WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.300 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 2 00:00:04.380 --> 00:00:04.380 3 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:09.960 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 4 00:00:10.540 --> 00:00:12.900 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 5 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:15.380 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 6 00:00:46.340 --> 00:00:48.500 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 7 00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:50.480 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 8 00:00:53.940 --> 00:00:54.460 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 9 00:01:16.540 --> 00:01:19.480 Delegates and fellow Americans, 10 00:01:21.700 --> 00:01:25.720 tonight and throughout the next three months, 11 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.760 the magic word is choice. 12 00:01:31.220 --> 00:01:32.380 A choice... 13 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:37.840 The Republican Convention opened on Monday, August 5th, 1968. 14 00:01:37.900 --> 00:01:41.740 ...and a party with a record of peace... 15 00:01:41.740 --> 00:01:47.380 It started out quietly and maintained almost the same decibel level all the way through. 16 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:51.200 ...which debases the dollar... 17 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.020 ...and a party which defends it. 18 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:56.980 If there's a third ballot, he might pick up. 19 00:01:57.240 --> 00:02:03.180 Miami Beach is an island world, a strange and improbable place in this burning age of turmoil. 20 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.440 All plush red and sparkling glass on the inside. 21 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:11.500 Red, blue and sand-colored stucco on the outside. 22 00:02:29.140 --> 00:02:32.880 It seemed to me a perfect place for a Republican Convention. 23 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:37.280 ...and public participation in the emergency... 24 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:45.160 What we need is a great big dose of Republican geritol on election day. 25 00:02:45.580 --> 00:02:52.200 First today, I'd like to introduce to you a Nixon paper dress, a Nixon straw hat, 26 00:02:52.780 --> 00:02:57.720 one of our Nixon necklaces. It's gold and it has a Nixon elephant on it. 27 00:02:57.920 --> 00:02:59.560 She's also wearing an elephant. 28 00:03:02.380 --> 00:03:03.020 Bracelet. 29 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:12.440 And here's something for the favorite son in Miami Beach. Sunglasses. Nixon's the one. 30 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:19.920 Why is it that so many people look on the Republican Party as a party of the rich, the selfish, the satisfied, 31 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:25.300 those just seeking to preserve the status quo, who really aren't interested? 32 00:03:25.300 --> 00:03:29.520 And out of the crowd emerged the famous old faces of the grand old party. 33 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:37.540 Everett McKinley Dirksen, senior senator from Illinois, now acting as chairman of the Republican Platform Committee. 34 00:03:38.920 --> 00:03:45.580 Barry Goldwater, the 1964 presidential nominee, now running again for senator in Arizona. 35 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:51.620 William Scranton of Pennsylvania, who opposed Goldwater in the 1964 convention. 36 00:03:51.620 --> 00:03:59.020 Leonard Hall, Senator Hugh Scott, Meade Alcorn, and William Miller of New York, 37 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:03.640 Goldwater's 1964 running mate, now supporting Rockefeller. 38 00:04:04.540 --> 00:04:07.380 And a few relatively new faces as well. 39 00:04:07.940 --> 00:04:13.280 Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts. 40 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:17.380 Eventually even the Reverend Ralph Abernathy. 41 00:04:17.380 --> 00:04:20.360 He seemed a long way from a Republican. 42 00:04:21.140 --> 00:04:25.560 Heading the Southern Christian Leadership Conference since the tragic death of Dr. King, 43 00:04:26.140 --> 00:04:32.560 he brought his Poor People's Campaign to Miami Beach, leading his mule train past the posh hotels, 44 00:04:33.300 --> 00:04:37.340 and asked for representation for the 51st state of hunger. 45 00:04:38.740 --> 00:04:42.120 He was courteously seated in the Spectators Gallery. 46 00:04:44.780 --> 00:04:51.420 Richard M. Nixon had been a congressman at age 33, a senator from California at 37, 47 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:55.620 and vice president of the United States at 39. 