he lost that to hubert humphrey. so when mccarthy challenges johnson it's in part because of lowenstein's lobbying of him. and his activism and trying to get him involved. when mccarthy gets involved, this group of anti-war activists rallies around his campaign and basically becomes kind of his army, his political army. it's one of the reasons he did so well in vietnam, one of the reasons he did so well in primaries in wisconsin and oregon that came after. one of the things that mccarthy did, why he wanted to run was to create this outlet for anti-war activists to have their voices heard within the party. in some ways it's the most successful thing he did in '68, which he gave activists a voice, gave them a way to make their views known. and in the end, you know those activists were the ones who basically toppled johnson and caused him to, without mccarthy's performance in new hampshire, i don't think kennedy gets in the race and without kennedy and mccarthy both in the race, i don't think johnson drops out. >> and w

hubert humphrey enters the race which is til april 27 a key thing to keep in mind.ator canada won the the ornia primary on evening of june 4 and then after midnight dying the following day. hubert humphrey accepting the and richardugust 29 his elected president criticisms were of the political leadership particularly of president johnson. and the strategy that was being used in vietnam. so i think indian reservation ao he was a and so to his g in large part heart and to what was going on people. 100% of the african american vet. -- vote. so he was winning working class people, he was winning -- that was where his -- from new york to washington, which was supposed to normally be two hours, i think lasted seven, eight hours, because there were so many people on the tracks that came out both -- the as you know, train tracks go through working-class areas of the country. of the states. and both white and black came outt my father was le to do was to reach out to people who jancheds did not get along so well. michael's right that in california a number of whites 's afrai

hubert humphrey will look ill-legitimate.father knew many of the democratic insiders because he had met and worked with them in the 1960 campaign and as the attorney general and as the senator he knew who they were, so he had a relationship with them and he could've made a pretty strong argument about what needed to be done. i think it would have been very hard having won as many primaries as he did, he did beat mccarthy in all the primaries except for oregon, he beat him in the biggest primary, california, it would have looked bad for the democratic party to nominate hubert humphrey and it would have been a compelling case. >> i want to come back to the california primary shortly. >> let's go to glenn joining us from pottstown, pennsylvania, you're on the air. >> caller: yes, good morning. my question is to ms. kennedy. would you agree that every time the republican get in the white house, we have a financial chaos, economical mayhem and i appreciate your dad and your own -- for the good intention and the good human being. >

host: hubert humphrey, the democratic nominee. , het: one of the ironies mentioned kennedy and the middleumphrey did the best among urban middle-class voters. much better than kennedy. the humphrey speech is interesting. the presidency, and he did so in part because labor rally around him. he had long had support of unions. they rallied strongly behind him and against charge wallace. -- george wallace. they saw someone very antithetical to the interests of labor. in a sense, that was maybe the best one i can think of of labor almost bringing the democratic nominee over the finish line. from that point on, democrats have a very fractured relationship with the labor movement. a big part of the reason was race. this is something we have talked about. the racial issues that emerged caused a lot60's of issues for the democrats. lou, new's go to york.. caller: thank you. thank you for being on this show this morning. we are all very grateful for your father's dedication to america. he was such a good man. caller: -- guest: thank you. caller: i was 12 years old, and we were in social studies fol

hubert humphrey acceptingthe nomination august 29 and richard nixon elected president november 5. fred joins us from reynoldsburg, ohio. on the vietnam war and johnson stopped including humphrey in some of the briefings and he was really on the outside. i felt when i was witnessing the first primary that i would vote in that kennedy brought in love and unity. i disagree with mr. cohen. my impression at age 23, and i was listening to gene mccarthy, he was undermining the military. he was contributing to an atmosphere which some of my friends, i thought, were horribly abused. the military was blamed for things and they were among the bravest, finest people who fought there. in contrast, kennedy brought love and respect across the board. from my feeling and my life at age 23, i could not, in the same breath, talk about your wonderful bob kennedy and gene mccarthy. >> let's begin with michael cohen. >> in defense of gene mccarthy, he was not somebody who was critical of the military. for one thing, he didn't think they should be in the war, in vietnam. he was critical of the leadership

