order. >> did we come all this way or the this? >> george wallace's audience growing both in size and in emotional outbursts. >> political pigs, your days are numbered. >> there is real advantage in being an underdog. >> troops arriving in chicago in substantial numbers. >> all over the place there's a really big fray going on in here. >> this is the mood of this convention on the floor. >> thousands of young people are being beaten in the streets of chicago. >> the whole world is watching! the whole world is watching! ♪ the time has come today ♪ young hearts can go that way >> students push forward and the police push back. ♪ can't put it off another day

>> that's what the cops did. ♪ i don't care what others say >> doctor martin luther king jr. assassinated in memphis, tennessee. ♪ time has come today >> senator robert francis kennedy was 42 years old. >> the enemy is no longer closer to victory. ♪ the rules have changed today >> demonstrate against the war in vietnam. ♪ have no place to stay >> a number of men killed last week in vietnam was the highest this summer. >> they are running an all-white political party in 1968. ♪ my tears have come and gone >> we all need george c. wallace for our president of the united states. >> vote republican in november. >> the peace groups are demanding permission to march on convention hall. >> these cops here are tough. they'd kill you with a smile. >> as long as i'm mayor of this town, there will be law and order in chicago.

>> this is the moment of truth for the democratic party. ♪ time tuesday night, i spent my evening at senator kennedy's campaign headquarters to celebrate his victory in california. tuesday night, i was in ecstasy with joy. wednesday morning, sorrow. and this morning, utter despair because now i'm lost. i'm desperate. and i don't know where we're going from here. >> by the early summer of 1968, there was this ache in the american spirit. what the hell is happening to us? is the country coming apart at the seams? >> no words can really fully convey the feeling that i have toward the kennedy family in this time of their particular

tragedy or the feeling that one must have for the nation in the face of this tragedy, this new tragedy. >> i really think mccarthy felt a sense of guilt in some weird psychological way for this outcome, because he's been a very nasty campaigner. >> this is one trauma too many and mccarthy sort of gave up after bobby died. instead of pressing on, he drifted away. >> one guy that offers an opportunity to at least try to find a way to end the war and that's gene mccarthy. that's why i'm here. >> mccarthy didn't want to leap in with a bitter campaign, so soon after senator kennedy died, but felt deserted, just when we need him most. gone. >> senator george mcgovern of south dakota is said to be announcing tomorrow he is a candidate for the democratic nomination. >> george mcgovern ultimately

feels that he has to come in and declare for the presidency to give the bobby kennedy people a place to go. >> representatives of senator mccarthy and of my office have been meeting together to work out language on which our supporters could join forces in terms of a plan on the end of the war in vietnam. >> you expected to be here with robert kennedy. >> yes, i think that all the time. someone who i know is sorry they had not participated in the campaign of robert kennedy and they were going do it later on in the summer. and that person said to me that one thing i've learned in life since the assassination of robert kennedy is never wait for summer. that's kind of the way i feel about american politics today. i think if you really feel about something, you don't put it off, you have to do something about it now. >> bobby kennedy's death changed the nature of the campaign. with him gone, whoever was going to be the nominee of the democratic party had to come to grips with what kennedy

represented. >> i'd like to present to you vice president of the united states, hubert h. humphrey, for a few words. >> thank you. >> hubert humphrey could have come out against the war, but he didn't want to do that, because he didn't want to jeopardize his own nomination, because lynn zwrunson had all the levers of the democratic party. >> i am the vice president of the united states. the vice president of the united states does not make the policy. >> he is a puppet, so you can't tell what he will think or do in office because he's not used to thinking for himself. the final say in the delegate selection was in the hands of the party bosses and lyndon johnson. >> someone questioned johnson about humphrey's loyalty. he said, don't worry about hubert, i've got his pecker in my pocket.

