and i spent one weekend with hubert humphrey, because i found out, just before he died and while he had cancer, that he had never been permitted to go to camp david. i invited him to go, and i had a speech to make on the west coast. i came back and picked him up, in minneapolis, and we spent a weekend at camp david, just me and him and his medical doctors. he unburdened to me that weekend things that i'm sure he had never said publicly. i had never asked since then. that was the deprivation he experienced as vice president, and the exclusion from any role of an authoritative nature, of an executive nature. he was deprived of taking news reporters overseas with him. he had to get all the press releases from overseas trips approved by the president before it could be issued. he was never involved in any serious discussions that lyndon johnson had with any foreign leader. he was restricted severely on his ability to go into the congress, and they would start and originally conversation with another member of the u.s. senate. it was very embarrassing to him as a human being, and i think cou

we talked about how we would handle this. >> was that enforced at all by the example of hubert humphrey? walter: yes. if you read humphrey's awed biography, that chapter talks about how he got on this cheer leading which he didn't like at all and had written a letter to the president saying we have to be worried about where we're going. he said that really hurt him and people looked at him differently and he knew it. >> what -- how do you think bob dole should be remembered? walter: i think he should be remembered as a very fine american who served us in war and came up from an impoverished background and developed into one of the most impressive leaders in his time. and that he serves as a model of how grown men and women ought to work together when they get in power in america. and he was an example in his later years in the senate of what a senator should be. >> also i think like you, i think of jimmy carter, he never forgot whether he came from. walter: no. i like that about him. when you're with him alone, you never have the -- you're with a great man. that is very important to him

hubert humphrey and howard hawkins, i believe. it is really about what is the jobless level we are prepared to live with in this country? i think it is 4%. there is a lot of money in this country. your previous speaker talked about we are broke. but there is available when, you know, there is a weapons system -- we do not need a new $100 billion intercontinental ballistic missile. but when it is for care, human needs, there is she has put forward a wealth tax, and there should be fair taxes along the spectrum, and not just taxing the very rich. the very rich should be paying more. our tax code is not progressive. but, we need to get in balance about what we are for as a country. and, i think that the pandemic, greta, has revealed what was normal should not have been normal, and i think we want to come back to a new normal. which is i think possible if there is a folder way of reimagining our economy, our country's purpose, and its needs. host: explain that more, what was exposed was not normal and what should be the new normal. gu

in 1965, president lyndon johnson's vice president former minnesota senator hubert humphrey said he thought the vietnam undertaking was exhilarating. he said, quote, we ought to be excited about this challenge because here's where we can put to work some of the ideas about nation building. now, the phrase nation building is a semi oxy moron. as churchill knew, nations, like orchids. they're not to be disassembled and reassembled. as churchill also knew, leaders who are not steeped in interest, not marinading in history are apt to blunder. by blundering they'll make bad history and more ruins. 200 years ago this year on our nation's 46th independence day, july 4, 1821, john quincy adams delivered a lucid statement of what he considered america's proper stance toward the world. i want to read you a portion of one paragraph from it because it's in anticipation i think of a version of churchillian realism. wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled there will america's heart, her did he know addictions and prayers be. she goes not abroad in search of monster

four years later he replaced hubert humphrey in the u.s. senate.n 1976 mondale became a national figure when the democratic presidential nominee jimmy carter asked him to join the ticket as his running mate. the carter/mondale ticket lost the white house in 1980 to ronald reagan and george bush. in 1984 mondale beat senator gary hart and reverend jesse jackson to clinch the democratic presidential nomination. mondale's choice for a running mate rocked the election, new york congresswoman geraldine ferraro. the first woman on the ticket. a lead reagan reinforced after this memorable response at one debate when mondale questioned the republican's advanced age. >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. [ laughter ] >> reagan won the election in a landslide. mondale served his country for more than 50 years. karen travers, abc news, washington. >> vice president kamala harris says mondale opened a new door by nominating a woman as his running mate. >>> turnin

