Republican level wyk lowell wyker. He was a United Church of christ minister. It looks good. This is joe duffey. He is a minister and running for the democratic nomination. Duffey is one of several contenders, the only liberal. Why are these people trying to subvert our country . I am proud to say i am american and this is my flag. I will die for it. [sounds of motorcycles] [band music playing] freedom [applause] joe duffey has come out of nowhere. We are in good shape. It will be a whole new game. Later against enormous odds, he will win a place in the primary, win the primary, and then lose in the general election. I think there is a reaction. Joe duffey is one of my oldest and closest friends. We have worked together on a lot of things. After the 1968 Democratic Convention in chicago, we talked about trying to turn politics back to the people. Whether it was possible any longer, whether the established parties would ever get around to ending the vietnam war and then we talked about the redistribution of wealth in the world and right now, would we ever again have the sense that the government really represents us . All of us. This is what joe and i were talking about in 1968 and 1969 and joe talked to other people, too. Like the people who had worked with him in the Mccarthy Campaign, those that were still disturbed about the war. I suppose it was against this background that he decided to run. To find out whether he could campaign on issues, and whether the twoparty system in this country could respond. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. [applause] for the governor, the choice of john daly, party boss for 35 years. [laughter] hey harry, how are you doing . He came to see me. I will wait until they come to tell me. Duffey has been working for months to get 20 of the delegates. 20 would force the first primary in connecticut history. I couldve had the courtroom. [laughter] the Democratic Party, afraid of a loser, dropped senator tom dodd after he was censored for misappropriation of funds. Al donahue the partys choice for senator is al donahue. Many Party Regulars are privately sympathetic to duffey but committed to donahue on the first ballot. Duffey headquarters, a trailer outside the convention. I cant deal with my constituency in terms of you are not doing that. All you are doing you are not saying you will deliver any votes. What you are doing is helping audrey handle herself intelligently for your benefit and her benefit. Do you understand . Yes. Is it really . [laughter] the target is 481 votes. The convention is a little more open than it was. We just have to go for it. We would be idiots to be happy with 20 . If you compare it to the Mccarthy Campaign, i cant get the same feeling about working for the candidate. Just because he is my father, i guess. Michael duffy. When you feel ideological about a candidate, you get that unknown drive. Because of the issues, i cannot feel that. Because he is my father. It is weird trying to work for him because i cannot get the same feeling. It has affected the family life. It has been kind of hard sometimes. Not especially for me but for my mother, especially. She is the one that supposedly has got to live with him for a long time. I can take a leave from the campaign whenever i want. It is harder on her. It is always affecting her when he is not there. I kind of like it. Sometimes it is nice not to have him there. I can stay out until 2 00 in the morning and not have to face him when i come home. [chanting we want joe ] i found myself after 1968 very impatient with the people who wanted to give up political activity and somehow wanted to talk of disruption and revolution in romantic terms and people on the other side who there were the people that had given up and those that thought politics as usual was enough. [cheers and chanting] we would not have to have gestapo tactics in the streets of chicago. How hard it is, how hard it is to accept the truth. Chicago in 1968 left a question in everyones mind. Would the Democratic Party ever again be the party of american liberals . Joe duffey was a delegate at chicago. He had been chairman of the Mccarthy Campaign in connecticut but mccarthy was shut out in chicago. The friends duffey made were still organized. For the time being, they decided to work within the party. Councilman . I do not mean any disrespect, but you are an ordained minister. Why do you drop the title reverend . Thank you for what you are doing here tonight. Asking the Democratic Party for your support for your candidacy when in effect you are telling us you possibly may not end up supporting the democratic nominee of the convention. The other slate has been announcing itself as uncommitted. Some of you may have read in the bridgeport post according to a , every strong rumor now that it is committed to senator dodd. I have no sympathy with politicians like senator dodd and others in the state who anticipated spiro agnew this time by suggesting to the people of connecticut that if you put all of the young people with long hair in jail, you will solve the problems that bother most of us. You will still have pollution, we would still have the war in