WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.260 --> 00:00:13.660 You 2 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:31.900 You 3 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:00.240 You 4 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:00.360 You 5 00:01:00.360 --> 00:01:00.700 You 6 00:01:00.700 --> 00:01:00.840 You 7 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:00.960 You 8 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:01.100 You 9 00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:27.780 This is an artist's look at 10 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:31.940 1968 one man's portrait of America in this political year 11 00:01:32.620 --> 00:01:37.160 Franklin McMahon is an artist reporter whose work has taken him all over the world 12 00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:42.440 His paintings of the Vatican were published in Look McCall's and the Saturday Evening Post 13 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:47.520 He went to Japan India and Thailand for Sports Illustrated and World Book yearbook 14 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:51.540 His drawings of the European Common Market were published in Fortune 15 00:01:51.540 --> 00:01:59.160 Now he will turn toward the United States following the candidates through the most exciting and pretentious political year of this century 16 00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:05.260 These then are McMahon's drawings and his comments. We begin in New Hampshire 17 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:21.200 George Romney the governor of Michigan 18 00:02:21.540 --> 00:02:25.980 Signed into the Republican presidential primary in January of 68 19 00:02:25.980 --> 00:02:29.940 but he had been running this time for the presidency since June of 20 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:32.680 1967 a 21 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.080 puritanical and indefatigable campaigner 22 00:02:36.020 --> 00:02:39.180 Romney was up early in the morning greeting voters at factory gates 23 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:42.780 shaking hands in supermarkets and attending coffee clotches 24 00:02:43.820 --> 00:02:49.580 I've been halfway around the world and back again. He said in search for a program for peace 25 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:56.480 He came up with what he called guaranteed neutralization and carried it into the hustings 26 00:02:56.480 --> 00:03:02.460 Can't mind a peace offensive unless you've got a peace program. You can't just be for peace 27 00:03:03.420 --> 00:03:06.060 What is a fair and equal and sound basis for peace? 28 00:03:07.420 --> 00:03:09.620 It's out there guaranteed neutralization 29 00:03:09.620 --> 00:03:14.460 Now I asked the leaders of the nations if they had a better suggestion. No matter better alternative 30 00:03:14.460 --> 00:03:16.900 Nobody else is suggested an alternative 31 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:23.440 President has he said milk talk yet back and forth through New Hampshire Wisconsin and Oregon 32 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:25.680 sounding for a Republican vote 33 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.640 We need to straighten out our thinking on Vietnam 34 00:03:28.640 --> 00:03:32.840 It's nice to get up and say the jury for peace and Europe for this and that 35 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:38.880 But the nations of the world are increasingly concerned that we're taking them right down the road to World War three 36 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:46.520 But he was talking to people who just didn't want to believe their government was wrong overseas 37 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.160 fighting this war in a distant land 38 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:52.880 We need a man today 39 00:03:55.040 --> 00:03:57.160 To do let's look at the record 40 00:03:57.700 --> 00:03:59.440 And let's look at the record first 41 00:04:00.420 --> 00:04:04.520 Dropped out of the presidential race in early March and as we look around the world 42 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:09.740 Let's not just look at Vietnam. All of us are concerned about that terribly difficult war 43 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.680 But did you ever stop to think that as we look around the world today? 