>> why did lbj attack hubert humphrey? e lbj wanted to win the war and he did not want anyone telling him -- getting off about it. he wanted people to do what he told him to do. humphrey had reservations about the war and he knew it. he had been a free spirit his whole career and suddenly he was in a situation where he had to be controlled. >> i think basically he was protecting his own legacy. >> we are going to close out our conversation with a clip of the 1968 national guardsmen who were students themselves in the street holding back a student protesters. this is hubert humphrey in a clip from the convention as he accepts the nomination. >> where there is hatred, let me sow love. where there is injury, pardon. where there is doubt, faiths. where there is despair, hope. where there is darkness, light. those are the words of the st.. those of us with less purity listen to them well and may america tonight resolve that never again shall we see what we have seen. [applause] >> i was heartbroken. all at once there was this to

hubert humphrey is really though not very viable. in national polls in 1960, even though he's going to be the democratic nominee eight years from 1960, he is registering a solid 2% in national polls. but when you are the only guy showing up against jack kennedy, all of a sudden, the race becomes transferred to jack kennedy versus hubert humphrey, much as in 2008, barack obama first emerges as the anti-hillary candidate. and then hillary clinton emerges as the anti-barack obama candidate. so in 1960, hubert humphrey is the anti-jack kennedy candidate and people of all ideological positions can coalesce around him. jack kennedy thinks he's going to win very easily in wisconsin. he gets surprised bad polling data that causes him to campaign in the wrong parts of the state and hubert humphrey turns out to do surprisingly well in wisconsin, which he was about to give up. he had no money, very minimal support, organization against the great kennedy machine and the great kennedy family. and he decides to go on to west virginia. and it's act

a cost hubert humphrey to get into the race -- it caused hubert humphrey to get into the race.arly won ohio. we will talk about california a little bit more. he had better organization. he worked harder and he had the devotion of the anti-war insurgents that nobody else really had. >> jules witcover, what was the media making of this grassroots strategy at the time? were you paying attention to it? >> we were paying more attention to muskie, because muskie was supposed to be the winner. his staff made a terrible mistake in new hampshire. one of his leading campaign people predicted that -- she said, if ed muskie does not win 50% of the vote, i will eat my hat. he won 46% of the vote, but against that prediction, mcgovern was essentially the winner of the new hampshire primary and muskie did not recover from that. if muskie had not stumbled -- mcgovern knowing the game, which he invented, the delegate selection rules, probably would have won anyway, but the fact that muskie had this string of mistakes and bad luck certainly provided the opening for mcgovern. >> and george wallac

hubert humphrey, 191 electoral votes. hubert humphrey won 13 straight -- 13 states. george wallace won five states. who won the black vote in 1968? >> it was hubert humphrey. do you remember who you voted for? >> i was co-chaired for the national committee of educators. that was the first time that blacks went to the democratic national convention. i was privileged enough to go because the chairman had arranged that. that was the convention of 1968. i was a pro-humphrey person. i knew him personally. we achieved what we wanted to achieve to get nominated. we did not succeed in getting him elected. >> we are in front of the governor's mansion in montgomery, alabama, where george wallace lived for 20% of his life. 16 years he lived here. this is our 12th week of "the contenders." we have two weeks left. >> i have a question. i began my address in politics when i was 10 years old area i worked through the american independent party in pennsylvania as a volunteer. even though we did not have a great deal of support in pennsylvania, he had a strong base of support in the

tonight, minnesota senator and vice president hubert humphrey. contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span. biden spoke in wilmington, delaware wednesday on reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. he called the issue of students being able to go back to school safely a national emergency, and called on president trump to provide emergency funding.

