hubert humphrey wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons now. before it mushrooms.t humphrey supports the u.n. treaty now. as do the 80 countries who have already signed it. let's stop the spread of the bomb now. humphrey. and there's no alternative. paid for my citizens for humphrey muske. mr. mixon silence on the issue of vietnam has become an issue in itself. he talks of an honorable peace. but says nothing about how he would attain it. he says the war must be waged more effectively. but says nothing about how he would wage it. even the man who second is the nomination of richard nixon, mark hat field has said, the peace talk should not become the skirt for timid men to hide behind. made promises for quote an honorable peace unquote. voters should not be forced to go to the polls with their fingers crossed. [ laughing ] >>> why are more and more millions of americans voting for wallace? >> as president i shall within the law turn back the absolute control of the public school systems to the people of the respective states. >> why are more and more millions turnin

hubert humphrey wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons now. before it mushrooms. hubert humphrey supports the u.n. treaty now. as do the 80 countries who have already signed it. let's stop the spread of the bomb now. humphrey. and there's no alternative. paid for my citizens for humphrey muske. mr. mixon silence on the issue of vietnam has become an issue in itself. he talks of an honorable peace. but says nothing about how he would attain it. he says the war must be waged more effectively. but says nothing about how he would wage it. even the man who second is the nomination of rhard nixon, mark hat field has said, the peace talk should not become the skirt for timid men to hide behind. made promises for quote an honorable peace unquote. voters should not be forced to go to the polls with their fingers crossed. [ laughing ] >>> why are more and more millions of americans voting for wallace? >> as president i shall within the law turn back the absolute control of the public school systems to the people of the respective states. >> why are more and more millions tu

richard mixon went on to win with less than 1% of the popular vote over hubert humphrey.ce finished third but won five states. this is just over 10 minutes. >>> never has so much military, economic and diplomatic power been use sewed ineffectively as in vietnam.d sewed ineffectivels in vietnam. sewed ineffectively as in vietnam.s sewed ineffecti as in vietnam.o sewed ineffectiy as in vietnam.sewed ineffective as in vietnam.ewed ineffectivel as in vietnam.wed ineffectivelys in vietnam.ed ineffectively as in vietnam.d ineffectively as in vietnam. ineffectively as in vietnam. you factor all of this time, sacrific sacrifice, support and there is no end in support. american people need to turn to new leadership. not tied to the policies and mistakes of the past. i pledge to you, we shall have an honorable end to the war in vietnam. >>> this time, vote like your whole world depended on it. think about it, when the decision of one man can affect your family for generations to come, what kind of man do you want making those decisions? think about it. who is the one man who has th

richard mixon went on to win with less than 1% of the popular vote over hubert humphrey.t won five states. this is just over 10 minutes. >>> never

kennedy's assassination and the national political conventions to richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey in the general election. during the cold war the u.s. films made films for international audiences and by law they couldn't be shown in the u.s. until 12 years after they were produced. this half hour film is courtesy of the national archives. >> the political situation here in new hampshire. the rest of the country is still watching. >> once every four years when the united states turns its attention to choosing a leader, a small snowy state in the northeastern corner of the country becomes the political center of the nation. >> new hampshire clearly wants richard nixon to be the next president of the united states. >> the final campaigning is under way in the new hampshire presidential primary. on the republican side richard nixon is urging new hampshire republicans to give him a big send-off in his quest for the gop presidential nomination. >> new hampshire signals the start of the national presidential campaign by holding the first primary election of the year. so the men who then

kennedy's assassination and the national political conventions to richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey. during the cold war, the u.s. information agency made films for international audiences to promote american society. by law, they couldn't be shown in the u.s. until 12 years after they were produced. this half-hour film is courtesy of the national archives. >> the political situation in new hampshire, the rest of the country is watching us. >> once every four years, when the united states turns its attention to choosing a leader, a small, snowy state in the north of the country becomes the political center of the nation. >> new hampshire clearly wants richar