44 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:19.640 That the United States is in trouble in every area of the world 45 00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:23.660 Never have we been in more trouble in more places in the world that we are today 46 00:04:24.500 --> 00:04:30.720 The European Alliance will end up in tatters unless we get new leadership the Mideast 47 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:35.580 It was in the news earlier this year. You haven't been reading as much about it until just lately 48 00:04:36.260 --> 00:04:39.700 Did you know who came out the big winner in that flash war? 49 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:48.660 The Soviet Union Richard M Nixon former vice president of the United States arrives at the Winnebago County Airport 50 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:53.400 Making his second bid for the presidency and an old campaigner for Republican causes 51 00:04:54.220 --> 00:05:01.000 Nixon has spoken at over 100 Lincoln Day dinners. Now he's headed for another in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 52 00:05:07.860 --> 00:05:12.540 This is a Lincoln Day dinner I 53 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:18.760 Appreciate the fact that everybody in this great audience is aware that we're entering one of those 54 00:05:18.760 --> 00:05:23.400 Watershed years in the history of the country and in speaking on that point 55 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:29.200 I think it would only be appropriate if I were to give you a feel of the country because I have been around a 56 00:05:29.200 --> 00:05:30.980 Good deal in the past few weeks 57 00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:30.980 58 00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:34.140 During the past year, but in the past few weeks 59 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:41.220 beginning in the 1st of February I have moved from New Hampshire out to Colorado and I've been down in Texas and 60 00:05:42.380 --> 00:05:42.900 Oklahoma 61 00:05:43.660 --> 00:05:48.720 I've been out in Oregon and of course in Wisconsin in Florida and in New York 62 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:51.600 And I have news for you 63 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.320 Every place we go the crowds are big and they're enthusiastic 64 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:02.920 Every place why go there's a feeling in the air something that you can sense usually that you sent in a campaign 65 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:11.240 Only when you get toward the last of it when the excitement begins to run and everybody is recognizing the decision is soon to be made 66 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:18.420 But here it is eight months before and people are excited and enthusiastic and ready to go and they want to work 67 00:06:19.100 --> 00:06:22.840 And you know that sends a message to me and I think you feel it here tonight 68 00:06:22.840 --> 00:06:30.140 And the message very simply is this we're going to win this November we're going to win that election 69 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:38.920 Mr. Nixon prefers the big speech to pack crowds of party faithful a 70 00:06:40.340 --> 00:06:47.020 Front-runner in this campaign. He mostly avoided the kind of hand-to-hand combat that Romney practiced 71 00:06:47.020 --> 00:06:51.380 My friends the issue today is not the Johnson personality 72 00:06:51.380 --> 00:06:56.180 The issue today is the Johnson policies and putting it quite bluntly 73 00:06:56.180 --> 00:07:02.160 I don't think America can afford four more years of Lyndon Johnson in the White House 74 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:07.700 This drawing was made in Conway, New Hampshire 75 00:07:07.700 --> 00:07:09.340 Go home tonight 76 00:07:09.340 --> 00:07:15.260 Put a map of the world on the wall if you have one stand back from at five feet throw darts at it 77 00:07:15.260 --> 00:07:20.660 You're gonna find a very difficult time hitting a place where the United States doesn't have some difficulty 78 00:07:20.660 --> 00:07:22.100 Let's start with Europe 79 00:07:22.100 --> 00:07:24.700 here where we had the great alliance when 80 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:28.680 President Eisenhower left office in January of 81 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:34.160 1961 then it was strong and today that alliance is a shell 82 00:07:35.140 --> 00:07:39.680 Look at Latin America. We all know what has happened with Castro 83 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:45.140 But did you know how significant it is that you know that he has become stronger and stronger until today? 