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JFK strolled into Nixon's office and delivered a check for one thousand dollars from his father.

The fear of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was real.

Millions of Democrats are going to put their country above their party and vote for Generalizahow.

The New York Post ran a front page story claiming Nixon had a secret eighteen thousand dollars slush fund.

I want to tell you my side of the case.

Nixon was facing the test of his life.

Why are and write the Republican National Committee whether you think I should stay on or whether I should get off?

I directed Nixon to ask for Sherman Adam's resignation.

I congratulations to Senator Kennedy for once, gentlemen, I would appreciate if you would write what I'd say.

Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon?

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We're at part three of our series of episodes.

Entitled The Fighter.

You've probably heard part two, but if you haven't, stopped and go back and listen from the beginning.

We're looking for the answer to the question why are the media and Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon by telling the often ignored story of his life.

So to pick up where we left off.

In the nineteen sixty four election, the GOP's Barry Goldwater experienced a crushing defeat, garnering just thirty eight percent of the vote to lbj's sixty one percent.

The bloodbath reached Congress as well, where Republicans were reduced to half of the power of the Democrats.

The GOP was annihilated.

There was a serious question of whether the party would even survive.

As the Republican Party weakened, Communist forces went on the offense both abroad and within American borders.

Overseas, a conflict in Vietnam was spiraling out of control.

What started as a Vietnamese fight for independence over French rule was now morphing into a proxy war between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Over forty thousand North Vietnamese revolutionaries known as the Viet Kong were fighting in the south to create a united Communist Vietnam.

They were largely funded by China and the Soviet Union, and in nineteen sixty four, this Vietcong force started to get bolder.

My fellow Americans, as President van Commander in Chief, it is my beauty to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkins have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action and reply.

American involvement in the Vietnam War was sold as a deterrent to Communist aggression, but privately, the Johnson administration feared the viet Cong success was embarrassing the United States, which had thousands of American military advisers in the South.

LBJ wanted to regain control of the conflict, so after his big nineteen sixty four election victory, he drastically escalated America's involvement by sending ground troops into South Vietnam for the first time.

His actions increased American forces from roughly twenty three thousand to over one hundred and eighty four thousand.

Marxist revolutionaries were pulled the US into a war in Asia and communists weren't just wreaking havoc abroad.

They were starting a movement on American college campuses as well.

We're asking that there be no no restrictions on the content of speech, save those provided by the courts.

The movement initially disguised itself as a free speech protest, but in actuality, it was an effort to convert college campuses into bases for radical Marxist political activity.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part.

And you've got to put.

Your bodies upon the gears and upon.

The wheels, upon.

The leavers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented pro working at all.

Just as the Vietnam War escalated in nineteen sixty four, the American student protest movement was ignited.

These Marxist college radicals would link arms with the new feminist movement led by Betty for Dan.

The war between the sexes could become an armagden if we don't get on with our revolution.

But if we do get on with it and we restructure decided to make equality really possible, that I think the war between the sexes will and and for the first time we will have possible true human sexual liberation.

And these groups would eventually connect with a new black militant movement.

The chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael, came forward with a new explosive phrase.

Their free kurn and black people in this country can learn at freight.

Wanted white the primacy, New York colonial levem and.

Wanted black power.

The Black Power movement used violence in urban centers all across the country to push for radical change.

We're gonna fight, were Gon, we gonna fight, We're gonna kick, We're gonna fight up.

Then we're gonna bead that.

A woman if we're on it the be This was Cleveland, Ohio, but similar sounds were heard in Dayton, Atlanta, San Francisco, Oakland, Omaha, Muskegon, New York, Waukegan, Bethan Harbor, and Saint Louis.

This American Marxist revolution was slowly infecting the nation and like a feedback loop.

They were using the rising conflict in Vietnam to cloak their socialist revolution as an anti war movement.

Their strategy was working.

The US Marxist revolutionaries were attracting mainstream youth to their radical cause.

