mcgovern: mr. speaker, i thought one of the lessons of this last election was that the american people wanted washington to work, that they wanted us to work toward passing legislation, sensible legislation that could be passed in both chambers, go to the white house and be signed into law and we could move this country forward. ut i guess -- i guess that lesson somehow escaped my american colleagues, because what we're doing here today is another colossal waste of time. i rise in opposition to this rule and i rise in opposition to the underlying legislation. the points of the bills that we're considering today seek to prevent the e.p.a. from protecting public health and environment. it's that simple. the white house has already issued three veto threats against these bills. the other body is not going to take these bills up, so here we are in this lame-duck session with a lot of work we should be doing and instead we're doing this. on december 11, this government will run out of money. maybe we sh

. >> arriving now, senator george mcgovern of south dakota. >> mcgovern got into the race because there. and, you know, bobby kennedy had a lot of delegates. >> mccarthy said he didn't believe mcgovern had enough strength to make any difference. so, mccarthy said he'll continue the fight for the nomination, although it was clearly implied that his chances are very slim. >> mayor daley set up all the conditions for conflict in chicago. he didn't give them permits to march. but he knew that they were coming anyway. >> over 10,000 demonstrators were gathered in chicago's grant park. the demonstrators are determined to march on convention hall tonight in protest. police are at the park in force. >> you can count on it. that the police and the authorities will always unify what you can't unify by yourself. [ crowd chanting ] >> the tumultuousness, the violence that was happening outside the home, became reflected inside the home. >> there seems to be some kind of battle going on here. >> yes, directly under our booth here. they're carrying a man out. >> i got into a melee in the convention h

>> ray mcgovern is the former cia analyst who was a daily prefer for former president george h.w.bush. in upstate new york, 15 people were arrested as they blocked the gates of a gas facility to protest plans to create a gas storage hub in the finger lakes region. under the banner of "we are seneca lake," area residents are seeking to block plans by the texas-based company crestwood midstream to expand storage of natural gas in underground salt caverns. they say the plan threatens both the climate and seneca lake, which provides drinking water to 100,000 people. and tom magliozzi, co-host of the npr show car talk and one of public radio's most familiar and beloved voices, has died after a battle with alzheimer's disease. he was 77. tom and his brother ray were known as click and clack the tappet brothers on the weekly show they co-hosted for 35 years. they stopped making new episodes in 2012. while car talk was ostensibly about car advice, tom magliozzi was perhaps better known for his laugh. >> to people who don't know what know morealking about or less than one person who doesn'

>> ray mcgovern is the former cia analyst who was a daily prefer for former president george h.w.bush. in upstate new york, 15 people were arrested as they blocked the gates of a gas facility to protest plans to create a gas storage hub in the finger lakes region. under the banner of "we are seneca lake," area residents are seeking to block plans by the texas-based company crestwood midstream to expand storage of natural gas in underground salt caverns. they say the plan threatens both the climate and seneca lake, which provides drinking water to 100,000 people. and tom magliozzi, co-host of the npr show car talk and one of public radio's most familiar and beloved voices, has died after a battle with alzheimer's disease. he was 77. tom and his brother ray were known as click and clack the tappet brothers on the weekly show they co-hosted for 35 years. they stopped making new episodes in 2012. while car talk was ostensibly about car advice, tom magliozzi was perhaps better known for his laugh. >> to people who don't know what know morealking about or less than one person who doesn'

they follow the campaign, president nixon versus george mcgovern. nixon won an and or surgery over mcgovern in 1972, despite the " s"shington post' investigation. by genera, 1973, on a story set, -- by january, 1973. a discovery that white house connection to the hush money that was paid to the burglars to keep them from spilling the beans. and at that point, congress realized they needed to look into it. so the senate voted to hold an investigation. mike mansfield was the chairman, the majority leader at the time. usually when a resolution is submitted to hold a special investigation, the person that commits the resolution becomes chairman. edward kennedy had been chair of the subcommittee of the judiciary this started looking into watergate. and he suggested the creation of a special committee. but people thought of edward kennedy as a presidential candidate. mike mansfield realized they should not have anybody on this committee who could be seens as a presidential candidate. so he prevailed on sam irvin. a very conservative, constitutionally orie