84 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:49.660 Castro from tiny Cuba has the strongest 85 00:07:49.660 --> 00:07:52.260 Military force in the Western Hemisphere 86 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.360 next to the United States 87 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:00.620 with Romney out of the way Nixon now ran to build up his vote and erase his image as a loser and 88 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:05.480 Watch for signs that Rockefeller or Reagan might challenge 89 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.960 But the big news as often happens began to be made in the Democratic Party 90 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:19.640 Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota had entered in New Hampshire and Wisconsin and eventually in 91 00:08:19.660 --> 00:08:25.260 six other primaries to offer an alternative to an incumbent president of his own party a 92 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.360 challenge unheard of in modern times 93 00:08:29.020 --> 00:08:32.700 He began in January talking to small knots of voters 94 00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:34.500 and 95 00:08:34.500 --> 00:08:36.000 mostly to students 96 00:08:36.680 --> 00:08:40.220 It was very lonely out there in New Hampshire. He later remarked 97 00:08:41.220 --> 00:08:46.760 This drawing was made during a press conference in a basement traffic court in Rochester, New Hampshire 98 00:08:46.760 --> 00:08:54.760 The senator was late that night getting in from Washington and rather perfunctorily fulfilled his commitment to his supporters in Rochester 99 00:09:00.760 --> 00:09:02.700 Then on to Dover for 100 00:09:02.700 --> 00:09:04.960 supermarket handshakes and 101 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:09.800 Finally to a suburban basketball game. There was some enthusiasm among the high schoolers 102 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:14.740 But nobody could guess how many votes 103 00:09:16.940 --> 00:09:18.660 Judgment within the 104 00:09:20.500 --> 00:09:28.740 In the closing weeks that began to happen from all over the Northeast they came and some from as far as the University of Chicago 105 00:09:28.740 --> 00:09:33.080 The early speeches to college students had begun to pay off 106 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:38.920 Word of the tall gray senator from Minnesota and his anti-war challenge had spread across the land 107 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:46.320 What had been an insignificant primary now turned into an event an event of worldwide importance? 108 00:09:46.760 --> 00:09:53.720 These were the bright young people not copping out but getting in all the way in the American electoral process 109 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.960 They assembled in Manchester and Concord and spread out over the state 110 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.480 this is the McCarthy headquarters in Peterborough and 111 00:10:04.920 --> 00:10:08.120 This drawing was made in Franklin, New Hampshire 112 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:12.580 In any effort such as this there's a lot of wasted motion 113 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:28.600 But 114 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:32.520 What they lacked in political know-how they made up for an enthusiasm and 115 00:10:33.340 --> 00:10:39.120 In numbers in the end over five thousand came and spread themselves over the New Hampshire countryside 116 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.200 every place I go I'm told that 117 00:10:42.220 --> 00:10:46.360 you've all been very well behaved and very influential very nice and that 118 00:10:47.680 --> 00:10:52.840 Since no one has ever seen this kind of campaign in America why it's kind of a test of the technique 119 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:58.920 But also a test of all of you who have participated if I win, I'll give you credit if I lose 120 00:10:59.520 --> 00:11:01.340 I'll have to blame you. I suppose 121 00:11:02.280 --> 00:11:04.620 These will be to be honest both ways 122 00:11:04.620 --> 00:11:08.700 We'll give you full credit and a share of the blame 123 00:11:19.560 --> 00:11:25.140 Here Rita Jordan of New York City and Nancy Miller from the University of Pennsylvania 124 00:11:25.140 --> 00:11:27.440 Talk with a Goffstown farmer 125 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:30.880 And 126 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:36.680 These two young men are distributing McCarthy leaflets in a Manchester supermarket 127 00:11:36.680 --> 00:11:39.740 McCarthy stock began to rise 128 00:11:43.640 --> 00:11:46.740 He had begun in January with a predicted 12% increase in the market 129 00:11:46.740 --> 00:11:54.000 12% of the vote then it was 18 now there was talk of 25 crowds began to get larger and a kind of charisma 130 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.700 Actually filled the air 131 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.340 But no one was sure if this translated into votes 132 00:12:11.100 --> 00:12:11.900 In 133 00:12:11.900 --> 00:12:18.000 The closing days telephoning began getting out the McCarthy vote and