This was the tumultuous state of America as the nineteen sixty six mid term elections approached and the country was looking for a return to normalcy.

That's when Richard Milhouse Nixon re entered the national spotlight after his recent losses for the presidency and California governor.

The media literally wrote Nixon's political obituary, but regular Americans saw Eisenhower's VP as a potential steady hand that could calm the troubling times.

By nineteen sixty six, he'd re emerged as the titular leader of the Republican Party who understood the new position America held in the world.

The role of a leading nation, a powerful nation, which the United States has to play now is never going to be one on which we're going to be loved.

Our major aim and goal must be to be respected.

This was the role that the British had to play for many many years.

That's the role that other great nations have played.

Now the United States, whether we wanted or not, have to play that.

Strength was what the world demanded, and Nixon was about to highlight President Lyndon B.

Johnson's weakness in this area.

Vietnam was unknown to most Americans only a few years ago.

In nineteen sixty six, Vietnam was the year's biggest story.

At the beginning of nineteen sixty six, Nixon called for unity and urged DC leaders to refrain from criticizing President Johnson's Vietnam policies as peace talks continued abroad.

Those talks failed, and as the year progressed, LBJ continued to vastly increase American ground troops in Vietnam, doubling the forces without a formal declaration of war.

American troop strength in Vietnam advanced to over three hundred sixty thousand men, with more promised.

In nineteen sixty seven.

The American public wanted to know the president's upper limit on troop deployment and why he hadn't focused more on air and naval strikes.

They were reasonable inquiries, and Nixon decided to pose the questions to the president.

The move angered LBJ.

Yeah.

I did not want to get in a debate or owner a foreign policy meeting Manila with the chronic campaigner like mister Nixon.

He it's his problem, the fine.

Thought with his country and with his government during a period of October every two years.

He never did really recognize and realize what was going on when he had an offacial position in the government.

You remember what President Eisenhower said that they take if you'd ask to give him a week or so he figured out what.

He was doing.

Nixon responded, he.

Did not answer the questions.

I asked some questions, some questions that were very important to the lives of American fighting men in Vietnam, as to whether we were going to have an increase in the number of forces to five thousand, six hundred thousand, or seven hundred thousand, as some administration sources have indicated, or whether we were going to do what the Republicans have recommended, that is to increase our air and sea strikes against North Vietnam.

He declined to answer these questions.

And then he engaged in what I thought was a rather well a personal attack, which is not worthy of the president of the United States.

And it wasn't just Richard Nixon questioning lbj's ground troop strategy.

Arkansas Democrat J.

William Fulbright coined the phrase credibility gap, saying he couldn't get a straight answer from the administration about the war.

The most outspoken critic of the war was again Senator Wayne Morse, the Oregon Democrats raspy voice echoed through the empty Senate chamber.

I love my President, but I love my country more, and I want to say that if we follow the president's war making course of action, the American people will end up involved in a massive war against both China and Russia, and out of that will come no victors.

Members of lbj's own party were turning on him, including a new rising star, Robert F.

Kennedy.

I might disagree with some of the demonstrations that are taking place, in the fact I do, and I think that the fact how many young people, so many of the best lessons, who have taken an active interest in the daughter acting.

Then the President could not make the war popular in Congress, but he was given all he asked for and more in the way of military appropriations to fight it.

After nearly three years in power, LBJ was being attacked from both sides of the aisle, and with the nineteen sixty six midterms just days away, Nixon highlighted the unique failure of the president.

Here the Republicans give the Johnson administration the support that his own party denies him, and let the record show he's the first president in history who has been unable to unite his own party behind a war never happened before.

How do we get this war over with rather than letting it drag on for five years, which this president administration's policy would let it do.

The mounting violence, both at home and abroad, began to damage lbj's presidency.

Come midterm election night nineteen sixty six, the Democrats took a beating.

The GOP did gain forty seven hot seats, three in the Senate and eight governorships.

It was an inarguable win for the GOP, and much of the credit was given to the rational alternative presented by Richard Nixon.