48 00:04:56.400 --> 00:05:01.600 After eight years under Eisenhower, he set out in 1960 to win the presidency, 49 00:05:02.460 --> 00:05:05.120 but lost to John Kennedy by a small margin. 50 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:11.940 He then ran a bitter, tense, and irritable campaign for governor of California, and lost. 51 00:05:13.460 --> 00:05:17.940 Always staunchly partisan, a Republican jungle fighter through and through, 52 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:25.120 he was now here in Miami Beach in 1968 to collect the political debts of those he had helped in 1964 53 00:05:25.820 --> 00:05:28.820 and the off-year elections of 66. 54 00:05:28.820 --> 00:05:36.640 He had sent Romney packing in the early primaries, and had since built an impressive record of vote-getting. 55 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:48.240 Nelson Rockefeller, the governor of New York, had run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. 56 00:05:49.520 --> 00:05:53.680 He had done well in the primary elections, only to be shouted down at the convention 57 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:59.380 in a display of rudeness since then only matched in America by the provocateurs of the new left. 58 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:07.540 He had refused to enter the 68 primaries, and had not joined this race until after President Johnson's withdrawal. 59 00:06:08.900 --> 00:06:13.740 Now he came across to Miami Beach, talking of new leadership against the old politics, 60 00:06:14.500 --> 00:06:19.500 as a spokesman for an eastern liberal establishment that just couldn't take Nixon. 61 00:06:20.340 --> 00:06:24.720 Every statistic of Republican delegate preference showed him to be a loser, 62 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:30.380 but at the same time, every poll among the voters showed him to be running ahead of Nixon. 63 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.020 The Rockefeller flurry was really only just that. 64 00:06:40.380 --> 00:06:46.480 And as the Wednesday vote approached, the rocky organization's only hope was for some kind of far-out help from Ronald Reagan. 65 00:06:49.580 --> 00:06:56.460 Six feet tall, sun-tanned veteran of 40 movies, he had come to Miami a potential candidate for the presidency 66 00:06:56.460 --> 00:06:59.960 after only 19 stormy months as governor of California. 67 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:05.940 Though at one time president of a Hollywood actors union, he had since moved to the right 68 00:07:05.940 --> 00:07:13.440 and occupies a position in the party in American politics, only challenged by Barry Goldwater and George Wallace. 69 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:22.260 The Rockefeller forces felt somehow that his strength among southern delegates could be used to stem an early ballot Nixon win. 70 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:30.440 But Nixon quickly made an accommodation with these southern states, and the symbol of this was Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, 71 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.140 wearing his Nixon hat on the convention floor. 72 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:39.060 The real hero of the Republican party turned up on the podium Tuesday night. 73 00:07:39.060 --> 00:07:45.060 Barry Goldwater, the 1964 nominee, received by far the greatest ovation of the convention. 74 00:07:46.660 --> 00:07:53.080 It was hard to tell for a while if this was simple nostalgia or the beginning of some kind of regressive landslide. 75 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:59.380 It reminded me of that night in 64 when he had been introduced to the convention by Richard Nixon. 76 00:08:06.420 --> 00:08:12.920 The real Iraqi demonstration developed, but the days when a convention could be changed by this were clearly past. 77 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:28.260 I made this drawing of a Wisconsin delegate, standing there with his Nixon button, quietly wondering what had gotten into these folks. 78 00:08:29.060 --> 00:08:29.360 Reagan and his friends were standing there, and the crowd was just so excited. 79 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:35.680 Reagan too had faltered as the south was slipped out from under him, and the predictable became even more so. 80 00:08:51.100 --> 00:08:59.880 I shall recommend to the convention that it nominate for vice president on the Republican ticket, Governor Agnew of Maryland. 81 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:08.080 Then the convention came to life as young people in the audience expressed opposition to Agnew's selection. 82 00:09:08.680 --> 00:09:14.800 Signs had been passed out to fortify the celebration. These kids tore them apart and created their own protest material. 