this was hubert humphrey's humiliation. >> i stood and watched hubert humphrey tonight stand where he long, at the very top of the democratic party heap, my first thought was, some heap. the divisions in this party run very deep, indeed, and hubert humphrey who wants to be a healer for the party and for the country has very little time to heal the divisions in this party in terms of the november election. it's my judgment that hubert humphrey starts out an underdog. >> nixon could be gleeful about trumping his enemies and it gave him great joy to go to chicago to begin his campaign in the very place where the democratic party had been humiliated by a riot. ♪ stand up and let's strike the band up ♪ >> here comes richard nixon, the uniter, coming through the city of chicago like a roman emperor and being cheered by tens of thousands and harassed by no one. so it looks like this would be the fellow that can unite the country. ♪ >> humphrey's in an impossible situation. he's associated with the chaos of the anti-war movement because of what happened at the convention. he has this albatros

. >> hubert humphrey gained 15 points and we gained nothing in october.ll those democratic votes were coming home, all right. they went right past us and went to hubert humphrey. >> i think you and mr. humphrey should get out vietnam and some other questions. >> i think mr. humphrey is having a great time debating himself. >> the conceit behind the new nixon was that, that old whiny sad, combative loser is gone. >> now, despite numerous requests, nbc presents "laugh-in." >> i think we should get mr. humphrey in here for a sock it to me. >> sock it to me? >> difference in the campaign is that whenever possible the candidate is never in an environment that he can't control. >> get in there. >> the counsel to richard nixon was don't leave the script. >> nixon makes the same speech everywhere he goes. all candidates do that. nixon is speaking on the issues of the day, he's saying there's a lot of things wrong with this country and he's promising to do something about it. but he's not saying what. >> my friends, i say to you, let's enlist the people of america

we, in all of our uppityness, invited the democratic candidate for vice president, senator hubert humphrey, to visit the smith campus. and he did. and i have got proof. [laughter] we were unable to enlarge this, but hey, you can all see it perfectly. [laughter] here it says johnson humphrey. here he is. like that. and little face there is not forest gump, it is someone who used to be called janie lakes. so, after that amazing experience, i was invited to attend johnson humphrey inauguration, including the inaugural ball. think about that, as a college kid. which came just before my winter exams. in a fit of responsibility, i turned down the invitation so that i could study more. i was sad to miss the festivities, but i did pretty well that semester, and it was a down payment on my political career a few decades later. so back to the humphrey lecture. a a few month ago, lonnie bunch, who some of you know and all of you know of, who was the amazingly creative founder of the african-american museum just down the road and is the new secretary of the smithsonian institution, recommended the per

hubert humphrey. >> richard nixon. >> this campaign train is on a life or death mission. >> columbia university, students barricade university buildings. >> the students push forward and the police push back. >> washington, chicago, detroit, new york, racial confrontations. >> mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord! ♪ you say you want a revolution ♪ ♪ well you know ♪ we all want to change the world ♪ >> we are trading full time jobs for part time income ♪ >> revolution ♪ ♪ >> i know nonviolence will work. ♪ we want to change the world >> is this what you want to do? destroy the world? ♪ when you talk about destruction ♪ >> the american embassy is under siege. ♪ all right >> we are planning new marches -- >> i know where we are, stay alive day to day. >> i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> no question about it, this was a bombshell politically. >> i think it will be a good thing for the party. >> we want to deal with our own problems within our own party and we want peace in vietnam. ♪ >> those who got out of hand the ot

by june of 1968, nixon has assumed a fairly healthy lead over hubert humphrey. griffin is saying he is confident nixon will win. he basically says i want a republican to make the nomination rather than a democrat. if the polls were flipped. let's say we are in an alternative world and hubert humphrey were somehow ahead by 15 points in the polls. i suspect griffin would have said let's go along with this. but he doesn't. he gets a significant chunk of senate republicans. 19 senators who were signing on to this statement. remember, we have 11 senators. 10 of whom are democrats. on paper, we have almost 30 senators who seem to be skeptical about a possible johnson nomination. the johnson white house staff does not detect this. just at the time as the griffin round robin is coming out. johnson's liaison team in the white house that basically counts votes in congress prepared these documents for lbj. they say this is a shoe in. we have roughly 70% of the support in the senate. we have a handful of opponents but you don't need to worry. fortas is going to get confirme

so that, it wasn't only the johnson administration, it wasn't only hubert humphrey, it was the whole liberal establishment that said no, when it comes to power, these rules don't obtain. at the end of the day, the refusal of the mississippi freedom democratic party to deal with that so-called compromise. the kind of sense that power prevails, not just the ideals and the things the people espouse, capitalism always trump's democracy. people were able to see, first hand. i was 23 and 64, everybody else was around that and they said hey, this is the way it happens not all that stuff we read in the books. this is the stuff that happened. it wasn't idealism, these were the rules that you put out there this wasn't stuff we thought up. this was what you said the party rules were. and when it came to the deal, this is the way it came down. and then people said, we no longer trust you. i think people then started disengaging from the electoral process, and what people considered foolishness. >> let's step back to when you started to go to a convention. and find out what you were anticipating

