September 17, 2025 • 49 mins
Why are the media & Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon? In Part Three, we further explore the rise of Richard Nixon and how he pulled the GOP from the brink of extinction.
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Previously on Red America.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
JFK strolled into Nixon's office and delivered a check for
one thousand dollars from his father.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The fear of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union
was real.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Millions of Democrats are going to put their country above
their party and vote for Generalizahow.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
The New York Post ran a front page story claiming
Nixon had a secret eighteen thousand dollars slush fund.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I want to tell you my side of the case.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Nixon was facing the test of his life.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Why are and write the Republican National Committee whether you
think I should stay on or whether I should get off?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I directed Nixon to ask for Sherman Adam's resignation.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I congratulations to Senator Kennedy for once, gentlemen, I would
appreciate if you would write what I'd say.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
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Welcome to Red Pilled America.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
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.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
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
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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
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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.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
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
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take action and reply.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
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
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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.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
We're asking that there be no no restrictions on the
content of speech, save those provided by the courts.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
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.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
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.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
And you've got to put.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Your bodies upon the gears and upon.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
The wheels, upon.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
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.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
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.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
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.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And these groups would eventually connect with a new black
militant movement.
Speaker 10 (06:37):
The chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael,
came forward with a new explosive phrase.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Their free kurn and black people in this country can
learn at freight. Wanted white the primacy, New York colonial
levem and.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Wanted black power.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The Black Power movement used violence in urban centers all
across the country to push for radical change.
Speaker 12 (07:11):
We're gonna fight, were Gon, we gonna fight, We're gonna kick,
We're gonna fight up.
Speaker 13 (07:16):
Then we're gonna bead that.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
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
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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.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
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
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or not, have to play that.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Strength was what the world demanded, and Nixon was about
to highlight President Lyndon B. Johnson's weakness in this area.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Vietnam was unknown to most Americans only a few years ago.
In nineteen sixty six, Vietnam was the year's biggest story.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
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.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
American troop strength in Vietnam advanced to over three hundred
sixty thousand men, with more promised. In nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
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.
Speaker 14 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (09:58):
I did not want to get in a debate or
owner a foreign policy meeting Manila with the chronic campaigner
like mister Nixon.
Speaker 14 (10:08):
He it's his problem, the fine.
Speaker 15 (10:10):
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.
Speaker 14 (10:28):
He was doing.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Nixon responded, he.
Speaker 16 (10:30):
Did not answer the questions.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
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
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have recommended, that is to increase our air and sea
strikes against North Vietnam.
Speaker 17 (10:58):
He declined to answer these questions.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And it wasn't just Richard Nixon questioning lbj's ground troop strategy.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
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.
Speaker 18 (11:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Members of lbj's own party were turning on him, including
a new rising star, Robert F. Kennedy.
Speaker 19 (11:53):
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.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
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.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
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.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
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.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
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.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
The GOP did gain forty seven hot seats, three in
the Senate and eight governorships.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was an inarguable win for the GOP, and much
of the credit was given to the rational alternative presented
by Richard Nixon.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
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.
Speaker 20 (13:28):
Mister Nixon, now that you've toured thirty five states, seventy districts,
where are you going to start running for presidents yourself?
Speaker 21 (13:35):
Mister Nixon, let's get right to business. What has got
to happen before your intentions next year will be made known?
Speaker 16 (13:41):
Are you going to.
Speaker 22 (13:42):
Run as a Republican presidential candidate for next year?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
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.
Speaker 23 (13:55):
He needs it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Quote, it's a shame a man has to use gimmicks
like this to get elected.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Television is'n a gimmick, and if you think so, you
will lose.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
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
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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
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consecutive losses, a fact the media used to try and
further tarnish Nixon.
Speaker 21 (15:14):
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
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written about in newspapers.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Sure, I think it's a legitimate question that should be
raised by those who are trying to find the strongest
possible candidate.
Speaker 17 (15:46):
And the way you combat is to win something.
Speaker 23 (15:49):
That's why I am among.
Speaker 17 (15:50):
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.
