every american is to be freed from domestic violence. we shall have order in the united states. nixon leads in the polls, but his white house dreams are haunted by lbg s progress toward ending the war. nixon worries about the prospect of an october surprise, that peace is being negotiated that it s in hand and that it boosts the prospects of hubert hum free. mid october, lyndon johnson fuels nixon s worst fear. who is that speaking, dick is that you? i m on. hubert, are you on? in a conference call, lbj updates the presidential candidates confidentially on a big breakthrough in the negotiations. north vietnam at last is willing to talk with south vietnam. this is an absolute confidence because any comment referring to the substance of these matters will be injurious
on the street. we had an incumbent democratic president who could not attend his own convention because he was so controversial in the country and within the democratic party, this tainted the candidacy of hubert hum free, his vice president who emerged as the nominee of a damaged party. those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. as we watch 1968 here on cnn, 50 years later, what are those lessons that we should be learning? first of all, racial strife, this was the first election after the passage of the civil rights act. there were candidates who more subtly with his law and order
actually makes so much more sense from my perspective because i have to tell you when i go across the street to the hubert hum free building it s so big it s so difficult for anyone to get anything done. for people to interface with that. were we better off before obamacare was established? were we better off. i don t think there s any questions that we were. the issue for me on the affordable care act i m trying to get to the legislation. why don t we go back to that? if you believe we re better off without obamacare, why doesn t your party go back to repeal? why not just do that? you know that was passed in the house and the senate, december of 2015. the senate, the president at the time vetoed the legislation. when i talked to people back