result in the release of donald trump's closely held financial records before november's elections hubert humphrey al jazeera washington ok let's talk now to bruce fein bruce is a former u.s. deputy attorney general he joins us from washington on skype bruce welcome back again so this is good news in as much as it shows to america and the world that mr trump doesn't have absolute immunity he can't say i'm the president therefore you can't touch me. that's correct i don't think it's new news you know i was here 40 years ago the supreme court said precisely the same thing in the nixon tapes case when the president was forced to reveal 62 tapes of the oval office of his having conversations with john dean and others supreme court also held with regard to the presidency of william jefferson clinton he had to respond to document requests subpoenas with regard to the pollen jones civil lawsuit and indeed the house of representatives itself as far back as 1974 and i was involved voted an article of impeachment as article 3 against president nixon for what defying a congressional subpoena that he was not

to -- scoop jackson, hubert humphrey would be appalled, lbj would be appalled.o democrats adapt and adjust to the deficit that is to come? sen. van hollen: in this case, the challenge we face is doing economyand allowing the spendings case, we are money to try to keep afloat. there is no doubt this will add trillions to our deficit. i've been one of those who argued we need to be prudent when it comes to deficits. i think we will have to look at a variety of things. the $2 trillion addition to the deficit from the trump tax cut put us further in the hole. that is not my number. that is the congressional budget office number over 10 years. we will have to figure this out going forward. probably the worst thing for the deficit at this point would be for the economy to be even harder hit. -- tom: i look at the past and i think of pat buchanan, richard nixon, and a gentleman from maryland named agnew. what he did was identify a silent majority. how does your candidate when the silent majority this time around? the president assumes he owns it. sen. van hollen: joe b

hubert humphrey. >> richard nixon. >> this campaign train is on a life or death mission. >> columbia university buildings. >> the students push forward and the police push back. >> washington, chicago, detroit, new york, racial confrontations. >> mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord!

ilph: know, i asked -- no, actually worked for hubert humphrey in the senate and worked for presidentr in the white house, so i wouldn't call it left. i'm a conservative on fiscal policy, but i do believe that we need to do more for those who are underserved in terms of income, health care, housing in this country. lisa: given the fact that you are a fiscal conservative, what would you say to companies raising record amounts of debt in order to survive this time, becoming more indebted ahead of a period of slowing growth? ralph: i think the most important thing for every company to look at in the period we have just been through is liquidity. do we have the cash to survive? and 2009, we learned that financial institutions failed not because of capital, but because of liquidity. , we haveeep recession learned also that that phenomenon is more widespread. we spent a lot of time in the last four months encouraging companies to put more cash on their balance sheet. the conundrum. we are heading into a period of slowing growth. why not just file for bankruptcy? why not renegotiate the debt

narrative, nicole, is he's playing both richard nixon and george wallace in this movie but he's hubert humphrey. he's the incumbent president. it is a weird thing he is trying to try angulate and do. what do you make of him going more and more openly overt and protect your white suburban neighborhoods because if you don't elect me, the blacks and browns are coming for you. >> this is the oldest play in the playbook of a candidate who is feeling like he's losing. i mean, you -- george wallace is a great example because george wallace originally did not run on a racist campaign and when he lost then he famously said, i'll never be out "n" worded again. then he ran on a racist campaign which is what richard nixon did. he ran as a moderate, didn't win and when he came back he ran an explicitly race -- well, i would consider it explicitly racist campaign. this is what trump is doing. when all else fails, you go to that original sin. did you to that area of vision that you think you can win, which is race. so when he talks about the suburbs, as if black people don't live in the suburbs, when he talks

several years ago biden got caught plagiarizing robert kennedy and even hubert humphrey. biden was also accused of plagiarism in law school, and let's not forget about one of biden's favorite people to plagiarize, a british politician named neil kinnock. watch this. >> why am i the first one in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? why is glenys the first woman in her family in 1,000 generations to be able to get to university? >> i'm thinking as i'm coming over here, why is it that joe biden is the first in his family ever to go to university? why is it that my wife, who is sitting out there in the audience, the first and her family to ever go to college. >> was it because all of our predecessors were thick? did they lack talent, those people who could sing and play and write and recite poetry. >> is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? is it because i'm the first biden in 1,000 generations to get a college undergraduate degree, that i was smarter than the rest? those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing

he was accused of plagiarizing robert kennedy, hubert humphrey, british mp neil connect. we played that for you last week. the scary part is biden has taken his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist that this party has ever embraced. the democratic modern socialist party. look at the corrupt forgetful joe biden team. you've got biden, schumer, pelosi. that's 125 years of well failure alone. now add to that bernie sanders. congresswoman ocasio-cortez. beto, bozo or work. his latest policy proposals were literally authored by the devout socialist bernie sanders. ngo even plagiarized bernie's agenda literally in many instances word for word right out of bolshevik bernie's a socialist platform. bernie wants the government to control all means of production. he wants to nationalize industries like they did in venezuela and cuba. he has praise those regimes. by the way, honeymoon and the former soviet union. meanwhile socialist congresswoman ocasio-cortez, she's in charge of biden's climate task force and she wants to ban oil, gas, coal, air travel, a

have the president giving certain powers to a vice president it's interesting in the book that hubert humphreyyou think lbj might have learned had the nicer more inclusive just the opposite was the case he was belittling humphrey as the kennedy people the measure of events and in later years he points out the vice president had become more powerful need to look at my chapter on the bush 43 administration dick cheney had mentioned earlier is very involved in the clash of the titans between secretary of the security advisor and then : powell and donald rumsfeld and cheney is the vice president. i mentioned earlier the domestic team got along pretty well the foreign policy team the vice president was an important part. i've not really seen in this situation for the vice president sometimes the vice president is involved so great we have a lot of questions coming in will get there as many as we can. keep it short so you get some more of them. have something to say we are happy to have you share your wisdom as well. i have another question from gaby g. which white house had the biggest fights it ac

i also point out that hubert humphrey was lbj's vice president and he might've learned from the experience that he had to be nicer with humphrey and the opposite was the case, he was belittling. in later years without the vice president he had become her powerful in the bush 43 administration, cheney was deputy chief of staff, he is very involved between secretary right in security advisor and he had colin powell who got expelled in cheney's vice president and i mentioned earlier the bush domestic team in week three, the foreign policy team was rightfully in insight, the vice president was important part of that, the vice president, i just really seen to a serious situation with the vice president he was able -- sometimes they are involved. >> we have a lot of questions coming in, i'll try to get to as many african and we need to try to keep it short so we can get to more of them. if you answer the question have something to say, were happy to have you share your wisdom as well, i have a question from gabby g, which white house had the biggest fight that impacted execution of policy? >> i

i also point out that hubert humphrey it was lbj's vice president lbj might have learned from experience he had to be nicer more inclusive. an effect the opposite was the case he was as belittling as humphrey as the kennedy people were of johnson and this measure of events. in later years they have become more powerful the bush 43 administration obviously dick cheney who mentioned earlier when he was deputy chief he is very involved in the clash of the titans between secretary rice and colin powell and donald rumsfeld heard a mention earlier in team got along the port engine foreign policy the vice president was an important part of that. the vice president i just really liked into a serious situation with the vice president was able to tamp down conflicts. but sometimes he vice president is involved. civic thank you. great, with a lot of questions coming in salt try to get to as many as we can take it we can keep it short so we can get to some more of them. but also like to answer the question or have something to say we are happy to have you share your wisdom as well. i have another qu

because of the time, jackie kennedy, hubert humphrey, richard nixon, bobby kennedy, they all go to doctor king's funeral the only person that doesn't go as a vice president that's because by then they had broke it irrevocably. the king assigned the great society, war on poverty, that march 15, 1965 we shall overcome speech, the howard university commencement when is it enough but none of it's enough. not by a longshot. and he was right, it was not enough. we look at those high points and citizenship for black people, collectively is still not been achieved. student. two questions i want to try to lump together. there about the present. one of us is asking us to think through what leaders today, but figures today, what movement today are channeling the spirit of the ideas of these leaders. what's needed in this moment? i got to be concerned about the future on what's known of racial equality but democracy itself. we live in a time of severe inequality. this is a kind of vulnerability to this pandemic that's of bringing the cost of it immediately to bear, right? it's unavoidable suffering.

congress fought against the integration amendment led by hubert humphrey, led by paul douglas, another great liberal at the time. they fought against the integration amendment. it was defeated and the 1949 housing act wasn't passed, to continue this segregation path. that's how we got these giant , cabrini green in chicago i'mhe robert taylor homes, getting closer. we think of the pruitt towers for low income like people but the pruitt towers were for african-americans. the i guard towers were for whites. not fact though, not because they happened to apply, this is how they were designated. they were filled this way and after a few years, the white , largely vacant and the pruitt tower had long waiting lists. getting closer. so why is it that after all these years, the white public blackg has vacancies and like housing has long waiting lists must mark the reason is another federal program run by the federal housing administration that subsidized movement of white families out of central cities into single-family homes in the suburbs that were exclusively white. so the federal governmen