Speaker 23 (16:08):
Right.
Speaker 17 (16:09):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
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.
Speaker 24 (16:36):
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.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Can do the job.
Speaker 24 (16:53):
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.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
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.
Speaker 24 (17:24):
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,
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and I believe I can.
Speaker 25 (17:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
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
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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.
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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
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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.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
As Nixon began to campaign in New Hampshire, his message
began to resonate with the people, and I think.
Speaker 26 (19:35):
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.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Harry sincere very warm and very nice.
Speaker 14 (19:52):
It was a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
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
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an announcement.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Now, I've just informed the Republican governors by letter of
my decision to withdraw the candidate as President of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
When the New Hampshire primary results were tallied, Nixon emerged
as the man to.
Speaker 16 (20:28):
Beat the Republican Former Vice President Richard Nixon, the only
active campaigner, ran far in front, even farther than expected.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
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.
Speaker 16 (20:48):
The big surprise the first primary of campaign sixty eight
has been the strength of Senator Eugene McCartney.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
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.
Speaker 13 (21:10):
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.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The Democrat warhawks began to suggest that LBJ used the
threat of nukes to recover the ship and its crew.
Speaker 27 (21:33):
We should demand its return immediately.
Speaker 19 (21:37):
Now.
Speaker 27 (21:37):
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.
Speaker 19 (21:49):
Of the earth.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
And did it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
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.
Speaker 22 (22:07):
A young Negro man had wrapped in a bandage, your
combat bandage, being helped.
Speaker 28 (22:12):
Across the road.
Speaker 22 (22:12):
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.
Speaker 29 (22:30):
Oh no, no, Charlie's been shot.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Oh my god, my god, he's.
Speaker 13 (22:43):
Charlie's been killed.
Speaker 18 (22:45):
Oh my god, blood is.
Speaker 19 (22:49):
Streaming out of his nose and mouth.
Speaker 30 (22:53):
He's kind of right in the head.
Speaker 19 (22:56):
O Jesus.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
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.
Speaker 23 (23:18):
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.
Speaker 31 (23:26):
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.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
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.
Speaker 30 (23:58):
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
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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.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
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.
Speaker 16 (24:54):
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.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
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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Speaker 14 (26:37):
Good even name.
Speaker 16 (26:38):
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.
Speaker 14 (26:56):
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.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Riots immediately broke out in urban centers all across the country.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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
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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
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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.
Speaker 30 (28:26):
We have taking a bow away from it irresponsible.
Speaker 32 (28:30):
I knew it could have made administration.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
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.
Speaker 33 (28:51):
I shall seek the nomination of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
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.
Speaker 16 (29:07):
Senator Robert Kennedy has won the first primary test in
his attempt to secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
As the California primary arrived on June fourth, nineteen sixty eight,
it appeared RFK was building momentum against his primary rival.
Speaker 16 (29:23):
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
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Kennedy won easily over a slate running under President Johnson's name,
and also over the slate supporting Senator Eugene McCarthy running
third Walter.
Speaker 23 (29:54):
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.
Speaker 16 (30:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Just past midnight, the rising star from New York took
the stage at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Speaker 28 (30:36):
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.
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So I thank all of you.
Speaker 23 (31:00):
Those of you are the.
Speaker 16 (31:03):
Mayor.
Speaker 28 (31:04):
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.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
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.
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A reporter who was following Kennedy as he exited, heard
the shots and instinctively turned on his tape recorder.
Speaker 34 (31:45):
O Conney has been shot.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Is that possible?
Speaker 14 (31:54):
That is possible. He has Senator Kennedy. Oh my god,
Senator Kennedy has been shot.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Had another man, a Kennedy campaign manager.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
And possibly shot in the head. I am right here.
Speaker 20 (32:09):
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.
Speaker 11 (32:24):
Look pay away from the gun.
Speaker 20 (32:26):
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.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
If you have to get us stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Get away from the barrel, Get away from the thorough man.
Speaker 20 (32:43):
Get him, I said, rayper get it.