>> earlier this year, top u.s. leaders vowed that the marine outpost at khe sanh would be defended at all costs, but today, the u.s. command in vietnam announced that the marines are pulling out of khe sanh. >> that's the last bunker on this base. now that the american troops have blown it up, there's nothing to protect them from enemy artillery. so now it's time for the final departure from khe sanh. >> why did we fight so hard to keep it if we were going to give it up like this, was the question some asked themselves. others were relieved, because they privately believed khe sahn was of marginal importance, anyway. >> what was the goal? there was no clear goal, if the end result is abandonment. >> a few must remember their comrades, who were among the 2,500 khe sahn casualties.

>> i think khe sahn stands as a symbol of the whole war effort. we got in for a supposedly strategic reason. it became a point of pride for president johnson and others from the administration. the small number of marines at that outpost were subjected to just brutal bombardment for five months, and when it turned out the enemy wouldn't fight the way we wanted them to fight, we ended up packing up and leaving. >> now as perhaps befits the strangest of wars, one of the most celebrated battlefields of vietnam has been reduced once vietnam has been reduced once again to a simple meadow. vietnam has been reduced once again to a simple meadow. i'm working from home and here to help. hey lily, i'm hearing a lot about 5g. should i be getting excited? depends. are you gonna want faster speeds? i will. more reliability? oh, also yes. better response times? definitely. are you gonna be making sourdough bread? oh, is that 5g related? no, just like why is everyone making sourdough now... but yes, you're gonna want 5g.

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♪ by the time we got to the republican convention in 1968, richard nixon had done very well in the primaries leading up to that, but he did not go into the convention hall in miami beach having been assured of the nomination. he was sure. >> nelson rockefeller decides at the last minute to try to make a serious push to gain the nomination, even though he had vacillated for months. >> i felt the problems facing this nation at home and abroad were so serious that i had no right not to make available what experience i had for the use of the party and the country. >> rockefeller is probably the most liberal republican of the era. they were moderate republicans who were just a few steps from

liberals. >> mr. rockefeller would get 41%. all the black democrats and republicans and independents, that is, to cross over and vote for him. >> mr. nixon's whole record on civil rights has not been good. >> i want you to know that this marks the end of one journey and we think the beginning of another one. >> one of the key things that nixon did was to build a network of support among political leaders that would be respected by southerners. strom thurmond, for example, of south carolina. >> all that we could ask for is somebody who would be just and fair and treat the south like other sections of the country. >> strom thurmond had been a democrat but he had left the democratic party because of the civil rights act. >> the race is between mr. nixon and mr. rockefeller. and i would prefer mr. nixon. i think he would be better for the whole country. >> convention will come to order.

>> 1968 is the last presidential year in which it was possible to run for president without entering any primaries. ronald reagan showed up in miami beach, gave a press conference and said, i'm running for president. >> yes. as of this moment, response to that resolution by the california delegation. >> reagan is in many ways everything nixon is not. he's smooth. he's handsome. people like him. and people are confused, they're like, we believe that he's a true conservative and we've never really trusted nixon. okay, so now what are we going to do? >> the name of the game right now is stop nixon. now, if a lot of those southern delegates move away from nixon to ronald reagan, then they feel that nixon can be stopped on that first ballot. >> the real fear was that rockefeller and reagan could hold off enough votes so they could prevent us having a

victory on the first ballot and then it would break wide open. now, i didn't fear rockefeller. i never did. but reagan was something else. >> any circumstances under which you would accept the vice presidency? >> there is no circumstance whatsoever that could alter my decision about that. >> the pressuring of delegates to come out for nixon, or not to do so, proceeds with a kind of glad-handed desperation. >> the key to hanging on as nixon saw it was to hang on so southern delegates. >> why could it go either way? >> well, reagan has a lot of strength in our delegation. >> many of them really wanted to go with reagan and that's where strom thurmond turns out to be so important. >> senator thurmond, i'm told there was some slipping toward reagan last night in the south and specifically in your own south carolina delegation and that you personally stopped it. is that correct? >> there's no slippage in the south carolina delegation. we all are standing for nixon. >> nixon persuading strom thurmond, he's the best candidate who can win, that we went with our hearts in '64 with