tonight, minnesota senator and vice president hubert humphrey. the contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. afl-cio president richard trumka spoke to reporters about the economy, the labor movement and the presidential campaign. this event was hosted by the christian science monitor. >> all right. hello, everybody. i am the washington bureau chief of the christian science monitor. our guest is richard trumka, president of the afl-cio, which is the nation's largest federation of labor unions. this is his 12th appearance at the breakfast and our annual pre-labor day tradition. it is also our first zoom breakfast. the kind and gentle. welcome, everybody. welcome, mr. trumka. first, a programming note. you should know that we are being recorded and that c-span is also recording for a leader broadcast. you know, just so you know. a bit of background. president trumka hails from southwest pennsylvania and comes from a proud family of coal miners working his way through college and then through law school. he started his union work with the

hubert humphrey and al gore sr.ow jack kennedy was out of it, would that tickets have been a little bit better had it have been al gore sr. or hubert humphrey? also, i guess what i was going to say -- >> let's leave it there. that is a lot of questions. >> certainly, kefauver did not help. i think what richardson about kennedy was exactly correct. the opportunity to be at the convention and to be seen as a vice presidential possibility introduced jack kennedy to the country. i remember a few years later, i saw him at a dinner and i said, jack, if you are so interested, you can get vice president next time. he said, vice-president? i am going to run for president. he was only 39 years old. >> the caller raises a point that i am sure the governor stevenson kurds many times during his lifetime. the notion that t heads of people. what was his reaction to that? >> i think he did not talk over the heads of the people. they used to call them an egghead. he is to make fun of that. egghead's of the world unite. you have noth

tonight, vice president hubert humphrey. "the contenders," this week at 8:00 p.m.astern on c-span. congresswoman mary scanlon and congressman steve cohen for part of it event at the national constitution center on freedom of the press. you will hear from rich lowry from the national review. >> they are the only institution, chartered by congress, to increase awareness of the constitution among the american people on a nonpartisan basis. we have a series of exciting town halls coming up and i want to plug them. a new book, the virginian dynasty. on october 1, the national constitution center's drafting project. we have commissioned three teams, team conservative, team libertarian, and team progressive to draft a constitution. it's an amazing group of scholars that will tell us how they think a constitution from scratch should read. i can't wait to share that with you. we have great programs in october on immigration and the new book, "the upswing." i hope you will join us for them as well as tuning into our weekly podcast. now it is a pleasure to introduce the amazi

tonight, minnesota senator and vice president hubert humphrey. contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. afl-cio president richard trumka spoke to reporters about the economy, the labor movement and the presidential campaign. this event was hosted by the christian science monitor. >> all right. hello, everybody. i am the washington bureau chief of the christian science monitor. our guest is richard trumka, president of the afl-cio, which is the nation's largest federation of labor unions. this is his 12th appearance at the

tonight, minnesota senator and vice president of united states hubert humphrey. the contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. ngton journal continues. ,ost: joining us is nikki fried florida agriculture and consumer services commissioner. she is the highest-ranking elected democrat in the state of florida. a lifelong floridian. welcome to washington journal. for joeicted a victory biden and kamala harris in the state of florida in 2020. what gives you confidence that they will win? downturn's an economic because of covid. decrease in the state of florida, it is the largest economic driver. what has happened here is we have 1.2 million floridians out of jobs. they are looking for leadership. former president who has a plan to not only beat covid but also get our economy back on. heren't get tourism back until we get our economy under control. is going tobody who be empathetic to the situation, have a plan and are smaller farmers who have been waiting for support from the federal government. they are looking for new leadership. to donald trump is not go

he recalls rubbing elbows with big-name minnesota democratic politicians like hubert humphrey.ething changed, he says. >> we never had that relationship after obama came in. that was a disaster. the days of humphrey in this area is over. >> for years, democrats like him have been moving to the right, away from the party on environmental and social issues like abortion and for candidates who have pledged to uphold their way of life. one such candidate, president trump. in 2016, the president lost minnesota by less than two percentage points. he flipped 19 counties that obama won in 2012 and in parts of northern minnesota, the democrats' edge shrink wrote dramatic -- shrank dramatically. >> if donald trump wins, we are sunk. we need somebody with empathy, somebody who cares about everybody and not only himself in his pockets. >> cindy is concerned about health care. she has been battling leukemia and her oncologist recommended she leave her job as a nurse. >> it is a big financial difficulty. unemployment will not last forever. i do not know what is going to happen with my health

tonight, minnesota senator and vice president hubert humphrey. the contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span. biden spoke in wilmington, delaware wednesday on reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. he called the issue of students being able to go back to school safely a national emergency, and called on president trump to provide emergency funding. mr. biden: good afternoon, folks. welcome to the queen theater. i'm here today to talk about a crisis. a crisis being felt across the united states of america. and jill and i have just been briefed, as you know, in this room by our public health and education experts about what it is going to take to be able to reopen schools safely and effectively. back-to-school has always been a special time. it is in your family and mine, but particularly in mine, all the years jill and i were married, she was going back to school, too, as a teacher. she would be the first one to tell you this should be a season of promise for our country. times when classrooms are crackling with the possibili

