And now my friends, that you have made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all my heart and soul. And with the your help, i have no doubt that we will win. Help me to do the job and this autumn of conflict and of campaign. Yeah and we will justify our glorious paths and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. We will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have. That was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. We are joined by historian Richard Norton smith here in Adlai Stevensons old study in liberty bell, illinois. Richard norton smith, who was this one term governor . Two millions of americans, thats all he was, a one term governor of illinois. They knew nothing more about him. They had never heard a voice like his. They did not know that in some ways, a Political Revolution was being touched off tha
In about 15 minutes, President Trump pulled the Campaign Rally with voters and supporters in des moines, iowa. A portion of washington journal on Election Security. We are back with david, a Global Fellow Wilson Center and author of Great America russia in 100 years of electoral interference. Here to discuss the book on the history of russias electoral affairs. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. What prompted you to write this book . I was alarmed when, after 2016, so many commentators and analysts tweeted interference in the 2016 election as unprecedented somehow. To me, when something is treated as unprecedented, it suggests theres no historye behind it suggesting its easy to create myths and lies about something so what i do is restore history to the subject and devote the dangerous myth that this is all combined to the 2016 election. Soviet Union Interference election, the cia and during the cold war, russia is and is interfering all over the world today
My fellow democrats. I proudly accept the nomination of our party. This moment this moment is one of personal pride and gratification. Yet one cannot help but 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. And for the personal injuries which have occurred. [ applause ] surely we have now learned the lesson that violence breeds counter violence. And it cannot be condoned whatever the source. [ applause ] i know that every delegate to this Convention Shares tonight my sorrow and my distress over these incidents and may we, for just one moment, in sober reflection and serious purpose, may we just quietly and silently, each in our own way, pray for our country and may we just share for a moment a few of those immortal words of the prayer of st. Francis of assisi, words which i think may help heal the wounds, ease the pain and lift our hearts. Listen to this immortal saint. Where there
Stay right there dont move mr. Chairman, my fellow americans, my fellow democrats i proudly accept the nomination of our party [ cheers and applause ] this moment this moment is one of personal pride and gratification. Yet one cant help, but 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 and for the personal injuries which have occurred. [ applause ]. Thats Hubert Humphrey accepting the 1968 nomination for president at chicagos Conrad Hilton hotel where the democrat his gathered for their convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of angry protesters demonstrated outside. Hubert humphrey, longtime, minnesota senator and unsuccessful candidate is the focus of this weeks Contenders Program. We are live from minnesotas history center. Nick collette is the document ari documentarian of Hubert Humphreys life and the tumultuous year of 1968. I want you to set the stage f
You have to operate within the compounds of the law and provide flexibility to allow the voters to get to the ballot box. So, in our situation we give people the opportunity to vote using an absentee ballot but we are one of 16 states that require a vote o voter to requen absentee ballot. We are not to vote by mail we simply send them out to everybody and i would like to talk about why i dont advocate that kind of opportunity for fraud. When somebody requests an absentee ballot you know that there is a loud person on the other end to send it to end it worked wonderfully for us. I had the best primary in the United States in fact i was asked to testify because of the house success during the primaries we implemented to then prepare for the general election. In particular, let me give you a quick example of how it can be a problem. I dont want to take this as an attack on the Postal Service because we have hard workers that have a great system in place. 96 of the time by the statistics,