vietnam, the crime would still increase in cities, you would still have the inflation that accompanies the war. He has been my idol for years. My idol. Thank you. Is the Democratic Party going to be responsive to the people . In the past it has always been that an uncommitted delegation has been sent to hartford. Or some i dont know omnipresent force upstairs tells the delegates what to do and who to vote for. We tried in this campaign to do the one thing that is to build an organization. To supplement and help serve the already existing democratic organization. Bailey, people around bailey. They would still like to push donahue. He is noncontroversial. They say that is the great thing. Im too controversial. I have been attacked all over the state is a communist a number of rumors have been started about my background. We are in that stage of the campaign. I think bailey has committed himself to the governorship. That is where the patronage is. I do not think he cares all that much about the senate seat. That is my own reading of it. I could be very, very wrong. Does that make any sense . Yes. What was your name, duffy . Duffey, right. A good irish name. Duffey grew up in west virginia, the son of an irish coal miner who lost his leg in a mine accident and went into politics. Duffey became a minister, opposed the war early, acquired a phd in urban sociology and was appointed to the Democratic National policy committee. Replaced galbraith as chairman for americans for democratic action. He is married, has two sons and went to chicago for mccarthy. Good to see you. Im running for the democratic nomination. Im from out of town. What town do you live in . Meredith. Democrats vote in meredith too. I wish you luck. Thank you. The Mccarthy Campaign tried to bring pressure on the professional politicians but it was all power and confrontation. Politics is involved beyond that with persuasion, coaxing, and cajoling. You try to make it possible for people to do what you are trying to bring them to do and i think mccarthys campaign was a little weak on the latter side. There was selfrighteousness in his campaign. I am not happy with the Campaign Just based on peace and protests. I think i am much more concerned about, and feel in my gut more deeply, economic injustice in the United States than he seems to or we are different kinds of people. The candidates son. Joe smiles. You are in that position. You dont want to be the candidates son . There are good things about being the candidate son. You went to the chicago convention. You were there when history was made. I dont know. Smelled the tear gas. What do you remember about the convention, david . Is that what you used to think politics was about . It is used by politics. I think you have to have revolution is politics. Any attempt by which people try to make decisions backroom discussions between top leaders. Are you kidding me . Political affairs, so great. The conducting or participation in political affairs, often as a profession. The people. You are not talking about, you know, opinion. I mean politics is rhetoric. I am completely convinced al donohue. That the philosophy of the Democratic Party was, is, and as far as i know hopefully always will be the philosophy of most of the people of this country. In other words, it is in fact or should be the party of the people. So i am very comfortable being a democrat because in addition to all else, i think the Democratic Party has been good for business. The man who cares about people. Where are you, joe . [band music playing] [cheers and applause] a senseless war that many of us thought was coming to an end. It has suddenly been expanded. In indochina last week, 217 americans died. But we are also growing used to a more horrifying body count in this country, from places like jackson, mississippi, and agusta and kent state. A United States grand jury investigation has strengthened the suspicion that a black panther named fred hampton was shot to death in his bed without provocation. And National Leaders who a few months ago were outraged about courtroom antics in chicago, have been discreetly silent. Construction workers have beaten demonstrators in the streets of new york. The stock market goes down and thousands lose their jobs and prices and taxes rise higher. We may get shut out of this convention. People are saying we should eliminate the extremists, duffey and dodd. Even down to marcus and donahue. I have been bearing down a little harder in the last two days on the difference between the perspective of a few people in hartford who draw fancy retainer is from their law fees profiting by their activities in politics who decide what is too liberal for the state. And the delegates and Committee Members who do the work at the local level. Last week in the industrial area, i had indications of support but it has all been silenced. Threats of one kind or another. It is going to be a tough convention. There will be a lot of armtwisting. If we do not watch our people duffeys campaign manager, ann wexler. We cant take that chance. Nothing would please this party more than to give the nomination to someone with 81 . Basically they dont want