goldwater, he took us down to a horrible defeat, so let's go with a moderate now and once we get in, i can slow down the federal government's efforts at desegregating schools in the south, but the number one reason was it looked like nixon could win. >> a candidate needs 667 delegates to win the nomination, but with nixon's estimated total at above 600 now, that air of victory is obvious. >> governor, may we ask you what you might have done differently thinking back now? >> nothing. there isn't anything i could have done differently. >> it was a weary governor rockefeller who hotel hopped from one delegation caucus to another. wife, happy, appeared anything but happy as her husband began to show the strain and perhaps the futility of it. >> with the demise of nelson rockefeller and the sort of exclusion of the moderate liberal side of the republican party, you began to see the reshaping of the republican party. >> we are having, here in miami beach, the convention of the

nice white people. all together, there are 26 nonwhite delegates and 57 nonwhite alternates out of 2,666. there are none of these magnificent wounded black faces to remind us of what's going on in this country. there are only sunburns and smiles and balloons. >> this is a white delegation here and they don't know exactly what we want. so, we thought we'd get it together and take it to them. >> violence broke out the night in a predominantly negro section of miami. two buildings reportedly were set afire. some looting was reported. more than 200 police were sent to the area and some tear gas was used at one point. to disperse a rock and bottle throwing crowd. >> nobody can really say why it's happened. just pent-up anger, the frustration and the idea of being trapped in society.

just a way of saying, i will accept the abuse to longer. >> 55-year-old richard milhous nixon has it confirmed now he will get a second run at the presidency of the united states. >> nixon knew that he was making one of the great comebacks in american political history. and he was able to tap into his own sense of renewal. >> as we look at america, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. we hear sirens in the night. we see americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. we see americans hating each other, fighting each other, killing each other at home. and as we see and hear these things, millions of americans cry out in anguish, did we come all this way for this? >> nixon's speech was designed to say, you know, i hear you. unless we stop shouting at one

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parts. those who decide that they can change the world by supporting a viable anti-war candidate, and those who think that the entire system has to be torn down. >> political pigs, your days are numbered. we are the second american revolution. we are winning. yippie. >> yippies were crazy people who did street theater. >> we're not going to take part in old men's election. young people know who's going to win. the winner is going to be pigasus the pig because every party is running a pig. >> sir, why did you decide to become a candidate? >> the plan was to have a mass moratorium type anti-war demonstration in chicago and the same time, a mass counterculture festival. >> we must stay in the streets and stay in active resistance or else there will be no peace. >> i was with rennie davis and dave dellinger and we were trying to coordinate the mobilization, which was this coalition of fractious groups who agreed on something like

total withdrawal from vietnam now and alan ginsberg wanted everybody to chant, "om," to bring the war to an end and a police to their senses. >> it was a motley medley of all kinds of people. >> when we first went to see mayor daley and we saw his deputy mayor to try to get a permit, he took me aside and said, come on, what do you guys really want to do? and i said, well, did you see "wild in the streets?" which was a movie where young people put lsd into the water supply and tipped over the government. and so, this is what the police expected. >> our administration will never permit a lawless, violent group of terrorists to destroy the purpose of this national convention and take over the

streets of chicago. >> before he became mayor, chicago had kind of become a rundown, drab city. >> the city is plagued with strikes from cab drivers to telephone installers, but mayor daley says the city's never been in better shape. >> mayor daley wanted to show off how he turned it into a modern showplace. >> chicago loves size, scale. one hotel brags it has more flush toilets under one roof than any other building in the world. >> daley's administration was absolutely committed that in his city, this was not going to be a place where protesters were going to have a platform. this was going to be a place where they were going to be put in their place. >> no one will be able to take over the convention hall or the streets of chicago. >> mayor daley exercised such control over the city, you couldn't even get near the convention center where the convention was being held. so basically, all you could do was protest by the major hotels in the loop area where the