In the wake of the election results, Nixon began to make his move.

He wasn't fond of television, but it had become an unavoidable platform in politics, so he increased his appearances and in the process, the media couldn't help but press him on the big question.

Mister Nixon, now that you've toured thirty five states, seventy districts, where are you going to start running for presidents yourself?

Mister Nixon, let's get right to business.

What has got to happen before your intentions next year will be made known?

Are you going to.

Run as a Republican presidential candidate for next year?

Well, Johnny, that question was not unexpected.

No, I imagine that, but I thought i'd say the answer for the Joey Bishop Show.

I've been reading a rating.

He needs it.

He was getting better in front of the camera, but it was one Fall nineteen sixty seven appearance that he believed changed the course of history.

While on the set of The Mike Douglas Show, Nixon complained out loud, reportedly stating.

Quote, it's a shame a man has to use gimmicks like this to get elected.

He was talking about having to appear on TV.

A young producer of The Mike Douglas Show overheard the remark and leaned into Nixon and said.

Television is'n a gimmick, and if you think so, you will lose.

Nixon admired the young man's guts, and he made the quip at just the right time.

Nixon was looking to avoid the mistake he made in his nineteen sixty TV debate with JFK.

He wanted to come off more appealing on the tube.

The young Mike Douglas producer seemed like he could help in that regard.

Hire the man, Nixon told Nate, and they did.

The name of the show producer was Roger Ayles, the same Roger Ayles who would launch Fox News decades later.

At the time in nineteen sixty seven, Ales was just twenty seven years old, but he would help repackage Nixon for the massive television audience.

One of Nixon's first big hurdles in the race for the White House was erasing the blemish of his two consecutive losses, a fact the media used to try and further tarnish Nixon.

You must be aware of an undercurrent with politicians, with people in our business, even comedians, who refer to Richard Nixon as a loser.

You have that stigma because of losing two big contests.

How do you plan to combat that?

You must be aware that that's been said, It's been written about in newspapers.

Sure, I think it's a legitimate question that should be raised by those who are trying to find the strongest possible candidate.

And the way you combat is to win something.

That's why I am among.

Those if I become a candidate who should enter the primaries and in the field of battle you demonstrate that you can win.

I think we also have to recognize that in our political life, and in the political lives of many of are colleagues and free nations around the world, many men who have lost have come back to win.

Right.

I'm not attempting to put my sam itself in the same category, but Churchill, Franklin, Roosevelt, Lincoln all lost elections before they won the big ones.

By February nineteen sixty eight, the GOP nomination was being contested by Michigan Governor George Romney, who'd denounced his candidacy months earlier.

With the first Republican primary in New Hampshire approaching, Nixon decided it was time to throw his hat into the ring.

I recognize that I must demonstrate, demonstrate to the American people, to the Republican Party leaders, to the Republican Party voters at large throughout this country, to independence, and to those Democrats who will vote Republican in nineteen sixty eight, that I can win and that I.

Can do the job.

I am prepared to meet that challenge.

That's why I have decided that I will test my ability to win and my ability to cope with the issue and the fires of the primaries, and not just in the smoke filled rooms of Miami.

The nineteen sixty eight Republican National Convention was to be held in Miami Beach, Florida.

At the time, presidential candidates often skipped much of the primary season and instead looked to win the nomination by wheeling and dealing with the establishment at the party's convention.

I suppose this will sound like a statement of some conceit, but as you enter a campaign, you must go in with confidence, and I have great confidence, not cockiness, but confidence.

I believe I'm going to win the New Hampshire primary.

I believe I will come out the decisive winner of the primaries, will be on to win the nomination, and if I do that, I will be the strongest candidate, and I believe I can.

Be then time and just to restate this question, why do you want to do this?

It's such a man killing thing, and you've already put in time, You've already served your country.

I feel that this is the period in the history of the United States in which what we do or fail to do, can determine the future of peace and freedom for the balance of this century.

