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Beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern with cspans the contenders series. Thats followed by archival video of his 1968 president ial campaign and push to get on the california ballot. Also, a tour of the George Wallace collection at the Alabama Department of archives and history, and the discussion of segregation and politics in the 1960s in alabama. Thats friday, beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan3. And now the contenders, our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost but who nevertheless changed political history. Over the next two hours, we feature former Vice President and minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey, who was the democratic candidate for president in 1968. This program was recorded at the Minnesota History center in st. Paul. This is American History tv on cspan3. Stay right there. [shouting] mr. Chairman, my fellow americans my fellow democrats, mr. Chairman, my fellow americans. My fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. This
Democratic convention. And mccarthy and Vice President humphrey were the leaders in the democratic race. Ron and dottie went to chicago as part of the New Hampshire delegation. There they continued their protests along with many other delegates who also wanted to see a more detailed plan for peace as the partys campaign theme. We shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome some day other demonstrators protested against war in the citys streets. And these protests erupted tone into a confrontation with police that drew the concerned attention of many americans. The delegates shared that concern. But first they had to fulfill their obligation to nominate a democrat for the presidency. As the balloting went on, it became clear that Vice President humphrey had the support of the convention. Ron and most of the New Hampshire delegates were pledged to vote for mccarthy, and they honored that pledge. I cast 20 votes for senator eugene j. Mccarthy and 6 votes for Vice President humphrey
Capability. To what extent is there concern cut into itss military capability . Can you give us any more feelings on that . You listed it as one of the , but can you be more graphic . Can you give us any more detail as to the extent about the cuts to our military capability. Our military capability . Statess in the united and one of those involved in protecting the governments thetion when we published strategic defense and security review in october of 2010. Remarks, in my opening the administration at that time, although there were some underlying concerns, they were persuaded that we were going to spectrum of full capabilities, that they were reassured that our defense spending would remain above 2 , certainly throughout the life of this parliament, and that the numbers we were talking about for interventions in the future were scalable. They were not as great as we have managed before, but they were nevertheless militarily significant numbers for continuing operations and for large
Host wolman david wolman, joining david wolman, joining us from portland, oregon, thank you, sir. Guest my pleasure. Live coverage of the house begins now. For morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, for much of the past decade, Irans Nuclear Weapons Program has been a Top National Security concern for the United States, and iran armed with Nuclear Weapons capable of threatening israel and other regional states would touch off a Nuclear Arms Race in the worlds most volatile region. For this reason i have pressed for everincreasing sanctions to isolate iran from the Global Economy and have supported a policy that leaves all options on the table, including military for