delegates were staying. >> peace groups are demanding permission to march on convention hall the night the democrats nominate their candidate for president. the city says, no, that would endanger security. there's a possibility of mass arrests, unless the city allows the demonstrators to camp out in public parks. there is nowhere else for them to stay. >> i think it's in their best interest to let us sleep in the park instead of roam the streets at night. >> boy scouts could sleep overnight in the parks, but not hippies. there's no other place to sleep. so, we knee, if you're going to drive people out of the parks, they're going to be in the streets. it's going to be pandemonium. is that what you want? >> how do you feel about the anti-war demonstrators? >> i don't like them. i don't like them one bit. there's no reason for them. they accomplish nothing. >> the police, largely working class people, who'd come up the hard way, see these privileged white students and have to wonder, what do they have to be angry about? and many of those police officers themselves identified with the soldiers coming back

from the war in vietnam. >> we're coming not because our fight is with policemen or national guard troops, our fight is with the policies of this administration. >> on this eve of the beginning of the 35th democratic national convention, chicago is nearly security-tight. >> the police, several thousand of them, are now deployed. u.s. army troops began arriving in chicago in substantial numbers this morning. at least 50 planeloads. but they will be available to reinforce some 5,500 illinois national guardsmen, 2,000 fbi, secret service and other federal agents and the 11,000-man chicago police force. >> we're concerned about the buildup of force. anything that's built up like this is liable to be used. >> now, you're a girl are you afraid of any violence that may occur? >> there will be violence, yes, no doubt about that. i'm not afraid of it. >> about 500 students, hippies, yippies, radicals, activists, mccarthy kids, and other demonstrators marched four miles

to the hotels housing the democratic convention delegates. they stayed on the sidewalks. they stopped for traffic signals and they did not try to cross police lines. >> you're here to work for a living, you wouldn't be out here. >> as the protesters marched back toward lincoln park, they clashed with police. >> we were told that we would have to leave the park at 11:00 at night. at 5:00, the police started beating people up. >> we want the park! we want the park! >> hey. hey, hey, hey. >> they disperse into the streets. >> i'm giving you one more warning. >> one more. >> clear this street. >> and this is the first melee of many. >> whole bunch of them picked me up and dragged me, beat me, put

mace in my face. >> how did you get that blood? >> i came over to get a picture, squirted me with mace. >> he clubbed you? >> and he clubbed me. >> a democratic convention is about to begin in a police state. there just doesn't seem to be any other way to say it. ♪ (vo) love. it's what we've always said makes subaru, subaru. and right now, love is more important than ever. in response to covid-19, subaru and our retailers are donating fifty million meals to feeding america, to help feed those who now need our help. its all part of our commitment to our communities through subaru loves to help. love, it's what makes subaru, subaru.

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>> hey. >> now they're raising the illinois delegation. >> thank you very much. >> fine. a brief effort to start a parade. >> lyndon johnson was weary of holding a convention in chicago, but he gave it to chicago and daley, because daley assured him, it will be a controlled environment. we will keep it under control. >> one, two, three, four, stop this damn war! one, two, three, four, stop this damn war! >> the democratic party was closed to change on vietnam unless it faced such massive pressure that might make it turn. >> mr. vice president, this is the opening night of the democratic convention. are you going to be nominated? >> that's my hope, my plan. that's what we're trying to do. >> the security around this international amphitheater has been worthy of an armed camp. >> someone called the amphitheater ft. daley and i think at this point, that is not

very far from the truth. >> i was distributing farm worker literature and mayor daley's henchpeople shoved me aside and broke my glasses. i mean, i wasn't hurt, but that's the floor of the convention. >> take your hands off of me. unless you intend to arrest me. >> a small group of reporters, at least on the periphery of it, and these guys started strong-arming me. >> don't push me. take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. >> kind of hit me, short punching, knocked me down. >> i think we got a bunch of thugs here, dan. >> this was supposed to be a democratic convention. >> the latest abc delicate count show humphrey, 1,473. senator mccarthy, 706 votes. senator mcgovern, 123 votes. >> senator eugene mccarthy has conceded defeat in his bid for the democratic presidential nomination.