a primary. If we are not aware of what is happening and we dont Pay Attention at 19 , it was a nice exercise in democracy. At 20 , it is a ballgame. No one has 481 now. The only way is by duffey selling out donahue. The only way it works. [bagpipes playing] not according to greed. Or personal ambition. Thus us pray, in the name of the father, son and holy spirit. John bailey. Mim dedario. Gabe ribicoff. [applause] al donahue. He said you are too damn old at 50 to run for senate. I know. To each his own. Al donahue is a super manufacturer with 13 children and 30 million. Jimmy, come over here. Are on tv. We stand on our toes the keynote address. The senator from indiana. Instead of being content take utter for the g political expediency. We are adopting a wait and see attitude about some of the critical problems we have ever confronted. Did he give you any indication . He told me last week he wants to vote for me and he would like to but arthur made him treasurer of the town and he depends on barberry. He cant i think the nominations to the party will become an albatross. Look what happened in new york. Lbjs former press secretary. The reverend bill moyers. He went down in the primaries. Way down. There have been four or five recent examples of what money can do. He was defeated in texas. [chanting we want joe ] [cheers] [chanting] [bagpipes playing] call the roll. Ellen martin. Duffey [applause] john bailey. [crowd booing] okeefe. Joe duffey. Agnes mccue. Donahue. John rossi. Al donahue. Peter very. Barry. Joe duffey. Al donahue. Alfred martino. Proudly donahue. Duffey. William donahue. Joseph duffey. [cheering] donahue for duffey. [cheers and applause] 192 votes, 20 , he qualifies to challenge in a primary. We are on our way now. We are on our way. The first roll call is over. Donahue is 17 votes short of majority endorsement. John bailey tries to switch every vulnerable delegate to give donahue the party blessing. Donahue. [cheers] we dont like this kind of a deal. They destroy the party this way. The last of the dinosaurs. The dying of a dinosaur. You could do well on a second ballot. I know i could. Damn it, you ought to press for it. If you put enough pressure on them, they will have to be a little careful with how to handle this. [cheering] we should get this thing over with. Why make a big deal out of it . I think we wouldve had to acquiesce. State senator ed marcus. He also qualified to challenge in a primary. He simply cannot wake up to the fact that it is 1970. At the risk of attempting to foster a nowin manufactured candidate for the people of the state he has done everything in , his power. [chanting we want joe ] [applause] [cheers and applause] at times candidates announced primaries and disappointment, sometimes with bitterness. Theght id like to announce primary with great anticipation. [applause] the primary on the 19th of august. I hope you can give us some help with that. Maybe i will see what happens. Good luck to you. Thank you. You know about that primary on the 19th . Unfortunately, i will not be in connecticut. Good to meet you. Seemingly talking about both sides of the same time. I live abroad and i know the effect it has on the dollar. We cant talk inflation. They have no respect. You have two homes. The property taxes cant go up anymore. The tuition for schools. They just keep on going up. Just getting this primary the first time he has had a primary in the Democratic Party. It is a healthy thing. But the voters make their own decisions. That is enough, mr. Duffy. I think if mr. Donahue will give me a straight answer to this question, will he accept a limitation of 50,000 on Television Advertising then we can come to some clearer understanding of what is involved. If we can turn that direction so the banging does not come through on the mic. The Railroad System does not work. The answer to that problem is not more money in a failing system. The answer is changing the system in a fundamental way so it will work in the future. It is a very good time to be speaking to unions because they are in trouble. The unemployment, the pressures, the collective bargaining process is breaking down. I was in bristol last night. Where a group of printers are dealing with a shop. They discovered suddenly when they went out on strike this year, they are no longer dealing with a local printing shop. They are dealing with a conglomerate. With american can. They might decide to write it off as a loss this year. It is a very different collective bargaining situation. A much tougher situation. The other difficulty is being a minister in politics. You are too moral. I dont no one has accused me of that yet. The northeast is where this whole country started. Maybe we need some northeast regionalism in this. We invented this flag. When there were only 13 stars, mostly northeastern states. He is going to endorse joe duffy. He is . Good because he is terrific. A hell of a guy. He is a great guy. We had dinner the other night at the office with Howard Metzenbaum and harry obrien. There is another miracle thing. I met him in indy. Oh yeah . It was just incredible. Did you go to the west coast . We were everywhere. Were you in portland at all . I was there in 1965. I lived right around there. 