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Lyndon Johnson:
The enemy of freedom

has chosen to make this year
the decisive one.

Richard Nixon:
Something's going to happen

the change is on the way.

We can change America.

We can change the world.

Eugene McCarthy:
What we need now

is a reconciliation
in this land.

George Wallace: There is
nothing wrong with you

that a good haircut
wouldn't cure.

Hubert Humphrey: And rest
assured, we Democrats

will stir it up out here.

Chet Huntley:
This election year of 1968

has touched the emotions

and assaulted logic
as never before.

Unidentified Male:
I think we have a little

too much violence
in this country.

Martin Luther King, Jr:
We go up together

or we go down together.

Robert Kennedy:
If we have not found

an understanding
for our fellow citizens,

we will have a new America.

And I need your help.

(cheering)

♪ (theme music) ♪

(cheering)

Lance Morrow: If you look at
the whole year as theater,

as real acts of tragedy,

there's an almost
poetic feeling to it.

1968 was one goddamn thing
after another.

John Scali:
Hardly a day goes by

without a new report of
another demonstration

or protest against
the Vietnam War.

Lyndon Johnson:
There is in the land

a certain restlessness.

Dan Rather:
Lyndon Johnson

whatever everyone else
thinks of him

his reputation will always

have the stone of Vietnam
around it.

Jerry Rubin: We're living
in a middle of a beast.

Lyndon Johnson
is a common murderer.

Leonard Steinhorn:
Johnson did things that

no other president did,

Civil Rights, great society.

He should have been
somebody that

every young person and
every liberal would have

celebrated,
but they didn't.

He became the
Vietnam War president.

Robert Dallek:
We've been told repeatedly

that we are succeeding.
We're defeating them.

They can't hold out.

Johnson kept saying

there's light at the
end of the tunnel.

Announcer: This is a
CBS News special report,

Saigon Under Fire.

Mike Wallace: The
enemy in Vietnam

has demolished the myth

that allied
military strength

controls that country.

(machine gun fire)

Reporter:
The American Embassy

is under siege.

Inside are the Viet Cong
terror squads

that charged in
during the night.

Morrow: The Tet Offensive

was an enormous
game changer.

They were shooting up
the American Embassy.

They had hit dozens of
cities all over Vietnam.

It was a tremendous shock.

Johnson: We have known
for several months now

that the communist
planned a massive

Winter-Spring offensive.

We do not think that
our military operations

are going to be at all
materially affected--

Robert Schenkkan: He
was unable to be honest

with the American
people because

of course he was
unwilling to simply say,

"This is an unwinnable war."

Unidentified Male:
Cronkite's Vietnam report.

Reel one, take four.

Walter Cronkite:
These ruins are in Saigon,

capital and largest
city of South Vietnam.

Morley Safer: When he
went to Vietnam during Tet,

it was the first time

and maybe the only time that

Walter had shown

any kind of bias
in his public broadcast.

Walter Cronkite:
It is increasingly

clear to this reporter

that the only
rational way out

will be to negotiate,

not as victims but
as an honorable people

who lived up to their pledge

to defend democracy

and did the best they could.

Dallek:
After Walter Cronkite,

Johnson's popularity sinks.

Reporter:
To most ordinary citizens,

it has become obvious
the war is not being won.

Sander Vanocur: Opposition
to the war was rising.

It wasn't just Beatniks
and young kids.

King, Jr: We
are fighting a war

and I'm convinced that
it is one of the most

unjust wars that
has ever been fought

in the history of the world.

Robert F Kennedy, Jr:
Martin Luther King came out

against the Vietnam War.

His own followers said,

"You shouldn't
be focusing on that,

you should be focusing
on our issue."

And he said,
"They're intertwined.

You can't separate them."

King, Jr: President Kennedy
said on one occasion,

"Mankind must
put an end to war,

or war will put
an end to mankind."

Reporter:
Do you honestly think that

if there was an election,

a vote for and
against the war

that the anti-war people
would win out?

Well, its
really hard to tell now.