>> hubert humphrey has this lined up. i think senator eugene mccarthy really would have conceded defeat in his heart of hearts a month or two ago. >> the nomination was really not in question anymore. >> mr. mcgovern. >> it was not going to be mccarthy and it was not going to be mcgovern. it was going to be hubert humphrey. that was a done deal before the convention opened. so, the focus became on a peace plank in the democratic party platform which was felt very strongly by those who had been in the kennedy campaign or were in the mccarthy or mcgovern campaign. it was a hope that we would get something, at least. >> this is the moment of truth for the democratic party. it was the issue of vietnam and deeply-held feelings that the killing had to stop that motivated robert kennedy to become a candidate for president.

a bullet stilled that voice, but he is here tea, and if he were alive today, he would be on that platform, speaking for this minority plank. thank you. >> this is still a volatile convention, as you see here, with this demonstration on the floor. minority plank, is one that would stop the bombing now, without any preconditions. >> there's a minority among us represented over in grant park, and let me say the police department, mayor daley, must all be related to job, they've shown that much faith. they want pot instead of patriotism. and they would substitute riots for reason. >> as the forces of the counterculture are girding their loins, the battle of the police

out in the streets, the civil war within the convention hall is almost as intense. do we accept this war or do we reject this war? there could be no greater division. >> a yes vote here is to stop the bombing now unconditionally. >> alabama votes 30 1/2, no. >> it was a very moderate resolution. it wasn't immediate unconditional universal withdrawal. it was, let's find a way to k n crank this down and bring our troops down. >> california casts 166 votes aye. >> the position of the other side was, we don't want to tie the hands of the commander in chief. >> no. >> we don't know enough to make that judgment. >> 15 no. >> the military will lead us in the right direction and so let's leave it alone. >> illinois, 105 votes, no.

13, yes. >> the platform that was pro-war passed on a 1,500-1,000 vote of the delegates. ♪ we shall overcome >> nebraska, alaska and vermont have joined new york in this extraordinary demonstration of anti-war sentiment on the convention floor. >> sit down. sit down. all right. the marshals are going to the point. >> when platform lost, somebody climbed the flagpole, pulled down the american flag, turned it upsidedown, which is in the military, a symbol of distress. and the police just knocked down all the barricades, ran over all the marshals who were trying to keep peace. beating people. everybody being gassed.

and inside the convention was a replica of outside. >> a lot of pushing. the man being pushed, watch it, they're going to knock that over. the man is a delegate. there's a priest in here. dozens of reporters. the man who got involved in it all is very calmly smoking a cigarette. this is the perfect indication of the mood of this convention on the floor. >> the greatest irony of the democratic convention in chicago, richard daley has an amazing secret, richard daley is a fierce opponent of the vietnam war, because the son of one of his closest friends has been killed in the vietnam war, and from that moment on, he waits the war, but nobody knows this in 1968 vm. hey it's me, lily from at&t. i'm back working from home and here to help. hey lily, i'm hearing a lot about 5g. should i be getting excited? depends. are you gonna want faster speeds? i will. more reliability? oh, also yes. better response times? definitely.