We didn't ask for this, but it is a role that has been placed upon us because of the power that we have and the vacuum of power in Western Europe, which previously had this burden.

I believe the dangers of World War III abroad, the dangers of civil war are approaching civil war in a very difficult sense.

At home and other problems are greater than this country has ever had.

But on the other hand, I believe that never in our nation's history have we had more capability to handle these problems.

What we need is leadership, leadership that will take America's great harnessed power and unharness it and put it to work on the unfinished business at home and the unfinished business abroad.

By the accident of where I have been, I've been a congressman, a senator eight years at the highest level as vice president seven years to travel around the world many many times, and to think about these problems.

By reason of that experience, I have fought deeply and have reached some conclusions as to what we ought to do to keep the peace abroad and to restore peace at home.

And I think that in the presidency I would have an opportunity to put some of those conclusions into practice.

And that's the reason why I've decided to seek the office.

As Nixon began to campaign in New Hampshire, his message began to resonate with the people, and I think.

He's the man for us today.

How think he'll do it this time?

He is appealing more and more to the younger genervation and some you know, more people, which is most important time.

I think he's improved.

Harry sincere very warm and very nice.

It was a pleasure.

A Nixon tide was building.

Just as his primary competitor began to falter.

People started questioning whether Michigan Governor George Romney was even eligible to become president.

He was born in Mexico, the constitution required that he be a natural born citizen.

There was some ambiguity there, but before the question could even be put to the test, Romney made an announcement.

Now, I've just informed the Republican governors by letter of my decision to withdraw the candidate as President of the United States.

When the New Hampshire primary results were tallied, Nixon emerged as the man to.

Beat the Republican Former Vice President Richard Nixon, the only active campaigner, ran far in front, even farther than expected.

As Nixon was becoming the front runner, the Democrat primary was heading up in New Hampshire as well.

Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy was gaining some support amongst the anti war youth.

The big surprise the first primary of campaign sixty eight has been the strength of Senator Eugene McCartney.

Ambitious Democrats saw an opportunity to challenge President Johnson for the nomination.

LBJ was incredibly weak.

At the beginning of the nineteen sixty eight election cycle, the Vietnam War was escalating to a level that few could have imagined.

On January twenty second, North Korean sailors boarded on seas the USS Pueblo, an American intelligence ship, which was sailing in the Sea of Japan.

The eighty three crewmen were taken to North Korea as prisoners and were accused of sailing their ship in North Korean waters.

The fuerre in Congress was overwhelming.

The Democrat warhawks began to suggest that LBJ used the threat of nukes to recover the ship and its crew.

We should demand its return immediately.

Now.

If they failed to deliver this ship and its crew at the appointed out, I would be positive where the president that one of their sties would disappear from the face.

Of the earth.

And did it.

The Vietcong was executing a massive attack on American forces what came to be known as the Tet Offensive, and in early nineteen sixty eight reports of the carnage began to make their way back to the United States.

A young Negro man had wrapped in a bandage, your combat bandage, being helped.

Across the road.

Now, three others went out ahead of them, pulling, telling them, come on, come on, about one hundred feet from me, that one, two more, two more wounded, three or five coming out, just barely making it to the wall, the walls around the villa.

Oh no, no, Charlie's been shot.

Oh my god, my god, he's.

Charlie's been killed.

Oh my god, blood is.

Streaming out of his nose and mouth.

He's kind of right in the head.

O Jesus.

The escalation of the war effort was now severely damaging President Johnson's chain answers of recapturing the White House, and the Democrats knew it, so the rising star decided to enter the race.

Good morning, We are broadcasting this morning the announcement of Democratic Senator Robert F.

Kennedy of New York that he will be a candidate for the presidency.

I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course, and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all that I can.

LBJ saw the riding on the wall.

In his wounded state, there was no way he could defeat the brother of the assassinated man from whom he inherited the presidency.

Roughly two weeks after RFK entered the race, President Johnson made an announcement.

With America's future under challenge, right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace and the balance every day.