offering babysitting service 134 00:12:29.180 --> 00:12:29.900 And 135 00:12:29.900 --> 00:12:33.500 Even an appeal to the French-speaking Manchester citizens 136 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:49.500 Romero 137 00:12:50.420 --> 00:12:52.160 no American voter 138 00:12:53.040 --> 00:12:55.660 Exists outside a web of instant communication 139 00:12:56.560 --> 00:13:03.740 Into New Hampshire had come the Tet offensive then the Pueblo incident and the gold crisis and 140 00:13:04.640 --> 00:13:06.220 now on the day before the 141 00:13:06.920 --> 00:13:08.420 primary election 142 00:13:08.420 --> 00:13:14.820 Big guns flashed along the Potomac as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard Secretary of State Dean Rusk 143 00:13:15.420 --> 00:13:17.440 defend us presence in Vietnam 144 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.560 In consultations with the appropriate committee 145 00:13:22.180 --> 00:13:27.680 On what that action here. I just can't say anything more than I was there already on that point 146 00:13:27.680 --> 00:13:35.100 It was strange to see Secretary Rusk there on the table of the McCarthy, New Hampshire headquarters 147 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:39.860 Among folks who were busily seeking to eliminate him as a political force 148 00:13:39.860 --> 00:13:41.740 otherwise after you have 149 00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:44.060 The recommendation 150 00:13:45.100 --> 00:13:51.880 Made up your mind what you're gonna do then you'll tell us it was the day before the election and the fact that a majority of the 151 00:13:51.880 --> 00:13:57.260 Foreign Relations Committee were now seemingly supporting Senator McCarthy's position on the war 152 00:13:57.900 --> 00:14:01.620 Clearly must have had its effect on the New Hampshire voters 153 00:14:21.980 --> 00:14:22.760 I 154 00:14:22.760 --> 00:14:27.440 Senator McCarthy was given 42% of the New Hampshire Democratic vote an 155 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:29.980 unprecedented acclaim for an until then 156 00:14:30.580 --> 00:14:36.220 Quiet an unknown senator from the Midwest and is a gallant band of political neophytes 157 00:14:38.260 --> 00:14:44.240 Later that night I looked in on the New Hampshire Johnson headquarters and 158 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.360 Made this painting in the parking lot outside 159 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.980 You know the New Hampshire primaries are unique in politics 160 00:14:51.980 --> 00:14:56.900 They're the only races where anybody can run 161 00:15:02.280 --> 00:15:04.800 And everybody can win 162 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:16.300 On 163 00:15:16.300 --> 00:15:21.080 The wings of his 42% New Hampshire victory McCarthy entered, Wisconsin 164 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:28.740 This is a press conference at the Milwaukee Airport. I would hope we could get a majority in Wisconsin after New Hampshire 165 00:15:28.740 --> 00:15:33.780 I think there's reason to be somewhat optimistic about this state up until now 166 00:15:33.780 --> 00:15:36.700 McCarthy had been supported by people with a kind of 167 00:15:36.700 --> 00:15:39.960 Existentialist acting for the moment approach to politics 168 00:15:40.580 --> 00:15:47.980 They didn't seem necessarily to want to elect a president. They really only wanted to protest the war 169 00:15:49.280 --> 00:15:56.460 But what had begun as an offered Democratic alternative now began to be a real drive for the presidency 170 00:15:56.460 --> 00:16:01.140 So this is second consideration this campaign one the judgment on the war itself 171 00:16:01.140 --> 00:16:07.340 Secondly a judgment with reference to priorities and since it now appears quite clear that 172 00:16:07.340 --> 00:16:13.100 We cannot as President Johnson said a year and a half two years ago fight two wars and win them both 173 00:16:13.640 --> 00:16:17.820 We're really fighting only one and not winning either 174 00:16:17.820 --> 00:16:23.220 We're called upon to make this very hard choice. I think in America in the year 175 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:24.840 1968 176 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.320 30 for the first time in our history 177 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:32.640 And I think in the first time maybe in the history of modern democracy at least 178 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.540 But to call upon our nation to pass a judgment upon 179 00:16:38.740 --> 00:16:42.920 Its own action not after it's over when you can say well, we're sorry 180 00:16:42.920 --> 00:16:47.280 We shouldn't have done it as some people did after the Spanish-American war 181 00:16:47.280 --> 00:16:53.080 Not just pass a judgment before we become involved say we'll not get into