The polls are uncertain
but the polls do say that

most of the country
is discontent

with the manner
the war is taking.

I think something
ought to be done.

Reporter:
Senator, how are you?

Steinhorn: When some of the
anti-war activists

were looking for somebody
to run for President

and a number of people
turned them down

including Robert Kennedy.

Reporter:
There are increasing reports

out of Washington that your
advisers are now telling you

that you should run against
President Johnson this year.

Robert F Kennedy:
I have no plans.

I have no plans to change
the statement

that I've already made.

Reporter:
According to-- Senator?

Timothy Naftali:
The assumption among

the Kennedy intimates
was that LBJ

was totally unbeatable
in 1968.

And Bobby would run in 1972.

Sander Vanocur:
The anti-war movement

needed a leader,

and it fell to
Gene McCarthy.

-McCarthy: How do you do?
- Woman: Nice meeting you.

-Nice to meet you.
-Very nice appearance.

Douglas Kiker: Senator,
President Johnson's supporters

say you don't
have a chance here

in New Hampshire and
you'll be lucky if you get

ten percent of the vote.

What do you say about that?

Well, I don't know.

The people who
are supporting me

say we'll do much
better than that.

Unidentified Male:
One Democrat,

Senator Eugene McCarthy,

defied precedent to bid
for his party's nomination.

His platform: peace.

Naftali: Eugene McCarthy
does something that,

you know, is taboo.

He comes out against
the sitting president

from the same party.

Morrow: McCarthy
came in from left field.

He was not thought
of in the front rank

of presidential contenders.

But there was a great
deal of frustration

and even despair
among the young.

Eugene McCarthy
gave them hope.

Unidentified Female:
We're volunteers

for Senator McCarthy.

-Yeah.
- We're reminding everybody

to vote in the primary.

Reporter:
From NBC News

Election Central in
Manchester, New Hampshire,

this is the news.

If McCarthy gets as much as
30 percent of the vote

or more against
an incumbent President

he can legitimately claim
an important victory.

(cheering)

Kennedy, Jr:
McCarthy didn't win

the New Hampshire primary

but he took enough votes

that it scared Lyndon.

(chanting)

Tom Hayden: He got
42 percent of the vote.

But McCarthy
was a nothing, an upstart.

If McCarthy
could draw blood,

Johnson was vulnerable.

McCarthy: They said
that '68 was the year,

I think that
March the 12th was the day.

(cheering)

David Schumacher:
How does this strike you,

you're not disappointed
that he didn't actually win?

Oh, no.
Oh, he did win though.

This is exactly
what he wanted.

He said you shouldn't have
dissent that...

that breaks down our system.

You should work through
the Democratic process

to get what you want.

You can hope

and I mean, you've got
to base it on a dream,

and this is coming true.

David Schumacher: Whatever
happened to Robert Kennedy?

I think...

Who's he?

Schumacher: Perhaps
the most important result

out of all these from
McCarthy's viewpoint

is that he will,
from now on,

be treated as a serious
presidential candidate.

Morrow: All of a sudden,
after New Hampshire,

there's a new
political reality

and Bobby very rapidly
starts recalculating.

Reporter: Would
you welcome his entrance?

Well, I don't know.

It's a little crowded
now, but....

(laughter)

Richard Nixon: Let me tell you
the issue of '68.

The issue of 1968

is not the Johnson
personality

but the Johnson policies,

and I happen to believe
that this country

can't afford four more years
of Lyndon Johnson.

-That is the issue of 1968.
-(cheering)

Reporter:
For 16 years now

in the shadow play
of American politics

there has always been
Richard Nixon.

He's not coming back,
he never left.

Naftali:
Most political observers

thought Nixon was finished.

He'd been counted
out so many times.

So, Nixon wanted
to show the leaders

of the Republican Party
that he was a winner.

Nixon:
We'll inaugurate

a Republican president
next January. Thank you.

Naftali: Media consultants
worked with him

so he wouldn't be
the sweaty Nixon of 1960.

I'm really the most
difficult man in the world

when it comes to a so-called
public relations firm.