they followed the campaign, president nixon versus george mcgovern. and in the end, nixon won an enormous victory over mcgovern in 1972, despite the vest -- "the washington post's" investigation of the stories that were appearing. by january of 1973, enough stories were coming out. a reporter for "the new york times" and had discovered the whitehouse connection to the hush money paid to the burglars to keep them from spilling the beans when they were being tried. congress realized they needed to look into it. mike mansfield was the majority leader at the time. usually, when a resolution is submitted to hold a special investigation, the person who submits the resolution backs chairman. edward kennedy had been chair of the a subcommittee of judiciary that started looking into watergate. he suggested creation of the special committee. people thought of edward kennedy ace potential president or presidential candidate. mike mansfield realized they should not have anybody on this committee who could be seen a a presidential candidate. he prevailed on sam ur

well i hope this letter finds good spirits, in your friend, george mcgovern. [ applause ] f they found this letter in 19 2, he might have lost the election. awardedmcgovern would be the air medal and the distinguished flying cross for his bravery under fire, almost never spoke about in his political campaigns. book out, steven "wild blue," a great book, read it. a true hero. letter, from the pacific. 40s and in his early ate, ernie pyle live, bunked, drank, and marched with as american g.i. to depict accurately as possible the hardships they endured. n 1943, he won the pulitzer prize and the spirited columns were appearing in hundreds of newspapers back in the united states. letters, especially o his old friend and editor page kavanaugh were whimsical and accounts of life in the lines. while in north africa, pyle sent off the following to kavanaugh 1943.ruary of yours the 23rd november is at hand. been at the front for seven solid weeks. although you may not believe it, i like it up there. life becomes so wonderfully simple. you sleep by picking out a level bed roll.row your you never

your friend, george mcgovern. [laughter] if they found this letter in 1972, he might have lost the election. of course, george mcgovern would be awarded both the air medal and the distinguished flying cross for his bravery under fire, something he almost never spoke about during his political campaign. there is a book out, "wild blue," the great book. read it. he's a true hero. and the third letter from the pacific, in his early 40s at only 5'8", the war correspondent ernie pile lived, eight, but you thinked, drank and marched with american gis in order to depict as accurately as possible the hardships that they endured. in 1943, he had won the pulitzer prize and his columns were appearing in hundreds of newspapers back in the united states. his private letters, especially to his old friend and editor page cavanaugh were whimmical and sometimes bawdy accounts of life on the front lines. in north africa, pile sent off the following in 1943, yours of the 23rd new members at hand, i've been at the front for seven sol

as i mentioned, people like dole and mcgovern and leahy, largely in the senate, although there were some in the house, largely a senate thing that brought these people together to bring a n almost impenetrable coalition between the house and the senate. the irony in all of this is that rural and farm interests are largely more conservative politically than the country as a whole. and historically lean republican. and yet were reliable voters for farm legislation which included large amounts of government payments for both farmers and nutrition programs, as well as supporting international assistance and exports and anything to benefit the farm economy. so under the theory that political theory is merely the rationalization of economic self-interest, farmers had a lot of economic self-interest that kind of belied their kind of traditional republican, less government interventionist beliefs on about everything else. so you would find farm supporters in congress supporting these programs and often not supporting other federal programs that had the government, you know, growing in this way.

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mcgovern county police say someone stole a box of jars used for toys for tots funds.ere making deliveries. the thief may pose as volunteers forthen keep the money themselves. the organization is stepping up security. it is about to close down -- cool down. >> let's change cool to cold. ,he first freeze of the season we have nice blue skies out here in bethesda. look at these temperatures. 32 right at the freezing mark in bethesda. areas to the west of the city are in the 20's. we have clear skies out there, but the disturbance will bring in some clouds later on. the good news today is the winds have died down yesterday. we will have nothing like that today. winds will be out of the south at five to 10 miles per hour. it will be 53 to 56 today. tonight, 35 to 43. tomorrow will be milder. almost a 60 on veterans day and very cold by the end of the week. thank you for watching and have a wonderful day. >> "jack hanna's wild countdown" is sponsored by nationwide. >> hello, everyone, i'm jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to "