this but in mid course 182 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:05.920 We must change the policy and change the program this I say a real test 183 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:09.000 intellectual and moral maturity 184 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:13.120 So we must be prepared to say it is a test of America 185 00:17:13.120 --> 00:17:19.900 And be prepared to commit ourselves to see who it is in that test. This nation proves itself right 186 00:17:19.900 --> 00:17:21.340 proves itself mature 187 00:17:21.340 --> 00:17:23.200 proves itself courageous to 188 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:26.840 Proves itself really capable of providing the leadership 189 00:17:27.360 --> 00:17:32.540 Which the world looks to us to provide in this century and in the century beyond 190 00:17:32.540 --> 00:17:38.980 and also a greater moral commitment in some cases we're asked today to be 191 00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:45.760 Unselfish to put aside prejudices that we may have carried for a long time or particular selfish considerations 192 00:17:45.760 --> 00:17:51.740 This is in almost every area of what I I really call the new civil rights of America 193 00:17:51.740 --> 00:17:55.980 Not just to create jobs but to see to it that there is job equality and 194 00:17:57.060 --> 00:17:58.640 job opportunity for all 195 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:03.860 This puts a burden upon some of us it's a kind of a challenge of the test as to whether or not 196 00:18:03.860 --> 00:18:08.540 We really believe what we've been saying about America for 150 to 200 years 197 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:14.320 Most people thought that McCarthy would do better in Wisconsin than he had in New Hampshire 198 00:18:14.320 --> 00:18:19.260 Wisconsin is well known as a place with a strange and baffling political climate and 199 00:18:20.380 --> 00:18:23.700 Also a place of sudden spring storms 200 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:30.420 This one blew into McCarthy headquarters in Milwaukee blew in from Washington 201 00:18:30.420 --> 00:18:36.100 I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States. I 202 00:18:36.100 --> 00:18:38.900 Do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man 203 00:18:40.140 --> 00:18:43.980 but to propose new policies I 204 00:18:43.980 --> 00:18:45.500 Run because I am convinced that 205 00:18:46.420 --> 00:18:48.720 This country is on a perilous course 206 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.980 and 207 00:18:49.980 --> 00:18:52.180 Because I have such strong feelings 208 00:18:52.840 --> 00:18:54.780 About what must be done? 209 00:18:55.760 --> 00:18:57.320 And I feel that I'm obliged 210 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:01.320 to do all that I can I 211 00:19:01.320 --> 00:19:03.380 Run to seek new policies 212 00:19:03.380 --> 00:19:08.200 policies to end the bloodshed in Vietnam and in our cities 213 00:19:09.380 --> 00:19:13.960 policies to close the gaps that now exist between black and white 214 00:19:15.060 --> 00:19:16.760 between rich and poor 215 00:19:17.280 --> 00:19:18.740 between young and old 216 00:19:18.740 --> 00:19:21.040 in this country and 217 00:19:21.580 --> 00:19:28.900 Around the rest of the world Kennedy immediately unleashed a socket to him slashing and many thought too vitriolic attack on the president 218 00:19:28.900 --> 00:19:33.440 he moved through the Western states to Los Angeles Denver and Omaha and 219 00:19:34.560 --> 00:19:37.600 His words reverberated off Wisconsin rooftops 220 00:19:37.600 --> 00:19:45.440 Anymore men how many more lotters how much more destruction will be asked to provide the military victory 221 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.320 That is always just around the corner 222 00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:51.360 the poor into the bottomless pit of our dreams 223 00:19:52.540 --> 00:19:53.800 but this question 224 00:19:53.800 --> 00:19:57.460 the administration does not and 225 00:19:57.460 --> 00:20:00.440 It cannot answer and the president seemed to answer 226 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:06.060 We don't plan to surrender and we don't plan to pull out either and we don't plan 227 00:20:06.620 --> 00:20:14.080 Let people in losses and pressure and force us to divide our nation in a time of national peril 228 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:16.780 And these may say one 229 00:20:16.780 --> 00:20:22.840 We are going to decide what this country will stand for and what kind of men we are 230 00:20:22.840 --> 00:20:30.280 So I ask for your help in the city and the homes of this state in the town that on its own 231 00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:33.520 Contributing your concern