senator dirksen delivers the message to the nixon camp. the very next morning, sunday, two days before the election. meet the press. richard nixon launches his cover up on live tv. i want to make it clear innerry one of my public statements, including meet the press, i stand with the president with regard to his efforts to get the paris negotiations off dead center. after making that public lie, nixon doubles down on his cover-up in a very private call. mr. president? yes. this is dick nixon. this conversation is a master class in political subtext and subterfuge. just want you to know that any rumblings around about somebody trying to sabotage the saigon government attitude certainly has absolutely no credibility as far as i m concerned. i m very happy to hear that,
that we remember the real legacy that we can leave behind for these wonderful foot soldiers who have the courage to march is not only do we need to commemorate them but we also need to remember the voting rights act was the ultimate thing that they were marching for. and it s under our salt renewed our salt by photo i.d. laws that are in lots of states. but the most important thing that i was hoping with all those members of congress and all those presidents is that we ll come back with a renewed sense of purpose as members of congress remembering why it was the voting rights act was so important. it was republicans and democrats. i have to remind my republican colleagues that it was senator dirksen, a republican who really helped make that a reality, because the other member the democratic members wanted it so it was really interesting. a major theme of the president s yesterday was this issue of intergenerational struggle. i wonder how that is manifest in
phones. he would be on the phone with dr. king, then he would call governor wallace, then he d call senator dirksen. and then he d be on the phone with richard russell. and he was pulling out every stop. he d call them in the morning, he d call them at night, he d have a cocktail with them. there is a story of calling a senator at 2:00 in the morning and he said i hope i didn t wake you up. and the senator said, no, just lying here in the bed hoping my president would call. reporter: johnson s arm twisting worked. the bill fought its way through congress. the filibuster was broken by republicans and democrats. with his signature, lbj made the civil rights agect of 1964 the w of the land fouling a ground swell of public support after violence and hate had tested the nation. and carol, seems like such a long time ago, but i remember as a little girl growing up my parents telling me stories about how they were not able to go to
candidate for the republican nomination for the president, has been kind enough to join us in our studios in washington, d.c., and he s joining us live this morning after what was surely a very stressful and busy day yesterday. i do hope you got some sleep, and thank you for being with us. our viewers do thank you, too. thank you, robin, and it was a busy day but i survived. this is why it was a busy day, and we re going to talk about many issues, but let s start with what s at the top of the news. many people are asking, did you say something early yesterday about sexual allegations against you but something completely different hours later? let s watch as things happened yesterday. if the restaurant association did a settlement, i am i wasn t even aware of it and i hope it wasn t for much because nothing happened. so if there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association, so the answer is absolutely not. i am un
does the same thing. of course he does and he was asked a question, in a recent event last week, about charges from the democrat that he wanted to take the country back to the tax and fiscal budgeting policies of the bush administration and listen to how kirk answers that question: i think i d like to take them back to governor edgar, and, senator dirksen s days when we were moderate, we were fiscal conservatives, when we didn t lend money to mobsters. reporter: like the candidates can t help each other, when a talk of a subject in front of a camera, a reporter, a group of supporters they invariably ends up on the narrative, how the other guy is so much worse than they are. martha: people are so tired on both sides and we ll see what happens when the polls hope, steve brown, thank you very much. you re welcome. martha: look, folks, an alligator, not in florida, it is