views are so far to the left that it would be a disaster for the democratic party on the george mcgovernt, she got the nomination. >> yeah. youyou know, speaking of some of the things she's said that were unscripted, i'm thinking of the fact that the gaffe-to-matic may not be working for her. it's starting to resonate with people and really sink in as to something they don't want to be a part of. out of touch with what broke really means. i term it it's funny, but sooner or later people wake up. they start to let that stuff sink in. i wonder that's not a play. >> yeah. but it was a liberal poll. so i think that to andrea's point about who's going to give hillary clinton some trouble, i think hillary clinton herself is worried about elizabeth warren which is why she's tried to take on her talking point with the comment that small businesses don't create jobs, corporations don't create jobs. that's something that elizabeth warren has been trumpeting for years. but i think that elizabeth warren is closer to barack obama in terms of her liberalism than hillary clinton is, and that's going to

the governor beats mussky from the left and mcgovern goes on to lose 49 states to nixon. >> the rules have changed dramatically since 1972. so my sense is if hellry wants this nomination, she has total support of the establishment of the democratic party. it would be hard for anybody else to break in there. >> and buyer's regret. those who deserted hillary the last time around may look at barack obama and say, boy, did we make a mistake. >> you're right. let's talk about the lame duck congress. what can get done in the next couple of weeks? >> nothing. >> nothing gets done? >> i think the only thing they could have done is basically some of these tariffs that are expiring, i think they should have done something about that. they're not going to have a continuing resolution on the budgets. republicans are now after the president's executive order are saying thank you very much, we're not going to work until we have a majority. >> even though we have deadlines in terms of budget and spending issues. >> thief violated for a long time, unfortunately. >> we'll take a short break then. the

pointed out to those who are critical in my claim, the people fought against vietnam like george mcgovernthere and it's so gratifying and it's rarely in quotation marks. they use the phrase. >> and those votes on the beach. all the guns that the germans had drained down at point blank rank. the bravery of that day and the carnage television all and it worked. it's just -- it boggles my mind every time i go. >> you go to the bridge? >> i go to the bridge every time. >> that was a defining moment in your life. >> as they said you have cancer, that's bad luck. how has it changed you? >> i'm also 74. i'm tucked up against the age expectancy for a white male at this stage in my life. it changed me because i am spending more time on things that count. people said how is your tolerance for jerks? i said it has gone way down. if i have to spend time with them, i'm not there anymore. it is raised my appreciation of affection for friends. >> let me ask you about your granddaughters. >> and the presidential medal of freedom. >> well, they are very excited i'm taking them. the two older ones, i was w

convention that frequently for instance it's a democratic conclave in miami beach that nominated george mcgovern in 1972 a melodrama asking the question of whether the rule should be interpreted to allow delegates to vote in the disposition of their case. this was a political tradition. this delegate fight who gets credentialed in the republican party there was another tradition. conservatives. practice in the art of barter them -- martyrdom half poker style bluffing lighting the accused would get liberal party brandies. phyllis schlafly called in the new york kingmakers of fraud and theft. when challenged conservative delegates were not allowed to speak on their own case or when delegates were allowed to vote on their own case that was challenging. this time the binding work. blackwell and divine read out agreements on the news conference. thou shalt not steal for the benefit of news cameras. they put together a newsletter decrying all manner of sins by all forces taping their draft to the door of the ford offices and threatening to release it to the papers the next day and must support campaig

and as i mentioned, there's people like dole and mcgovern and leahy, largely in the senate, although there were some in the house that were involved, it was largely a senate thing to bring these people together. and to provide this kind of impenetrable coalition between the house and the senate. the irony in all of this is that rural and farm interests are largely more conservative politically than the country as a whole. and historically, lean republican. and, yet, we're reliable voters for farm legislation, which included large amounts of government payments for both farmers and nutrition programs. as well as supporting international assistance and exports and anything to benefit the farm economy. so under the theory that political theory is merely the rationalization of economic self-interest, farmers had a lot of economic self-interests that kind of belied their kind of traditional republican less government interventionist beliefs on about everything else. so you'd find farm supporters in congress supporting these programs and often not supporting other federal programs that had

