a late help from labor helped hubert humphrey but also created the impression that the election was closer than it really was so the republican richard nixon winds and winds with 43.4% of the popular vote. humphrey had 42.7% of the popular vote. you are wondering, i know you are because you are quick in your head, where was the remaining 13.5% of the vote? that vote went to former alabama governor george wallace ran as an independent. you can tell from the confederate battle flag behind him what his policies might have been. he ran as an independent in 1968 and in 1972. he is important not just because of who he is but the effect his campaign has. his campaign detach is traditionally urban white sectors to people who had voted for the democrats previously. white working class voters in cities. they were attracted to wallace and he did very well in ohio, in michigan and indiana and illinois. he got more than 10% of the white vote in those places. he split the southern vote with humphrey -- with makes each nixon excuse me. wallace is a democrat, former democrat, now an independent. he and ni

right hubert humphrey wasn't even in the play but at the convention hubert humphrey comes up and all of a sudden we have a new candidate in 1982 these idiots that don't have enough so enlightened they don't even know that history we don't need biden get rid of him come in with another candidate but oh no we've got to have biden you know it's what is your take it's yes it's infuriating to me it's very well what's funny right now is we are seeing joe biden. kind of put on this facade right now because last last friday i believe it was may 1st he sends a letter to the secretary of the senate and he says ok secretary of the senate if in fact a complaint from terror read against me exists you have record of that please do or you can let's release it and let's see and people said oh wadia see if there was a complaint we would be doing that but the secretary of the senate had to come out on monday and say. i wouldn't be allowed to do this even if a complaint existed and to me it got me think of a man who was in the senate for 36 years he knows that exact he knows that she couldn't release t

the late help from labor, it helped hubert humphrey, but it also created the impression that the election was closer than it really was. so the republican, richard nixon wins, and he wins with 44.3% of the popular vote. humphrey had 42.7% of the popular vote. you are remaining where was the remaining 13.5% of the vote? that vet went to the former alabama governor george wallace who ran as an independent. there he is. there is george. a happy george. you can tell from the confederate battle flag behind him what his policies might have been. he ran as an independent in 1968. he also ran as an independent again in 19 2. he -- he's important here not just for who he is, but for the effect that his campaign has. his campaign detaches traditionally urban white sectors to the people who had voted for the democrats previously, sort of white working class voters in cities. they were attracted to wallace. and he did very well in ohio and michigan and indiana and illinois. he got more than 10% of the white vote in those places. westerners liked him, too. idaho, nevada like george wallace. he split t

him a five page letter and then at the beginning of his tour, i took off with him, along with hubert humphrey, gene mccarthy, and the senator from pennsylvania, and we left the white house by it helicopter to the air force base, and headed out, or landing finally in minnesota, then the president gave a speech in wisconsin, and that he gave another one at jackson hole, and he was off on his conservation tour, which i was delighted about, that he got to salt lake and he said something there about foreign policy which got headlines all over the nation. that was the end of the conservation tour. he didn't have much support for the concept of the idea. his advisers did not think much of it. anyway, that was the end. what i hoped would happen did not happen. it did not really get the issue into the political arena. years went by and i kept thinking, 37 states, between 1963 and 1970, i was on a conservation speaking in late july and early august of 1969, out on the west coast, and i spoke at the university of california santa barbara and headed from there to speak at a conservation conference and on

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is the democratic party going to move to the stevens hubert humphreys middle or will your party stilln as a liberal dominant urban party that has trouble speaking to northwest detroit? rep. stevens: i tell you, i am focused on a democratic party in the 21st century that is building and moving the agenda of the worker, the middle class, the suburban mom, and that is focused on not only what we are just a few short ways -- years centurye quarter 21st and then the big 21st century. you look at the post 9/11 economic narrative, proliferating the gig economy, very much tied to autos. streaming at aa high rate through vehicles. all of the internet of things technology has propagated and proliferated over the last 20 years, transforming over and over again. we have got to build that economic vision. tom: congresswoman, we have got to go because i have got to go out and buy a gm pickup truck. haley stevens from detroit, thank you for being with us. this is bloomberg. good morning. ♪ everyone,morning, bloomberg "surveillance," from new york and london. coming up, francine's conversation with t

he called it the great game, and he beat democrat hubert humphrey in a tight election that year. as you can see, nixon was almost pugilistic as a president. he viewed himself as someone who needed to fight to stay on top. he battled constantly with congress as he thought to expand -- sought to expand his executive power. a great example in the book is nixon's aggressive attempt to a pound funds in order to thwart pieces of legislation tapped by congress that he didn't like. for example, in october of 1972, congress was forced to override nixon's veto of amendments to the clean water act. the water was becoming extremely important in the country. nixon refused to spend this money, he didn't agree with it. he defied congress, so ultimately, congress was forced to pass the impoundment control act of 1964 to control these sorts of abuses by nixon and his administration. similarly, in 1973, something we see a lot in the later chapters after congress learned that nixon had secretly bombed sites in cambodia without notifying congress, they passed the war powers resolution and clipped ni

two in the senate, one of them is for the unexpired term of hubert humphrey. and the governorship are all up for grabs in 1978. in iowa, dick clark, not the musician, but dick clark was the incumbent democratic senator. and down in iowa, going into the election, no poll showed clark behind -- i'm sorry. no poll showed clark ahead by fewer than 10% going into the final days of that senate election. what happens in both iowa and minnesota is that pro-lifers, roman catholics, picketed -- i'm sorry, leafletted church parking lots on the sunday before the election. in iowa, dick clark loses re-election to roger jepson, a pro-life republican. and in minnesota, pro-life republicans capture all three of those elections. the governorship and both senate seats. all of them on a pro-life campaign. when i was doing research at the university of wyoming in laramie which for some reason is where paul's papers are and correspondents, the correspondents fairly crackles with excitement when the results of the 1978 bi-election comes in. he knows he has his issue that is going t

and with vice president hubert humphrey. general westmoreland. ambassador bunker. and barry zorthian who was the pr guy for saigon and vietnam at the time. this is what i call a cushy assignment. that's my butt you can see in that know toe. the next photo is the opposite where it was not so cushy the father of helicopter warfare, flew me to d.c., he went to the pentagon. i met him. he told me what he wanted so i went back and did a complete series on the first tier cav division. so the next photo shows me out making that film, the first air cav story. we were shooting -- i was on an air assault. i had -- i couldn't resist taking a shot, so i did, and there's some other shots that go along with that that we're still trying to find. so in that particular film, i had three motion picture cameras shooting at one time. three different choppers. it was a big production. that was because lieutenant general kanard, you want helicopter in the air? whatever you want, you got. i want this filmed, though. at one time we had 15 helicopters up there going to war doing their thin

maybe jerry loved hubert humphrey.going on in your campaign, but you have a democratic mole who is saying hey, i got a good idea, let's cut social security and medicare, hey, i got a good idea, we want to impress the black vote, let's attack barack obama every day. seriously? whoever gave you that idea, they are working for the other team. >> i think it was him. he gets his ideas right here. >> really? >> that's what he says. >> john heilemann, i must say, as you know, and people say this about me all the time -- >> good morning. >> -- joe is just a simple country lawyer. he fell off the turnip truck a couple days ago. he still roots for the atlanta hawks. still thinks every season the falcons have a chance to win the super bowl. joe, he doesn't know too much sometimes. so i don't understand this politics thing. but could you explain to me how donald trump attacking barack obama -- by the way, i could attack barack obama. i have. and i will again. but i'm not running for president of the united states. but could you ex