83 00:09:15.820 --> 00:09:25.120 They clearly preferred someone like Percy of Illinois or Lindsay of New York, someone who had expressed concern for the people of the ghetto in opposition to the war and the draft. 84 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:32.200 But this incipient revolt was put down when Lindsay rose to make a seconding speech for Agnew. 85 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:38.200 So it ended as it had begun, more of a coronation than a convention. 86 00:09:39.460 --> 00:09:44.180 And as it ended, word filtered across Biscayne Bay. 87 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.560 Three men were dead, and the National Guard had been called into a place in Miami called Liberty City. 88 00:10:00.220 --> 00:10:03.120 The Democratic convention opened in a city under siege. 89 00:10:04.580 --> 00:10:12.720 Chicago's Mayor Daley had yet to recover from the fires of April when the electrical workers went on strike, bringing convention communications to a standstill. 90 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:17.420 He had no sooner settled this on a partial basis than the cab drivers struck. 91 00:10:18.040 --> 00:10:24.440 Now there was talk of hippies and yippies and a hundred thousand young people buttonholing their delegates and marching for peace. 92 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.520 Mayor Daley asked for the National Guard and put the police on overtime. 93 00:10:29.060 --> 00:10:34.940 Eugene McCarthy had asked most of his supporters to stay home, but not all the peaceniks were McCarthy people. 94 00:10:38.280 --> 00:10:40.320 The Democratic argument began early. 95 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:46.920 Where the Republicans had only one serious credential challenge, the Democrats had near a thousand. 96 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:58.920 Platform and credential controversies lasted for a week and finally ended on the floor when Julian Bond of Georgia came to get his seat and those of his constituents and the governor of Georgia went home. 97 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:12.240 Hubert Humphrey, vice president of the United States, came to the convention in odds unfavorable to win among the delegates, but saddled and hard-ridden by the policies of the last six years. 98 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:27.180 His loyalty to the president through these last lean times surely recommended him to party regulars, but Senator McCarthy and the late Senator Kennedy had demonstrated an active resistance to the Vietnam War on the part of many voters. 99 00:11:28.580 --> 00:11:35.400 Humphrey's support of his president had also cast him in an unaccustomed role, defender of conservative policies. 100 00:11:36.060 --> 00:11:59.080 In reality, he had been the prime champion of liberal causes for 20 years, fighting the good fight for Social Security and federal housing in the Peace Corps against those whom his good friend Adlai Stevenson had characterized as having been dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century, the ancient powerful league of Southern senators and their Republican colleagues of the North. 101 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:07.640 Eugene McCarthy knew he was beaten before Chicago, though no candidate in history had had a more ambitious schedule of primaries. 102 00:12:08.180 --> 00:12:14.280 He had never publicly seen his candidacy as more than fulfilling a responsibility to those who supported him. 103 00:12:14.280 --> 00:12:20.920 And he came onto the Democratic convention scene with the same diffidence he had exhibited throughout. 104 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:29.480 He was content to personify the issues and to incidentally accept the presidency. 105 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:43.460 The Kennedy forces, controlling some delegate votes in Indiana, Nebraska, and particularly California, needed a candidate and rallied around George McGovern, Senator from South Dakota. 106 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:55.360 The three candidates hustled from one delegate hotel to another, trying to build their support, and finally ended up in the California debate. 107 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:04.100 Humphrey was the hot candidate, McCarthy the cool. McGovern, the newcomer, did well among these Californians. 108 00:13:04.100 --> 00:13:14.100 Though long an opponent of our involvement in Vietnam, he nonetheless vowed to support any Democratic nominee, something McCarthy refused to do. 109 00:13:19.980 --> 00:13:29.580 Wednesday afternoon I went to the park. There were all kinds of dissidents there, peaceniks and beatniks and hippies and yippies and housewives and clergymen and children. 110 00:13:29.580 --> 00:13:35.320 Some sat quietly listening to the speeches, others just milled around. 