42 cats. 42 cats . What kind of cats . Cat cats. The best type. There is a new opportunity in connecticut to bring these groups together. With the people who are being demeaned and called the silent majority. There is in it opportunity in connecticut. There are 86,000 men in this state without jobs. 25,000 of them in the next few weeks will have to make decisions about whether to apply for welfare for the first time in their lives. All i bring to you is having achieved a democratic primary that can be a referendum in the state on the kind of hard effort it will take to end the war, not by christmas as mr. Marcus suggests. I notice he talked about ending the war by christmas. His term as senator will begin in january. I dont think the war will be over. The fight will still be going on. Mr. Marcus charged your campaign has been taken over by the left . What is your response to that . Most of my positions in this campaign missed marcus and mr. Donahue have taken over. I am the only candidate the farleft and farright attack. Only one thate really poses a threat to either of them. 1, 2, 3. What kind of senator will joe duffy be when all of our programs for progress are stopped at the door . Paul odwyer. He will be the senator of the Democratic Party, he will say stop it. This is the kind of luxury we can no longer afford. We will not influence the young or the dissenters or the minorities as long as we live in this hypocrisy. He is the kind of senator you and i would want on the senate floor when the next bay of tonkin resolution comes up. We need someone to be the voice of conscience of the United States senate, somebody who will be the lafayette of our time. Ladies and gentlemen, senator joseph duffey. [applause] no one has this primary sewed up. Not sewed up, not buttoned up, not zippered up. [applause] it is a wide open fight, and we are in it to win. Some of you know what is happened since the convention. Mr. Donahue went to new york to make his television commercials. Im sure he will be seeing them again and again and again between now and the primary. Mr. Marcus has been to vietnam and i have been to bridgeport, and waterbury and [applause] announcer what he needed was funds for college, what he got was his army physical. Our young men are dying in a war that doesnt make sense. Lets be honest, withdrawal from vietnam doesnt mean withdrawal from the world. Donahue for democrat. Is there a way out of vietnam . This is ed marcus. I went to vietnam to talk to our troops. Duffey had long opposed the war. His opponents called him the peace candidate. By 1970, everyone was tired of the war. So i say we can pull our troops out of combat now. No matter what the political machine may say. Vote ed marcus for senator. Primary day, very close. 800 votes either way, that is how close it is, we think. 800 to 1000. We have gotten our cards and check them against the vote, a couple of districts in one town. While your challenger is challenging many, many people, every challenge is being overruled. What do we do now . Contest the election . You can take a look at that list, you hold the list at the end and find out if they did vote any dead people. Challenge it then. We have to do the election all over again . No, just knock out that precinct. You have to be prepared to do that. So, what else is new . All right some statement in which i plan to say i support the ticket. Why tonight . Why not tomorrow . Why say it at all . You will announce your intentions tomorrow. You would discuss all the political ramifications tomorrow. You can congratulate him. Wish him well. Give him a call and tell him that you fully intend to do it tomorrow. Keep it a private call. Where does it start . You congratulate him for a great victory and so forth, and blah, blah, blah, and then you announce whatever your , intentions tomorrow. Then you are the whole show tomorrow. You will have all the tv. They will really Pay Attention. What time of the morning . I would do it early, 10 00, make sure they all get their newscasts in good shape. How many voted . That would have been they were talking 40 , 50 . The polls close at 8 00. A broken machine provides the first returns. We look very strong. We win. We win with ease. Thats true. Yeah. Im not sure it is true. Duffey doing quite well. Running along a slight trend largeping, but no cities yet. A little town is no great surprise because that is a college town and duffey has the intellectual Community Helping him along, so taking middletown is no surprise. And donahue taking meredith is no surprise but not by much. He took it by less than 200 votes. At this point, duffey there is a slight trend developing for duffey. Donahue needs some large cities support sing. Donahue needs more out of hartford. To help them along. He only has 200. About eight 150 a 150vote margin. Almost half of the city is in. Eastward, duffey ahead. Duffey is very close to donahue. It is a surprise. Here we are. 35 out of 45 districts in hartford. The United States senate nomination, duffey leading donahue. [applause] [laughter] duffey by nine votes. Mansfield, duffey, 828, donahue, 128. 