the year churchill died, president lyndon johnson's vice president, former minnesota senator hubert humphrey said he thought the vietnam undertaking was exhilarating. he said and i quote, we ought to be excited about this challenge because here is where we can put to work some of the ideas about nation building. now, the phrase nation building is a semi oxymoron. it is a contradiction in termsq, i can to the phrase working the building. as trips on, new nations like organs are organic growth. they are not things to be assembled and disassembled like tinker toys. and as churchill also new, coming as he did from a european strewn with ruins, leaders who are not steeped in history, not marinated in history, are apt to blunder. and by blundering, they will make bad history and more ruins. 200 years ago this year, on our nation's 46th independence day, july 4th, 1821, then secretary of state john quincy adams delivered a lucid and measured statement of what he considered americas proper stance towards the world. i want to read you a portion of one paragraph i'm it because it is in anticipation of

senator hubert humphrey. said he thought the vietnam undertaking was exhilarating. he said and i quote. we ought to be excited about this challenge because here's where we can put to work some of the ideas about. nation building now the phrase nation building is a semi-oxymoron. it is a contradiction in terms akin came to the phrase orchid building. as churchill new nations like orchids are organic growths. they are not things to be assembled and disassembled and reassembled like tinker toys. and as churchill also knew. communism he did from a european. strewn with ruins leaders who are not steeped in history not marinated in history. are apt to blunder. and by blundering they will make bad history. and more ruins 200 years ago this year on our nation's 46th independence day, july 4th 1821 then secretary of state john quincy adams delivered a lucid and measured statement of what he considered america's proper stance toward the world. i want to read you a portion of one paragraph from it because it is an anticipation. i think of a version of churchillian realism. sec

hubert humphrey and howard hawkins, i believe. it is really about what is the jobless level we are prepared to live with in this country? i think it is 4%. there is a lot of money in this country. your previous speaker talked about we are broke. but there is available when, you know, there is a weapons system -- we do not need a new $100 billion intercontinental ballistic missile. but when it is for care, human needs, there is often a battle, and i think it is about the priority of the country, and we can do better by meeting the needs of people, all people. elizabeth warren, who i think is a remarkable figure, she has put forward a wealth tax. ok. but i also believe that -- and this should not be heretical -- that there should be fair taxes along the spectrum, not just taxing the very rich. the very rich should be paying much more. our tax code is not progressive. but we need to get in balance about what we are for as a country. and i think the pandemic has revealed -- what was normal should not have been normal. and i think we w

as a dfl liberal and a disciple of senator hubert humphrey, mondale was appointed minnesota's attorney fill the vacancy left. in 1976, jimmy carter pulled him from the senate to be his vice presidential running mate when carter and mondale lost the election in 1980, mondale was down, but not out. >> the nominee of the democratic party, walter mondale! >>> four years later, he won the democratic presidential nomination and made history. picking the first woman, ever, to run on a presidential ticket. former-new york congresswoman, geraldine ferraro. but history was not on the side of mondale and ferraro. they were defeated by the 1984-reagan landslide. >> he has won. we are all americans. he is our president. and we honor him tonight. >>> mondale and ferraro only managed to win his home state and the district of columbia. mondale stayed off the national radar, until president clinton named him u.s. ambassador to japan. always one to consider politics an honor and a duty, mondale answered the call to serve again in 2002. he was asked to run for his old-senate seat in place of senator paul