Speaker 14 (32:46):
Get the gun.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Rayper topka. Now hold on to the guy, hold on
to him.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Hold on, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 12 (32:53):
They have the gun.
Speaker 14 (32:54):
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.
Speaker 20 (33:02):
Let's Senator Kennedy right now, it's on the ground.
Speaker 12 (33:05):
He has been shot.
Speaker 16 (33:06):
I do not know if the Senator is dead or
if he is alive.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Chaos broke out in the ballroom.
Speaker 28 (33:13):
But a doctor right.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Here, A doctor here.
Speaker 25 (33:17):
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
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then came a report that Senator Robert Kennedy was shot.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Roughly twenty five hours after he was shot by a madman.
The tragic news was announced.
Speaker 34 (34:01):
Senator Robert Tress Kennedy died at one four am today,
June sixth, nineteen sixty eight. He was forty two years old.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
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.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
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
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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.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
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.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
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
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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.
Speaker 16 (35:51):
Of the United States.
Speaker 14 (35:54):
But I have news for you.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
This time there's a difference.
Speaker 23 (35:57):
This time we're going to win.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
He survived the Stop Nixon movement, led by Ronald Reagan
and Nelson Rockefeller, and it quickly united the Party.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
Speaker 16 (37:55):
To live in.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
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.
Speaker 25 (38:18):
Logic logic.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
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.
Speaker 11 (38:35):
One cop picked up a down a fair and brought
them into the step of the subway, sent them.
Speaker 32 (38:44):
Are they they're charging into it?
Speaker 16 (38:47):
They're just playing on under the crowd.
Speaker 32 (38:49):
I'm putting the crowd at the stampede.
Speaker 28 (38:51):
There goes a big last there.
Speaker 32 (38:53):
I can't see. They got me into fake Oh ma,
you hang on.
Speaker 13 (38:57):
Don't rub it, man, It makes it worse.
Speaker 28 (38:58):
You rub it in if I can't see you were
I mean hanging on to me.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
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
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stain left by the violence.
Speaker 33 (39:26):
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
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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.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The two major party nominees were set, there was another
candidate that would attempt to upend the entire race. Do
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. 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.
Speaker 12 (40:45):
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
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sad commentary that in the nation's capital you were fearful
of walking out of this hotel.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
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
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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.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Ales devised a new type of televised campaign event that
fit Nixon's demeanor.
Speaker 14 (42:02):
I'm able, I'm pleased.
Speaker 35 (42:04):
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.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
They called it the Nixon Answer, and it was basically
a novel town hall style event that has become so
commonplace today.
Speaker 23 (42:22):
And our panel is representative.
Speaker 36 (42:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Hi, how are you? Thank you?
Speaker 29 (42:48):
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.
Speaker 19 (43:08):
I'm for it.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
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.
Speaker 17 (43:20):
It's the instrument of.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
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
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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
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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
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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.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Through these series of televised events. Nixon answered questions on Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
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.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
He tackled questions on law and order.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
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.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
And Nixon made an appeal for Americans to return to
patriotism and faith.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Let American youth know what the background of this country
really is. Recognize the great principles that.
Speaker 23 (45:22):
Have brought us where we are.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
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.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
And come election night nineteen sixty eight, it was a
winning message.
Speaker 37 (45:38):
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.
Speaker 19 (45:55):
With that.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
As you probably have heard, have received a very gracious
message from the Vice President me for winning the election.
Speaker 23 (46:06):
I saw many signs.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
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.
Speaker 17 (46:21):
Day of whistle stopping.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
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.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
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
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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.
Speaker 32 (47:20):
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.
Speaker 16 (47:32):
Maybe ironic a good choice of words.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
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
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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
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in his armor to take him down.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
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the world are very significant.
Speaker 11 (48:24):
This Goddamn New York Times expos of the most highly
classified documents.
Speaker 26 (48:31):
Of the war.
Speaker 14 (48:32):
All that I see.
Speaker 16 (48:34):
I didn't read the story, but you mean that that was.
Speaker 28 (48:37):
Leaked out of the Pentagon.