Nobody's going
to package me.

Nobody's going to make me

put on an act for television.

If people looking at me say,

"That's a new Nixon,"

then all that I can say is,

"Well, maybe you didn't
know the old Nixon."

I wrote a diary

of being on the
Nixon campaign plane.

And I came out just saying,

"What does he believe in?

What does he care about?

How can we trust him?"

I realized that
the person I felt most

related to was
Robert Kennedy.

Kennedy: I have traveled
and I have listened

to the young people
of our nation

and felt their anger

about the war
that they are sent to fight,

about the world
they are about to inherit.

I'm announcing
today my candidacy

for the Presidency
of the United States.

Morrow: Eugene McCarthy
clears the way

and tests the water,
but he wasn't the guy

who was going to get there.

Bobby was going to get there.

Kennedy: This nation must
adopt a foreign policy

which says clearly and
distinctly "No more Vietnams".

Todd Gitlin: You have the
declaration of another

rival candidate from
within his own party.

Currents of anti-war
sentiment are building up.

And the same time,
the war is getting worse.

I think if you are
Lyndon Johnson,

you feel you're being
surrounded by a stampede.

Johnson: Good evening,
my fellow Americans.

Tonight,
I want to speak to you

of peace in Vietnam
and Southeast Asia.

Schenkkan:
This is the moment for LBJ

where the
pressures of Vietnam

are becoming
almost overwhelming.

Johnson: It is true,

that a house divided
against itself

is a house that
can not stand.

Accordingly,

I shall not seek,

and I will not accept,

the nomination of my party

for another term
as your President.

Rather: You have just heard
the President

of the United States
Lyndon Baines Johnson

in an address from his
office at the White House.

The advance text
of his address

did not contain
those last remarks

saying and I quote
from President Johnson,

"I shall not seek,
and will not accept,

the nomination of my
party for the Presidency."

Roger, no question about it.

This was
a bombshell politically.

Roger Mudd: Well, you really
don't know where to begin.

Edwin Newman: Our guest today
on Meet The Press

is the Vice President
Hubert H Humphrey.

who yesterday announced
his candidacy

for the Democratic
presidential nomination.

Naftali:
Hubert Humphrey was

LBJ's Vice President

and now he's running
for President.

Humphrey has doubts
about Vietnam

but has been a good soldier.
He has stood by Johnson.

Your President made a
supreme political sacrifice

to promote this
cause of peace.

He was one of the
casualties of this war.

Morrow: I don't think
there was ever

an overwhelming
enthusiasm for Hubert.

The drama of
McCarthy and Kennedy

had captured
everyone's attention.

Reporter:
Is the key Vietnam?

Humphrey: Yes,
in a large way.

In a large measure,
not totally, but...

there's a certain degree of
general protest amongst youth,

which I think is, on balance,
a healthy thing.

(indistinct chatter)

Mark Rudd:
There was a long frustration

on the part of students

that the war was
not drawing to a close

despite our demonstrations.

So, the students began to
become more militant.

Reporter:
At Columbia University,

students
barricade themselves

into University buildings.

Their leader is a 20-year old
ex-Boy Scout, Mark Rudd.

I would say
that we now have

more support than any group

had about any
political issue

has ever held on any--
at anytime.

Rudd: Columbia became the
symbol of students in revolt.

(chanting)

Mark Kurlansky:
Activists like Tom Hayden

went to Columbia and said,

"Lets have more Columbias."

Tom Hayden: There's nothing
like feeling that

you're fighting the power or
somebody is listening to you

at least to draw
more people in.

Tom Hayden: We started
shouting a phrase,

and it's a phrase that's
been used in other words,

and by action

of people all
around the world

when they face troops.

And that phrase is
"Up against the wall ####!"

(cheering)

Rudd: We had an idea
that this was the beginning

of something very important.

We took it as
the beginning of revolution.

Announcer:
What's happening to America,

conversation three.

Tonight, "Our young people,
what's bothering them?"

Newman: Is there
really a generation gap?