111 00:13:36.500 --> 00:13:42.840 The speeches really were pretty bad, and the police had handed out a paper saying these folks couldn't march on the convention. 112 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:45.300 So there was trouble in the air. 113 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:53.560 I noticed the flag at half mass, then down all the way, and a woman, one of the demonstrators, was struggling with a young man. 114 00:13:54.060 --> 00:13:58.580 She tore his red flag away from him, but the next thing we knew he'd run up his undershirt. 115 00:13:58.580 --> 00:14:03.880 The police moved in and stood next to the flagpole for a while, and then pulled back. 116 00:14:04.460 --> 00:14:08.640 Suddenly there were stones and things in the air and a giant puff of what I took to be a smoke bomb. 117 00:14:09.280 --> 00:14:15.400 The police charged across the park. I could see their baby blue helmets above the heads of the crowd and the billy club swinging. 118 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:20.920 Those who were seated couldn't see them coming and were soon overrun, and the grand park benches upended. 119 00:14:21.860 --> 00:14:27.140 The police moved back again. The students with bloody heads were treated by medics, and the speeches went on. 120 00:14:27.140 --> 00:14:29.520 I left to make a phone call. 121 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.520 That night at the convention, I sat in a TV network control room. 122 00:14:36.520 --> 00:14:38.380 It took about an hour to make this drawing. 123 00:14:38.980 --> 00:14:44.960 In that time, the whole sorry affair took place before my eyes in a kind of macabre comic strip. 124 00:14:46.180 --> 00:14:50.060 There was Julian Bond of Georgia talking of peace and freedom. 125 00:14:50.640 --> 00:14:54.760 Then came a commercial and the balloons and the hoopla of nomination night. 126 00:14:54.760 --> 00:15:02.000 When suddenly by delayed tape, pictures from the front of the Conrad Hilton, police rushing demonstrators, billy club swinging. 127 00:15:04.260 --> 00:15:06.680 Now Mayor Daley was commenting on what we could see. 128 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:13.760 I felt that even the guys there pushing the buttons were as astounded as I was at the way the crazy thing unfolded. 129 00:15:15.260 --> 00:15:21.880 As I left the control room, Wisconsin delegates were talking to floor reporters about a move to stop the convention. 130 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.760 They caucus just off the convention floor. 131 00:15:27.160 --> 00:15:39.880 There was John Kenneth Galbraith and Paul O'Dwyer of New York and other McCarthy, Kennedy and McGovern supporters incensed over what they called the police state methodology of the mayor and his Democratic National Committee. 132 00:15:41.300 --> 00:15:47.300 Besides the happening downtown, delegates and reporters had been arrested and roughed up on the convention floor. 133 00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:50.940 First man from this group was Abraham Ribakov of Connecticut. 134 00:15:51.880 --> 00:15:55.740 He was nominated McGovern. He tossed away a script and cut loose at Daley. 135 00:15:56.460 --> 00:15:59.480 Daley stood 15 feet below him and cut loose right back. 136 00:16:04.800 --> 00:16:07.520 The average age, maybe 21, 22. 137 00:16:07.900 --> 00:16:14.220 Maybe you're too old to watch, but I just, I see a lot of kids getting their heads broken open. 138 00:16:14.760 --> 00:16:19.420 And I don't see them, you know, you're aware of it and you give us some kind of support. 139 00:16:19.420 --> 00:16:21.160 But is it enough? 140 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:26.160 It takes political effort. Marching in the street just makes people say, well, Daley was right all along. 141 00:16:26.580 --> 00:16:30.680 Political effort was tried with the McCarthy campaign and it's pretty obvious it hasn't worked. 142 00:16:30.940 --> 00:16:37.980 I mean, you couldn't put in more political effort than was put into that McCarthy campaign and it's going to lose. So there's your political effort for you. 143 00:16:38.420 --> 00:16:42.760 White America is beginning to be treated by the police the way Black America has always been. 144 00:16:43.300 --> 00:16:48.300 And white kids for the first time are realizing, you know, what Black America is up against all the time, you know. 145 00:16:48.300 --> 00:16:52.260 We're the new generation. We have to win. We're going to outlive everybody else. 146 00:16:53.160 --> 00:16:54.840 When we do, there's going to be a lot of changes. 147 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:00.180 When the cats give up their shoes, they lose. Because from there we take it. 148 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.700 We're going to have it now. We're not going to wait until we're 50 years old to take power. 