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
Previously on Red America.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
JFK strolled into Nixon's office and delivered a check for
one thousand dollars from his father.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The fear of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union
was real.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Millions of Democrats are going to put their country above
their party and vote for Generalizahow.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
The New York Post ran a front page story claiming
Nixon had a secret eighteen thousand dollars slush fund.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I want to tell you my side of the case.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Nixon was facing the test of his life.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Why are and write the Republican National Committee whether you
think I should stay on or whether I should get off?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I directed Nixon to ask for Sherman Adam's resignation.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I congratulations to Senator Kennedy for once, gentlemen, I would
appreciate if you would write what I'd say.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm Patrick Currelcy and I'm Adriana Cortez.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The media mocks stories about everyday Americans of the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we've promised only one thing, the truth.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Welcome to Red Pilled America.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
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.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
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
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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
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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.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
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
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take action and reply.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
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
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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.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
We're asking that there be no no restrictions on the
content of speech, save those provided by the courts.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
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.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
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.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
And you've got to put.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Your bodies upon the gears and upon.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
The wheels, upon.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
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.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
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.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
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.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And these groups would eventually connect with a new black
militant movement.
Speaker 10 (06:37):
The chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael,
came forward with a new explosive phrase.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Their free kurn and black people in this country can
learn at freight. Wanted white the primacy, New York colonial
levem and.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Wanted black power.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The Black Power movement used violence in urban centers all
across the country to push for radical change.
Speaker 12 (07:11):
We're gonna fight, were Gon, we gonna fight, We're gonna kick,
We're gonna fight up.
Speaker 13 (07:16):
Then we're gonna bead that.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
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
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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.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
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
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or not, have to play that.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Strength was what the world demanded, and Nixon was about
to highlight President Lyndon B. Johnson's weakness in this area.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Vietnam was unknown to most Americans only a few years ago.
In nineteen sixty six, Vietnam was the year's biggest story.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
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.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
American troop strength in Vietnam advanced to over three hundred
sixty thousand men, with more promised. In nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
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.
Speaker 14 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (09:58):
I did not want to get in a debate or
owner a foreign policy meeting Manila with the chronic campaigner
like mister Nixon.
Speaker 14 (10:08):
He it's his problem, the fine.
Speaker 15 (10:10):
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.
Speaker 14 (10:28):
He was doing.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Nixon responded, he.
Speaker 16 (10:30):
Did not answer the questions.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
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
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have recommended, that is to increase our air and sea
strikes against North Vietnam.
Speaker 17 (10:58):
He declined to answer these questions.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And it wasn't just Richard Nixon questioning lbj's ground troop strategy.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
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.
Speaker 18 (11:29):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Members of lbj's own party were turning on him, including
a new rising star, Robert F. Kennedy.
Speaker 19 (11:53):
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.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
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.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
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.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
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.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
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.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
The GOP did gain forty seven hot seats, three in
the Senate and eight governorships.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It was an inarguable win for the GOP, and much
of the credit was given to the rational alternative presented
by Richard Nixon.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
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.
Speaker 20 (13:28):
Mister Nixon, now that you've toured thirty five states, seventy districts,
where are you going to start running for presidents yourself?
Speaker 21 (13:35):
Mister Nixon, let's get right to business. What has got
to happen before your intentions next year will be made known?
Speaker 16 (13:41):
Are you going to.
Speaker 22 (13:42):
Run as a Republican presidential candidate for next year?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
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.
Speaker 23 (13:55):
He needs it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Quote, it's a shame a man has to use gimmicks
like this to get elected.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
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.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Television is'n a gimmick, and if you think so, you
will lose.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
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
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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
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consecutive losses, a fact the media used to try and
further tarnish Nixon.
Speaker 21 (15:14):
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
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written about in newspapers.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Sure, I think it's a legitimate question that should be
raised by those who are trying to find the strongest
possible candidate.
Speaker 17 (15:46):
And the way you combat is to win something.
Speaker 23 (15:49):
That's why I am among.
Speaker 17 (15:50):
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.
Speaker 23 (16:08):
Right.
Speaker 17 (16:09):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
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.