lbj's vice president, hubert humphrey, he was ambivalent about vietnam but carry on johnson's policies, he gets the nomination. on the others, richard nixon. he is not an easy guy to make disappear. he comes back from the political dead and wins the political nomination and he does something tricky. he had made his bones politically as a fierce anti-communist. a guy who said always we must stand up to the threat of soviet communism. by 1968, the war in vietnam was wearing thin with again, not just radicals and young people, but more and more americans. they did not want to give up on their vision of what the u.s. stood for and they certainly didn't have a radical critique of american foreign policy, it the war had been going on more than three and a half years when election day came. nixon offered something interesting. he did not say we will win matter the cost and defeat communism no matter what the cost. thisid americans must win piece. -- peace. what does that mean? i promise you i will win this peace for america. i have a plan to end the war in vietnam. thank goodness. how will yo

the two leading candidates at that time on the democratic side were the senator from minnesota, hubert humphrey, who had a long civil rights record, and young senator from massachusetts, named john kennedy, who hadn't had as much of a civil rights record. but they were going to do battle, and they were going to engage in rhetoric. as john kennedy does here with adam clayton powell and eleanor roosevelt in harlem. they were going to talk about what they would do to promote civil rights. now, as we look back on their words now, as we look back at the transcript of their speeches, they really weren't making much of a commitment. but the students saw an identification with their cause. the students saw these presidential candidates as saying, we are with you. we want to try to change america. we want to challenge racial injustice in american society, just like you do. and this was heartening to the students. or at least students took this as heartening. and they said, this is another reason why we should go forward with our civil rights activity. in other words, there is something out there. there

department of labour party and she was a young man who wanted to go into politics with people like hubert humphrey. i'm now conservative, reagan conservative as it were, and i find it just incredibly ironic that liberal cities and states would have this explosion of violence into this horrible murder of this walkman it seems to me the irony says all. so my comment i could go on about racism and the culture in minnesota to get some real insight but i will spare you that. my question to you is as said earlier i think he said when he was at the age of eight and obviously how does he explain what is his explanation of the collegians of jewish americans by and large and ultraliberal socialists and socialist marxist, that liberal philosophy in american politics? i find it just crazy -- >> host: i think we got the point. let's ask if he cares to answer that question. >> guest: i would say first of all on the first point going back it is a tragedy, and a terrible tragedy at-bat. the entire country is rising up to respond to. on the second question, you know, there certainly are deep roots both in terms of

story as his own, and he also misappropriated robert kennedy's words, i believe, as well as hubert humphrey'sds, so biden has a history of plagiarism that goes back not just to 1980 ava goes back to law school. well, that is not malicious," well, i went to law school, and plagiarism is a big issue if it came out at law school, for me or anyone i was in class with them and now joe biden is plagiarizing from the far left, this unity plan he put out. ,lagiarism from bernie sanders plagiarized from the u.n. plagiarize theo title from president trump. bid danger of that as he is plagiarizing a title, plagiarizing the overarching message by america's will also plagiarizing the actual meat of it by the far-left, which would destroy the american economy, the green new deal, making sure that america is dependent on foreign countries for energy again. that would be extremely dangerous. host: let's go back to our phone lines, and let's start with george, who is calling from new jersey on the republican line. george, good morning. caller: hello, can you hear me? host: yes, go ahead, george. caller: i jus

but as i see the scenes of chaos, i remember in richard ben chamber's book, it was hubert humphrey becauseing down from his hotel window horrified at the protests at the democratic convention asking why they couldn't just go away because he was afraid they would attach it to the administration he was part of. when people see chaos in the streets, doesn't that just add to the wrong track numbers for donald trump? it seems to me it's at the very least a double edge sword for the trump administration that this sort of chaos is breaking out with a president in the white house who refuses to even attend a ceremony for john lewis, a civil rights legend that unites everybody. >> by the way, that was extraordinary the way the president said, no, i'm not going. >> awful. >> of course this is a double edged sword. but i think people need to understand -- i was in chicago for the 1968 democratic convention but a lot of the trump folks are thinking of it in terms of the 1972 campaign as well where you did have the weaponization by an incumbent of violence. i think jason's point is very important to st

it was one of my predecessors, vice president hubert h. humphrey, whose desk i stand in front of today, his name is carved in the desk. he served on the agriculture committee, he grew up in a small town in south dakota and became a professor eventually, but in a farm that was a family -- that was a pharmacist and he understood the importance growing up in that family, seeing the ups and downs of rural america. he understood the importance of stable government policy for both agriculture producers and families struggling to put food on the table. he was a leading advocate of food nutrition programs and paid an instrumental role of the food stamp act of 1964 which turned what was then just a pilot program into the permanent program we know today. he knew that the moral test of government is how government treats its most vulnerable citizens, those in need, those who are seniors, those with disabilities. he once said this, we will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. in th