I do not believe that I should devote an hour or day of my time to any personal partisan causes, or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office, the presidency of your country.

Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

As Nixon gains steam through March nineteen sixty eight, a Stop Nixon movement materialized.

Both Ronald Reagan and Nelson Rockefeller decided to enter the race in hopes of gaining enough delegates to contest Richard Nixon at the Republican National Convention, but as the Wisconsin primary commenced in early April, it appeared their effort was doomed for failure.

CBS News estimates that Richard Nixon will end up with seventy nine percent of the Bote, Governor Reagan eleven percent, and the Rockefeller on that right end two p.

Seven, It seemed like the nominees for the two major parties were on their way to being set, But then a series of shocking events would mark nineteen sixty eight as one of the most violent years in modern American history.

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Doctor Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

Place have issued an all points bulletin for a wild wrested young white man seen running from the scene.

In a nationwide television address, President Johnson expressed the nation's shock.

America is shocked and saddened by the brutal slang tonight of doctor Martin Luther King.

I asked every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck doctor King, who lived by non violence.

Riots immediately broke out in urban centers all across the country.

Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York.

These are just a few of the cities in which the Negro anguish over doctor King's murder, presumably by a white man, expressed herself in violent destruction.

Cities and businesses burned.

Black Power militants clashed with police in California.

It appeared as if America was headed towards civil war, but there was one day of calm in the chaos.

On April ninth, nineteen sixty eight funeral services from Martin Luther King Junior were held in Atlanta.

Richard Nixon had a personal relationship with the King family, he decided to fly to the service.

He met privately with King's wife, Coretta, at her home and consoled her as she laid in her bed.

Nixon also traveled to the home of MLK Senior, a prominent reverend, and fathered to the kill civil rights leader.

According to witnesses, the two embraced.

Nixon would go on to the funeral as well.

Attendees applauded his arrival.

Nixon made a new friend at the service, Wilt Chamberlain, and the two famously left together.

The day was somber and quiet, but the violence would quickly ramp up again.

Within days of the funeral, Marxist radicals took over New York's Columbia University.

We have taking a bow away from it irresponsible.

I knew it could have made administration.

The militants even took a school administrator hostage.

They claimed it was an anti war protest, but the organizers of the takeover would later confess that it was a trial run for the violent takeover of the federal government.

As the violent chaos continued, another Democrat entered the race.

I shall seek the nomination of the Democratic Party.

Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced his candidacy, but the establishment man's entry took a back seat to the battle brewin between Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy and New York Senator Robert F.

Kennedy.

Senator Robert Kennedy has won the first primary test in his attempt to secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

As the California primary arrived on June fourth, nineteen sixty eight, it appeared RFK was building momentum against his primary rival.

The polls have just closed in California's presidential primary, and a special CBS News survey of voters leaving the polling places indicates that Senator Robert F.

Kennedy is leading solidly in the Democratic race with almost fifty percent of the vote.

He's ahead of Senator Eugene McCarthy by about six to ten percentage points.

And in the South Dakota primary, Senator Kennedy won easily over a slate running under President Johnson's name, and also over the slate supporting Senator Eugene McCarthy running third Walter.

This bedline that you hear now is the result of your announcing that Kennedy is running with just under fifty percent of the vote.

The Senator is on his way into the hotel.

He spent the day in Malibu, and obviously he's got better news tonight than he had a week ago.

We have a call here from the vote profile analysis at CBS for Senator Kennedy that Senator Kennedy will win in California when all of the votes have been counted.

Just past midnight, the rising star from New York took the stage at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

I thank all of you who made this possible this evening, all of the effort that you made, and all of the people whose names I haven't mentioned, but who did all of the work at the precinct level, who got out the vote, who did all of the effort, brought forth all of the effort that's required.

I was a campaign manager eight years ago.

I know what a difference that kind of an effort and that kind of commitment made.

So I thank all of you.

Those of you are the.

Mayor.