we saw in 1968 was whisker thin between richard nixon and hubert humphrey. there was a political impossibility of pulling out of that point. was there another way coming after that. was he obliged to stay the course? alexander: nixon laid out very clearly during his campaign in 1968 that he didn't want it to be, he wanted an honorable peace. he faced up to the fact that we're going to have to deal with the vietnamese and his idea then, he had it in 1968. he put it to the test. it did seem to work. vietnamization. we would gradually withdraw but only as our training of the viennese people and supplying them with arms and munitions and better weapons and that sort of thing. as we gave them better weapons we would pull out. he did that june 8, 1969, he pulled out 25,000 was the initial thing. then in september 40,000. in december another 45,000. sweet pulled out of 115,000 in that first year state in 1969. presumably the vietnamese were taking over more of the battle. one thing we haven't mentioned everyone wonders why the french lost it in 1954. they were star

. -- hubert humphrey. there are many examples of that with speeches that brought tension between humphrey and johnson. office continued to confer with president johnson. he had a jet star sent to bergstrom every friday with a packet of materials from ,issinger and general haig briefing papers for president johnson to read. just as president johnson conferred secretly with dwight eisenhower. there was a continuity there. you can argue it one way or the other. we do not want to go with the massive b-52s. those sanctuaries contained significant numbers of north vietnamese soldiers. it was reinforcements to attack americans. those two countries proclaimed to be neutral. they were not neutral and all. for were providing shelter the north vietnamese. it was a very tough decision to escalate. i know many of the veterans out here think we should have gone absolutely to the mat but the china issue and many others, far more complicated. ultimately a very dark challenging year for the united states. we had assassinat

kennedy's assassination and the national political conventions to richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey. during the cold war, the u.s. information agency made films for international audiences to promote american society. they couldn't be shown in the u.s. until 12 years after they were produced. this half-hour film is courtesy of the national archives. >> the political situation in new hampshire, the rest of the country is watching us. >> when the united states turns its attention to choosing a leader, a small state becomes the political center of the nation. >> new hampshire clearly wants richard nixon to be the next president. the final campaigning is underway in the new hampshire presidential primary coming up next tuesday. richard nixon is urging republicans to give him a big sendoff. >> new hampshire signals the start of the national campaign by holding the first primary of the year. the man who wanted to be president, richard nixon, george mccarthy,d eugene drew attention to new hampshire hoping these visits would bring them victory in this first voter test, where one man from ea

republican richard nixon won the presidency that year in a tight race over hubert humphrey. this half hour film is courtesy over the alabama department of archives and history. mr. wallace: i am pleased to announce this morning that more than 100,000 telephone ends have registered as members of the american independent party to give us assistance in getting a place in the california ballot in next year's general election. i want to thank the countless californians who have done so much to assist us. i point out these people are representative of millions of americans who are generally concerned about the current direction being followed by our national leadership. ♪ >> ♪ walking in the sunshine sing a little sunshine song put a smile upon your face because there's nothing wrong think about, forget about your worries ♪ announcer: the wallace victory in california did not come easy. when george wallace brought his southern style camping to california's, it did not come easily. southern traditions and national issues have in the past appeared too much at opposite poles. apparen

republican richard nixon won the presidency that year in a tight race over democrat hubert humphrey. courtesy hour film is of the alabama film history archives. announce thatd to more than 100 thousand californians have registered as members of the american independent party in order to give us a assistance in getting a place on the california ballot next year's general election. i want to thank the countless thousands of californians who have done so much to assist us. i point out that these people are representative of millions of americans who are generally concerned about the current direction being followed by our national leadership. ♪ >> the wallace victory in california did not come easy. where george wallace brought his southern styled campaign to california, he baffled many by dot seemed to be too much to not directly relate to california. southern traditions and national issues have, in the past, appeared to much at opposite poles. apparently, wallace wasn't bothered that his down-home campaign, complete with gospel singing, he will did some people. it worked. national new