149 00:17:04.280 --> 00:17:09.060 If you want to work with the system now, you're going to have to wait four more years before you can elect another president. 150 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:16.580 Now four years is an awful long time to wait. We had delegates last night in that hotel. The people were supposed to be representing us. 151 00:17:16.580 --> 00:17:21.980 And there were policemen lined up so that we could not get to them. 152 00:17:22.600 --> 00:17:28.220 In Cuba, Castro is able to walk through the streets of Havana with no protection whatsoever, without being afraid. 153 00:17:28.660 --> 00:17:40.540 In America, you know, this bastion of liberal democracy, none of its major leaders can walk around, you know, without being protected from his own people. 154 00:17:54.560 --> 00:18:02.820 Next night, under the statue of General Logan, they sat and listened to Dick Gregory invite them over for a beer. It goes over 21. 155 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:10.820 About a thousand marchers took him up on the offer and headed south toward his house and just possibly the convention. 156 00:18:10.820 --> 00:18:18.640 No one was sure if he had checked first with his wife, but by the time they reached 18th Street, the police were there and the National Guard. 157 00:18:23.180 --> 00:18:26.740 Gregory and the delegates with him were arrested and put in the paddy wagons. 158 00:18:27.620 --> 00:18:34.380 When there was no more room in the paddy wagons and the demonstrators persisted, the guard moved in and tear gas filled the air. 159 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:55.800 Next day, McCarthy went to the park. He had begun in New Hampshire, gone into Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon and California, personifying the issue of the war and carrying it to the people. 160 00:18:56.340 --> 00:19:03.620 He had believed that he could develop this dialogue within the democratic system, and so had the young people who flocked around him. 161 00:19:03.620 --> 00:19:12.520 Now they had seen their delegates arrested in convention, kids beaten in the streets. Even McCarthy's headquarters had been raided. 162 00:19:13.100 --> 00:19:17.160 And now many of his kids thought that their only hope was to join the crowd in the streets. 163 00:19:18.260 --> 00:19:22.160 McCarthy went across to make one last plea for staying within the system. 164 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:27.960 Meanwhile, back in the Hilton, Humphrey had inherited a fractionated party. 165 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:35.440 He had stood by his president in support of the war in Vietnam and driven off the young people and the intellectuals. 166 00:19:35.620 --> 00:19:46.320 This was his greatest dilemma, how to chart an independent policy overseas and still not bring down in tatters the domestic programs of which he'd been so much a part. 167 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:57.300 George Wallace is a feisty little guy, a banty rooster of a man. 168 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:04.060 Formerly a democrat, he had been running since February as an independent and was now gaining strength. 169 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:11.000 As governor of Alabama, he had interposed himself between the university and federal law. 170 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:26.620 And later saw Northerners by the thousands come to Selma and to Montgomery to protest the racist customs of the South. 171 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:46.860 Now he has come north to Milwaukee and Cicero and Los Angeles and Flint to reap a kind of biblical vengeance on his tormentors. 172 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:05.300 I go to Los Angeles, I go to Birmingham, I go to New York and a group of anarchists lay down in front of your president's automobile. 173 00:21:05.760 --> 00:21:09.380 It's going to be the last automobile that ever want to lie down in front of me. 174 00:21:10.520 --> 00:21:21.340 He never once talks racism, but always law and order and communism and big government and bureaucracy in a simplified kind of states' rights politics, 175 00:21:21.340 --> 00:21:27.500 which has brought him popularity in the South and some in the North. 