Harry Edwards: Generation
gap is a way that whites

in this country, and
the structure in this country,

the system in this country,
rationalizes its

lack of responsibility
in teaching this generation

how to solve the problems
which we are faced with.

1968 was the year

that you could
point to and say,

"Here is where
the separation began

between past generations

and generations going forward."

(cheering)

Robert Kennedy: I think all of
us have a role to play.

And I think all of us

have a great stake
in the future,

you more than anybody else.

As President Kennedy once said,

"You have the
least ties to the past

and the greatest
stake in the future."

Kennedy, Jr: You will always
find idealism in youth

and I think that's
something my father

and my uncle recognized

and why they always
visited the universities.

I remember my
father talking about

how the founders of the
American Revolution,

you know,
they were young people.

George Wallace:
Well, you fellows don't even

vote over here,
you're not older than my son.

You don't even vote.

Come up here and I'll autograph
your sandals for you.

That'll make you feel better.

Naftali: There was a third
party candidate

in this election,
George Wallace.

But Wallace was not affected
by the Vietnam issue.

He was going to have
a certain amount of

support in the South,
come what may.

Wallace: There's not a
dime's worth of difference

in either one
of the two parties.

And if they don't give
the people a choice,

we're going to
give them a choice

by having a new party.

Morrow:
It was just a plain, ordinary,

anti-government
streak in him.

It was his act,

"You bastards in Washington

are not going to tell me
what to do."

And you anarchists had
better have your day now,

because I'll tell you again,

you're through after
November 5th in this country.

Robert Kennedy: Do they know
about Martin Luther King?

Ladies and gentlemen...

Could you lower those signs,
please?

I have some very
sad news for all of you,

and, I think, sad news

for all of our
fellow citizens,

and people who love
peace all over the world.

And that is, that

Martin Luther King

was shot and was killed tonight

in Memphis, Tennessee.

(screaming)

Evan Thomas:
When King was killed,

Bobby was on his way
to a campaign stop

in Indianapolis,
going into the ghetto.

And the cops
said "Don't go."

They were fearful of a riot.

Bobby went anyways.

Robert Kennedy: For those
of you who are

black and are tempted
to fill with--

be filled with
hatred and mistrust

of the injustice
of such an act,

I would only say
that I can also

feel in my own heart

the same kind of feeling.

I had a member
of my family killed,

but he was killed
by a white man.

Steinhorn: He gives this
spontaneous speech

to an absolutely
devastated crowd.

This wasn't just politics,
he made it personal.

Let us say a prayer
for our country,

and for our people.

Thank you very much.

(cheering)

Chet Huntley: This country
and every person in it

suffered a terrible
loss tonight

with the assassination
of this man.

The perpetrator of this deed

brings down upon all of us
the painful charge,

that we Americans
are prisoners of violence

and destruction and death.

That is the tragedy of it.

Restraint, gentleness,
charity...

virtues we so
desperately need

have had a dark day.

Unidentified Male:
King was the only

rational voice that was
left in America.

He stood against
the war in Vietnam.

He stood against violence,
period.

So, when you killed him,
you killed everything.

You killed the only
rational voice that's left.

Edwards: It became
absolutely clear,

you don't want Dr. King,

you assassinated
nonviolent direct action,

you tried to kill the dream.

Okay, here's a taste
of the nightmare.

(sirens wailing)

Harry Reasoner: The outrage
could not be contained.

Fires burned in
the cities of America.

Reasoner: Washington,
Chicago, Detroit,

Boston, New York, these are
just a few of the cities

in which the Negro anguish
over Dr. King's murder,

expressed itself
in violent destruction.

Jeff Greenfield: I remember
coming back to Washington,

two or three days after
King had been killed.

I was thinking
"What am I seeing here?

This is the
United States of America

and there are machine guns

on the steps
of the Capitol?"

Reporter: One hundred cities
rage with riot,

20,000 are arrested.

Rudd:
People were in open revolt.

Sirens wailing,
people screaming

and it shook everyone,
black and white, to the core.