i remember when hubert come free -- when hubert humphrey came to florida -- he is only 10 years younger than i am. i didn't have a political dog in the hut on that one. i think it was because i was brought up in an old-fashioned way in the news business, where trying to be objective, we are not objective by nature. we all see things differently. but i didn't have a pro-war, antiwar feeling about it. , ite it was a story directly impacted me, it was taken the lives of people i knew. my career has been based on curiosity. i wanted to see why, what was going on over there. by the time i got there it was already 1971, and eddie adams, our friend, the guy who took the famous picture of the general shooting the viet cong suspect, a person i admired but he was my competitor. leftld me just before i that all the good pictures had already been taken. [laughter] that's the kind of guy eddie was. won the pulitzer prize, something that i did not know i had been put up for. award, ie no anxiety hadn't even given it a second thought. i had gotten all these cables in saigon. one of them was from eddie

and trump will get a landslide when george wallace took votes away from what would have been hubert humphreyotes and nixon got in. kennedy: i can't stand the idea of just donald trump and hillary clinton. i can't stand the idea of just one person taking away votes from one or the other. >> take the next step in an aism. you can't vote yourself free and spend yourself rich. kennedy: i now it's a romantic and unpopular notion. what does romney do? bill kristol, a lot of conservatives want. >> romney is not the answer to our problems. he's the quintessential establishment republican. he also has proven he can lose. i went to church and i'm praying for a miracle here. kennedy: what is a miracle? >> i would love an amazing fiscally conservative foreign policy hawk to manifest itself. i would also like not a liar and criminal and someone who has gotten people killed in libya and whatever. i'm having a total crisis. there is legal issues with doing an independent. there are sore loser laws. getting on the ballot would take a ton of money and there is about a month left to do it. i love talking abou

this clip depicts johnson discussing the civil rights bill with his vice president, hubert humphrey.ed this bill passed without one word changed. don't sell a horse by talking about it being blind in one eye. >> this is about votes. that's the problem with you liberals, you don't know how to fight. mark: another great film about america. this one with one of our greatest actors. tell us about why you were interested in lbj. >> he is a complex guy, and unbelievable politician. someone who actually believed you could do things in the government and got a huge amount done. we forget looking back through vietnam, looking backwards to what he accomplished in the 1960's. one of the most important things accomplished was the civil rights bill in 1964. to take that on when he was seen as the accidental president after the jfk assassination seems incredible. physicality, it's pretty amazing to watch. i saw the movie last night at national archives. it was absolutely brilliant. there would be times when you would see cranston and in you would go back to an lbj scene in 1964 and you are not sur

convention, when vietnam war demonstrators erupted into the streets of chicago after the nomination of hubert humphreyt want to go back to the '68 convention. because i worry about what it does to the electorate as a whole. and he should too. >> reporter: some sanders supporters have already begun posting plans to occupy the dnc convention in july, something the party chair is eager to prevent. >> everybody needs to take a step back and a deep breath. we have to make sure that we can do everything we can to maximize the likelihood of being unified. >>> she initially called sanders' reaction to nevada completely inadequate and she said he put fuel on the fire. but now she says she is ready to turn the page. >>> memorial day is right around the corner, and aaa is estimating 38 million americans will travel for the holiday. nearly 90% will go by car. most of the rest will be heading to the airport. and that's the rub. security checkpoints are already so backed up, thousands of travelers are missing their flights each week. kris van cleave has the story from chicago's mid-ware international. >> reporter:

next morning, 9:55, senator byrd did finish his speech just in time for the closure vote and hubert humphrey's showed up and handy red rose to his lapel so there you have a case of two people on opposite sides of the issue one part of the filibuster against the civil rights bill in one bed for manager to pass the civil rights bill that are coming into the senate in his various senatorial way in this very decadent way that allowed them to have a personal connection despite their political differences. brian: if you are going to recommend one book about the united states senate to people listening or watching now, what would it be? baker'sy colleague dave book which came at a couple of years ago. is the most comprehensive history that you will find in one volume. i often say to people when they ask me back, which era are you interested in? because if you want to capture the senate of the 1940's-19 50's, i might recommend one book in the senate has evolved a great deal through the years and so, even from the 1960's until today, it is a very different institution to i would ask them that first but

