so boxes went over and said ted, to spiro agnew, we are going to have to take it back. the vice president only used it for a few serve money of things and he was happy to do it. he was a guy about it. and bobhat office haldeman became the grand mobile -- mogul. >> watch the entire conversation on c-span3's american history tv. >> each week until the 2016 election road to the white house rewind rings you our archival coverage of presidential races. oft, the 1988 campaign democratic candidate gary hart. we begin with the former colorado center -- senator announcing his campaign and a speech in denver. a close second to walter mondale for the race for the 1984 democratic nomination and was considered by many observers to be the front runner going into 1988. but within weeks of this announcement senator hart face allegations of a next her marital affair which led him to withdraw from the race. massachusetts governor michael dukakis won the nomination but lost decidedly to vice president george h.w. bush in a general election. ♪ senator hart: thank you very much. ♪ senator h

so boxes went over and said ted, to spiro agnew, we are going to have to take it back. the vice president only used it for a few serve money of things and he was happy to do it. he was a guy about it. and bobhat office haldeman became the grand mobile -- mogul. >> watch the entire conversation on c-span3's american history tv. >> each week until the 2016 election road to the white house rewind rings you our archival coverage of presidential races. oft, the 1988 campaign democratic candidate gary hart. we begin with the former colorado center -- senator announcing his campaign and a

i remember, when spiro agnew, that's all been used and excused as just bad politics years ago. do you get a sense trump doesn't know the culture. that's why he keeps stepping in it? >> he doesn't know a lot of the history of this. your question about abortion, you know, you tripped him up on that, and he said oh, yeah, we should punish women who get abortion, and no one supports that. and he should have known that that is the case. he also should have known that getting roe v. wade overturned is really going to be hard and unlikely. so your question was hypothetical. but i think bob costa and i found that the summary of the session with trump was when he said i'm the lone ranger. i'm going to do it my way. i'm in charge. we tried to discuss with him and he had some answers, some very incomplete answers on this question, how do you build the coalition. and, you know, chris you know from being in politics, covering it for so long, all successful politics is building a coalition, and he doesn't have a strategy for that as best we could tell. >> robert, i think -- your assessment o

after they won that election and were sworn in to start the second term in 1973, vice president spiro agnew came under investigation for bribery. nixon's vice president got investigating for bribery. he ended up getting criminally charged. he had to resign from office. we sort of forget this now because of the way the nixon administration ended. even before nixon became the great scandal of the nixon error he had to resign in disgrace and face criminal charges. the vice presidency may not be the most crucial job in the federal government but there does have to be somebody holding that position. when he had to go into that criminal cloud, president nixon had to choose someone to replace him. that's how a congressman from michigan who had never been elected by an electorate larger than his congressional district got himself into the presidency. that's how we got gerald ford even though he had never been nationally elected to anything. that's how we got the contested republican national convention in 1976 when gerald ford decided to run to hold onto this position in oval office that he arrived

after they won that election and were sworn in to start the second term in 1973, vice president spiro agnew came under investigation for bribery. nixon's vice president got

mention the famous than sense of the vice presidency, but you do refer to how nixon referred to spiro agnew to denigrate the office at least he at least he said he lets his insurance policy. >> i mean, i think nixon really grew pretty quickly to detest agnew. i think he started out impressed with him and over time he would complain that agnew wants to have these meetings with me and that's just not the way it works. the president doesn't meet with the vice president and that's not part of the job. he should go out there and give the speeches and so forth. when they were real lack did in 1972, agnew really saw himself and he was the leader in the polls for 1976. he saw himself as venus here is presidential candidate and nixon wouldn't give him anything to do. finally he said why don't you be the chair of the commission to plan the bicentennial celebration and agnew didn't think that was really what he had in mind. of course he was forced out of office soon after that. the transformation to the office that we have now between say 73 when agnew was totally marginalized and 77 when walter monda

late months of the primary season, but at that point cbs, which was still smarting from thing that spiro agnew been saying about the liberal bias of the networks, cbs offers reagan a position which would have him basically as a conservative counterpoint to eric severide when he would deliver short comments, and reagan said, no, he said people get tired of me, which showed he was planning on running again, old as he was. it was -- 69 was considered prohibitive to be running for president by some people in 1980, and also shows that he had some good instincts and he was -- he said, i'll do radio instead and did a lot of very short radio programs while carter was in the white house. had my first job in texas. i lived in lubbock, and i would hear ronald reagan on the radio in the morning, thanks for listening. this is ronald reagan. and he wrote his own script. you can say that's simplistic, one-minute radio script, but they were crisp and definite. as you can guess i'm a very unhappy personal politically right you. >> you talk about the radio shows, when i was growing up, people referred to reagan

after they won that election and were sworn in to start the second term in 1973, vice president spiro agnewion for briby.

spiro agnew. >> wow, nope, that was elvis. all right.be nixon. >> nixon, yes, correct. to judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. >> that's got to be nixon. >> that was elvis. >> whoa. >> we were tricking you here. if you want to make beautiful music you must play the black and white notes together. >> kissinger. >> yeah. >> all right. it's nixon. all right, thank you guys for playing. we appreciate it. the movie is fantastic. "elvis & nixon" is in theaters this friday. you got to check it ou (music plays from one way or another )♪♪ ♪ i'm gonna find y♪ i'm gonna getcha ♪ ♪ getcha getcha getcha ♪ one way or another ♪ ♪ i'm gonna win ya ♪ i'm gonna getcha ♪ ♪ getcha getcha getcha ♪ one way or another ♪ ♪ i'm gonna see ya ♪ (inhales cigarette) >>> "good morning america" is brought to you by the blue cash everyday card from american express. >> oh, do we have a picture to share with you before we go. prince william and harry, ah, epic battle between brothers on the set of "star wars." >> bo

. >> i got spiro agnew. >> wow, that was elvis. all right. the hottest fire. >> that's got to be nixon. >> correct. >> to judge a man by his weakest link or deed is judging the power of the ocean by one wave. >> that's got to be nixon. >> elvis. tricking you here. if you want to make beautiful music you must play the black and white notes together. >> kissinger. >> yeah. >> all right. it's nixon. all right, thank you guys for playing. we appreciate it. the movie is fantastic. "elvis & nixon" is in theaters this friday. you got to check it out and we will be right back. the nra and its campaign cash are what stands between us and gun reform. "searing tragedy struck in a place parents felt their children were safe" chris van hollen met with nra lobbyists to craft a loophole that would let the nra skirt a new campaign finance law and block gun control. but democrat donna edwards said "no" to the nra loophole and stood up to the gun lobby. and she would ban assault weapons. democrat donna edwards, maryland's next senator. working for us pac is re

spiro agnew. >> wow, that was elvis. all right. the finest deal has to go through the hottest fire. >> that's got to be nixon. >> correct. >> to judge a man by his weakest link or deed is judging the power of the ocean by one wave. >> that's got to be nixon. >> elvis. tricking you here. if you want to make beautiful music you must play the black and white notes together. >> kissinger. >> yeah. >> all right. it's nixon. all right, thank you guys for playing. we appreciate it. the movie is fantastic. "elvis & nixon" is in theaters even when the deck is stacked, a new yorker will find a way to break up big banks, create millions of jobs, and rebuild america. some say it can't be done again. but another native son of new york is ready -- bernie. rebuild the middle class, make wall street banks pay their fair share, give every child a chance. new york -- it's our time again to build a future to believe in. >>> "good morning america" is brought to you by the blue cash everyday card from american express. >> oh, do we have a picture to sh

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