Speaker 24 (16:36):
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.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Can do the job.
Speaker 24 (16:53):
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.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
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.
Speaker 24 (17:24):
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,
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and I believe I can.
Speaker 25 (17:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
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
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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.
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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
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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.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
As Nixon began to campaign in New Hampshire, his message
began to resonate with the people, and I think.
Speaker 26 (19:35):
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.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Harry sincere very warm and very nice.
Speaker 14 (19:52):
It was a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
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
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an announcement.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Now, I've just informed the Republican governors by letter of
my decision to withdraw the candidate as President of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
When the New Hampshire primary results were tallied, Nixon emerged
as the man to.
Speaker 16 (20:28):
Beat the Republican Former Vice President Richard Nixon, the only
active campaigner, ran far in front, even farther than expected.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
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.
Speaker 16 (20:48):
The big surprise the first primary of campaign sixty eight
has been the strength of Senator Eugene McCartney.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
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.
Speaker 13 (21:10):
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.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The Democrat warhawks began to suggest that LBJ used the
threat of nukes to recover the ship and its crew.
Speaker 27 (21:33):
We should demand its return immediately.
Speaker 19 (21:37):
Now.
Speaker 27 (21:37):
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.
Speaker 19 (21:49):
Of the earth.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
And did it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
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.
Speaker 22 (22:07):
A young Negro man had wrapped in a bandage, your
combat bandage, being helped.
Speaker 28 (22:12):
Across the road.
Speaker 22 (22:12):
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.
Speaker 29 (22:30):
Oh no, no, Charlie's been shot.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Oh my god, my god, he's.
Speaker 13 (22:43):
Charlie's been killed.
Speaker 18 (22:45):
Oh my god, blood is.
Speaker 19 (22:49):
Streaming out of his nose and mouth.
Speaker 30 (22:53):
He's kind of right in the head.
Speaker 19 (22:56):
O Jesus.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
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.
Speaker 23 (23:18):
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.
Speaker 31 (23:26):
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.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
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.
Speaker 30 (23:58):
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
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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.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
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.
Speaker 16 (24:54):
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.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
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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Speaker 14 (26:37):
Good even name.
Speaker 16 (26:38):
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.
Speaker 14 (26:56):
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.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Riots immediately broke out in urban centers all across the country.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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
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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
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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.
Speaker 30 (28:26):
We have taking a bow away from it irresponsible.
Speaker 32 (28:30):
I knew it could have made administration.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
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.
Speaker 33 (28:51):
I shall seek the nomination of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
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.
Speaker 16 (29:07):
Senator Robert Kennedy has won the first primary test in
his attempt to secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
As the California primary arrived on June fourth, nineteen sixty eight,
it appeared RFK was building momentum against his primary rival.
Speaker 16 (29:23):
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
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Kennedy won easily over a slate running under President Johnson's name,
and also over the slate supporting Senator Eugene McCarthy running
third Walter.
Speaker 23 (29:54):
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.
Speaker 16 (30:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Just past midnight, the rising star from New York took
the stage at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Speaker 28 (30:36):
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.
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So I thank all of you.
Speaker 23 (31:00):
Those of you are the.
Speaker 16 (31:03):
Mayor.
Speaker 28 (31:04):
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.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
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.
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A reporter who was following Kennedy as he exited, heard
the shots and instinctively turned on his tape recorder.
Speaker 34 (31:45):
O Conney has been shot.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Is that possible?
Speaker 14 (31:54):
That is possible. He has Senator Kennedy. Oh my god,
Senator Kennedy has been shot.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Had another man, a Kennedy campaign manager.
Speaker 14 (32:05):
And possibly shot in the head. I am right here.
Speaker 20 (32:09):
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.
Speaker 11 (32:24):
Look pay away from the gun.
Speaker 20 (32:26):
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.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
If you have to get us stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Get away from the barrel, Get away from the thorough man.
Speaker 20 (32:43):
Get him, I said, rayper get it.
Speaker 14 (32:46):
Get the gun.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Rayper topka. Now hold on to the guy, hold on
to him.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Hold on, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 12 (32:53):
They have the gun.