Whitney Young: Nothing
could be more desecrating

to the memory
of Martin Luther King

and to use his death as an
excuse to engage in violence.

Edwards: There was a faith
and spirit vacuum,

and when you find people

who have lost that hope,

fear tends to
fill that vacuum.

People were
increasingly afraid

and "Mister law and order",
stepped up

on the Republican side.

Nixon:
This is a nation of laws.

No one is above the law,

no one is below the law

and we're going
to enforce the law

and Americans
should remember that

if we're going to
have law and order.

(cheering)

(cheering)

Robert Kennedy:
Ending those divisions

that exist between
black and white,

I want us to work together

and I run on that basis

for President of
the United States.

Kennedy, Jr:
My father's appeal was to

really the most
disenfranchised classes.

He felt like nobody else was

speaking for them
and that's where

his space was rather than
with the liberals,

because the liberals
were for McCarthy.

McCarthy: I want
to reassure you that

I'm not yielding
to anybody along the way,

either the Vice President
or Senator Kennedy.

(cheering)

Morrow: Indiana, Bobby wins.

Nebraska, Bobby wins.
And then on May 28th, Oregon.

Reporter:
McCarthy's crowds

in recent days
have been good,

larger than Kennedy's
in many places

although without the frenzy

that accompanies
a Kennedy appearance.

Robert Kennedy:
I can't afford to lose

if I'm going to
remain a very active

and viable candidate,

it would... adversely affect me
in a very serious way.

Cronkite: The actual final
figures yet to come in

but apparently
Senator McCarthy has

won a major
victory in Oregon.

Senator Kennedy has
suffered a severe setback.

They move on
now to California

and the primary there,
a week from tonight.

Eric Sevareid:
And this result, tonight,

does not prove of course,

that Kennedy is politically
dead this year,

it does prove that
he is politically mortal,

it establishes that he is
Robert Kennedy after all,

not John F Kennedy.

I think what
will happen now is that

McCarthy gets a new life.

He's still a long shot,
but he has a chance now.

I think that,
however, you don't

write off Robert Kennedy

because he can
come off the floor

and win big in California.
That's what he has to do.

But if he doesn't win big
in California, he's had it.

(crowd chanting)
We want Kennedy

We want Kennedy

We want Kennedy

Steinhorn: Bobby Kennedy
having lost Oregon

knew that he had
to win California,

and that would be his
ticket to the convention.

Reporter:
It will take a very big win,

a spectacular
win in California,

to repair the badly shattered
Kennedy image.

Kurlansky:
Bobby's going to do it.

You know, it's just
the way everybody felt.

Reporter:
Final totals will be

Kennedy, 48 percent,

Senator McCarthy
41 percent.

Unidentified Female: He won.

♪ (crowd singing
"This Land Is Your Land") ♪

♪ (This land is
Robert Kennedy's) ♪

(cheering)

All of us are involved
in this great effort.

And it's a great effort

not on behalf of
the Democratic Party,

it's a great effort on
behalf of the United States,

on behalf of our own people,

on behalf of mankind
and all around the globe

and the next generation
of Americans.

(cheering)

My thanks to all of you,
and now it's on to Chicago,

and let's win there.

(cheering)

(indistinct chatter)

Greenfield: I was upstairs
in the Ambassador Hotel.

We were getting ready
for a victory party,

and somebody called.

I picked up the phone
in the suite

and this colleague said,

"Something's happened
to the Senator."

Sander Vanocur: Senator
Kennedy has been shot...

Vanocur: Senator
Kennedy has been shot...

Is that possible?

Vanocur: In this bedlam
I couldn't find Kennedy,

finally found him,
he's lying on the floor.

No!
(wailing)

Bob!
(wailing)

Unidentified Male:
Somebody shot him

in this corridor
behind the kitchen,

behind the kitchen here.

Unidentified Male:
Everybody please stay back.

Please stay back.
We need a doctor here.

Please, it's very important.
We need a doctor.

Unidentified Male: Will you
please clear this room?

If you will not leave the room,

we cannot give medical aid
for the Senator.