hubert humphrey enters the race which is til april 27 a key thing to keep in mind.ator canada won the the ornia primary on evening of june 4 and then after midnight dying the following day. hubert humphrey accepting the and richardugust 29 and richardugust 29 nixon elected president captioning performed by vitac >> -- that robert kennedy brought sort of a love and unity, there was a positiveness to it. in contrast i disagree with mr. cohen. my impression at age 23 in listening to mccarthy, i thought he was undermining the military, contributing to an atmosphere which some of my friends i thought were horribly abused and abandoned, the military was blamed for things and they were among the bravest finest people in the world who fought there. in contrast bob kennedy i thought brought love and respect across the board. from my feeling and my life at age 23 that i could not in the same breath talk about your wonderful bob kennedy and gene mccarthy. those are my thoughts and i would ask for your comments, please. >> fred, thank you for the call. let's begin with michael

was that a turning point for hubert humphrey? did that narrow the race between humphrey, wallace and nixon. >> where he declares that he's his own man. yeah, so nixon -- i mean, sorry, humphrey got support from the afl-cio and the unions started to organize on his behalf in the general election. that did give him a bump, but then when he declared essentially that he was his own man on the vietnam war, that he was going to support a total stoppage of the bombing of vietnam and essentially breaking from lyndon johnson, that did help him. i mean, i think most historians would agree that -- and the polls suggested that he began to close the gap. so as we discussed earlier, the popular vote, the electoral college vote, was a blow out, nixon won it big, 301 votes, i think, but the popular vote was, i think, less than 1%, 43.5% for nixon, 42 and change for humphrey. one of the reasons he was able to close that gap was due to the -- due to that speech and the sense that he could bring back the eugene mccarthy supporters, the anti-war sup

october, in effect he announced a peace initiative hubert humphrey is catching up day by day. the main people in the democratic camp who thought the nation would be enough at the end to put them over the finish line. and the nixonsay people will dispute this to this not seem tois was be an interest of richard nixon. but -- you lived in washington was the widow of claire -- come a hero of the second more than someone who was well-connected in vietnam. emissary some kind of conveying messages back and forth between the nixon camp and president hugh, the upside of which was just as lbj trying to build momentum. word comes out of the government unofficially that they have not signed on to this plan. throwing cool water and making it look more cravenly political. again, the debate goes on. mrs. chennault always denied it. the evidence seems to be strong. host: our guest is an author, a presidential historian. at can find more of his work his website. guest: we do a couple doors. towardsed doing does go a year that were presidential. we went to presidential sites. now we broaden a b

hubert humphrey for many years was the leader of the liberals in the united states senate. the great champion of civil rights, for example. and able yet to figure. the problem was the politics of bouillant a figure. the problem was the politics of joy clashed with the politics of 1968. he had the wrong speech. he was certainly a gallant figure, people forget also -- he had no money. it's meant there is much less humphrey television, the organization had atrophy under eight years in office which can happen. so he was going up against a very well honed republican machine with plenty of money. the country was more than restless. the country was in the mood for change. it was not his year. in modern politics, usually have a team of people prepping the candidates. was there a team back in 1968? guest: both candidates had their inner circles. nixon's was more in 1968? organized, but that reflected the candidate's personality and the nature of the parties. rebelats, traditionally, in a certain amount of creative, constructive chaos. in a lot of ways became a poignant figure. at th

general election there was one speech, september 30, salt lake city, was that a turning point for hubert humphrey? did that narrow the race between hubert, wallace, and nixon? robert: where he declares he is his own man. humphrey got support from the unions and they started to organize on his behalf in the general election. that did give him a bump. but then when he declared essentially that he was his own man on the vietnam war, that he was going to support a total stoppage of the bombing of vietnam and essentially breaking from lyndon johnson, that did help him. most historians would agree, and the polls suggested he began to close the gap. thes we discussed earlier, popular vote, the electoral college vote was a blowout. on it big, 300 votes. the popular was less than 1%, 43.5% for next and, 42% for humphrey. one of the reasons he could close that gap was due to that speech and the sense that he could bring back eugene mccarthy supporters, antiwar supporters. robert kennedy very fascinating, so we will never know of course. we will never know. in some ways it might have been theer for him to h

