>> guest: yeah, there's that theory that if hubert humphrey had one more day he would have kept the momentum going, the polling momentum was squeaking in humphreys direction the last few days of the campaign and he ends up losing by less than 1% of the vote, so that's our second sitting vice president who loses a presidential election and he loses by less than 1% of the vote. but, the democrats seemed utterly helpless by the time he got to september. they had the worst convention in the history of political conventions and sadly for them it was televised. america was not yet accustomed really to full-fledged televised conventions. this was a relatively new thing. there were riots outside the convention hall of antiwar protesters with chicago police for those rights were later officially a judged by commission that studied them to be police riots that police themselves got out of hand and overreacted to the protesters. you would call writing inside the convention hall. if you had been in the convention hall you might have gotten pushed around as dan rather did a mike wallace did covering the

. >> the 68 convention where that was a disaster where hubert humphrey won but the opposition of mccarthy and robert kennedy delegates and they felt they were shortchanged to get support at convention with fighting on the floor so one of the last things they dead -- they did that would develop a committee to look into the election. >> to the republicans follow suit?. >> no. they were generally more likely to leave it up to the states so they could select or have caucuses for a state convention. bed generally because when the state would switch to the primaries they did that for the republicans as well. >> win with the first primaries held?. >> in 1912 the also turned out to be a disaster that was the year the roosevelt decided he wanted to be president again and taft was getting the traditional players in the party but it wasn't enough to get the nomination that resulted on the republicans losing the presidential race. >> did they stop?. >> they put a halt on it but then the primaries were not important again intel after because there tended to be states with there were not always connect

she said that lyndon johnson was a rooster and hubert humphrey was a duckling. she may have said simonton was an owl. john f. kennedy is a cardinal. i thought that was a wonderful touch, that flash of red that really catapulted him into the center of american politics in -- and american history. we have some microphones. we would like to invite all of you to whoever would like to come up and affect russian of our two authors. -- ask a question of our two authors. please come forward and i would ask that you do ask a question. you have seen how tempting it is for us to go on and on. we would love to talk longer with you but this gives people a chance to ask questions. if you could keep a brief that would be great. we will take the first. go ahead. >> you mentioned in your talk that kennedy deviated somewhat from the mainstream of the democratic party. in the 1960's it was clear the new deal coalition was going out the door. what role of the 1960 campaign kennedy and stephenson of 1956 play in transforming the democratic party? what is that say about the trajector

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she said that lyndon johnson was a rooster and hubert humphrey was a duckling. i forget she may have said simonton was a towel, then she said john f. kennedy is a cardinal. i thought that was a wonderful touch to have that flash of red. and that really call to -- catapulted him into the center of american politics in american history. if we have some microphones come up andke to ask a question of our two authors. please come forward and i would ask that you do ask a question. seen how tempting it is for us to go on and on. we would love to talk longer with you but this gives people a chance to ask questions. if you could keep a brief that would be great. we >> hi. you mentioned in your talks that kennedy deviated somewhat from the mainstream. and that it was clear the media coalition was going out the door. what role to the 1960 campaign, kennedy and stephenson, play in transforming the democratic party and what does it say about the trajectory of the party of time? >> good question. >> there was at one breakthrough worth thinking about. it occurred on the repub

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i almost felt, i did feel sorry for hubert humphrey coming out.mained constant and they were attacking him for the first five weeks he couldn't get any speeches done and been sure thee enough he gave his salt lake city speech and started moving and i think harry can remember that. it was 43 for nixon and the beginning of october 28, humphrey and wallace was 21, 7.5. by the end of october, 43-43 all. we've lost 15 points. people don't recall hubert humphrey had a phenomenal comeback in the month of octob october 1968. so then we got in the white house and america was coming apart after 1968. they had 31,000 when nixon took office, no end or victory in sight. the president was the first since zachary taylor in 48. there was a hostile press corps and the new deal and great society replete with hospitals where and mr. nixon inherited a. let's listen to each other and stop shouting at each other and i think that is what he wanted to do and kept a lot of the great society and went on to the successful early tour to europe, european capitals. my fellow s