Now, would please...
(screaming and chaos)

Greenfield: I can't say
that people thought,

"How this could happen?"
Because we'd seen it happen.

The truth is this
had been at the back of

everybody's mind and
one of the reasons why,

you know, some people said,
"Don't do this, don't run."

♪ (somber music) ♪

Chet Huntley: Robert Kennedy
is in the most grave condition

and hope is difficult to find.

Frank Mankiewicz: Senator
Robert Francis Kennedy

died at 1:44 a.m. today,

June 6th, 1968.

He was 42 years old.

Thank you.

McCarthy:
As you all know that

no words can really
fully convey

the feeling that
one must have

for the nation in the face
of this tragedy,

this new tragedy.

Vanocur: People say, well,
it was inevitable.

His brother was
murdered and so was he.

Nothing's inevitable.
It just happened.

Vanocur:
This plane will take back

the body of
Robert Francis Kennedy

to New York.

Also on board this plane today

will be Mrs. John F Kennedy.

Also on board
will be another widow,

Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr.

Somehow and in some way,

we seemed to be sending
a great many

of our young leaders
to their early graves.

It's been a very
emotional period

for all of us who have
worked for the Senator.

And personally,
the most horrifying thing,

in these last few days,
was this morning

when I tacked this black ribbon
on to my campaign button

because now I'm lost.
I'm desperate.

And I don't know
where we're going from here.

David Brinkley: When
Senator Kennedy went down,

he was trying to speak
for those Americans

including the young who
feel the need to change

many aspects
of American life.

Well, that cause
has not been stilled forever

because even without him
that changes will be made

because they have to be.

But nobody knows
when nor how

nor whether the changes
will be made

peacefully or violently.

Lauren Bacall:
In the meantime,

this country
has lost another leader.

As far as I'm concerned,
it has lost the only leader

that I feel gives us
any hope for the future.

I mean,
what happens to the country?

I mean, you wonder if it's
worth saving, you know.

What is it?
What's left of this country?

Rather: I know what
my own feelings were

and I think they were
widely shared.

We have to question
ourselves,

is our country coming apart?

What are we becoming?

♪ (somber music plays) ♪

This is Walter Cronkite

in Miami Beach
at this first session

of the Republican National
Convention.

Rather: Richard Nixon
was the leader

but he walked in to the
Republican convention,

not positive that
he would be the candidate.

Cronkite:
The new fashioned Nixon

runs an old fashioned campaign,

and that's what the country
seems to want.

Morrow:
There were challengers.

There was Nelson Rockefeller
in New York, for starters,

and George Romney of Michigan.

There was some talk of Reagan.

But Nixon had a lock
on the delegates.

Gov. Spiro Agnew:
We are a nation in crisis.

Right now change rules
America.

It's time for America
to rule change.

(cheering)

It is my privilege
to place a nomination,

the man for 1968,

the honorable
Richard M Nixon!

Reporter: There are
30 votes in Wisconsin

and this should
put him across.

Reporter:
Richard M Nixon.

(cheering)

Nixon:
Sit down, get to work.

(chanting)

William F Buckley:
Well, it looks like Nixon,

nobody is really surprised

and no committed Republican
feels cheated.

What was the fuss all about?

Dallek:
The Republicans understand

that Nixon in this time of
tumultuousness,

he gives people
the sense of continuity.

Richard Nixon:
What is most important now

is for us to think how
we can get this war ended.

Unidentified Male: Mr. Nixon
talks of an honorable peace

but says nothing about
how he would attain it.

(machine gun fire)

Dallek:
At this point, the war is

continuing at as a hot a pace
as it's ever been.

More troops are being
killed every week

than in any time
in the course of the war.

Harry Reasoner:
This weekend, the enemy

stepped up attacks
throughout South Vietnam.

Hayden: We knew that
we would not be able to

influence the Republicans
on Vietnam,

so we wanted to put
massive pressure

on the Democrats.

I didn't think
anything could happen

with Vietnam
without that challenge.

Joseph Benti:
This is a CBS news

Campaign '68
Convention Special.