buchanan and miss perry concerning president johnson's tardiness in supporting hubert humphrey in '68. until that very late date. and i'm wondering if, it's sort of a what if question, again, but what if the president had come out sooner for humphrey? miss perry alluded to the tension between humphrey and johnson over the war, and it was palpable. >> george, thank you. >> indeed, there will always be this historical what if. what if humphrey had -- and i think it was against his personality, he was such a joyful, positive, ebullient character, and such a loyal character, that it was hard for him to turn against his president. but i think it is possibly the case if he had come out sooner and draw the people who were supportive of mccarthy, the anti-war activists, supportive of robert kennedy, the far-left fringe, he was not going to get. they were going to be against him, as indicated in chicago. but i think if he had come out earlier, against the johnson policy, maybe humphrey would have got what he needed in the popular vote. but as pat well knows, nixon so flooded him on the elector

i jotted it down last night when bobby kennedy died on june 6th, hubert humphrey had already amassed over 500 delegates, robert kennedy, 353 and gene -- humphrey had the people behind him. he had labor. he had the rank and file of the party. so it's unlikely that even if robert kennedy had lived -- he certainly would have beaten gene mccarthy at the convention. it's unlikely he would have beaten humphrey. remember how devastated humphrey was that johnson was not going to run. i remember that meeting in that apartment before johnson announced, went to that apartment to tell him, he was in tears about it. he had that ambivalence that he was not going to bash the president he was serving. of course, that's in the end in part what caused humphrey to lose the race. >> just down the street, in the russell senate office building not far from where we are at is where senator robert f. kennedy made his announcement. >> there is speculation that this is opportunistic on your part. >> i said i don't believe -- >> can't hear the question. >> do sorry to repeat that? [ laughter ]. >> a lot of nast

was that a turning point for hubert humphrey? did that narrow the race between wallace, humphrey and nixon? >> where he said he was his own man? >> yeah. nixon got support from the afl- cio. that did give him a bump. then when he declared, essentially, that he was his own man on the vietnam war. that he was going to support a total stoppage of the bombing of vietnam and essentially breaking from lyndon johnson, that did help him. i think most historians would agree. the polls suggested that he closed the gap. as we discussed earlier, the popular vote, the electoral college vote was blown, but the popular vote was less than 1%. 43.5% for nixon, 42 and change for humphrey. the reason he was able to close that gap was due to that speech and the sense that he could bring back in the antiwar supporters. now, robert kennedy, very fascinating. we will never know, of course. we will never know. in some ways it might have been harder for him to have won the nomination than the general election. if you won the nomination, he would've had m

as former vice president richard nixon faced democratic nominee, the incumbent vice president hubert humphreyd alabama governor george wallace who ran on the american independent ticket. wednesday it is civil rights and race relations. thursday, the rise of liberal politics, with a special look at the democratic convention in chicago. friday, conservative politics, and richard nixon's rise of the republican party. all nine programs are available as a podcast, or watch anytime on cspan.org, on our 1968 page. >> cspan, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, cspan was created as a public service by america's cable television company. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress. cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. 1968 is considered a turning point in the vietnam war. cspan produced a detailed look into 1968, america and turmoil, covering the major military, political and diplomatic developments in the war that year. our guests are vietnam veteran and former navy secretary jim west, and author david merritt. we begin with a video on the state of the war

when former vice president richard nixon faced democratic nominee and incumbent vice president hubert humphrey and alabama governor george wallace, who ran on the american independent party ticket. wednesday civil rights and race relations. thursday it's the rise of liberal politics with a special look at the democratic convention in chicago. friday, conservative politics and richard nixon's rise in the republican party. >>> this sunday on oral histories we continue our series on women in congress with former democratic congresswoman pat schroeder. >> when i first got elected i was in this really idealistic mode of this is wonderful, you know, how long do you think it will be before almost half of the house is female? so i asked the library of congress, or somebody, what they thought, and they said probably 300 years. but i'm beginning to believe maybe they were right because it has been very incremental. very incremental. >> and in the weeks ahead we will hear from sue myrick, eva clayton, helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.

and it's hanging over the head of vice president hubert humphrey. humphrey to the right here. he's trying to escape the orbit of the president. at the same time, is being pulled far to the other side by the peace faction, and what do you think his odds of being able to pull that off are? good, bad, not possible? i would say relatively not possible. i love this quote. i pulled this one out purposefully. one observer noted for vice president humphrey, "nothing would bring the real peaceknicks back to our side unless hubert urinated on the portrait of johnson on times square in television. then they would say, why didn't you do it before? can you win in that situation? now, here's what johnson really pulls the rug out from under him. you remember in the leadup to the democratic national convention, the committee starts meeting. and the major issue is vietnam. can't escape it. and humphrey works out and fashions a fairly moderate compromise, does he not? he gets the approval and what happens? [ inaudible ] what happens then? >> i don't know. all hell breaks loose. and we see this.

