environment, we will keep it under control. one, two, three, four, stop this damn war! one, two, three, four, stop this damn war! the democratic party was closed to change on vietnam unless it faced such massive pressure that might make it turn. mr. vice president, this is the opening night of the democratic convention. are you going to be nominated? that s my hope, my plan. that s what we re trying to do. the security around this international amphitheater has been worthy of an armed camp. someone called the amphitheater ft. daley and i think at this point, that is not very far from the truth. i was distributing farm worker literature and mayor daley s henchpeople shoved me aside and broke my glasses. i mean, i wasn t hurt, but that s the floor of the convention. take your hands off of me. unless you intend to arrest me. a small group of reporters,
at least on the periphery of it, and these guys started strong-arming me. don t push me. take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me. wait a minute. wait a minute. short punching. knocked me down. i think we got a bunch of thugs here, dan. this was supposed to be a democratic convention. the latest abc delicate count show humphrey, 1,473. senator mccarthy, 706 votes. senator mcgovern, 123 votes. senator eugene mccarthy has conceded defeat in his bid for the democratic presidential nomination. hubert humphrey as is lined up, i think senator eugene mccarthy really would have conceded defeat in his heart of hearts a month or two ago. the nomination was really not in question anymore. mr. mcgovern. it was not going to be mccarthy and it was not going to be mcgovern. it was going to be hubert humphrey.
he s here today, and if he were alive today, he d be on that platform speaking for this minority plank. thank you. this is still a volatile convention as you see here with this demonstration on the floor. would stop the bombing now without any preconditions. there s a minority among us represented over in grant park, and let me say the police department, mayor daley, must all be related to jobe, they ve shown that much faith. they want pot instead of patriotism. and they would substitute riots for reason. as the forces of the counterculture are girding their loins, the battle of the police out in the streets, the civil war within the convention hall
literature and mayor daley s henchpeople shoved me aside and broke my glasses. i mean, i wasn t hurt, but that s the floor of the convention. take your hands off of me. unless you intend to arrest me. a small group of reporters, at least on the periphery of it, and these guys started stro strongarming me. don t push me. take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me. wait a minute. wait a minute. short punching. knocked me down. i think we got a bunch of thugs here, dan. this was supposed to be a democratic convention. the latest abc delicate count show humphrey, 1,473. senator mccarthy, 706 votes. senator mcgovern, 123 votes. senator eugene mccarthy has conceded defeat in his bid for the democratic presidential nomination. hubert humphrey as is lined
convention. he has this albatross of a war tied around his neck. and everywhere he kbogoes, chao follows. republican party with an age-old coalition of the conservative republican and the nixon the nixons and the strom thurmonds who remain silent. humphrey came out of that convention not only with no convention bounce, but actually going backwards. the problems of hubert humphrey are many. his campaign does not have enough money and has no chance of getting enough money because potential backers feel he has little chance of winning. asked a humphrey aide about this, asked him aren t you discouraged? he ll tell you, wouldn t say we re discouraged but i would say that overconfidence is not our thing.