and your action 232 00:20:34.040 --> 00:20:38.160 warning of the danger of what we are doing and the promise and 233 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:43.100 The promise of what we can do in the future. I ask for your help 234 00:20:43.100 --> 00:20:45.960 But I point out to you the time has come 235 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:54.080 When we ought to unite when we ought to stand up and be counted when we ought to support our leaders our 236 00:20:54.080 --> 00:21:00.360 Government our men and our allies until aggression is stopped wherever it is occurring 237 00:21:01.380 --> 00:21:04.680 Was too late for Kennedy to enter the Wisconsin primary 238 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:10.960 so nobody knew what effect his entrance into the presidential race would have on the McCarthy chances and 239 00:21:12.820 --> 00:21:16.740 Particularly no one knew what effect it might have on McCarthy's young people 240 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:20.160 We came in here last night about 241 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:25.500 Midnight from Detroit after an eight-hour bus drive 242 00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:28.060 It was unorganized 243 00:21:28.060 --> 00:21:29.420 There wasn't any 244 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:36.240 discernible method and we came in and after watching and he taught for about 15 minutes everything 245 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.560 You know, there was a method 246 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:44.940 And just the way the kids playing sergeant pepper and some of the other albums and 247 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:50.140 Everybody's beating on the tables and time to the music and working like mad 248 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:52.420 And it was just really 249 00:21:52.420 --> 00:21:58.640 It's really great I was in charge of the high school kids from Detroit it worked all night 250 00:21:59.620 --> 00:22:01.560 And they put out they were putting out 251 00:22:01.560 --> 00:22:04.040 16,000 252 00:22:04.620 --> 00:22:09.500 Kits an hour they go to the canvases and the canvas is passing out to the 253 00:22:10.460 --> 00:22:11.460 houses they can 254 00:22:12.120 --> 00:22:14.400 They have several varieties 255 00:22:15.260 --> 00:22:18.900 They have a core kit. That's just basic then they have a tax kit 256 00:22:19.700 --> 00:22:24.780 The Republican independent voter kit I think it's really nice to see everyone working 257 00:22:26.260 --> 00:22:27.940 like this I 258 00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:33.880 Mean, it's a nice at least it's a positive thing to do. You know, that was one of the reasons I came 259 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:38.520 I mean a lot of times, you know, the whole anti-war movement was just so negative 260 00:22:38.520 --> 00:22:44.800 You know, I mean there was nothing you just hear this sense of futility and now it just seems more positive 261 00:22:44.800 --> 00:22:50.400 Like maybe you can affect something really you other than just match around no purpose 262 00:22:51.500 --> 00:22:53.440 That's that's what's good about it 263 00:22:55.620 --> 00:22:59.340 You think then that Kennedy would make a better president 264 00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:08.640 If Kennedy can't get elected and McCarty can't 265 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:17.940 But I think that the goal 266 00:23:20.760 --> 00:23:23.540 He's against the war I'm for McCarthy 267 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:29.880 But you know, I wouldn't go out and commit suicide if Kennedy were to come out ahead 268 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:34.820 This is a strange campaign. I think people are more issue oriented 269 00:23:36.020 --> 00:23:41.020 At least the people from McCarthy that I've met 270 00:23:41.020 --> 00:23:45.220 McCarthy I think is a better man. I think that the 271 00:23:45.220 --> 00:23:51.840 The issue was really the important thing and I really do think that McCarthy displayed more courage initially 272 00:23:53.120 --> 00:23:54.460 Displayed more integrity 273 00:23:55.380 --> 00:24:00.100 In the whole thing then Kennedy I think Kennedy lost a lot of his youthful 274 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:05.160 Support and if he does have the support won't be nearly as naive as it was before 275 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:08.660 I mean, he was just this charismatic figure. I think that 276 00:24:10.180 --> 00:24:13.400 McCarty is kind of has the Stevenson 277 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:21.900 Stevenson image and I wasn't really around when I was around but I wasn't really involved