impussive as it seems on the surface. 50 years after 1968, a tumultuous year, richard nixon defeating hubert humphrey, what's surprised you the most in terms of the media and its role as the events unfolded in that historic year. >> in 1968? i think that what surprised me the most about the media, in 1968, is how the public started to understand how it worked. and i'm going to point to not 1968, but the next year and the publication of joe mcginnis', "the selling of the president." a best-selling expose' which talked about what richard nixon did during his election and this advertising strategy that they had. and this brings the public into the conversation. and so they're not just sitting back and being manipulated by nixon or any other political contenders. they recognize that this is a conversation. they start, you see a journalism starts to change and they focus on what's happening behind the scenes, how the message is being constructed rather than what the message actually is. and so i think that's a really important shift that frequently we overlook. that still resonates in how we have conversa

defeating hubert humphrey, what would surprise you the most in terms of the media and its role in the events as they unfolded during the historic year? >> in 1968? i think that what surprised me the most about the media in 1968 is that how the public started to understand how it worked. and i'm going to point to, not 1968, but the next year. and the publication of joe mcginnis's book the felling of the president. it was a best-selling exposi. and told about what he did in the 1968 election and the advertising strategy that they had. and this brings the public into the conversation. they're not just sitting back and being manipulated by nixon or any other political contenders. they recognize that this is a conversation and they see journalism start to change. and they look at what is behind the scenes and healthy messages being constructed, rather than what the message actually is. i think that is a very important shift that is frequently overlooked and still resonates and how we have conversations today. when you have commentary on a news program, so much of the focus is on why is he

and it's hanging over the head of vice president hubert humphrey. humphrey to the right here. he's trying to escape the orbit of the president. at the same time, is being pulled far to the other side by the peace faction, and what do you think his odds of being able to pull that off are? good, bad, not possible? i would say relatively not possible. i love this quote. i pulled this one out purposefully. one observer noted for vice president humphrey, "nothing would bring the real peaceknicks back to our side unless hubert urinated on the portrait of johnson on times square in television. then they would say, why didn't you do it before? can you win in that situation? now, here's what johnson really pulls the rug out from under him. you remember in the leadup to the democratic national convention, the committee starts meeting. and the major issue is vietnam. can't escape it. and humphrey works out and fashions a fairly moderate compromise, does he not? he gets the approval and what happens? [ inaudible ] what happens then? >> i don't know. all hell breaks loose. and we see this.

were out on the streets protesting against pom situatlir which they had very little to say. >> hubert humphreyhis party's nomination, and in the opinion of many people there's serious discussion about how much the nomination he won is worth. >> humphrey faced and almost impossible task to bridge the divide, to unify his party. >> we do not want a police state, but we need a state of law and order. and neither mob violence nor police brutality have any place in america. >> even as he spoke, the showdown in the streets continued. the final enduring image of a disastrous convention. >> the old man running this convention would absolutely determined to have everything their way, and they almost succeeded. in the process they may have succeeded in losing the election. >> all set? see you downtown, fellows. >> just days later richard nixon opened his campaign in chicago and was welcomed with a ticker tape parade. he promised law and order, and that november a nation still deeply divided narrowly elected him president of the united states. >> and our special thanks -- >> senior producer andy franklin

after 1968, a tumultuous year including the election of richard nixon defeating hubert humphrey, what has surprised you the most in terms of the media and its role as the events unfold in the historic year? >> in 1968? i think what surprised me the most about the media in 1968 is how the public started to understand how it works. i'm going to point to not 1968, but the next year and the publication of "the selling of the president's," and this was a aboutg exposÉ that talked exactly what nixon did in his 1968 election and talked about this advertising strategy that they had. and this brings the public into the conversation. they are not just sitting back and being manipulated by nixon or any other political contenders, they recognize that this is a conversation and you see journalism start to change. and they focus on what's happening behind the scenes, how the message is being constructed rather than what the message actually is. i think it's really important shift that frequently we overlooked that still resonates into how we have conversations today. when we have commentary on news