. >> was that enforced at all by the example of hubert humphrey? walter: yes. if you read humphrey's awed biography, that chapter talks about how he got on this cheer leading which he didn't like at all and had written a letter to the president saying we have to be worried about where we're going. he said that really hurt him and people looked at him differently and he knew it. >> what -- how do you think bob dole should be remembered? walter: i think he should be remembered as a very fine american who served us in war and came up from an impoverished background and developed into one of the most impressive leaders in his time. and that he serves as a model of how grown men and women ought to work together when they get in power in america. and he was an example in his later years in the senate of what a senator should be. >> also i think like you, i think of jimmy carter, he never forgot whether he came from. walter: no. i like that about him. when you're with him alone, you never have the -- you're with a great man. that is very important to him. that experien

when he took over the hubert humphrey seat. he was friends with joe biden.selected geraldine ferraro his running mate. he lost his daughter eleanor and wife joan both to brain diseases. he truly tried to make american life better through fair housing and consumer protections, and a host of other issues. as a true minnesotan, he loved his place up at the lake. he had a lightning fast sense of humor, always self deprecating. and the quote for his staff. dear team, my time has come. i want to let you know how much you mean to me. never has a public servant had a better group of people working at their side. together we have accomplished so much, and you will keep up the good fight. joe and the white house. i knew it would be okay if i arrive some place and was greeted by one of you. my best to all of you, fritz. the man who made his vice president, jimmy carter, survives him. carter's statement, that mondale was the best vice president in our history. and many tail said, we told the truth. we obeyed the law. we kept the peace. a great twi frederick for its mond

even more so, johnson with hubert humphrey, who told walter mondale, his successor in the senate and his very close friend and protege in 1976, you know, if carter asked you to be vice president, you should do it. but you shouldn't do it unless you have a deal in advance with carter that you're going to have more power than any vice president's had before, automatic access to all meetings. you see the same paper flow. you will have an office in the west wing. the two of you will share a staff. and carter agreed to all of that, to his great credit, and that's been largely the model for vice president since then. >> in fact, senator klobuchar, joe biden said the first goal he made was to walter mondale, fritz mondale, as to how to get that kind of agreement from president obama, who gave it willingly. they were real partners. there's always friction, as you well know. mondale and carter clashed over that so-called mels speech, which never mentioned that but mondale was furious about. that put aside, they really worked close together on just about everything else. >> they did. there was

mondale could not believe that the state of hubert humphrey and himself and gene mccarthy and orvilleld democratic former labor progressi tradition could come to donald trump. it almost did that year and almost did, as you know, last year. >> former president jimmy carter released this statement, reading in par i mourn the passing of my dear friend woerlt mondale, who i consider the best vice president in our nation's history. fritz used his personal skill and integrity to transform the vice presidency into a dynamic policy, driving force that had never been seen before and still exists today. and of course, that's something, i spoke with chris matthews last night, michael, and chris worked inside the carter white house. and he said unlike past vice presidents, he wasn't shoved off in the old executive office building. he was in the west wing, his staff was in the west wing, and chris matthews said, i witnessed this firsthand. mondale was the first vice president to have an office in the west wing, the first to have a staff working on a daily basis with the president himself. this mad

as a dfl liberal and disciple of hubert humphrey he was appointed minnesota's attorney general in 1960ur years later he was named to the u.s. senate to fill the vacancy left when humphrey was elected lyndon johnson's vice president. in 1976 jimmy carter pulled him from the senate to be his vice presidential running mate when carter and mondale lost the election in 1980 mondale was down but not out. >> the nominee of the democratic party walter mondale. >> for years later he won the democratic presidential nomination and made history, picking the first woman ever to run on a presidential ticket, former new york congresswoman geraldine merferraro. they were defeated by the 1984 reagan landslide. >> he has won. we are all americans. he is our president and we honor him tonight. >> mondale and ferraro only managed to win his home state and the district of columbia. mondale stayed off the national radar until president clinton named him u.s. ambassador to japan. always one to consider politics an honor and duty, mondale answered the call to serve again in 2002. he was asked to run for his o