What's going to happen
in Chicago?

Benti:
On this eve of the beginning

of the 35th Democratic
National Convention,

Chicago is nearly
security tight.

Perhaps
the heaviest security

ever provided
for a political gathering

in the free world.

Reporter:
The police,

several thousand of them,
are now deployed.

Soldiers have arrived in
Chicago and are standing by.

Hayden: For the convention,

the plan was to have a mass
anti-war demonstration

and a mass
counter culture festival.

We gathered in the parks.

Unidentified Male:
We are going to march

because we have a right to

because that's what we
came here to Chicago to do

and no one is
going to stop us. Thank you.

Morrow:
There were many factions.

They were united only by
feeling that this is

our moment.

This is Carnegie Hall.

(crowd chanting)
No more war. No more war.

Tom Hayden:
We are concerned about

the build up of the force
because we think

that anything that's
built up like this

is liable to be used.

Cronkite:
A Democratic Convention

is about to begin
in a police state.

There just doesn't seem to be
any other way to say it.

Richard J Daley:
The people of Chicago

and its Mayor
are proud to welcome

a great political gathering
of Americans

who come here to shape
the future of a nation.

And as long as
I'm Mayor of this town

there will be law and order
in Chicago.

Reporter:
The two men

who most still believe
this is all about

arrived in Chicago today
to begin their final drive

for delegate votes.

Steinem:
Most of us were saying

it just wasn't
politically possible

for McCarthy to overcome

those who were
pledged to Humphrey.

So, there clearly needed
to be another force.

Reporter:
Arriving now,

Senator George McGovern
of South Dakota.

Kurlansky: McGovern got into
the race because

there was a big hole
in the anti-war side

and, you know, Bobby Kennedy
had a lot of delegates

Charles Quinn:
McCarthy said

he didn't believe McGovern
had enough strength

to make any difference.

And so McCarthy said

he'll continue the fight
for the nomination

although
it was clearly implied

that his chances
are very slim.

Steinhorn: Mayor Daley setup
all of the conditions

for a conflict in Chicago.

He didn't give them permits
to march

but he knew that
they were coming anyway.

Reporter:
Over 10,000

demonstrators were gathered
in Chicago's Grant Park.

The demonstrators are
determined to march

on Convention Hall tonight
in protest.

The police are at the park
in force.

Hayden: You can count on it

that the police
and the authorities

will always unify

what you can't unify
by yourself.

(chanting)

Rather:
The tumultuousness of

violence that was happening
outside the hall

became reflected
inside the hall.

Mike Wallace:
There seems to be

some kind of battle
going on over there.

Dan Rather:
Yes, directly

under our booth here.
They're carrying a man out.

Rather: I got into a melee

in the convention hall myself.

Don't push me.
Take your hands off of me

unless you plan to
arrest me.

Unidentified Male:
Wait a minute.

Rather: Well,
Walter as you can see...

Cronkite: I don't know
what's going on,

but I think we got a bunch of
thugs here, Dan.

Rather: Mind you, Walter,
I'm all right.

It's all in a day's work.

Rather: It reflected
for all the world to see

the reppression
inside the hall

in what was supposed to be a

Democratic Society
of free people

nominating someone
to be President.

(chanting)

Downtown.
Downtown Chicago

across from Grant Park
beside the Hilton Hotel,

there has been
in progress for some time,

a peace demonstration.

The police have come
to put it down.

The National Guard
has been called to help.

Hayden: You create disorder,

if you try to impose
too much order with force.

That's what happened.

They were suppressing
our Democratic rights

in order to continue
an undemocratic war.

(chaos and unrest)

Gabe Pressman:
People screaming,

being dragged
to the paddy wagons,

a scene of wild disorder
on this,

the night,
of the Presidential nomination

at this Democratic
convention.

Steinem:
It was a police riot.

And I had never seen that
before in my life.

I had never seen groups of

uniformed policemen
going after civilians,

there were pools of blood
on Michigan Avenue.

(chanting)
The whole world's watching

Reporter:
"The whole world is watching"

chants the crowd on this day.