when hubert humphrey was the anti-communist liberal running against a procommunist liberal which tells you just how bad that period was and reagan became an anti-communist. when he married nancy her father was a very right-wing medical doctor and gradually through a series of conversations reagan began to be more and more anti-tax. he was hired by general lack tech. the education of ronald reagan which i recommend very highly is a very short book about the times the 80 years he spent at general electric. he had as a mentor to have government regulations. i worked with reagan for years. when i read this book and understood what he was doing it was that decisive of a book. he learned from the sky. but around the country and gave three and 75 speeches to blue-collar audiences with q&a and with picture taking. the time he ran for president he was interacting with blue-collar workers talking about ideas but the guy who hired him as a very conservative person. reagan in 1946 to 1965 reagan refused to fly. he was in a very bad airplane flight and i think they got caught in a thunderstorm. he

an overview of the presidential campaign, where richard nixon won the republican nomination, hubert humphrey was on the democratic ticket, and george wallace ran as an independent. we are able to show you these american history tv programs, normally shown on the weekends, because congress is on break. if you missed any of today's programs, you can see that again tonight at eight eastern. you can also listen to the programs as a podcast on spotter fire, or watch any time on c-span.org, on our 1968 page. our cspan series continues throughout the week here on cspan3. on wednesday, civil rights and race relation. thursday, a discussion on liberal politics. friday, conservative politics, and on saturday, women's rights. >> cspan, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, cspan was created as a public service. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington dc, and around the country. cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> next, new hampshire secretary of state, bill gardner, hosts a lo

he then defeated democrat hubert humphrey and independent candidate george wallace in the general election, winning 32 states. this half hour film was courtesy of the richard nixon presidential library and museum. >>> new hampshire is one of the few places where people have a chance to meet the candidates as well as learn about them. the new hampshire republican presidential primary. the candidate who really has been seen and heard by the people of new hampshire is richard nixon. >> how did you fellas come out? >> you are about to accompany richard nixon on his 1968 campaign. you will hear from the candidate, his family, and staff. you will hear what richard nixon had to say and what people said to him. >> i heard all those tales. will lee send everything. all right. i am glad to find some new hampshire people. arnold, how did you get up there? how are the eagles going to do? >> richard nixon talked about a new vision of america's future. he has said that 1968 is the time to begin that future and the place to begin is in new hampshire. ♪ >> on february 2, richard nixon held his first press

by the way, i saw a tweet on this day 50 years ago hubert humphrey led richard nixon and then things changed. what happens is the shoot happens two weeks later and nixon gives speech in miami beach, few weeks later democratic convention. .. .. there were things going on at the time. >> yes your crime was on the rise. >> i know that, but we don't know about these little instances that is was interesting about your project. >> this was new to me because i was probably about your age and i was in a town in western ohio a new nothing about any of this. its way when i first had looking into it i was thinking why isn't this story here and it was buried in cleveland because police didn't really want to talk about it. posted one to talk about it because it ruined his mayorship. he was a bright chinese model of someone getting this and all of a sudden money was used to buy rifles to shoot police. it was over for him at that point so he was ruined by this guy and he was trying to do the right thing. that's the tragedy of all of this. that's the tragedy of 68 and why are we-- why we are still r

historian arnold recounts the life of vice president and 1968 democratic presidential candidate, hubert humphrey. in eracinging american, the thought throwingship between the political left and american history. and a rex of her life in syria and her family's attempts to escape in "the boy on the beach. " watch for the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. booktv visit capitol hill ask member-of-congress what they're reading this summer. >> i'm reading a lot this summer and kind of following up on last year, first of all, to c-span. you guys take the time to go into ideas and books and the newspapers every morning. i appreciate, my constituent is appreciate all your work. i'll just launch. finished king -- kissinger on china. the way the chinese think over the long-term, gave some metaphors, chess and checkers it's in the news, it's really but china. there's lot of russian news but it's but who in, north korea, russia, iran you look behind the scenes, this guys or the $18 trillion economy in the room right next to us. so they're that -- russia is not comparable, no one is comparable.

