hubert humphrey of minnesota. mark hatfield. george mitchell, democrat from maine. barry goldwater, republican from arizona. it danny elway from hawaii. bob dole from kansas. nancy kassebaum. barbara mikulski, democrat from maryland. this is a place where friendships were made. i will never forget hubert humphrey was literally on his last leg, dying of cancer. going through intense chemotherapy. we were about to recess. he died shortly thereafter. i remember barry goldwater walking up to him in the well and them and bracing for long -- embracing. for long period, both crying. the senate rising to his feet for sustained emotional applause. barry goldwater and hubert humphrey. as a consequence, the senate functions as it was designed. the nation in the midst of that turmoil in those early years that i served arrived at consensus. and all of america was better for it. all those i mentioned including former senators and current senators are sitting with us today. they understood and understand that no one has a corner on the truth. no one's perspective is the only persp

hubert humphreys' experience was much more in domestic politics. how would he have handled the situation where the great fear was that the united states would be drawn back into a conflict with china because of the vietnam war? you can say he would not have had the broader soviet element and strategic context that nixon brought to the initiative. that's totally speculative, but leaders to make a difference. >> only nixon can go to china? >> i agree with my colleagues, this is not inevitable. nixon [indiscernible] was protected because he was a known anti-communist. his party people, some of who might have suspected or not liked what he was doing, had to be loyal although there were still holdouts who were angry whether he was there president or not. the old cliche has truth to it nixon could go to china, it would be a lot more difficult for a democrat. if humphrey had tried to do that, he would have been hammered by the republicans. nixon could quiet things down. i remember flying back, and nixon and kissinger and those who were not so enthusiastic

hubert humphrey gets up anyways his arms and he is furious and all of the senators leave except for one that was richard russell who is heading the civil rights filibuster sitting there quite content with what he had done. but when the senators leave the leadership conference of civil rights, which was an umbrella civil rights organization had a role of limos ready for the senators and took them right back to the senate and got them back their for a vote, and humphrey entered triumphantly. so social movements from the grassroots to these kinds of tactical fights and organizational fights were incredibly important to creating the moment that allowed for the great society to take place. and on bill after bill these are the kinds of stories that i kept finding. >> you can watch this and other programs online at the booktv.org. >> here's a look at the current best selling nonfiction books according to national public radio. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here's our primetime lineup for tonight. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> how did an army officer so associated

that was not part of the picture under people like hubert humphrey or john f. kennedy or martin luther king. but it became part of the picture starting in the early 70s as the idea became democratic orthodoxies that women's rights to eat quality and liberty required legality of abortion and even public funding of abortion. that i thought was wrong, tragically wrong, putting the democratic party on the wrong side and the liberal movement on the wrong side of a profoundly important moral questions, one of the most vexing moral questions since slavery and one of the most divisive. the other thing was observing in my native appellation of the failures of great society, social programs that work very well intentioned, they were efforts to help people who were very much in need and yet often i had the opposite effects. that caused me to question my faith in the old-time religion of new deal or great society liberalism and to look for other ways. i began while i was still young. i was in my 20s, reading work by daniel patrick moynihan, irving kristol, a commentary mag

that was that was not part of the picture hundred people like hubert humphrey or john f. kennedy martin luther king, but king but it became part of the picture starting in the early 70s, the idea became democratic orthodoxy that women's rights to equality and liberty required the legality of abortion. that i thought was wrong tragically wrong with the democratic party on the wrong side of liberal movement of a profoundly important moral question one of the most vexing moral questions since slavery and one of the most divisive. the other thing was observing the failures of great society social programs that were very well-intentioned efforts to help people were very much in need and yet often they had the opposite effect. and that began to cause me to question my faith in the old-time religion you do you great society. and to look for other ways. and i begin while i was still young reading work by people like irving kristol and daniel patrick moynihan, reading commentary magazine in the public interest and listening to and considering in a serious way alternative ways of h

walk kicked off this afternoon in lafayette square park in northwest washington and ended at the hubert humphrey building in southwest. this marks the 10th year observing national girls h.i.v. aids awareness day. >> it's no surprise that hamburger and chicken are on the menu at mcdonald's. could kale become a new addition? according to an internal client memo, the fast food giant plans to add kale to the menu later this year. apparently it will be used in salads or maybe smoothies. this comes as mcdonald's deals with slumping sales. >> that would be the new version of the shamrock shake? >> i guess so. >> healthier one. >> healthier version, yeah. facebook is making a change after an emoji led to an on-line protest. it's more than 100 feelings available to users. group called endangered body said the picture is showing a double chin encourages negative body image. facebook agreed to change it to feeling stuffed. >> coming up at 6:00 tonight, republicans react to hillary clinton's explanation for her private e-mail accounts. the promise from the head of the committee investigating what happened i

in short, both in 1971 and 1969, what i believe hubert humphrey said -- i keep forgetting whether it was humphrey, speaking to halderman and haig and nixon's people about the pentagon papers, one of them made the comment that no good to my credit could have released these. i was a democrat and i am a democrat but i was not a good democrat nor am i now. i'm kind of a self hating democrat at the moment. in 1969, i was not a good democrat. i was prepared to see the democrats get the blame which they richly deserved. i did not want to punish them but in terms of ending the war i thought it will only happen if the democrats accept the blame that is rightfully theirs early on before nixon has planted his flag on this war, quickly. the democrats i talked to were good democrats. they rejected that idea. if i had even then the pentagon papers, they would not have wanted to put them out. in answer to your question, my thought on the pentagon papers was this -- that if they are the basis for hearings for fulbright, and his initial reaction was very favorable to put them out until he thought bet

up as a liberal at least in the old fashioned sense of liberal in the sense that we would call hubert humphrey, for example, liberal, or john f. kennedy a liberal or martin luther king a liberal. i grew up in west virginia. both my grandfather began as coalminers. one stayed in the mines his entire life. the other one managed to work his way out of the mines and into the grocery store business but they were believers in the democratic party, and the united mine workers of america and in franklin delano roosevelt and maybe not in that order. roosevelt in my house was worshiped as a kind of demi god but that was a different liberal jim. it did believe that government should be active in helping people. ill set operated roosevelt's -- celebrated roosevelt's new deal as having been important to keeping people's morial -- morale up in the depression and put food on the table for people who were really needy and getting us oust the depression. i have come, as many historians and economists have come to doubt that story about the new deal. it's partially true but also partially not true. the new deal

a long time ago hubert humphrey who served in this chamber for so many years and was so well known across the country, set forth a moral test of government. he talked about the moral test is how government treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. of course, we're talking about the dawn of life, we're talking about children. and i think that test is still appropriate. and should be -- we should try our best to adhere to it in terms of public policy and especially when it comes to the budget. the budget, of course, is a reflection of who we are as a country, what our values are. it's in a sense a mirror into which we look or should be looking to see who we are. and if we're not setting forth policy and being strong advocates for our children, we may as well not -- may as well not be here. so i think there is a test that each one of us must face when it comes to what we're doing on behalf of children. i also believe in a very real sense that the programs, the strategies the expenditures that we make on behalf of children are in fact a