in '68, when the mccarthy people, of which i was one, held out for too long before embracing hubert humphreybert held out a little too long before changing his position on the war. and we ended up with dick nixon. and those of us that, unfortunately, are old enough to remember that, do not want to see that kind of mistake again. >> joan, let's talk about the things that can be negotiated. first of all, what do you think -- simple question. what do you think senator sanders is up to? he's still trying to win, at least on paper. he says he's trying -- that can be rhetorical, he knows the math as well as everybody. he sitz whether the jeff weaver, he knows the math and the difficulty of surmounting these numbers. but what does he want to do if he doesn't win? >> look, i think he's in a tough position and i sympathize with some of his position, chris. i think he knows that he's not going to win, that he can't win. i think he wants to go into philadelphia with the maximum number of delegates, so he can exert the maximum influence on the platform. and i think that's fine. what i don't think is fin

hubert humphrey becomes the democratic nominee. he had not run in any primary and he defeats people like eugene mccarthy and others that run in the primaries. there are a million things going on. martin luther king costs assassination -- there's tremendous reaction against that convention, especially after humphrey loses the election and the democratic party decides that to revisit the rules for how nominees are chosen. >> we are going to take questions and just a couple of minutes with a transition to a conservative southern democrat. george wallace complicating things -- the democratic coalition that had held together with lyndon johnson from the south and jack kennedy from the north is breaking up before our very eyes in 1968. remember the democratic party for a long time had a solid south. who is franklin roosevelt's running mate? john nance garner from south texas. it's all cracking up before our eyes in 1968. >> the democratic party is really the leadership on this. there is a famous commission called the mcgovern fraser comm

then he asked hubert humphrey. he asked walter mondale. they all said no way. finally, tom eagleton, the missouri senator said yes, but then he had to quit days later when it was revealed he suffered depression and electric shock treatment. after that, a whole bunch of others were asked, and they all said no. and finally, kennedy in-law sergeant shriver said yes. but by some accounts, he was the ninth, tenth, or 11th choice and it became a running joke and it underscored how doomed mcgovern's campaign was. arguably, is it conceivable the same thing could happen to donald trump? >> it's conceivable. that's a great history lesson. i'm thrilled that you reminded us of all of that. it's one of the great stories in american politics. i don't think donald trump is at that stage yet. i don't think he's going to have to go to his ninth or tenth choice. there are still some serious names out there. i think they all do, however, happen to be white men. there's governor rick scott of florida. there's governor chris christie of new jersey. and i think the one that i think

and in the end, hubert humphrey thanked him for ending on time and the next morning at 9:55, senator byrd did finish his speech just in time for the closure vote, and hubert humphrey's showed up and he and the red rose to his lapel. so there you have a case of two people on opposite sides of the issue, one part of the filibuster against the civil rights bill and one going for the civil rights bill coming together in this way that allows them to have a personal connection despite their political differences. brian: if you are going to recommend one book about the united states senate to people listening or watching now, what, who would it be? betty: one book would be my colleague dick baker's book which came at a couple of years ago. it is the most comprehensive history that you will find in one volume. i often say to people when they ask me back, which era of senate history are you interested in? because if you want to capture the senate of the 1940's to 1950's, i might recommend one book in the senate has evolved a great deal through the years and so, even from the 1960's until toda

it was hubert humphrey. we never knew who is going to come in one day or the next. sorenson's office, this was a time when kennedy was running for reelection in massachusetts. he was out of the office a lot and ted sorensen was with him. i decided it was good to have the -- to have to clean up tents office. they were well overdue and i gathered them up and sent them back to the library of congress in the first thing he did was to order them all back and stop -- order them all back. >> did you have any interaction with senator kennedy at the time when you are working with o'brien? >> o'brien came on the scene later. he was still in massachusetts when i worked for ted sorensen. he was writing speeches and i was typing speeches. the male was coming in from all over the country as well as massachusetts, so my job was to answer all the mail from side massachusetts and you can imagine there was a tremendous quantity of mail. i would see kennedy from time to time and my desk was about 10 feet from his office door. he was out of town quite a lot that all. >> thank you so mu