it is not clear whether the establishment forces now led by and personified by hubert humphrey's, stockton vice president who is now running for the nomination, had not ran in any primaries i do, but is running for the nomination, a top voter of how the nomination has changed, but chicago also becomes the destination for the antiwar left, where we have a group in new york that is sponsoring buses to go to the convention, and is talking about how the tens of thousands will be there to demand an end to the war in vietnam and against black america. so these two causes, racial justice at home, and end of the war abroad are being linked together by the leftist and protesters. so, as the democratic conversion sets on chicago, so do many of these protesters. violence ensues. now, why is this such a meaningful and important event? again, television. you can't think of a place with more television cameras, both inside and outside the hall, then a national political convention. everyone is defendant on chicago. so, when all of these protesters who are camped out across the city of chicago, protestin

mccarthy campaign gains steam and it becomes clearer and clearer that johnson and his vice president hubert humphrey, who would be another possible nominee for the 168 democratic nomination, that they are increasingly hobbled by the war in vietnam. robert kennedy reconsiders his ideas about not getting in the race. and so, by middle of march, too late to actually get formally on the ballot for, for wisconsin, the wisconsin primary, which is coming up, but nonetheless, in it so he's, he's a significant write-in candidate and he's on the ballot for later primaries going forward. kennedy jumps in. now, kennedy was, by this point the, the supporters of gene mccarthy who might have been inclined to support kennedy the summer before, now have their -- they've plighted themselves to gene mccarthy and they see kennedy as this johnny come lately, just getting in on the, jumping on the bandwagon once it gets going. so among the diehard mccarthy supporters, there was a great dislike of bobby ken dixt here's a home-made sign in iowa in the campaign rally. supporting mccarthy and handwritten in marker on the pos

the nomination of our party. ( applause ) >> dickerson: 50 years ago tonight, vice president hubert humphrey democratic nomination for president. it came at the end of a violent week in chicago in the summer of a violent year in america. dean reynolds is in chicago tonight. da reporter: on a quiet august ody in chicago's grant park, it's hard to imagine this spot ens once a bloody battlefield. 50 years ago, it was a time when civil rights were legal, but the resistance was lethal. a time of war and body counts and assassinations. mike james was in chicago. >> we were for peace. we were for ending the war. i'm the guy in the black leather jacket with the blond hair, longer blond hair. >> reporter: he was one of about 10,000 demonstrators-- yippies, hippies, and others-- who intersected with thousands of chicago cops and national guardsmen, a flammable mix on michigan avenue that would later be called a police riot. as news cameraman del hall wasn't doing anything wrong during a march. filming? >> yes, filming. >> reporter: but he wound up on the wrong end of a police baton. >> i really believ

he then defeated democrat hubert humphrey and independent candidate george wallace in the general election winning 32 states. this half hour film is courtesy of the richard nixon presidential library and museum. >>> in an age of impersonal political campaigns new hampshire is one of the few places where people have a chance to meet the candidates as well as read about them. the new hampshire republican presidential primary, the start of the 1968 campaign trail. from the beginning the candidate who really has been seen and heard by the people of new hampshire is richard nixon. >> how did you fellas -- >> you are about to accompany richard nixon on the first leg of his 1968 new hampshire campaign. you will be with the candidate, his family and the nixon staff. you will hear what richard nixon had to say and what people said to him. >> i heard all those tales about woolies and everything. >> hi. >> how are you today. >> a long way from philadelphia. >> that's right. i'm glad to find some new hampshire people. >> well, arnold, how did you get up here? how are the eagles going to do next year?

that man will be vice president hubert humphrey. right now, speeches are being made for senator mccoverpb and then we will have nominations seconding speech for the rev rent mr. channing phillips of washington, d.c. a favorite son, candidate of the black caucus. candidate of the bs convention, 212 delegates here -- negro delegates here. here in the amphitheater, new york, holding a caucus right now discussing violence downtown. [applause] >> you are wasting valuable time. several hundred of mccarthy supporters and others have gathered into the caucus room here, number one, to hear proposals that all of these -- all of those opposed to the action in the convention, the actions of police and other security agents against the delegates as they gathered together at the end of the speech and go forth and present their objections and be permitted to present a resolution and not permitted, they say they will not return to the convention tomorrow. the proposal is not that they will walk out tonight that they will not come back tomorrow. one

