Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president Lyndon Johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. He was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing president ial elections. Richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first Vice President in history to lose a president ial campaign. He then made Hubert Humphrey the second 1968. As the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i democrat o
Erin . The arraignment is in a courthouse thats already handled hundreds of january 6th defendants. It is those lies that are central to the prosecutions case. The man behind it all, the man who has been a target of a Public Smear Campaign by the 45th President is jack smith. You see him there. Paula reid is outside that courthouse right now. Paula, how will all of this play out, the logistics of this once trump arrives where you are . Reporter well, erin, this courthouse is accustomed to dealing with vips, security details, so he has the option to pull underneath the courthouse in a garage. We may not be able to seen him at all. Once inside, he will be placed under arrest. He will be processed. We expect fingerprints, but there wont be a mug shot. Federal authorities have said they already have a mug shot. And the hearing should be pretty short. He will hear the charges filed against hi and hell have th opportunity, as expecting to enter a plea in florida he had s attorney enter that
top fill the shot, body rock rock it the ballots that are fraudulent. and if we re wrong, we will be made fools of. but if we re right, a lot of them will go to jail. [cheers and applause] so let s have trial by combat. [crowd clamoring] - when giuliani appeared alongside donald trump on january 6th, what came to my mind was the riot at city hall. [crowd yelling] - [whistling] - they marched around city hall park in a peaceful and orderly fashion, but then, minutes later, thousands of cops stormed through the barricades and ran on top of cars as they charged the stairs of city hall. [crowd cheering and yelling] - people called it at the time the riot of the oppressors. [crowd yelling] a riot of policemen. [crowd yelling] - you have a bunch of off-duty cops. [crowd yelling] - took over the roadway of the brooklyn bridge. jumped on cars. stormed city hall. - saying that their jobs had become too difficult and that they didn t have the support that they needed and
and if we re wrong, we will be made fools of. but if we re right, a lot of them will go to jail. [cheers and applause] so let s have trial by combat. [crowd clamoring] - when giuliani appeared alongside donald trump on january 6th, what came to my mind was the riot at city hall. [crowd yelling] - [whistling] - they marched around city hall park in a peaceful and orderly fashion, but then, minutes later, thousands of cops stormed through the barricades and ran on top of cars as they charged the stairs of city hall. [crowd cheering and yelling] - people called it at the time the riot of the oppressors. [crowd yelling] a riot of policemen. [crowd yelling] - you have a bunch of off-duty cops. [crowd yelling] - took over the roadway of the brooklyn bridge. jumped on cars. stormed city hall. - saying that their jobs had become too difficult and that they didn t have the support that they needed and they wanted a much tougher hand. crowd: dinkins must go! dinkins must go! -
1968 was the year where the real decisions between the party that we see now were first locked in cement and we saw as one of the more poignant scenes in this book what literally became the last liberal standing on a Republican Convention stage in 1968, and it was the moment when mayor john lindsay of new york was forced at least half against his will to second the nomination of spiro agnew to be president of the United States after lindsay himself wanted to get that nomination, he then had to second that nomination for agnew and that was the last time a National Republican of significance stood on a Republican Convention stage as a liberal and john lindsay eventually left the Republican Party not long after 1968 so we now have a world in which when people hear that you are a democrat or they hear that youre a republican, they think they know everything about you. Its not just a know whether youre a liberal or conservative, they think they know everything in 1968 had more drama and cha