. >> that convention, that summer for democrats didn't help hubert humphr humphrey.r george wallace. but i digress. meanwhile the whole thing is rigged. and that is not donald trump. try bernie sanders wife. >> it's pretty much the establishment. >> get into the indiana action. we're covering all parts of the primary at six. innovative sonicare technology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral b. get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. innovation and you. philips sonicare. save when you buy the most loved rechargeable toothbrush brand in america. i'm in vests and as a vested investor in vests, i invest with e*trade, where investors can investigate and invest in vests... or not in vests. this is my retirement. retiring retired tires. and i never get tired of it. are you entirely prepared to retire? plan your never tiring retiring retired tires retirement with e*trade. i'm in charge of it all. business expenses, plan your never tiring retiring retired tires retirement so i've been snapping photos of my receipts and keeping track of them in quickbooks. now i'

hubert humphrey almost beat him. 100,000 votes at the end.t came very close to defeating him. ♪ charlie: i assume even more than broadcasting, even more than being there when the berlin wall came down, it is the fact that he wrote a book about a generation of soldiers that has given you a connection to the military and bonded you. one reason the french are honoring you is because of what you have done. bigbig is that one -- how does that loom when you think about the life you have lived? tom: very big. i did not say eureka. i was really writing the book for that generation. for the people i knew who it -- had been through world war ii. the people we met during course of writing the book. but also, it is now 18 years since i wrote the book. i get stopped three or four times a year by people think i did not understand my parents. i believe it is, to a great degree, how i will be remembered. charlie: i think it will be the first line. tom: and that is fine. charlie: and it connected them to you too. to give them a voice to think about their own

. >> that convention, that summer for democrats didn't help hubert humphr humphrey.r george wallace. but i digress. meanwhile the whole thing is rigged. and that is not donald trump. try bernie sanders wife. >> it's pretty much the establishment. >> get into the indiana action. we're covering all parts of the primary at six. hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey! [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman: hey! [bicycle bell rings] turn here. there. excuse me. uh. uh. [indistinct announcement on p.a. system] so, same time next week? well, of course. announcer: put away a few bucks. feel like a million bucks. for free tips to help you save, go to ♪ feed the pig secrets. last september a college student was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. >>> it's donald trump alone feeling the burn. and some other stuff. >> do you think they should just do away with the super delegates. because if you look at pledge delegates it is a lot closer race. if you look at super delegate, hillary clinton is just a couple of hundred away from closing this thing. >> yeah it doesn't seem fair that

republican richard nixon won the presidency that year in a tight race over hubert humphrey. this half hour film is courtesy over the alabama department of archives and history.

we had hubert humphrey, richard nixon, george wallace running for president. eldridge cleaver ran as well. young people did not go to humphrey and we got nixon. some thought nixon would produce the revolution but he did not. he gave a lot of poor people, lot of black people, a lot of pain. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, republicans had their reagan democrats. anti-trump sentiment is creating hillary clinton republicans. how many will dare to cross party lines? ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ >>> donald trump is the face of the gop. that makes us crony capitalists. it makes us wafflers. it makes us pretty racist. it makes us big government guys. i won't tolerate it. i don't want my children to look at that man and say yeah, he's my president. i won't have that. >> glenn beck is not having it. cracks in gop party unity broke wide open when donald trump emerged as the last man standing and presumptive republican nominee. both presidents george h.w. bush and george w. bush are withholding their endorsements and neither plans

those often rebounded against antiwar candidates, antiwar presidential candidates like hubert humphreyericans have a low tolerance for protests that turn violent. slight risk for democrats here. >> woodruff: let's talk about the other aspect of what's going on, on the democratic side, and it involves donald trump, but, reid, it's a new voice among the democrats and that's senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts. she's been tweeting a lot about trump, but yesterday, she was out making a public speech, and she was really tough on him. could she become, you know, a-- sort of an attack dog for hillary clinton? >> elizabeth warren is a hugely important voice within the democratic party. there is probably one other person who speaks for liberals as loudly as elizabeth warren and that's bernie sanders. so if and when warren is to come over to hillary clinton's side, her endorsement will mean a great deal in terms of healing the party. i think this is sort of the beginning steps of getting towards an endorsement of hillary clinton, the extremely likely eventual nominee, going after donald tr

