peter: what attracted you to hubert humphrey in 1968?tuart: hubert humphrey had his office right next to mine. i knew his staff. i got to know him. he was a brilliant speaker. had been a courageous civil right fighter going back to 1948 at the convention. in fact, caused the dixiecrat walkout. i had great empathy. he was warm, friendly. charismatic in his own way. he did speak a lot and too long. his wife once said hubert, to be memorable, you don't have to be interminable. but i became his research director. i was there from the first day of the campaign when he announced at the fay flower hotel in washington to the hotel in indianapolis when the returns came in and we barely, barely lost. but he had the great disadvantage of a divided democratic party. kennedy was assassinated. there washe big anti-war nt and i was in chicago for that 196 convention with mayor daley and the police and the tear gas with the demonstrators and it ripped the party apart. after the convention he slowly began to build support up and here's a story that very

peter: what attracted you to hubert humphrey in 1968?tuart: hubert humphrey had his office right next to mine. i knew his staff. i got to know him. he was a brilliant speaker. had been a courageous civil right fighter going back to 1948 at the convention. in fact, caused the dixiecrat walkout. i had great empathy. he was warm, friendly. charismatic in his own way. he did speak a lot and too long. his wife once said hubert, to be memorable, you don't have to be interminable. but i became his research director. i was there from the first day of the campaign when he announced at the fay flower hotel in washington to the hotel in indianapolis when the returns came in and we barely, barely lost. but he had the great disadvantage of a divided democratic party. kennedy was assassinated. there was the big anti-war movement and i was in chicago for that 196 convention with mayor daley and the police and the tear gas with the demonstrators and it ripped the party apart. after the convention he slowly began to build support up and here's a story th

frankly, it's as relevant to me if someone asking if lyndon johnson had done a bombing freeze with hubert humphrey born in 1968 are both equally irrelevant. reporter: no, they're not. because if you model a candidate like joe biden. mr. boyle: that's a different question. >> he could have won and what we're saying is a white working man that came from that state, working class vibes and we get someone like that on on the democratic ticket, could he have won? mr. boyle: to be clear, i don't think someone necessarily has to have my same skin color in order to do well in those areas. >> what if he's from pennsylvania? mr. boyle: case in point, barack obama in 2012 did so much better since then in those areas i talked about, erie county, northampton county, no, people are interesting. think about this, 11% of pennsylvania voters voted for barack obama twice and then voted for donald trump at least once. trying to understand that is part of what makes politics interesting, fun, and also sometimes maddening trying to figure out what's going on there. we always try to look on paper just like sports. we t

in the photo file and in the photo file, there was a kenneth h.dolberg pictured with senator hubert humphrey. so let's go to the library and get the minnesota, st. paul phone book and look up and there's a kenneth h. so i just called him and, you know, there's this check in your name. where -- tell me what happened and he literally said well, i know i shouldn't tell you this. [laughter] carl: words you love to hear. bob: you learn silence. you don't say yes. you let the silence suck out the truth. and he said, so, ok, i'll tell you. and i gave it to maurice stands on a golf course. maurice stands was the chief fundraiser for nixon. what? and i remember -- we were putting this story together. you're still down in florida doing the legwork and barry sussman the city editor of the post turned to me and he said we've never had a story like this. the idea that $25,000 in campaign money would go to the burglars. it was astonishing. mark: a lot of money. here we sit in 2024 on the 50th anniversary of president nixon's resignation later this summer. i wonder, with all of the thinking and writing tha

i open it up and i see his name hubert h. humphrey carved into that desk. so you need someone as a secretary of this department that believes deeply in those words and believes in them with all the modern science and every tool we have to keep people healthy. robert kennedy jr. does not pass that test. mr. president, among the hhs secretaries -- secretary's most important duty is ensuring medical research remains on the cutting edge. yet, mr. kennedy's record reveals a consistent pattern of dismissing, distorting, and devaluing the very research that is critical to hhs' mission. among other things, the secretary oversees the national institutes of health which for more than a century has been a driving force behind such groundbreaking discoveries as blood tests to detect hiv and hepatitis, the use of lithium to manage bipolar disorder, and the hpv vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. this administration has already displayed open hostility to medical research. over the weekend we learned that the administration intends to defund and derail lifesaving medical