he started as a 20-year-old working on the campaign of fellow minnesota and hubert humphrey.le spent two years in the army before heading to law school, and by the age of 32, he was named attorney general. he stepped onto the national stage when senator humphrey won the vice presidency in 1964, and mondale was tapped to his senate seat and elected to a full term two years later. in washington, he championed the fair housing and civil-rights acts. >> it was partisan. we had our debates. there was kind of an underlying sense of civility. william: in 1976, jimmy carter made the season senator his running mate. the outsider relied on carter as his guide to washington's political workings. mondale expanded the traditional role of the vice presidency from figurehead to partner. >> i wanted to be a troubleshooter, and i wanted to take on chores around the country and around the world. >> as a peanut farmer, i'll need a lot of help. i felt the vice president would be the best one to give me the help i needed. william: mondale traveled the world, promoting the administration's foreign

including richard nixon, hubert humphrey. the likes of cronkite being measured, in terms of trust, against politicians came out ahead. the cvs publicist ran with this -- cbs publicist ran with this as advertising evidence of cronkite being the most trusted man in america. that characterization stuck. we will get into that in a moment. let's go back to the powerpoint presentation and resume that drilling down on the cronkite moment. in particular, it's important not to lose sight of the fact that cronkite's views were not dramatically different from what was becoming mainstream opinion and early 1968. the wall street journal, conservative publication, conservative editorial board, four days before the cronkite program said in an editorial about the war in vietnam that the u.s. effort may be doomed, and that everyone had better be prepared for the bitter taste of defeat beyond america's power to prevent. the wall street journal was not saying the united states is mired in stalemate, it was saying that the american war effort me

it could've been written by hubert humphrey.re traditional thing to spend money on? giving money to parents to take care of their student loans, making community college free. it's the expansion of the welfare state. it isn't progressive in the woke sense. there wasn't a lot of berating americans about how guilty they should feel about their pass. it didn't have that tone of, boy, america has done a lot of damage in the world. america has done a lot of bad things. it was a patriotic speech. you always lose money bet against america. they thought it was very much in the tradition of its bigger government. it was in the traditional way of fdr and lbj. one present he quoted was -- didn't mention obama, interestingly. >> if he did not have the name happy warrior it could've been applied to joe biden. reasonable people can disagree. both of these reasonable gentlemen had agreed to sneak around -- you will hardly notice. the fractures in the republican party are being driven further apart if that's possible by a certain twice impeache

a lot of that speech could have been given by hubert humphrey. student loans or making community college free. it's expansion of the welfare state, may be necessary. we can debate how much should be expanded. but it isn't progressive in the woke sense. there wasn't a lot of berating americans about how guilty they should be of their past. there was a greater call to police reform, but it idn't have that tone of voice. americans have done a lot of bad things at home. don't underestimate america, tight end close. you always lose money if you bet against america. it was very much in the tradition, very much in the tradition of fdr and lbj and humphrey. he didn't mention president obama, interestingly. >> a friend of mine in our trade believes in humphrey didn't have the nickname happy warrior, it could have been applied to joe biden. the but reasonable people can disagree. both of these gentlemen have agreed to stick around while we stick in a commercial break. you'll hardly notice. >>> how the fractures in the republican party are being being drive

there is no vice president until hubert humphrey was inaugurated in 1965.hat you hear there is lady bird stepping on and not just this thing on delivery but on substance and picking up his contradictions. that is the essence of their partnership. host: lay back up and spend a little time on the 1960 campaign and divide -- and the vice presidency. talk about how involved she was in that campaign and what her contributions were to the old summit success of that ticket. -- to the ultimate success of that ticket. guest: lyndon johnson ran in the balloting process at the convention in los angeles, but he lost in the first round of ballots. there is a well-documented, painful story about the process by which jfk asked lyndon johnson to join as vp. the power dynamic flips right away when, as lady bird talks about, how difficult it was. like a nettle in their throat, they did not see a way not to accept. once that happens, by the summer of 1960, lady bird jumped in as surrogate to lbj and surrogate ticket -- to jackie. jackie had been battling miscarriages for some