in politics when Stevenson was around 278 00:24:21.900 --> 00:24:26.780 But the feeling that I get is that McCarthy is very very much like Stevenson 279 00:24:29.500 --> 00:24:37.660 Meanwhile back in the Republican world Nixon rolled on he'd taken 79% of the Republican votes in New Hampshire 280 00:24:39.020 --> 00:24:44.380 And now Rockefeller decided that he wouldn't run at least for the time being 281 00:24:44.380 --> 00:24:50.000 So Nixon for now was the winner and ran to further build his margin of victory 282 00:24:52.340 --> 00:24:59.840 As Wisconsin primary day neared the powers of the presidency began to be felt though President Johnson himself 283 00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:03.740 Never came to Wisconsin. He sent members of his cabinet 284 00:25:04.300 --> 00:25:06.280 postmaster general O'Brien 285 00:25:06.280 --> 00:25:12.560 Secretary of Agriculture Freeman and even Betty Furnas and the greatest campaigner of them all 286 00:25:13.340 --> 00:25:17.560 Hubert Horatio Humphrey vice president of the United States 287 00:25:17.560 --> 00:25:24.760 There's no lack of consultation and there is no lack of free speech and there is no lack of ideas 288 00:25:24.760 --> 00:25:30.460 I can assure you that they flow in from a thousand newspapers and a thousand editorials 289 00:25:30.460 --> 00:25:34.560 and they come in and dozens and dozens and hundreds of letters and 290 00:25:34.780 --> 00:25:42.780 Panels do look carefully scrutinized. For example, your government has a working panel on the whole matter of intelligence 291 00:25:43.820 --> 00:25:47.940 Operations that panel was chaired for several years by the present 292 00:25:48.780 --> 00:25:51.240 Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford 293 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:54.620 Your government has had a military tactics 294 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:57.980 There isn't any problem of consultation 295 00:25:59.040 --> 00:26:03.560 The problem about Vietnam is not quite so much in Washington 296 00:26:04.260 --> 00:26:12.660 As it is in Vietnam itself and in Hanoi and may I say that we could well balance the scales of justice 297 00:26:12.660 --> 00:26:20.000 If Hanoi itself could hear from every college campus not in America alone, but throughout the world 298 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:27.840 That the desire of humanity is the end of war and we ask ho Chi Minh who is no Asian Santa Claus 299 00:26:27.840 --> 00:26:33.540 Or social worker swispers or not despite the administration counterattack 300 00:26:33.560 --> 00:26:36.360 McCarthy's irregulars were again about to win 301 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:44.880 Private pollsters began to predict a stunning McCarthy victory. There was talk of 65% 302 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:52.080 Then on Sunday night two nights before the primary politics again burned bright on the magic tube 303 00:26:54.280 --> 00:26:58.000 President Johnson surprisingly announced a change in American 304 00:26:58.600 --> 00:27:02.700 bombing policy in Vietnam and sued for peace 305 00:27:03.560 --> 00:27:09.040 But he dropped a bombshell into the American political arena. I 306 00:27:09.040 --> 00:27:10.460 Do not believe 307 00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:14.740 That I should devote an hour or day of my time 308 00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:24.600 to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than 309 00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:33.060 The awesome duties of this office the presidency of your country 310 00:27:33.560 --> 00:27:37.380 accordingly, I 311 00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:38.500 Shall not see 312 00:27:39.940 --> 00:27:42.220 And I will not accept 313 00:27:43.460 --> 00:27:47.720 The nomination of my party for another term as your president 314 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:53.200 But let men everywhere 315 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:57.020 Know however 316 00:27:57.720 --> 00:27:59.720 that he's strong and 317 00:28:00.760 --> 00:28:02.240 a confident and 318 00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:05.240 A vigilant America 319 00:28:06.520 --> 00:28:08.340 Stands ready tonight 320 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:13.420 to seek an honorable peace and 321 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:15.020 Stands ready tonight 322 00:28:15.020 --> 00:28:17.840 To defend an honored cause 323 00:28:18.540 --> 00:28:20.520 Whatever the price 324 00:28:20.520 --> 00:28:24.460 Whatever the burden whatever the sacrifice 325 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:28.220 That duty may require 326 00:28:29.220 --> 00:28:35.720 Thank you for listening good night and God bless all of you