176 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:39.080 With all that had gone before, the New Hampshire McCarthy Challenge, the March capitulation of the president, 177 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:45.280 the death of Dr. King, Robert Kennedy's campaign and assassination, 178 00:21:45.280 --> 00:21:56.000 with all of this and the conventions and the Chicago turmoil, by mid-October all seemed anti-climax and for most Americans thankfully so. 179 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:06.280 But in this day of instant communication, the magic picture stays in the eye and the din of politics pervades the inner ear. 180 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.420 And in 1968, no American could escape it. 181 00:22:11.120 --> 00:22:20.980 The candidates crisscrossed the country, Nixon cool and cautious, running above the fray, content to leave the low gut fighting to his vice presidential running mate. 182 00:22:21.620 --> 00:22:27.240 This was the triumphant beginning of his campaign and the first day of what came to be called the Nixon format. 183 00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:33.200 A headline making confetti and balloon motorcade, followed by a regional telecast. 184 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:37.240 These are the people that I call the forgotten Americans. 185 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:46.840 And these forgotten Americans have been quiet over the past few years, they haven't been speaking out, and now they're stood up. 186 00:22:47.340 --> 00:22:48.560 And they're fed up. 187 00:22:48.800 --> 00:22:50.700 The telecast was a grand success. 188 00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:59.600 Seven carefully picked citizens put relatively tough questions to him, and he answered in his new effective forensic style. 189 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:10.200 In the early stages Humphrey was a desperate and harried campaigner. 190 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:24.080 And I was an underdog many, many times in the United States Senate when I led the fight for such programs as the Peace Corps and Medicare and Food for Peace and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty just before we won. 191 00:23:24.420 --> 00:23:33.180 Short of funds, he scurried from one local TV and radio station to another, from city to city, trying to piece together the remnants of an old ethnic labor union that had been in power for a long time. 192 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:37.200 A coalition which had served and been served by the Democrats in the past. 193 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:50.140 The big news was George Wallace. 194 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:52.080 Trouble for Nixon in the South. 195 00:23:52.600 --> 00:23:55.040 Out to get Humphrey's blue collar vote in the North. 196 00:23:55.800 --> 00:23:58.800 And the chance that the election might go into the House of Representatives. 197 00:23:58.800 --> 00:24:02.960 The early polls and surveys showed Nixon ahead. 198 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.820 Humphrey, the optimist, felt all that was needed was time. 199 00:24:07.540 --> 00:24:12.180 Statistics gave Nixon the crowds and Wallace saw acres and acres of folks. 200 00:24:13.380 --> 00:24:26.080 But what every candidate knows is that after all the hoopla on the balloons and the confusion in the confetti, after all the airport arrivals in the motorcades and the TV shows, and after all the stories have been written, 201 00:24:26.080 --> 00:24:30.940 there are still people out there he hasn't seen and who haven't seen him. 202 00:24:31.780 --> 00:24:37.000 It's axiomatic that Democrats talk to Democrats and Republicans to Republicans. 203 00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:44.400 And whether there are 2,000 or 12,000 people in front of you, many times that number don't even know you've come to town. 204 00:24:45.180 --> 00:24:47.800 And right down the block are people who couldn't care less. 205 00:24:57.300 --> 00:25:07.160 So why not vote it? Let's get it out in the open. If you're racist, let's know. If you're racist, tell us. I'm a racist. I'm a bigot. If you're not, let's find our sides. 206 00:25:07.620 --> 00:25:15.800 It doesn't make any difference whether you're segregationist or integrist or you're black or white or young or old or rich or poor or male or female. 207 00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:22.460 Right now we're interested in restoring law and order in this country. And it doesn't have anything to do with race. 208 00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:27.840 You better leave that cat where he is, man. You don't need him for no president. You must be insane. 209 00:25:28.180 --> 00:25:37.540 You're a national guard in your backyard and in every corner, man. Black people, remember the last hundred years we haven't even been fully represented in the law-making body, man. 210 00:25:37.560 --> 00:25:44.400 We haven't had a representative in Congress or legislation or whatever have you, man. 211 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:56.020 Okay, for another point, if you throw them out, they can't cut it off. If you vote them out, they can't cut it off. And that's the secret. You gotta vote them out. You can't talk about it. 212 00:25:56.580 --> 00:26:03.220 They don't control the machine if you don't vote for them. You're talking about voting, Daly talks about counting. Daly counts them the way he wants to. 213 00:26:03.540 --> 00:26:09.680 Hey man, don't you know Daly got people on this voting list, man, that have been dead for the past 20 years, man? 214 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:14.060 But that stuff can be corrected. It's been corrected in other cities. 