Yordy has just sent me a message that we've been here too long already, So my thanks to all of you, and now it's on to Chicago and let's win the.

The Robert Kennedy campaign was elated.

It appeared their man was becoming the front runner, but the unthinkable was about to strike.

Robert Kennedy exited the ballroom through a kitchen, shaking hands all along the way.

Two bus boys stopped to talk with him, and as they did, shots rang out.

A reporter who was following Kennedy as he exited, heard the shots and instinctively turned on his tape recorder.

O Conney has been shot.

Is that possible?

That is possible.

He has Senator Kennedy.

Oh my god, Senator Kennedy has been shot.

Had another man, a Kennedy campaign manager.

And possibly shot in the head.

I am right here.

Rayper Johnson has a hold of the man who apparently has fired the shot.

He still has the gun.

The gun has pointed at me at this moment.

I hope they can get the gun out of his hands.

Be very terribul Get the gun, get the gun, get the gun.

Look pay away from the gun.

The pay away from his hand is prosen Get his stop, get his stop, get his stuff, take hold of his thumb and break it.

If you have to get us stuff.

Get away from the barrel, Get away from the thorough man.

Get him, I said, rayper get it.

Get the gun.

Rayper topka.

Now hold on to the guy, hold on to him.

Hold on, ladies and gentlemen.

They have the gun.

Away from the man.

In this shot, they've got the gun.

I can't see I can't see the man.

I can't see who it is.

Let's Senator Kennedy right now, it's on the ground.

He has been shot.

I do not know if the Senator is dead or if he is alive.

Chaos broke out in the ballroom.

But a doctor right.

Here, A doctor here.

Doctor right here, mark for me to be here, ladies and gentlemen.

We've kept the air on because we've heard an alarming report that Robert Kennedy was shot in that ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

A very loud noise, like a clap of thunder was heard, a small explosion.

We waited to see what it was, and then came a report that Senator Robert Kennedy was shot.

Roughly twenty five hours after he was shot by a madman.

The tragic news was announced.

Senator Robert Tress Kennedy died at one four am today, June sixth, nineteen sixty eight.

He was forty two years old.

Like with MLK, the entire country paused to grieve the death of another Kennedy.

Many of rfk's political and personal friends attended the funeral service.

There were so many friends, so many grateful to be allowed to make this personal mark of respect.

Averil Harriman, Harry Bellefonte, Richard Nixon, President Johnson, So the famous entered this high place of worship to join the prayers for the soul of a man they once called Bobby, a man who for some had been a tough opponent, for others a crusader, but to all a friend.

The election campaign soon resumed, but with a new sense of urgency.

The year was less half over.

Yet America had seen what felt like decades worth of violence and bloodshed.

The country was desperate for a return to normalcy, and when the Republican National Convention concluded in early August nineteen sixty eight, the party's answer was Richard Milhouse Nixon, mister.

Chairman Delegates to this Convention, My fellow Americans, sixteen years ago, I stood before this convention to accept your nomination as the running mate of one of the greatest Americans of our time or of any time, Dwight Day Eisenhower.

Eight years ago, I had the highest honor of accepting your nomination for President of the United States.

Tonight, I again probably accept that nomination for President.

Of the United States.

But I have news for you.

This time there's a difference.

This time we're going to win.

He survived the Stop Nixon movement, led by Ronald Reagan and Nelson Rockefeller, and it quickly united the Party.

We make history tonight, not for ourselves but for the agents.

The choice we make in nineteen sixty eight will determine not only the future of America, but the future of peace and freedom in the world for the last third of the twentieth century.

And the question that we answer tonight, can America meet this great challenge?

For a few moments, let us look at America.

Let us listen to America to find the answer to that question.

As we look at America, we see cities enveloped in smoke and playing.

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?

Did American boys die in Normandy, in Korea and in Ballet forche for this?

Listen to the answer to those questions.

It is another voice.

It is a quiet voice in the tumult of the shouting.