. >> hubert humphrey was the establishment and he represented the big bosses and the traditional democratic the politicians, the big city mayors. they were certainly not satisfied with gene mccarthy. his sole campaign was, i'll end the war in vietnam. >> reporter: the city said in a year of assassinations and riot it couldn't grant permits to protesters to march on the convention or sleep in city parks. >> we knew the convention was coming to town and we knew there was probably going to be some problems. we were getting pelted. >> reporter: bill was a rookie police man in 1968 hosted to the protests in grant park. >> i had come home from korea. i was stationed on the dmz. and the next trip all my buddies went to vietnam. >> reporter: wednesday night, august 28th, the confrontation that had been building all week probably all year, burst open on the street between grant park and the convention headquarters hotel. >> the first step he said, clear the streets. after the final warning he said if you don't move out of the street, my officers are going to clear the street. and that's what we had

that man will be vice president hubert humphrey. right now, speeches are being made for senator mccoverpb and then we will have nominations seconding speech for the rev rent mr. channing phillips of washington, d.c. a favorite son, candidate of the black caucus. candidate of the bs convention, 212 delegates here -- negro delegates here. here in the amphitheater, new york, holding a caucus right now discussing violence downtown. [applause] >> you are wasting valuable time. several hundred of mccarthy supporters and others have gathered into the caucus room

. >> 50 years ago tonight vice president hubert humphrey accepted the democratic nomination for presidentend of a violent week in chicago in the summer of a violent year in america. dean reynolds is in chicago tonight. >> reporter: on a quiet august day in chicago's grant park it's hard to imagine this spot was once a bloody battlefield. 50 years ago was the time when civil rights were legal but the resistance was lethal. a time of war and body counts and assassinations. mike james was in chicago. >> we were for peace. we were for ending the war. i'm the guy in the black leather jacket with the blond hair, longer blond hair. >> reporter: he was one of about 10,000 demonstrators, yippies, hippies and others, who int sected with thousands of chicago cops and national guardsmen, a flammable mix on michigan avenue that would later be called a police riot. cbs news cameraman del hall wasn't doing anything wrong during a march. filming? >> yes, filming. >> reporter: but he wound up on the wrong end of a police baton. >> i really believe i was the first person hit. i was not the last person. >>

as former vice president richard nixon faced democratic nominee, the incumbent vice president hubert humphrey. wednesday, it's civil rights and race relations. on thursday, the riots of liberal politics with a special look at the democratic convention in chicago. friday, conservative politics and richard nixon's rise in the republican party. all are available on spotify or watch any time on cspan.org on our 1968 page. >> cspan, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, cspan was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. today, we continue to bring you unfilter coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. 1968 is considered a turning point in the vietnam war. cspan produced a detailed look into 1968, america in turmoil covering the major military, political, and diplomatic developments in the war that year. our guests are vietnam veteran and former navy secretary jim

october, in effect he announced a peace initiative hubert humphrey is catching up day by day. main people in the democratic camp who thought the nation would be enough at the end to put them over the finish line. and the nixonsay people will dispute this to this not seem tois was be an interest of richard nixon. but -- you lived in washington was the widow of claire -- come a hero of the second more than someone who was well-connected in vietnam. emissary some kind of conveying messages back and forth between the nixon camp and president hugh, the upside of which was just as lbj trying to build momentum. word comes out of the government unofficially that they have not signed on to this plan. throwing cool water and making it look more cravenly political. again, the debate goes on. mrs. chennault always denied it. the evidence seems to be strong. host: our guest is an author, a presidential historian. at can find more of his work his website. guest: we do a couple doors. towardsed doing does go a year that were presidential. we went to presidential sites. now we broaden a bit w

hubert humphrey was on the democratic ticket and george wallace ran as an independent. that's followed by a college history lecture on events happening in the u.s. at the time of that campaign which changed the future of the candidates. then a discussion of the 1968 new hampshire primary with panelists who were involved in the campaigns. >>> and if you miss any of today's programs, you can see them again tonight at 8:00 eastern. you can also listen to the programs as a podcast on spotify or watch anytime on c-span.org on our c-span series. our american history tv series continues this week on c-span3. on wednesday, civil rights and race relations. on thursday, liberal politics, friday, conservative politics, and on saturday, women's rights. >>> senate confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh to be a supreme court justice are expected in september, and senators are likely to question brett kavanaugh about roe v. wade, the 1983 decision that struck down many decisions about abortion. tonight c-span's landmark cases present an in-depth look at roe v. wade. we'll also hear