60 out of 159 towns. It is all over. We won. Congratulations. All, all over. We won. Take a look at the figures. What do you mean you dont know . It is not all in yet. You won chester. What about granby and east granby . You are absolutely right, jack, it is too early. I have never back a loser, never in my life. We counted low, like we always do. We are careful counters. Did you know you were going to win westmark given the turnout and a fairly decent market vote, we couldnt lose. You could count 70,000 votes and that did not count any of the undecideds. You can buy canvassing and the you cut your figures by third. One grassroots politics is paying off. There is no substitute for it. [applause] i got no sleep. [chanting we want joe ] stand on something. We cant see you. [cheering and applause] stand on your principles. [cheering and applause] we are going to win in november because in this campaign we have brought together people who were told a year ago they could never stand sidebyside. [cheering and applause] spiro agnew notwithstanding we must bring this war to an end. [cheering] why do you think joe did so much better in the primary . Well, several reasons. Even better than i thought he did. Several reasons. One, the market vote was higher than we thought it would be. Basically the market vote was the dodd vote. It was a strict law and order vote, to a large degree. Two, all the people who supported joe duffy got out and vote. We did our job. We got the vote out. Family name, duffey. With your help, this could be the last quiet connecticut weekend they enjoyed for the next six years. Think about it on november 3. Joe duffey for United States senate. I dont see a lot of pluses in the pictorial sense. Could do a slide or something if we [sirens] connecticut has good state and local police departments. Duffeys running mate stresses law and order. As governor, i will make our streets, parks, and businesses he started the campaign by suggesting the basic differences between the two of us were i was working outside the system, and he has chosen to work inside the system. Stresses his experience as a first selectman in greenwich. And as a state representative and congressman. He has suggested i am somehow responsible, and those involved with me, in the protest against the war in vietnam, for the current campus violence in the country. That is about all he has said to this point. We tried to present the middle road, moderate point of view, and if my calculations are right, we are in good shape. We have the right principles we are standing behind. Let us look for a moment at mr. Duffys political army, the ada, and see what i mean. [applause] i refer to amnesty, a subject filled with controversy and emotion. When young militants lay siege to and forcefully take over College Facilities duffey, a target of spiro agnews rhetoric, saying 35,000 men and women who had jobs dont have jobs today. Tom dodd has asked about agnew. He has his style and his passion. I think what is more important is the substance of what he says and has been substantially right in most instances. I think some of his prose has been purple is that how you say it . I would not have said it, but that style is not my style. I said we had a pretty good chance of winning. Better than a pretty good chance, we are ahead in all the polls. I make no apologies for the fact i have always fought for defense business for connecticut. We are known as the arsenal of democracy. Dodd, despite his recent heart attack, he entered the race as an independent. He is a spoiler that will splitd the democratic vote. The Justice Department has dropped its plan to investigate him. I think we had a major crisis in the campaign yesterday when i released attacks for program that had a strong statement about the Capital Gains tax that was a test for our supporters. I think i am right about the kind of reforms we need to make the taxation system in this country just and fair. It is incredibly regressive if you put sales and property taxes on top of the federal income tax. People who give money in this campaign made their money because of the capital gain situation. They did not think it was a good thing for joe to say. Joe feels he can defend it. Beyond that, they thought it was rather politically inept at this point and i agree with them. Where do you need someone . Everywhere. Connecticut registration is one third democratic, one third republican, one third independent. I am for senator dodd. Can you tell us why . I dont know. He has passed a lot of gun control acts and is a good senator and better than most of them. I dont have much faith in the democratic process anymore. I dont like politics. It is really foul. Those guys make all those promises, never carrying them out. They aint too smart sometimes. When i become of age to vote, i wont vote. To hell with it. How do you think we will make changes . The United States or the world . Both. Well, nixon is trying to change i guess but he wont do , too much either. I feel like taking off and getting out of this world. What about duffey . We dont want presbyterian ministers running our country. Why is that . I dont know. I just follow the