to praise, because don frazier belongs in this panth onof people up here with jack kennedy and hubert humphrey and lyndon b. johnson. he is of that generation. he is of that visionary generation. mayor frazier, now retired mayor frazier, as he looks a it the problem of the achievement gap in north minneapolis where does his mind take him? it takes him to the kids and the families and the communities in which they live and how do outsiders of goodwill and concern engage with other people together that their outcomes along with our outcomes get better. i call that associative power. that's what we did with the cords program. i set up a credit program for every village in vietnam. me, i was 25 years old. as a cords guy in saigon which i didn't want to be, i could give briefings, using the head of commander in chief abrams, i could brief full colonels who were senior advisers and tell them this is what you guys got to do about village credit communities and self-defense forces and this or that. the chords program was working with vietnamese in the context of their own nationalism. why did it succe

i did feel sorry for hubert humphrey coming out of their.e pump remain constant attacking him for the first five weeks he couldn't get speech is without having them disrupted and sure enough he gave his salt lake city speech and he started moving and i think larry higbee could remember that. he started moving and it was 434 next in the beginning of october 28, wallace was 21, seven points behind humphrey and by the end of october 43, 43 all. we had lost 15 points. people don't recall hubert humphrey had a phenomenal comeback in the month of october 1968. so then we get in the white house. we arrive at the white house, america was coming apart after 1968. we had 31000 dead americans in vietnam when president nixon took office. know into victory in sight. the president was the first president since that retailer in 1848, to take office without either house of congress behind him. he had a hostile press corps, supreme court was led by the warren. not as-- the bureaucracy had been built up in the new deal and great society was complete with host

and i can't tell you every time i come to minnesota, every time i go to the hubert humphrey institute, i gave the keynote speech at the humphrey institute when they opened it. people come up to me, my age and younger, and they say, "we were in the peace corps, "it was a defining moment of my life." it was mine, i couldn't have been happier. and one day in early october of '63 i got a call from kenny o'donnell who was then john kennedy's most powerful assistant, "bill we want you to go to austin, "the president is going to go down there." "we sent an italian, advance man from boston, "whom i knew, jerry bruno, we sent him down there, "and he just can't, they can't understand each other. "our efforts, we've got to raise money. "we've got to speak in houston, "and you've got to go down there and hold hands." so i did, i went down and i was holding hands with the governor and the labor people, and the liberals and the conservatives until the president got out of town. sitting at the forty acres club at the university of texas having lunch with the chairman of the state democratic committe

she said that lyndon johnson was a rooster and hubert humphrey was a duckling. i forget she may have said simonton was an owl, then she said john f. kennedy is a cardinal. i thought that was a wonderful touch to have that flash of red. and that really call to -- catapulted him into the center of american politics in american history. so, we have some microphones if you would like to come up and ask a question of our two authors. please come forward and i would ask that you do ask a question. you have seen how tempting it is for us to go on and on. we would love to talk longer with you but this gives people a chance to ask questions. if you could keep a brief that would be great.

hubert humphrey used to remind everybody that lyndon johnson told everybody during his administrationhumphrey's private parties were in his pocket, meaning l.b.j.'s pocket. that's the way that l.b.j. tweeted him. other vice presidents have been treated better, some worse. it's a difficult situation. if you look at vice president pence's tweets and say that appearance in the roundtable, the cabinet roundtable where they were all praising trump to the skies, on occasion he has w senate, they take up an impeachment resolution and they push out trump and have pence, i don't know. ultimately democrats would be hurt before that. pence is -- could be even more popular than president trump. i don't know. i see his whole policy activity and the way he carries himself as, you know -- he's going to protect himself ultimately. >> neil: certainly he's been a very loyal vice president. so with this one departure where his press spokesman is quoting historical fact that this happened with the son prior to his being on the ticket is historically right. factually right. want to thank you both very muc

nixon worked with the south vietnamese to avoid peace talks that would have helped his opponent hubert humphreyrally when it was easier not to. in 1964, one of lindon johnson's top aides was arrested for lewd conduct. barry goldwater's staff wanted him to make an issue of it. goldwater said no, he didn't want to ruin the man. in 2 a received george w. bush's private debate briefing book. he turned it over immediately to the authorities. in 2008, john mccain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to barack obama's former pastor jeremiah wright, or to raise that issue in any other way. he believed it was a sneaky way to use obama's race against him. in 1968, lindon johnson's team had wiretaps that proved candidate nixon was working to block the vietnam peace talks, but they believed it immoral to use the covert information to expose nixon. said secretary of state dean rusk the moment we cross over that divide we're in a different kind of society. they were worried about something more than vising. victory. politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the