1980s, many of his features were plagiarized, he was accused of plagiarizing robert kennedy, hubert humphrey, british mp neil neil -- he has now taken his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist at this party has ever embraced, the democratic modern socialist party. look at the corrupt, forgetful joe biden team. biden, schumer, pelosi, 125 years of failure alone, now add to that bernie sanders? congresswoman ocasio-cortez, beto o'rourke, his latest policy proposals were literally authored by the devout socialist bernie sanders. joe even plagiarized bernie's agenda. literally in many instances word for word right out of bolshevik bernie's socialist platform. he wants the government to control all means of production, he wants the nationalized industry like they did in venezuela and cuba, he has prays to those regimes and honeymooned in the former soviet union. the meanwhile congresswoman ocasio-cortez is in charge of biden's climate task force, she wants to ban oil, gas, coal, air travel, and eventually cows, we have 12 years at its all over her. her green new deal wi

riots, and i find in 1968, that was enough to tip the presidential election to richard nixon from hubert humphreymously running on law and order, humphrey on the civil rights act. trump is modeling some of his campaign off of nixon's 1968 law & order rhetoric. guy: how does social media change this? prof. wasow: i think it's a really important question, right? in the 1960's, as you are noting, you have something like have anunday in 1965 to effect. abc had to be there documenting it. now what is remarkable, a young fraser can darnella documents the killing of george floyd, post that to facebook, and it can change our politics, right? a 17-year-old is able to change our entire political conversation by being able to broadcast herself on social media. that is one very powerful way. it amplifies individual voices dramatically. we have also seen lots of on the ground footage from individuals documenting everything from excess violence by the police to this incident in portland, where somebody appears to have just out of the blue shot one of ,hese patriot prayer activists and that was documented, righ

he called hubert humphrey, soft on communism. and accuse him of being a mccarthy eight.nd some of the same backlash, that you see today and you saw that in. and there is a classic, and many of you study political communication, a classic 1968 campaign ad against magnate says, i knew for vice president, and someone is laughing hysterically in the background. and the tagline is, this won't be so funny fit wasn't so serious. but johnson, as he alluded to it, he gives him credit for helping nixon win the election. particularly border states. and agony initially looks like he's going to have a prominent role in the new administration, he's given an office in the west wing, which is a first for the vice president. he's given a high-profile, he's invited by president nixon now to keep his place in florida, to have conference before an inauguration. and it looks like he's going to have a prominent role. but what is clear right from the beginning is that he is way out of his lead. his staff is largely from annapolis so they are not used to playing on the national stage he is give

chmielewski recalls rubbing elbows with big-name minnesota democratic politicians like hubert humphreymething changed, he says. >> we never had thatrelationshie in. and that was a disas the days of humphrey in this area is over. >> reporter: for years, demoats like chmielewski have been moving to the right, away from the party on environmtal and social issues like abortion and toward candidates who've tedged to uphoir way of life. one such candidate? president trump. in 201 the president lost minnesota by less than two percentage point he flipped 19 counties thatob presidena won in 2012, and in parts of northern minnesota, the democrats' edge shrank dramatically. joe biden's supporters say they're determined to make sure the democratic party doesn't lose more ground here. >> if donald trump wins, we're sunk, wee sunk. there goes our democracy. we need somebody whoares about everybody and not only himself and his pockets. >> reporter: cindy gulbranson is concerned about health care. she's been battling leukemia, and her oncologist recommended that she leave her nursing job during the pa