. >> hubert humphrey. >> they were saying, they were also proactive things that happened after all ofthat. in the case of 18968, richard nixon who no one thought could make a comeback, saw with his kind of political brilliance, and did he this v, that he put together the southern strategy. you can get states-- . >> rose: silent majority. >> right. >> and when mcgovern lost in 72, bill clinton and guys like that found the third way as they described it. democratic governor of a southern state. he kind of knew where the temple of the country was in ways that other people didn't. that worked for them. >> conservative on fiscal policy and moderate on. >> exactly. >> and the other thing i always thought the best thing that ever happened to clinton was that he lost his first run for re-election as governor. and it didn't make him more humble, necessarily, but he learned who he had to deal with. he had to go out and see tyson chickens and-- . >> rose: some will argue that the fact that he was a southern governor and that he had to deal with the legislature was a positive thing. >> very posit

american embassy, i had just heard, before the nixon election, in '68 when nixon squeaked by hubert humphrey to win the presiden presidency. i just received word that i was to be extended for two years. that was like the kiss of death to me, it seemed that way. i was going to be coming up on eligibility for brigadier general. i was a career officer. i admit i was fairly ambitious and if i was going to stay in australia, which was a wobderful place, it's not where you want to be when you're coming up for general officer or admiral in the navy. i was desperate, i didn't know what to do. the ambassador and i went up to new begin any. a rainstorm came along, i grabbed a paper and read it, it was about nixon's election. i was reading this toktok. i saw the name, they're talking all about nixon winning the election. a flame i knew very well, bob hal de man. we were at ucla together and i thought, a light went on. i'm stupid, but i'm not that stupid. if i could somehow attach myself to this california mafia coming into washington, i realized they wouldn't have a lot of washington experience. i did.

convention when vietnam war demonstrators erupted into the streets of chicago after the nomination of hubert humphrey>> i don't want to go back to the '68 convention because i worry about what it does to the electorate as a whole. and he should, too. >> reporter: some sanders supporters have already begun posting plans to occupy the dnc convention in july. something the party chair is eager to prevent. >> everybody needs to take a step back and a deep breath. we have to make sure that we can do everything we can to maximiz >> reporter: she initially called sanders' reaction to nevada completely inadequate and said he put fuel on the fire. now she says she is ready to turn the page. sanders has accepted an invitation from fox to debate clinton in california. but gayle, dnc official tell me the debate and its host are still being negotiated, and there's no guarantee it will happen at all. >> all right. thank you, nancy. >>> a new poll finds leading hin by three points in the november election match-up. the same poll last month showed hillary clinton with a seven-point lead. major garrett looks at why b

it hurt hubert humphrey. i could be wrong. it is really equal. what do you think?at democrats may say the same thing in 2000. a third-party can make a difference. it was decided by a million votes in six states. that is really what it boiled down to. it could make a difference. right now, i am not hearing a lot of people saying that they are really lining up and clamoring to get behind gary johnson. i have not heard any other names that have emerged that will be able to compete with, trump and hillary clinton. we will see what happens. one thing is that it is anything but predictable. it is hard to tell what will happen between now and november. it will be between hillary and donald trump. >> we shall see. thank you for taking the time. how did we go from zika not being a director at a couple weeks ago and now reports that close to 300 women, pregnant women, are carrying the zika virus. how did that happen? not how they became pregnant. [laughter] you know what i mean. [laughter] after this. ♪ . . . . neil: all right. i want to take you to louisville, kentucky. thi