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i came here to talk to you about hubert horatio humphrey. >> on the night of the nomination -- >> peace! >> -- we on the outside gathered in the park across from the conrad hilton, and the bridges were all closed off by jeeps

mounted with barbed wire, machine guns placed on the streets pointed at these demonstrators. and the breakdown of law and order was being perpetuated by the forces of law and order. >> downtown chicago at balbo and michigan avenues, there has been in progress for some time a peace demonstration. the police have come to put it down. the national guard has been called to help. >> police and demonstrators tussling all over this busy intersection on this, the night of the presidential nomination of this democratic convention. >> it was a police riot and i had never seen that before in my life. i had never seen groups of policemen with lead-knuckle gloves and clubs going after civilians. there were pools of blood on michigan avenue. >> bit confusing down here on the floor.

shirley maclaine, roosevelt, in front of a tiny television monitor. what was your reaction to what happened downtown? >> devastating. so unreal what's happening here compared to what's happening down there. >> a girl being carried off to a paddy wagon. something less than a nonviolent manner. it was supposed to be a nonviolent demonstration today. one will never know what it was that made it become violent. >> mr. chairman, most delegates to this convention do not know that thousands of young people are being beaten in the streets of chicago. >> it didn't really explode inside the convention hall until the delegates saw pictures of the police beating people. >> and for that reason, i request the suspension of the rule to relocate the convention in another city. >> wisconsin is not recognized for that purpose. >> it just blew to pieces inside the convention hall, and it was a rampage.

>> security guards are pushing people back here. >> you get that -- >> police all over the place and delegates. there's a really big fray going on in here. >> when george mcgovern is president of the united states, we wouldn't have to have gestapo tactics in the street of chicago. >> how hard it is -- how hard it is to accept the truth. >> the persistent chanting by the crowd, "the whole world is watching." a shot of gas. >> 14 votes for hubert humphrey. >> no, i was wrong. >> pennsylvania, 130 votes. >> oh, here we go. >> vice president humphrey was in his room at the hilton when the tear gas began floating over that way, blown by the wind. he got a good whiff of it and

began coughing and sneezing. he's all right. >> i think what was happening outside overwhelmed what happened inside. >> this is going to do it. >> and 103 is declared -- >> and vice president hubert humphrey is the nominee of the democratic party for the presidency of the united states. >> right here. right here. right here. >> they can't nominate a man for president of the united states and expect people to take his candidacy seriously when the country wants law and order and the way they're conducting law and order is to destroy respect for human dignity and democratic procedure. how can the democratic party do this? >> it was humphrey trying to express his own great moment. all of his political career, this was what he wanted and it was being utterly destroyed by what was happening on the streets. this was hubert humphrey's humiliation.

>> i stood and watched hubert humphrey tonight stand where he has wanted to for so long, at the very top of the democratic party heap. my first thought was, some heap. the divisions in this party run very deep, indeed, and hubert humphrey, who wants to be a healer for the party and for the country, has very little time to heal the divisions in this party in terms of the november election. it's my judgment that hubert humphrey starts out an underdog. >> nixon could be gleeful about trumping his enemies and it gave him great joy to go to chicago to begin his campaign in the very place where the democratic party had been humiliated by a riot. ♪ stand up and let's strike the band up ♪ >> here comes richard nixon, the uniter, coming through the city of chicago like a roman emperor and being cheered by tens of thousands and harassed by no one. so it looks like this would be the fellow that can unite the

country. ♪ >> humphrey's in an impossible situation. he's associated with the chaos of the anti-war movement, because of what happened at the convention. he has this albatross of a war tied around his neck. and everywhere he goes, chaos follows. >> republican party with an age-old coalition of the conservative republican and the nixon -- the nixons and the strom thurmonds who remain silent. >> humphrey came out of that convention not only with no convention bounce, but actually going backwards. >> the problems of hubert humphrey are many. his campaign does not have enough money and has no chance of getting enough money because potential backers feel he has little chance of winning.