in favor of the most liberal anti-war candidate ever nominated by a major party, democrat george mcgovernjohn lennon hired a new york city immigration lawyer to fight his deportation. the lawyer leon wilds was 39 years old, but couldn't have been listening to the radio very much in those days because he had to actually ask a colleague who is john lennon? he tried many approaches to win legal status for john lennon, including challenging the law that said convictions for possession of narcotic drugs or marijuana was grounds for deportation. he presented expert testimony that cannabis resin was not marijuana and not covered by the law. and he actually asked john lennon if hashish was marijuana to which john lennon replied, oh, no, much better than marijuana. but most importantly, through the freedom of information acts, leon wilds discovered that the immigration national ralization service using prosecutorial discretion in deciding who to deport. he discovered 1,843 cases of such prosecutorial discretion, which was part of a secret program then. and after he made that secret program public,

mcgovern. the chair: the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, is recognized for 45 minutes. mr. mcgovern: i thank my colleague from massachusetts for the time. mr. chairman, there used to be a time when our republican friends respected science, there used to be a time when people like physicist from michigan was welcome in the republican conference. sadly, those times are long gone. if we can't agree on basic scientific principles, then there isn't much hope for us to agree on much else, so i will remind my colleagues on the record. up is up. down is down. gravity exists, the earth orr bits the sun, and -- orbits the sun. and climate change is real. it doesn't matter whether the data is private or public. it matters whether the findings are peer reviewed and can withstand scientific scrutiny. scientists understand that the real litmus test for supporting a finding is independent confirmation using a completely independent method. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this commonsense amendment. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: th

mcgovern: mr. speaker, on november 6, for the second time i participated in monty's march, which is a 26-mile walk from north hampton, massachusetts, to greenville, massachusetts, to raise the awareness about the problem of hunger, not only in our community but throughout funds for to raise the food banks in massachusetts. it is held by monty, who dressed up by evel knievel to attract some attention, a very unique personality, but somebody with a heart of gold who has been doing this now for several years. joining us on the march was dave, the northwestern district attorney, andrew moorehouse, the executive director of the food bank of western massachusetts, aircrafta congressional cooper of williams -- erica connell cooper of williams, massachusetts, sean berry, who runs four seasons liquor store, who was with us last year when we marched. a great guy. dan finn, a pioneer valley local first. a group called mutt and me, a medieval performance group, who walks with us with a big portion of the walk.

their discussion of politics may mades hesitate -- thomas hesitate before casting a ballot for mcgovern in 1972. his politics may have changed but his ability to relate to others has not. yield lawmany students who go on to clerk of lawsupreme court -- yale students are going to clerk of the supreme court and to a person they praise justice thomas. they describe his kindness and his infectious laugh. this elevates his deep personal humanity and his constant effort to reach out and to be helpful regardless of political beliefs. and that is no small thing for a justice and robes. -- in robes. the can be no doubt as to his dedication. no justice is as fearless as justice clarence thomas. appointed to the court in 19 91 at the age of 43, he has been intellectualurt's conservative path breaker. passionately defended his convictions even when few agreed until gradually, and in no small part due to the force of his reasoning, his views have made their way into the legal mainstream. been compared to john marshall harland. someone else has suggested that he should be counted alongside holmes and

now, he was not going to do it secretly but very openly and playing against his opponent, mcgovern, move the cuban community did not want to become president. so he was going to play it politically. had he done that it would not have been an obstruction of justice. in fact, there are some wonderful conversations late in here where he is talking with henry peterson, the head of the criminal division, about this pan and peterson agrees. but halderman with whom he discusses the cuban defense fund never tells anybody. anybody. in fact weather is another conversation with me. he runs by me they cuban defense fund. i don't know what he is talking about. it just goes right by me. i continue because i realize i don't know everything, everything, but it was kind of an ingenious plan. >> june 23, 1972. >> the day that. >> the day that became famous or infamous, however one looks at it, for the so-called smoking gun tapes. what is interesting about the smoking gun tapes is, they are really firing blanks. and i say that because what happened is, so much time had passed that nixon could not figure ou