you know, i almost felt i did feel sorry for hubert humphrey coming out of dump the hump remain constantattacking him -- to the first five week he couldn't get any speeches done without having disrupted. and sure enough he gave a salt lake city speech and -- he started moving and i think larry are could barely remember that. he started moving, it was 43 for nixon at the beginning of october 28 humphrey. wallace was 7 points behind hum try. by the end of october, this 43, 43 all. poem don't recall he had a phenomenal comeback in the month of october 168. so then we go in the white house. we arriveded at the white house and america coming apart after 1968, dead american when is president nixon took office no end or victory in sight. president was the first president since zachary taylor in 1848. to take office without either house of congress behind him. he had a hostile press corps. supreme court was led by earl warren. that exactly mr. nixon friend from california days. and the bureaucracy and new deal in great society complete with hostiles there, that's the nation mr. nixon inherited b

well, you guys also discovered that hubert humphreys had gotten some money from hughes and i didn't think we should destroy the two-party system, were his exact words. watergate got to some very specific things we have forgotten about. it was about corruption. it was about nixon's corruption. i agree with david about the nature of the cover-up. the cover-up was -- why was the burglary happening? we didn't get to that. i think that's important to remember. >> he played a very important role in the committee. it should be knowledged. ms. stahl: i know he did. i was getting a lot of sources on the committee for recent stuff, day after day after day. scott set a trap to catch my source. [laughter] i'm not kidding. he told me -- my source told me that the committee was going to subpoena rosemary, and that they were sending u.s. marshals to completely surround the white house, every single gate all around the white house, in case she slipped out the back out the side, and that there were u.s. marshals all over the place. my source had been so accurate, day after day. so, cbs news sends camerame

and he knew what he needed to say to richard russell and what he needed to say to hubert humphrey.idd it in a way that he built consensus. >> what do you want people to take from this? >> to understand lyndon johnson. when i was growing up, i hated him. i was of draft age and was against the war. i learned as i went into politics, public policy and government that what he did was monumental. the second thing i wanted people to see is what a real president does. >> yes. >> you know, hopefully there's a young generation that only sees this president. that's not the way presidencies work. lyndon johnson, you'll see a different president. >> the film is amazing. that is our show for the day. join us next week. i'll be filling in for rachel maddow tomorrow night at 9:00 pm. more news at the top of the hour. world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and

the democratic party was a combination of northern liberals like hubert h. humphrey from minnesota and -- certainly weren't liberals. segue -- segregationist like am irvin. >> one of the more coastally, genteel. we're talking about people like senator jim eastman of mississippi who used the n-word to the face of certain congressmen. a guy indiana. rankin from mississippi who didn't care what he said on the house floor. some really nasty people. sam irvin, people forget, but -- in watergate, i'm just country lawyer. i don't know how to deal with this -- no one ever writes he was the author of the southern manifesto, which all the southern senators signed as a way of resisting the brown decision. no one speaks about that because it takes a. from watergate. >> like remembering the role of j willum fulbright. >> he was probably the most effective chairman of the senate foreign relations committee in northern american history of he did more to destroy lyndon johnson's presidency and question the vietnam war in eelite circles than any other person. beyond kennedy want fulb

professor felzenberg has noted, the democratic party was a combination of northern liberals hubert h humphrey of minnesota and southern ... whatever they were, they were liberals, they were segregationists like dan irvin for example. >> he was one of the more portly, genteel. we're talking about people like editor jimmy eastland of mississippi who use the n word as a congressman, were talking about a guy rankin from mississippi who didn't care what he said on the senate or house floor, talking about nasty people here. >> but yes, sam ervin people forget. he thought the left made him such an eye hero during watergate. >> i don't know how to deal with these wall street people . >> no one ever writes that he was the author of the southern manifesto which all the southern senators saw as a way of resisting the brown decision,no one talks about that . >> it takes away watergate, >> it's like remembering the role of william fall right. >> now, j william fulbright, he was probably the most effective chairman of the senate foreign relations committee in history, he did more to destroy lyndon johnson'