennsylvania coming up this month it looks like a tight race there, and some polls have mitt romney in the lead and that's santorum's home state. you lose that and that's a tough one to recover from. >> absolutely. the situation is almost impossible for him to recover from as it is. but i think what we see in rick santorum to this point is sort of a man with nothing to lose. i talked to a number of people in his circle who say that he believes the things he's saying, he believes

i'm going to say something about hubert humphrey, what he used to say. i used to say it for years, and i did not have toay it anymore because government was going along so well and everything was pretty good, but i have to say it again. a test of a country, a test of democracy is those who take care of the children at the dawn of their life, take care of people at the twilight of their life, older citizens, and take care of people in the shadows of their life, the port, the disabled. barbour has lived by that. she has made sure thos people are always taking care of. we hear a lot about politicians. i don't even think of her as a politician. i just think of h as barbara, who works for the people of maryland and this country. [applause] you know, barbara lives by one thing at -- honor thy mother and father. honor thy mother and father. that is a commandment she grew up with, uh commanded she has lived by. it is good public policy to live by. barbara has woven that police and robert legislative priorities. one of the things she is most proud of, strengtheni

you have two of the heroes, walter reuther, who worked for some years ago, and senator hubert humphrey, both of whom congratulated kelso and supported the idea is of democratizing the ownership. the problem i have with listening is there is no discussion at all about the system, and it assumes the tax system, as a whole, is a good system. we will tinker with it in terms of what we do. i think that is an unfortunate thing. there is a plan that i would like to call to the attention of -- >> i want you to tell people where they can find that plan on the web. >> cesj.org. >> cesj.org. i appreciate your good insight here, and i'm going to go to bob mcintyre here. should we scrap the entire damn tax system? is the system itself a crisis? do we have a friend that we should work in and we cannot work in? >> well, we have to have a tax system. >> i think so. i do not know if ron paul is in agreement. >> he has not only repudiated the 20th-century, he has done so for the 18th century. we put people on mount rushmore because they were taxed heroes. george washington for putting together the const

i am going to say something about what hubert humphrey used to say. used to say it for years and i didn't have to say it anymore because government was going so well and everything was pretty good. i have to say it again. a test of a country, a test of a democracy is those who take care of children at the dawn of their life. take care of people at the twilight of their life. and take care of people in the shadows of their life. for, disabled. barbara has lived by that and she has made sure that those people are always taken care of. we hear a lot about politicians. i don't think of her as a politician. i think of her as barbara who works for the people of maryland and this country. [applause] >> barbara lives by one thing. honor your mother and father. honor your mother and father. that is a commandment that she grew up with and the command and she has lived by. it is good public policy to live by. barbara has woven that believe in to her legislative priorities. one thing she said she is most proud of, strengthening the safety of figures. i have given

. >> being founded in 1947 by people like eleanor roosevelt, hubert humphrey, and a host of other progressive preliminaries. for the past year, the fund has been holding a series of monthly congressional briefings where we try to bring important national topics to the congressional staffers as well as other citizens. this was the latest. this event is also part of the commonwealth project, which is a joint venture of ada and the coffee party usa. i have a list of people here to thank. hold your applause until the end. i want to thank our honorary post for today to dedication, the congressional progressive caucus. also, the office of senator brown has been invaluable in getting us this base and all of the attendance facilities. diana has been the point person on that. over on the house side, a amaamanda is a staffer and she s been very helpful in publicizing this event internally and externally. then i want to thank our organizational partner, united for i fear economy. they work on issues -- a ferry cattery. the work on issues out of boston. specifically, tim sullivan and other who helped wit

that day he told a story of hubert humphrey's last days. his cancer was wasting him away. goldwater, the man who humphrey, as his party's vice president in 1964, successfully tried to keep him from the presidency, came over and embraced him. senator biden said, friendship and death are great equalizers. death will seek us all at some point, but we must choose to seek friendship. part of what makes the men we are tonight such great leaders is that they have constantly sought friendship. and part of what makes joe biden such a national treasure is his boundless capacity for friendship. please join me in welcoming my friend, and our vice president, joe biden. [applause] ♪ >> tom, thank you very much. it's good to see so many of my former colleagues. believe it or not, i'm issue and i expect you to miss me, but i miss you. you know, both bob and howard's life bear witness to the greek philosopher who said in the fifth century, character is destiny. character is destiny. you know, there's a lot of incredible leadership qualities that bob dole has come in many of you in this roo