i work with jim mcgovern, i work with barbara lee. i'm concerned that they are liberals on the issue of this war. the lack of respect for the constitution by members of congress who continue to allow any president to continue to send our troops with money we don't have. you said it right, we drop a few bombs and everybody says, look, they're involved, they're involved. the coalition in the right war was all civilian. you can say these troops are yugoslavian from other countries. yes, they went, and it was nice of them to do that, but it's always america carrying the brunt of the load. and that's what concerns me. >> austin, texas, independent caller. go ahead with your question for congressman jones. >> thank you, greta, for all your expertise on this issue. it should be a more important issue in our country. it seems like a lot of people just want to sweep it under the rug. you sat there and showed those figures. almost $2 trillion since 2001, almost 50,000 people wounded in these wars. why is this not something that every race and e

quite convinced he would see in the reelection bid that he'll raise red people like muskie if not mcgovern when they would buy for that nomination that could step aside. he never lets up. into zero almost the bitter end. with the no-holds-barred. and he realizes the prospects that was minimal but he did everything he could but i was regaled with some of the things they had done. though we have questions from the audience. >> please discuss how much work conservative reagan was compared to nixon's. >> every time i do a talk they say now would he be a moderate republican? but this question is a little sharper. but politicians complain work off the shelf. in to say he was a great supporter of the environment. and it turns out 410 through five it does not show much with the question is how conservative was he really? for that budget which was the big deal at the time and basically it was the reagin budget. with all of the great society budget at that point he appointed a new right activist which is the agency that administers the war on poverty and what people were commissioned to do. and in f

he always read people like mcgovern when they were defined for the nomination as stalking horse that might well just step aside if kennedy came into play so he never lets up. until almost the of bitter end in his fascination, no holds barred, ongoing investigation of teddy kennedy and after chappaquiddick he realized the prospects of teddy running were certainly minimal but he did everything he could to get information about chappaquiddick which happened before i got to the white house, was regaled with some of the things that had been done as belts and braces that he would be ready. >> a few questions to mr eric peristein, compare how conservative reagan was compared to nixon. >> reagan was around now, the moderate republican out of the republican party for being too liberal. this question is of little sharp rise think actually. i would be interested to know if john agrees, politicians can only be according to the context given to them. they don't take policies of the shelf. if you go to the nixon library or a museum exhibit they set up, he was a great supporter of the environment,

their discussion of politics may mades hesitate -- thomas hesitate before casting a ballot for mcgovern in 1972. his politics may have changed but his ability to relate to others has not. yield lawmany students who go on to clerk of lawsupreme court -- yale students are going to clerk of the supreme court and to a person they praise justice thomas. they describe his kindness and his infectious laugh. this elevates his deep personal humanity and his constant effort to reach out and to be helpful regardless of political beliefs. and that is no small thing for a justice and robes. -- in robes. the can be no doubt as to his dedication. no justice is as fearless as justice clarence thomas. appointed to the court in 19 91 at the age of 43, he has been intellectualurt's conservative path breaker. passionately defended his convictions even when few agreed until gradually, and in no small part due to the force of his reasoning, his views have made their way into the legal mainstream. been compared to john marshall harland. someone else has suggested that he should be counted alongside holmes and

cultural revolution of the '60s and he's a political celebrity by the 1970s because he manages george mcgovern'scampaign. everybody washington does what hart is about. he is still married and has been married to his wife for more than 50 years, but he separates twice from his wife in the '80s while he's innocent of the once he sleeps on bob woodward's account. nobody writes about it. he served on the church committee, the youngest members who knows what john kennedy was up to. he knows nobody wrote about that. he's been now by 1984 he is spent time, weeks in 1984 as the most closely watched, most focus on politician in the country, surrounded by reporters. nobody has talked about his well-known getting life in washington. so hart can't see that this is going to matter. even if he can be made to believe by his younger aided that someone will care about his social life, his personal life, he certainly can't imagine that anybody is going to go searching for the evidence any more than you can imagine somebody in and out from mars. this is part of the following the comment. if you understand what har