215 00:26:14.280 --> 00:26:17.660 That shit ain't gonna never be corrected, man, cause y'all don't know about it. 216 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:25.800 I think Rockefeller had more support. Yet at least Nixon did win the primaries. Humphrey didn't win any primaries. 217 00:26:25.800 --> 00:26:33.840 God bless Social Security. You're right. And God bless President Johnson and this administration. 218 00:26:34.760 --> 00:26:42.800 I've lived better. I'm four months from 80. And I'm standing up as a man, as American citizen. 219 00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:51.480 I wanna know why the North Vietnamese went down to South Vietnam anyway. They got their own country. 220 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:57.380 Why do we have to help them? Why do we have to stop a war that was begun without our help? 221 00:26:57.820 --> 00:27:06.960 Why do we have to go over and interfere when we are not wanted? Why did we deny them a free election after the Geneva Conference of 45? Why? 222 00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:12.880 Vietnam now, then where do we stop helping anybody who needs help? 223 00:27:13.100 --> 00:27:16.680 You draw the line of Vietnam or do you stop them in Chicago? Now where do you wanna stop them at? 224 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:25.840 If I found it necessary, I would use anything that we could dream up. Anything that we could dream up, including nuclear weapons, if it was necessary. 225 00:27:26.260 --> 00:27:37.580 All General LeMay has said, and I know you fellas better than he does, because I've had to deal with you, he said that if the security of the country depended on the use of any weapon in the future, he would use it. 226 00:27:37.760 --> 00:27:41.480 But he said he prefers not to use any sort of weapon. He prefers them to go share. 227 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:46.380 And if you support him, then you're a fascist. You are. And you're gonna have a fascist state. 228 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:57.960 Because somebody doesn't have the guts to say we were wrong, everybody can be wrong. And it would be a great thing if this country would stand up and say, we were wrong. 229 00:27:57.980 --> 00:28:00.040 We're in it. We gotta get out of there somehow. 230 00:28:00.060 --> 00:28:09.020 Why do you worry how we got out, whether we look so pretty as we think we are to? I don't think it's so important. I think humanity is much more important. 231 00:28:09.020 --> 00:28:14.600 Who's gonna be the President of the United States? As far as me, I wouldn't want to be. I have a headache what's coming next year. 232 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:22.480 Next four years ain't gonna be no fun to be President of the United States the way this country is right now. This country is pretty close to a depression. 233 00:28:23.120 --> 00:28:33.300 It's more better to unite the American people as one body, then we can stand the inflations that are probably coming. 234 00:28:33.860 --> 00:28:34.840 You got something there. 235 00:28:57.080 --> 00:29:06.980 In the end, a decision must come. The voter at last brings his simple gift, an act of faith and hope in one man. 236 00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:14.240 And not only in one person, but hope for the nation and faith in democracy itself. 237 00:29:16.320 --> 00:29:26.820 Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free, tis the gift to come down where we ought to be. 238 00:29:27.060 --> 00:29:36.240 And when we find ourselves in the place just right, it will be in the valley of love and delight. 239 00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:56.600 When true simplicity is gained, to bow and to bend we will not be ashamed. To turn, to turn will be our delight, till by turning, turning we come round right. 240 00:29:56.910 --> 00:30:07.910 Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free, tis the gift to come down where we ought to be. 241 00:30:08.570 --> 00:30:18.850 And when we find ourselves in the place just right, it will be in the valley of love and delight. 242 00:30:18.850 --> 00:30:39.650 When true simplicity is gained, to bow and to bend we will not be ashamed. To turn, to turn will be our delight, till by turning, turning we come round right. 243 00:30:50.290 --> 00:30:51.070 Thank you for watching!