Speaker 14 (32:54):
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.
Speaker 20 (33:02):
Let's Senator Kennedy right now, it's on the ground.
Speaker 12 (33:05):
He has been shot.
Speaker 16 (33:06):
I do not know if the Senator is dead or
if he is alive.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Chaos broke out in the ballroom.
Speaker 28 (33:13):
But a doctor right.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Here, A doctor here.
Speaker 25 (33:17):
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
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then came a report that Senator Robert Kennedy was shot.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Roughly twenty five hours after he was shot by a madman.
The tragic news was announced.
Speaker 34 (34:01):
Senator Robert Tress Kennedy died at one four am today,
June sixth, nineteen sixty eight. He was forty two years old.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
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.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
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
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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.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
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.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
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
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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.
Speaker 16 (35:51):
Of the United States.
Speaker 14 (35:54):
But I have news for you.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
This time there's a difference.
Speaker 23 (35:57):
This time we're going to win.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
He survived the Stop Nixon movement, led by Ronald Reagan
and Nelson Rockefeller, and it quickly united the Party.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
Speaker 16 (37:55):
To live in.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
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.
Speaker 25 (38:18):
Logic logic.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
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.
Speaker 11 (38:35):
One cop picked up a down a fair and brought
them into the step of the subway, sent them.
Speaker 32 (38:44):
Are they they're charging into it?
Speaker 16 (38:47):
They're just playing on under the crowd.
Speaker 32 (38:49):
I'm putting the crowd at the stampede.
Speaker 28 (38:51):
There goes a big last there.
Speaker 32 (38:53):
I can't see. They got me into fake Oh ma,
you hang on.
Speaker 13 (38:57):
Don't rub it, man, It makes it worse.
Speaker 28 (38:58):
You rub it in if I can't see you were
I mean hanging on to me.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
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
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stain left by the violence.
Speaker 33 (39:26):
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
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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.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The two major party nominees were set, there was another
candidate that would attempt to upend the entire race. Do
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. 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.
Speaker 12 (40:45):
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
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sad commentary that in the nation's capital you were fearful
of walking out of this hotel.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
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
(41:37):
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.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Ales devised a new type of televised campaign event that
fit Nixon's demeanor.
Speaker 14 (42:02):
I'm able, I'm pleased.
Speaker 35 (42:04):
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.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
They called it the Nixon Answer, and it was basically
a novel town hall style event that has become so
commonplace today.
Speaker 23 (42:22):
And our panel is representative.
Speaker 36 (42:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Hi, how are you? Thank you?
Speaker 29 (42:48):
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.
Speaker 19 (43:08):
I'm for it.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
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.
Speaker 17 (43:20):
It's the instrument of.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
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
(43:42):
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
(44:03):
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
(44:25):
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.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Through these series of televised events. Nixon answered questions on Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
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.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
He tackled questions on law and order.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
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.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
And Nixon made an appeal for Americans to return to
patriotism and faith.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Let American youth know what the background of this country
really is. Recognize the great principles that.
Speaker 23 (45:22):
Have brought us where we are.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
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.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
And come election night nineteen sixty eight, it was a
winning message.
Speaker 37 (45:38):
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.
Speaker 19 (45:55):
With that.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
As you probably have heard, have received a very gracious
message from the Vice President me for winning the election.
Speaker 23 (46:06):
I saw many signs.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
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.
Speaker 17 (46:21):
Day of whistle stopping.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
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.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
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
(47:08):
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.
Speaker 32 (47:20):
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.
Speaker 16 (47:32):
Maybe ironic a good choice of words.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
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
(47:56):
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
(48:17):
in his armor to take him down.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Coming up on Red Pilled America also of interest in
the world are very significant.
Speaker 11 (48:24):
This Goddamn New York Times expos of the most highly
classified documents.
Speaker 26 (48:31):
Of the war.
Speaker 14 (48:32):
All that I see.
Speaker 16 (48:34):
I didn't read the story, but you mean that that was.
Speaker 28 (48:37):
Leaked out of the Pentagon.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
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