Abraham Ribicoff:
When George McGovern is

President of the United States,

we wouldn't have to
have Gestapo style tactics

in the streets of Chicago.

(cheering)

Reporter:
Did you see

what was happening
downtown?

Shirley MacLaine: Yes, I saw it
with this television set.

Reporter:
Do you think this is going

to cost the Democrats
the election this--

what's happening here
in Chicago this evening?

MacLaine: I don't
think there's any question.

I think not only the party but
the country has split in half.

And I think they'll veer
away from this dissension.

Reporter:
Thank you very much

Shirley MacLaine and
Roosevelt Grier

watching the television set
in the back of the hall

about what's going on
downtown.

Rep. Carl Albert:
It is my high honor

to present
the new leader of our party,

the next President
of the United States,

the honorable
Hubert H. Humphrey.

♪ (marching band music plays) ♪
(cheering)

I proudly accept
the nomination of our party.

Rudd: We got Hubert Humphrey

as the candidate.

Humphrey was an example of
what we were fighting.

He was a liberal

who was going to betray
our hopes.

Reporter:
I see an HHH on your lapel.

Does that mean you're for
Humphrey all the way?

Hugh Hefner: Well,
I wouldn't say all the way.

I'm a Democrat
and he's the nominee.

Kurlansky: Now, it's true
what George Wallace said,

if the first job at hand
is to end this war,

there isn't a dime of
difference there

between Humphrey and Nixon.

Harry Reasoner:
Vice President Humphrey

remains by any basis of
measurement available

a complete underdog.

Unidentified Female:
My feeling is that

if he could cut himself off
from the President,

be his own man,

then he has a chance of
winning this election

and it would make it
very easy for all of us

to support him.

Humphrey desperately
needed to separate himself

from the administration,
and he did.

Humphrey: Well,
I think the greatest task

of statesmanship
is to find a way

to conclude and bring
that war in Southeast Asia

-to an end and to do it--
-(roraring applause)

Naftali:
The public was so happy

that there was some movement
towards peace in Vietnam.

Humphrey was back
in the game

and it was neck and neck.

Reporter:
From NBC News election central.

Huntley: Nixon is the one.

That's the natural banner

for any sprightly
front page tonight.

94 percent of the
popular vote is counted.

There are the numbers.

Brinkley: It was
one of the closest elections

in American history,

closer even than
when Nixon lost to Kennedy

eight years ago.

(applause)

I have done my best.

I have lost.
Mr. Nixon has won.

The Democratic process
has worked its will.

Huntley: George Wallace
carried five states,

Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Louisiana and Mississippi.

Wallace:
In our judgment,

the people who supported us

had an impact on orienting
the two parties

in a different direction.

And I do wish
for Mr. Nixon the most success

of any President in the
history of our country.

Having lost a close one
eight years ago

and having won a close one
this year, I can say this:

Winning is a lot more fun.

(crowd laughs)

(cheering)

Morrow:
With Nixon's election,

even though
many people felt a sense

of disappointment,
there was a sense that

that there maybe some
normality on the horizon.

People were exhausted,

so it was, in part,
a sense of relief...

..maybe, thank God it's over.

Bop Hope:
I planned to spend Christmas

in the States,
but I can't stand violence.

(crowd laughing)

(cheering)

Brinkley:
1968 certainly has been

one of the unhappiest years
in American history.

Frank Reynolds: In the end,
it always comes down to

what the people do,
and this year the people,

like the events of 1968,
are largely unpredictable.

Dan Rather:
Our country was put to

some enormous tests in 1968.

It was a bend
but there was no break.

Todd Gitlin: The issues that
were thrown open in 1968...

Who has authority?
Who deserves authority?

What the limits of
power are.

Those are profound questions
that continue to matter.

Nixon: This will be an open
administration,

open to new ideas,

open to men and women
of both parties,

open to the critics

as well as those
who support us,

and I am confident that

this task is one
that we can undertake

and one in which
we will be successful.

♪ (theme music) ♪