tonight, hubert humphrey. the contenders. this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span.s record is a shameful rollcall of the blunders in our lifetime. he has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history. our current president has failed in his basic duty to the nation. he has failed to protect us. he has failed to protect america. my fellow americans, that is unforgivable. first presidential debate between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden is tuesday, september 29 coverage onlive c-span. watch live streaming and on-demand on c-span.org. or listen live on the free c-span radio app. ♪ c-span.re watching your unfiltered view of government. created by america's cable television company, as a public service. write to you by your television provider -- brought to you by your television provider. to pennsylvania where trump is about to hold an event with supporters. ♪ [applause]

and instead lbj's vice president, a man named hubert humphrey, a guy who was ambivalent about the war in vietnam but essentially promises to carry on the policy of johnson wins the nomination. opposing him was a republican who'd been around the political bush more than a few times named richard nixon. nixon had lost to kennedy in 1960. he'd lost his bid to become governor of california in 1966, but richard nixon is not an easy guy to make disappear. he comes back from the political dead. he wins the republican nomination, and he does something tricky. and i'm not going to be able to say much more today, but he does something very interesting. now, nixon had made his bones politically as a fierce anti-communist, as a guy who said always we must stand up to the threat of soviet communism. but by 1968 the war in vietnam was wearing thin with, again, not just radicals, not just with young people but more and more americans. they didn't want to betray their troops, give up on their vision what the united states stood for. so nixon offers something interesting. he said something different.

instead, lbj's vice president, hubert humphrey, he was ambivalent about vietnam but carry on johnson's policies, he gets the nomination. opposing him is a republican who had been around the political bush more than a few times named richard male house nixon. nixon lost to kennedy in 1960. he lost his bid to become governor of california 1966. but richard nixon is not an easy guy to make disappear. he comes back from the political dead. he wins the republican nomination and he does something tricky. i won't be able to say much more today, but he does something very interesting. 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

that it is worth noting that the democratic party as a whole, including liberal stalwarts like hubert humphrey, for very long time were unwilling to criticize mccarthy. you have to go pretty far into '54 to see broad parts of the party begin to good after him in any serious way. so kennedy is not alone in this regard, and in fact, the senior senator from massachusetts, republican is just as cautious if not more so than jack ken so he's not alone. on profiles in courage very quickly. i guess we differ a little bit. think that the evidence is pretty powerful that the broad architecture of the book, the themes of the become, the argument which by the way i think has salens in our own day in part about the need for if evidence based discourse for bargaining in good faith, the need ultimately for compromise in a democracy which we can discuss, but those arguments, those themes, are jack kennedy's. ted sorenson is way too young to have -- at 25 or 26, he's not going to be able to articulate those kinds of things. moreover the introduction and the conclusion i think for me the most interesting and im

tonight, minnesota senator and vice president of the united states hubert humphrey's. this week atrs" 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. former federal reserve chairs ben bernanke and janet yellen took part in a discussion on monetary policy and the federal response to the pandemic. the event is hosted by the brookings institution and was held by videoconference. welcome everyone to this event. my name is stephanie aaronson. i am the vice president and director of the economic studies program here at brookings. thank you for joining us for today's event organized by our -- center on fiscal and monetary policy on how the fed will respond to the covid-19 recession in an era of low rates and low inflation. the topic is regularly salient since last week, following an 18-month review of his monetary policy strategy, the fed released a revised revision of its goals and monetary policy strategy. we are honored to have governor lael brainard to hear her thoughts on the topic. after we hear from governor brainard, there will be time for questioning and answers from the audience, then

hubert humphrey became the running mates instead. he was in his death until the day he died. >> they were social friends. >> they were social friends. >> they spent parts of winter together. i even went to the races with them. >> we are all out of time and gentlemen. i want to thank the both of you for being our guests and talking to our viewers. talking about thomas e. dewey. are contenders in our 14th week series. i want to thank all of you for calling in. a big thanks to everybody. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ ♪ contenders," about the men who ran for the presidency and lost, but changed political history. tuesday, governor of illinois and later u.s. ambassador to the united nations hadley stephenson. the contenders on c-span. ♪ >> our campaign 2020 coverage continues with candidates campaigning and debating. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. ♪ journal"'s "washington every day we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day

