Election 1976, a case study. Your host is political analyst richard scannan. With me here in washington today are mr. Steven hess of the Bookings Institution and professor Howard Penniman of georgetown university. Now, this is the first of a series of programs that are going to extend over the full period of the campaign until beyond the election in november in our bicentennial political year. What we want to do is to bring a picture of the american electoral process. We will have special programs dealing with the parties and the media, and the campaign technique and polling and the rest. But what we are really aiming to do is to give you a picture of the way in which we select our american president. And how 215 or 220 million americans can provide every four years a process by which leadership can be developed and transferred over these 200 years of American History. Who what we hope to do is bring you discussions of these various aspects of the Electoral Campaign and begin that disc
Continues now with Erwin Gellman on the 1960 president ial campaign, candidates Richard Nixon and john kennedy and they close and come of the election. The Richard Nixon campaign is the host of this event with the president ial museum in belinda, california. Tonights conversation will be about the 1960 president ial election, the effects of which continue to reverberate across todays political landscape. We all think we know that that history was well written and well spoken for. But, now, Erwin Gellman has become americas contemporary looted authority on the 1960 election. It is they first historian to use mounds of material from the archive to tell a more complete account of the 1960 election, including unused sources such as the fbi surveillance logs of then candidate john f. Kennedy. And the papers of several others. He is a scholar of 20th century president ial history who used to prior books have documented Richard Nixons life. His third, and titled the campaign of the century ke
of their family. they weren t allowed to see doctors because they weren t allowed to go to school or become doctors. they couldn t go to a male doctor. it was a terrible situation in the country. i remember shortly after we went into afghanistan and i had to go around to the neighboring countries and try to find support for our basing and over flight rights and various types of assistance, and i went to oman, and there is a silton named caboose and he was at the time not in the capitol, out in a tent meeting with his constituents, and it must have been 140 degrees in the tent. he sat there just as cool as he could be, and we were per entiring through three layers of clothes, and he looked at me and he said something to the effect he was british trained, spoke english perfectly and something to the next that 9/11 may very well be a blessing in disguise as terrible as it was, and i said in what sense? he said, well, it may just not wake-up call for your country and the world
i introduced senator sanders as if he was gene v. debs. they are both socialists. he speaks highly of debs and i m not a socialist. what does it moon to be a socialist? the debs case? in barry sanders case you don t want to caucus with the democrats or republicans but want to be independent. what does it mean? we were talking about william jennings brian, occupy wall street criticizes, saying they don t have a message or order. if they had william jennings brian they d be in business and they don t have to do that thing with the mega phone and talk because brian could be heard through the whole crowd no matter what was going on. debs is the same way if you allow me to say the rhetorical meeting phone. i wrote this down and want to get it just right. but at his trial, gene debs said this 11918, while there is a lower class, i am in it it. while there s a criminal element, i m of it. while there s a soul in prison, i am not free. is he said this in 1918, 21 years be