It is the voice of the great majority of Americans, the forgotten Americans, the non shoders, the non demonstrators.

They're not racists or sick.

They're not guilty of the crime that plagues the land.

They are black, they're white, they're native born and foreign born.

They're young and they're old.

They work in America's factories.

They run America's businesses.

They serve in government.

They provide most of the soldiers who die to keep us free.

They give drive to the spirit of America.

They give lyft to the American dream, they give steel to the backbone of America.

They're good people.

They're decent people.

They work and they save, and they pay their taxes, and they care.

Like Theodore Roosevelt, they know that this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it's a good place for all of us.

To live in.

The convention was so laboratory, bit calm.

The Republican message was a return to normalcy, a return to greatness, a return to law and order at home and peace abroad, And just two weeks later the contrast against the Democrats would be stark.

Logic logic.

As a Democratic National Convention in Chicago kicked off in late August nineteen sixty eight, thousands of violent student agitators clashed with police and National Guard outside the convention.

One cop picked up a down a fair and brought them into the step of the subway, sent them.

Are they they're charging into it?

They're just playing on under the crowd.

I'm putting the crowd at the stampede.

There goes a big last there.

I can't see.

They got me into fake Oh ma, you hang on.

Don't rub it, man, It makes it worse.

You rub it in if I can't see you were I mean hanging on to me.

I can keep find The violent riots played out on TV screens all across America, and they would stain the entire convention the campaign that was fueled by the anti war youth.

Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy was dead on the DNC convention floor.

The Democrat establishment man Vice President Humphrey secured the nomination, and he attempted to wash away the stain left by the violence.

Mister Chairman, my fellow Americans, my fellow Democrats, I proudly accept the nomination of our party.

This moment is one of personal pride and gratification, yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city.

The two major party nominees were set, there was another candidate that would attempt to upend the entire race.

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So as the two major party nominees were selected, Democrat and former Alabama Governor George Wallace entered the race as a third party candidate, a segregationist, Wallace ran on a law and order platform.

I can tell you that if I were the president of the United States, you could walk on the streets in any section of Washington, d C.

At any time, and I would make that possible.

If I had to bring thirty thousand troops to Washington and put oneever thirty feet with a two foot bay in it on the end of a rival, we ain't gonna make it safe for all the citizens of Washington, DC.

Because it's a sad commentary that in the nation's capital you were fearful of walking out of this hotel.

Wallace hoped to win in a vote so that neither the Republican nor Democrat reached an electoral majority, forcing the House of Representatives to choose the president.

If Wallace could succeed in forcing a contingent election, as it's called, it would amplify the influence of southern segregationist This was a real threat to both the Nixon and Humphrey campaigns, so Nixon went to work.

He opted against debates.

He saw them as a trap.

They would have been a two on one affair because he'd have to debate Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace at the same time, both Democrats.

He didn't want to give the median an opening to smear him, as they did in the nineteen sixty debate against JFK, so instead he turned to his young consultant, Roger Ayles to come up with something.

Ales devised a new type of televised campaign event that fit Nixon's demeanor.

I'm able, I'm pleased.

To play a part and this unusual television event, Richard Nixon in a live telecast, answering questions put to him by a panel of Georgia's citizens.

They called it the Nixon Answer, and it was basically a novel town hall style event that has become so commonplace today.

And our panel is representative.

It includes a dairy operator, an editor, a farmer, a grocer, a lawyer, a minister, and a garment textile worker.

Some are Democrats, some Republicans, and some supporters of a third party.

And now it's my pleasure to introduce a man that I have known, respected and admired for many years, Richard Nixon.

Hi, how are you?

Thank you?

Said mister Nixon.

Because of the recent widespread demonstrations and disruptions on American campuses.

There seems to be quite a bit of public pressure now on campus administrators to get tough into the student rebels.

What is your view in general on the role of descent in society.

I'm for it.

I am for dissent because as I look back over the one hundred and ninety year history of this country, as I'm sure you have as a student an arbor, I find that descent is the great instrument of change.

