governor, all three were dudes. these dudes. and this was 1967 and 1975 when he was governor, so, maybe that is just par for the course. but when reagan ran for president in 1980, that record came back around and bit him a little bit. all through the 1960s and 70s, believe it or not, the republican party platform, nationally, had explicitly and it through the astley supported the equal rights amendment, the era, the constitutional amendment that would guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens regardless of sex. the equal rights amendment had been kicking around for decades by that point, even for generations by that point. and the republican party, nationally, had said for years on its platform that was explicitly in favor of it. until they picked ronald reagan as their presidential nominee in 1980. reagan was really right when. and he was a culture war kind of conservative. and sticking it to the feminists was exactly the kind of thing that he built his campaign around.
dramatic reading of backstage events at that south carolina debate when jim clyburn convinced joe biden, as a candidate, to pledge that moment that he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. and we just got confirmation from simone sanders that, indeed, she and other biden advisers told him that day, during debate prep, no, don t do it. there is congressman and other members of the black caucus debate prep day, simone sanders and others were telling biden, no, don t do it. and then, at the debate, congressman clyburn goes to him at the commercial the and says you have to do it. and now we are living the history of the results. both in the fact of his presidency and in anticipation of his nomination. yes. and so, the story of that movie, where the costar, clyburn, will be joining us to get his version of it. in composing my thoughts about this, leading into talking to clyburn tonight, i decided in the interest of time, to leave out the names of the people i
is just par for the course. but when reagan ran for president in 1980, that record came back around and bit him a little bit. all through the 1960s and 70s, believe it or not, the republican party platform, nationally, had explicitly and implicitly supported the equal rights amendment, the era, the constitutional amendment that would guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens regardless of sex. the equal rights amendment had been kicking around for decades by that point, even for generations by that point. and the republican party, nationally, had said for years on its platform that it was explicitly in favor of it. until they picked ronald reagan as their presidential nominee in 1980. reagan was really right wing. and he was a culture war kind of conservative. and sticking it to the feminists was exactly the kind of thing that he built his campaign around. and so in 1980, the republican party dropped its decades-long support for the era, which bothered some women in the r
moment that he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. and we just got confirmation from simone sanders that, indeed, she and other biden advisers told him that day, during debate prep, no, don t do it. there is congressman clyburn and other members of the black caucus debate prep day, simone sanders and others were telling biden, no, don t do it. and then, at the debate, congressman clyburn goes to him at the commercial break and says, you have to do it. and now we are living the history of that. both in the fact of his presidency and in anticipation of this nomination. yes. and so, the story of that movie, the costar, clyburn, will be joining us to get his version of it. in composing my thoughts about this, leading into talking to clyburn tonight, i decided in the interest of time, to leave out the names of the people in the biden campaign staff who advised against this. so, you know, who wants to have that on them? and then i turn on the rachel maddow show
lawrence i d like you to take a look at something that happened exactly 11 years ago tonight at this very minute, the very first words that were ever spoken on the last word, let s take a look at this. now here s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, tonight lawrence interviews joe biden. lawrence, hi. ready to go on the first. so we are all pulling for you, and very excited. i can have a better lead. and it s very kind of view, sort of. thanks. rachel could you tell how nervous i was? you actually looked fine he looked totally in control, i look like i had no idea how to do this kind of thing. also, what was that shirt? it s like i borrowed it from someone who is never me? you look, you look yourself. you re totally in control. i was a mess. the network was actually re-running a show at 10 pm. so you never had somebody to hand off to, suddenly there was a live show at 10 pm and you had a little drop to do at the end rachel, because you say good