listen, richard nixon used a version of this in 1968 to beat hubert humphrey and he won with it. ronald reagan used a version in '80 and '84 and he won with it and then of course we have donald trump winning in 2016. so the record of those who -- you have to keep white supremacy in order for the country to maintain itself as we'd like it to be, the record of those who win on it is very clear and that would be foolish to overlook the record. there is hope that this time it won't work. but donald trump has looked at the record and said, this is a winning strategy for nixon. it was a winning strategy for ronald reagan. it's one for any number of candidates over the years and it's the reason he's following so it closely. >> we have secretary jeh johnson back, former secretary of homeland security. i want to bring you into this part of the conversation, and a that as dan rather said, i don't know if you can hear when we were getting your audio fixed, but this is an election that's a choice between american democracy and white supremacy and i just said to dan that i think my -- i'm afr

thursday, hubert humphrey. weekendtenders" this 8:00 p.m.c-span. >> c-span's washington journal. everyday, we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day. we will discuss policy issues that impact you. thursday morning, the florida agriculture and services commissioner on florida and campaign 2020 and the federal response to the pandemic. then, president of the foundation for research on equal opportunity talks about the u.s. response to the coronavirus pandemic and the herd immunity approach. watch washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern, thursday morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone goals, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. record is a biden's shameful roll call of the most catastrophic blunders in our lifetime. career on there wrong side of his history. president our current has failed in his mosby -- his most basic duty to the nation. he has failed to protect us and america. that is unforgivable. >> the first debate between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden is tuesd

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i sit in the seat that was once held by senator hubert humphrey, a champion for full employment, and in fact his name is on the humphrey-hawkins bill with the mandate for the fed of maximum employment and stable prices and that you're charged with implementing. you noted several times, i appreciate your comments how covid has not been the great equalizer, just disproportionately is affecting people in low-wage jobs. essential workers often women, of women and women of color, black and brown people, indigenous people. my question is this -- as you think about your mandate at the fed and think about the decisions that you make around monetary policy, could you just talk a little bit about how you see this, the impact of monetary policy on supporting households of color? what can you -- we know fed research has shown workers of color tend to recover their lost wages more slowly, for example. i'm interested in knowing how you think about this and how you might want to bake that more into your work going forward. >> so the single best thing we can do is support a tight labor market, a str

tonight, vice president hubert humphrey. "the contenders," this week at 8:00 p.m.span. congresswoman mary scanlon and congressman steve cohen for part of it event at the national constitution center on freedom of the press. you will hear from rich lowry from the national review.

you would have to go back to 1968 with the election of richard nixon and hubert humphrey to find a risee afters, they had riots the assassination of martin luther king in the inner cities, and then the protests against the vietnam war, where that became central to the campaign. but since that time it has pretty much been always about jobs, unemployment and almost always the campaigns are who is the best candidate to articulate and control the future. from 1932 until 1980, the democratic party was the party of the future. the theme song of fdr's campaign was "happy days are here again." john kennedy said we need to get the country moving again. the democratic party was always the party of progress and jobs and the future. jimmy carter kind of threw that away in 1980. not kind of, he did throw it away, by focusing about the era of limitations, scarcity, rationing. young americans, they did not like to hear that because for the first time in memory, the young americans did not believe or the parents did not believe the feature would be better for the young americans than it had been for th

tonight hubert humphrey. the contenders this week at 8 p.m. eastern. and here on washington journal we are joined by our colleague with the announcement will host the second presidential debate. note, a lot of people have congratulated you. congratulations, way to go. we are looking forward to seeing you. mention just going to the first interview i did at c-span was with susan page so i did come full-circle. >> you are hosting a town space in miami what does that look like covid-19? >> we are going to go through this and learn the process but in talking to the commission, first the background. background, the first town hall took place in virginia and that came from negotiations between the clinton campaign and the bush campaign. does is commission now they work with the organization and they will select approximately 30 undecided voters who will be in the debate october 15th and they will have questions. my role is to facilitate other questions, not to tell them what to ask. just so i am aware of what the questions will be so there is no duplication.

tonight, minnesota senator and vice president of united states hubert humphrey. the contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. ngton journal continues. ,ost: joining us is nikki fried florida agriculture and consumer services commissioner. she is the highest-ranking elected democrat in the state of florida. a lifelong floridian. welcome to washington journal.