It's the instrument of.

Progress, and that's what really distinguishes a free society from the ttalitarian societies.

We change those things by reason of the descent that are wrong, We aren't frozen into them.

On the other hand, when we look at descent, we have to recognize that it can also be an instrument of destruction if it does not follow a certain rule that we should all understand, provided we look at our American political system.

Now, I've talked in the number of university capsuses, and I've had some university and college students say when I point up that I think that there should be peaceful descent and not breaking the law, they said, well, don't you believe in the American Revolution and I said, I certainly do.

But I point out that those who participated in the American Revolution had no pea way to address their grievances.

They had to have a revolution in order to do it.

And then our founding fathers had the genius to set up a system of government which provides a method for peaceful change.

Only once in the history of our country, one hundred years ago, in the Civil War, did that not work, and then we had to resort to warfare in order to resolve the differences.

But when you have a system that provides a peaceful method in which the change what we don't like, I don't believe there's any cause that justifies breaking the law or engaging in violence, and I think we should get that across to all Americans.

Through these series of televised events.

Nixon answered questions on Vietnam.

If I am elected to this office, I'm going to use all of the diplomatic and economic, and military and other power that we have in an effective way to bring the war to an honorable conclusion as quickly as possible.

He tackled questions on law and order.

You know, it's very easy to say, well, if we just put enough police in the cities to control some of these things.

And if we pay them enough and we give them enough authority, we'll have law and order, not over the long haul, because if you have people that have no hope, they eventually will explode.

And Nixon made an appeal for Americans to return to patriotism and faith.

Let American youth know what the background of this country really is.

Recognize the great principles that.

Have brought us where we are.

Get away from this attitude that anything goes.

Make it fashionable again.

May I say, to be patriotic percent make it fact, make it fashionable again to go to church.

And come election night nineteen sixty eight, it was a winning message.

Our projection is that Nixon will win the twenty six electoral votes of Illinois, the votes he said lost in the election in nineteen sixty have won it for him in nineteen sixty eight, and that puts him over the top.

It takes two hundred and seventy electoral votes to win.

He will get two hundred and eighty seven.

With that.

As you probably have heard, have received a very gracious message from the Vice President me for winning the election.

I saw many signs.

In this campaign some of them were not friendly, some were very friendly.

But the one that touched me the most was one that I saw in desh Ohio at the end of a long.

Day of whistle stopping.

A little town I suppose five times the population was there in the dusk, was almost impossible to see, but a teenager held up the sign bring us together, and that will be the great objective of this administration at the outset to bring the American people together.

The kid from your Belinda had won.

He'd survived innumerable hardships, the heart shattering loss of his two brothers, poverty, and missed opportunities at an ivy League school.

He overcame this heart ship through hard work and went on to become the leader of practically every organization he'd ever joined.

He ran for Congress, taking on the communist friendly politicians that had infiltrated the government.

He took down alger Hisss, proving Soviet operatives were at the highest level of the Democrat administrations.

Do you feel it's ironical that the man that is now President of the United States, Richard Nixon, was the man who was large and responsible for carrying through your child in the first place.

Maybe ironic a good choice of words.

Along the way, he gained an enemy in the media, but would still go on to become senator.

He survived a medias mere campaign to become vice president.

He and his wife pat were nearly killed by a communist mob in South America.

He learned about sticking by your people when he was directed to handle Eisenhower's and battle chief of staff.

When he lost two consecutive races on the big stage, the media wrote his political obituary, but as the nation and his party spiraled into chaos, Dixon re emerged as this steady hand that could guide America back to normalcy.

He'd reached the mountaintop with the enemies he gained during the alger his trial were about to take aim at his presidency, and they'd relentlessly search for chinks in his armor to take him down.

Coming up on Red Pilled America also of interest in the world are very significant.

This Goddamn New York Times expos of the most highly classified documents.

Of the war.

All that I see.

I didn't read the story, but you mean that that was.

Leaked out of the Pentagon.

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