group. Sounds stupid but i guess that is what everybody does. He is not presbyterian. It is just a figure of speech. How do you feel about they dont bother me as long as they dont get their work involved in the politics. Its a democracy, not a theocracy. I guess the way it should stay. Can i ask your name again . Gary. Full name . Just that. I vote for dodd. Can you tell me why . I just feel he is the only one that got caught taking money. You feel sympathetic . Yes. If he got nominated, it would show the people have a voice. I would not vote for dodd. I would vote for duffey. Why . He is the lesser of the evils. That was the case but i guess i began not really i have been sort of amazed with what we have achieved. What astonished me is the chutzpah to start the whole thing. Incredible goal. Gaul. We had assurances of 12,000 when we started. When it is over, i assume it will be 1 million. I dont know where that money is coming from. What about the issues you brought up on the things that would disturb people the most . Sikorsky helicopter. I run into people who say, you want to get rid of the defense industries. Those are our jobs. We wont have any jobs. We cant see anything beyond the present defense industry. That worries me. Just yesterday, i sensed the whole political value of the whole campaign. Before then i had not been able to do it because i took it too personally, i guess. You know, i began to realize what i have is a person at stake in this campaign. What is that . I dont completely know. I know i am scared for this country in the next two years, six months. By listening to mr. Agnew and mr. Nixon. It has been hard for our family, but as i said, i begin to realize some of the virtues he has politically, and some of the ways i admire him for that, and i guess i am proud of him. Quite proud. He will never get it right. It is a different set of. You better leave it. We have 30. I flunked a course in poetry and i love it. Joe in indiana. Put it on channel 30. This is terrible. Put it on channel 30. This is nice. Just the small town that have come in so far. So we are waiting to see how the cities are. That will obviously really cut and us. And us. Really cut into us. Joe, now, i am scared. Dodd is getting a lot of republican votes. Yup. Oh, half an hour. Look at that look at that dodd is ahead. He got a big vote in hartford. We are ahead of dodd by 626. The vote is 360. Dodd, 96. That is in the town of goshen. [indiscernible] dedario won. Well, here we are. 31 of the 648 voting places where is this . 648 polling places. Yes. Getting in the second district. We want to make sure we are stressing accuracy here. It certainly appears that way. From deep river. 861 votes. So does weichert with 683 votes. Duffey, 691. Dodd, 249. I havent heard any cities except water very. Waterberry. I need to work on the speech. You dont have to work on it. Hi got one. Got one. Forget about our tomorrows. We forget beautiful tomorrows begin today. Between you and me, the bluecollar workers. I thought he had begun to bridge it. I am still hoping. I dont put that much stock into profiles. No, i dont think they can project it. They were projecting it two years ago, six years ago. You cant really project on that basis in this election i think. That we will be in there until they count the last ballot. Man down at his headquarters in greenwich. A freshman candidate, now one term in congress, having served as selectman in greenwich and also the state legislature, now moving up to the senate. Quite a fast. [typing] i dont know. It is totally incredible to me. What happened. There is only one district missing. A lot of it is the lack of understanding in the United States economy and the people that have suffered the most. About 70,000 ahead. For weichert. Thats the way it looks like its going to end up, 75,000 to 80,000. Im all right. Hanging in there. Keep it up in your chest. Dont let it get down into your gut. [cheers and applause] i will be persistent in my demands, but very patient with the fragile democratic process. [applause] [laughter] it is not all or nothing. There are a lot of things to do. You never when the first time. No worries. Ok . Let me see you smile. Well, we have done a lot. The best man. [laughter] thats all right. Look, i want to stay in touch with you guys. I hope so. You belong to us now. How are you . Dont give up. We start all over again. Yes, we well. There is a lot to do. All the way. Stay with it. We will too. We are all going to stay with it. It is what we have to do. It is just beginning. You just blow the whistle, will you . Ok, buddy. We will be there. Come on. Come on. Please dont stop. Dont worry. We cant stop. We have a lot to do. There is a lot to do. I cant tell if you are smiling or crying. We have a lot to do. Voters iare a lot of saw yesterday who think you stand for something and they dont want to support. That is reflected in the whispering campaign and the redbaiting and the threatening, the nasty threatening things they cheered your downfall. Last night, they said at least joe didnt get in. I may have underestimated the bitterness. You are right. 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