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beauties on parade in convention hall, atlantic city, ms. america. the winner, debra dean barnes, a future piano teacher, lessons, anyone? >> use your brain! not your body. >> the 1960s was about women demanding justice in the society

and nowhere was this more public and powerful than the 1968 ms. america contest. >> no more pain. >> we had a freedom trash can. and we threw in bras and diapers and high heeled shoes and girdles and steno pads and symbols of women's oppression. >> it struck a chord with so many women around the country, that in some ways it was the first national emergence of a women's movement, per se. >> i think in '68, everything felt a lot more on the edge. george wallace was running for president. it felt like the country could turn into a sea of turmoil. >> you are some of the people that people are sick and tired of all over the united states. they believe in four-letter words, but i know two

four-little words you don't know, w-o-r-k. >> he was drawing support away from hubert humphrey, specifically urban, northern, white workers, often union workers, often individuals who traditionally had been strong supporters of the democratic party. >> what to you think is the biggest attraction that wallace has? >> common sense and easy-to-understand language. >> you don't think he's going to win, but you do have the sense that he's going to get a lot of votes, and what does that say about america? >> george wallace's audiences have been growing in size and emotional offers. here, this crowd showed the effect he's having as he campaigns around the country with growing confidence. >> if the presidential election were held today, a cbs news survey shows that richard nixon would win hands down, and vice president humphrey would finish

third in the electoral vote. >> the republican candidate owes it to the people to come out of the shadows. knock it off, will you, please? >> by september '68, humphrey is having the worst moment, he's being heckled at every event he goes to. he has to beg democratic politicians to appear with him and endorse him. it's an a dispiriting campaign. >> he has not yet in any particular instance indicated any disagreement with the past policies of the last four years. >> humphrey understands he has to do something dramatic, he has to do something bold, and he knows what that is. >> as president, i would stop the bombing of the north, as an acceptable risk for peace,

because i believe it could lead to success in the negotiations, and there by shorten the war. >> a member of the hanoi delegation at the paris peace talks said today mr. humphrey's speech contained absolutely nothing new. whatever the north vietnamese say, the speech last night was his most serious effort of the campaign to establish his own position on vietnam. >> richard nixon played a very subtle political game on the vietnam war. he talked about peace with honor but never articulated that plan. >> when and if we win this election i hope the war will be over. if it is not over, i think it is time for a new team to go in. >> now hubert humphrey was articulating something that many americans felt but weren't hearing from richard nixon. >> does this change your opinion of him as a presidential candidate? >> it might. >> why is that.

>> well because everyone wants the bombing stopped. >> it really alarmed me, because he united that party, which had been ripped apart all year, and you could hear the footsteps behind you where i was. >> the antiwar activists, they stopped heckling him. >> in charlotte, north carolina, a crowd of 10,000 people cheered the vice president wildly, and he loved it. it was about the same wherever he went, tennessee, west virginia, florida. and the vice president seemed to gain new confidence. >> i need you. quite frankly, i think you may need me. >> nixon spends his whole life running scared. and all of a sudden, the race that was well in hand is getting close. and he begins to sweat. >> this means absolutely, and this is sort of the kids stuff that somebody goes through when

he's behind. >> nix on nixon! that's what if's gt's got to be. >> this is the time to take off fwlofs and sock it to'em. >> i'm going to sting him like a bee, day in and day out. >> sooner or later, your opponent will have to start looking over his shoulder, and that's time in when you pass him on the outside and get the medals and gain the prize and the victory. >> a final push to the moon. >> north vietnam said there will be no break through in the peace talks until the bombing has stopped. >> a long time, jack. i can tell you. >> the people can handle the problems of america. >> he must be getting saddle sore, straddling all those issues. >> i don't mind speaking here, but when you start throwing rocks that size, who threw it? >> it's been one of the roughest years in american history.

and in the next few year, we'll see how it all turned out. as we look at america, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. we see americans dying on distant battlefields abroad. we see americans hating each other. fighting each other. killing each other at home. ♪ please allow me to introduce myself ♪ >> mr. nixon, i'm going to sting you and sting you like a hornet, day in and day out. >> we've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now, because i've been to the mountaintop. ♪ >> there are prospects for peace in vietnam, but no one knows when peace will