started early in politics, a 20 year old working on the senate campaign of fellow minnesotan hubert humphreyter college, mondale spent two years in the army before heading to law school. and, by the age of 32, he was named attorney general of minnesota. he stepped on to the national stage when then-senator humphrey won the vice presidency in 1964. mondale was tapped to fill humphrey's senate seat, and then elected to a full term two years later. once in washington, he championed the fair housing and civil rights acts. >> while it was partisan, we had our debates and all that, there was an underlying sense of civility. >> brangham: then, in 1976, jimmy carter made the now- seasoned senator his running mate on the democratic presidential ticket. the outsider carter relied on mondale as his guide to washington's political workings, and mondale expanded the traditional role of vice president from figurehead to partner. the two men looked back on the relationship, in a 2015 tribute. >> i wanted to be a trouble shooter, and take on chores around the country and around the world. >> as a georgia pe

senate campaign of hubert humphrey. filled humphrey senate seat when humphrey was elected vice president, then in 1976. mondale became jimmy carter's vice president. people get a chance to spend all those years in that kind of work serving the greatest democracy in the world can't beat that. 1984 mondale was the democratic presidential nominee. the convention that year was a san francisco's mosconi center. mondo made history choosing a woman for his running mate, geraldine ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket on their lost to ronald reagan, who won a second term. a coalition of oakland groups are demanding more time to assess the effect of building the oakland a's proposed ballpark at howard terminal. the coalition includes east bay housing organizations and faith groups. they say they have concerns regarding the community and environmental impact of the proposed ballpark, adding that the city's current draft of the environmental impact report does not address the need for afford

so people know names like hubert humphrey and walter monodale.arlie steadvick the mayor of minneapolis, a former police officer who came to office writing on a very nixonist. he won support as an independent from a lot of republican voters and also a lot of very liberal democratic voters who believed in that law and order sensibility of trying to control and contain an increasing black, brown, and indigenous population in the state. so in that wonderful segment we saw earlier on msnbc where people were talking to black voters in minnesota, it's important to listen to white residents of minnesota, also. the majority population and how they respond to the justice department probe, the human rights probe, civil rights probe, and whether they support true reform on the police department or whether they revert back to a system of relying on the police department to control and contain certain populations will determine if true reform can actually happen in minneapolis. because this has played out in minneapolis in the 1960s moving into the '70s. in th

hubert humphrey and howard hawkins, i believe.is really about what is the jobless level we are prepared to live with in this country? i think it is 4%. there is a lot of money in this country. your previous speaker talked about we are broke. but there is available when, you know, there is a weapons system -- we do not need a new $100 billion intercontinental ballistic missile. but when it is for care, human needs, there is often a battle, and i think it is about the priority of the country, and we can do better by meeting the needs of people, all people. elizabeth warren, who i think is a remarkable figure, she has put forward a wealth tax. ok. but i also believe that -- and this should not be heretical -- that there should be fair taxes along the spectrum, not just taxing the very rich. the very rich should be paying much more. our tax code is not progressive. but we need to get in balance about what we are for as a country. and i think the pandemic has revealed -- what was normal should not have been normal. and i think we want

he followed in the footsteps of hubert humphrey. as vice presidents, he defined the office of the modern-day vice president. he was "fritz" to us. he was our attorney general, our senator, and our vice president. and i know he's up there right now rooting for justice. i'm going to speak more about walter mondale next week, and senator smith and senator grassley and i have a resolution honoring him for his time in the senate, for his time as vice president, which we will be presenting next week. but now, in the name of justice and the idea that justice must keep rolling along, i want to talk a little bit about some of the people we need in place as we look to the future, as we look to the future of police reform and the would, that you have done -- an the work that you have done as the lead on this bill, mr. president, and the work we must do. to do that, we need a functioning justice department. we have an attorney general who's excellent in merrick garland. we congratulate lisa monaco, who is expected to be confirmed later today wi