fritz was an expert, at least with his help from hubert humphrey and others, about what was going on in washington. so that was the main thing. >> right. >> and so we began really to explore every possibility of moving the vice president close to the president. he never had been in the oval office, never been in the white house before. and i spent one weekend with hubert humphrey because i found out just before he died, and while he had serious cancer, that he had never been permitted to go to camp david. >> that's right. >> and so i invited him to go and i had a speech to make on the west coast, and came back and picked him up in minneapolis and went and spent the weekend at camp david. just me and him and his medical doctors, as a matter of fact. and he unburdened to me that weekend things that i'm sure he never had said publicly, never have since then and that was the deprivation he experienced as vice president. >> right. >> and the exclusion from any role of an authorityive nature, executive nature, and he was deprived of taking news reporters overseas with him. and he had to ge

nixon and hubert humphrey were nominated to seek the presidency and spiral akron was the front runner for 1976 in polls at least until he had to reside from office. but even so, with this growth during the period from nixon to rockefeller, there still were limitations. the primary focus of the vice presidency was on providing a presidential successor. the executive branch work to the presidents to con, tended to be at episodic, it tended to be peripheral. the vice presidents weren't part of the presidents inner circle. vice presidents tended to feel pretty underutilized and pretty frustrated with their positions. president eisenhower wanted to dump a vice president nixon from the ticket in 1956, he suggested to him that he might chart his own course and his political future might be brighter if you took a cabinet position. but, vice president nixon had no desire to leave the vice presidency. later in august of 1960 when vice nixon was running for president and was suggesting that reason that people should vote for him instead of senator jon kennedy from massachusetts was that he had s

as you know, hubert humphrey was a mentor to senator mondale and to many of us from minnesota. and -- >> to me, as well. >> and to you. and he suffered in the vice president si and even though he did, vice president mondale, he urged you to be open to the idea. you want to talk about that? >> yeah. i went to -- at your suggestion, i went to see hubert and i said, i think i've got a possibility of joining with mr. carter and running for vice president but in light of the experience you had in this office, and the kind of painfulness and humiliation of it all, what do you recommend? and he said, i recommend you take it. if you can get it. he said, it's wonderful, you'll learn more than any other way, you'll have more influence in one day than you'll have all year in the senate and he said, i hope you'll consider doing it. now, i must say, i was never sure whether he wanted me to be vice president or he wanted to be minnesota's senior senator. >> well, he gave you the right advice and you did the right thing. >> yes, right. >> what did this mean to you, to have the office in the w

hubert humphrey, because president johnson had a miserable time as vice president, president johnson made sure that vice president humphrey had a miserable time as vice president, after vice president humphrey early on expressed some disagreement or some different views about how the united states should handle matters in vietnam, president johnson stopped inviting him to meetings to discuss vietnam. and some of you may recall, there was a political satirist named tom lear who wrote a song called "whatever became of hugh hubert" and my favorite line from the song was when something like second fiddle is the hard part i know, when they don't even give you a bow. president nixon detected spero ag nu, there were presidents when president nixon would be talking to bob halderman and johner lickman and they would say agnew wants to meet with you and the president would say the president doesn't meet with the vice president. that is not his job. that is not part of the deal. president ford's nine months as vice president were probably the least happy time of his public service. he took on s

and i spent one weekend with hubert humphrey because i found out just before he died and while he had serious cancer that he had never been permitted to go to camp david. >> that's right. >> and so i invited him to go. i had a speech to make on the west coast, and i came back and picked him up in minneapolis. we went and spent the weekend at camp david just me and him and his medical doctor, as a matter of fact. and he unburdened to me that weekend things that i'm sure he never had said publicly and never has since then, and that was the deprivation he experienced as vice president and the exclusion from many a role of an authoritative nature, an executive nature. and he was deprived of taking news reporters overseas with him and he had to get all the press releases approved by the president before it could be issues. and he was never involved in any serious discussions that lyndon johnson had with any foreign leader. and he was restricted severely on his ability to go into the congress and able to start an original conversation with another member of the u.s. senate. things of that k

and vice president nixon's successors, lyndon johnson, hubert humphrey, spiro agnew and rockefeller. they took on more functions in the executive branch, sharing commissions, making trips for the president, doing political work. other than vice president agnew, i think all of these people were really among the leaning political figures of their political generation. and the vice presidency became a better presidential springboard and it became attractive to able people for that reason. nixon and hubert humphrey were nominated to seek the presidency, and spiro agnew was the frontrunner for 1986 in gallup polls until he had to resign from office. but during this period from nixon to rockefeller, there were still limitations. the primary focus on the vice presidency was to provide a successor. the work vice presidents took on tended to be episodic, it tended to be peripheral. the vice president wasn't a part of the president's inner circle, and vice presidents tended to feel rather underutilized and frustrated with their positions. but president eisenhower wanted to dump vice president

we know it as one of a very famous former minnesota senator once said, hubert humphrey, if you don't write history, someone else will write it for us. well, right now, the tech companies are writing our history. and you see it in the insurrection. and you see it in the misinformation about the vaccine. and it must stop. and the way you stop it is not to destroy them, please don't confuse my zel usness on this issue with wanting to bring down these major tech companies that have given us so much, it is about divesting their assets, putting traditions in place, allowing competitors to develop the bells and whistles on privacy and misinformation that they have failed to do. >> it's clear that you have recognized the anti-trust is not perhaps the sexiest issue on capitol hill or the easiest issue for voters to understand and digest. you even cite a segment from johnle ver. take a look at there. >> we seem to have forgotten how important antitrust is and are being forced to live with the consequences because this issue affects almost everything you do, angry at banks, or the industry is d

that was hubert humphrey's job, not exactly a top priority. and yet since then, presidents have given vice presidents some big tasks. this is the first one, immigration is the first one. vp harris has a tough job. nobody has done this well before. dealing with three countries, the northern triangle, that are in terrible trouble any way you look at it, which after all, that is why people get up on foot and leave their countries, things are pretty bad. we will see what she can do there. this is the first big test. the other question would be, will she get some kind of ongoing job from the president? al gore had reinventing government and almost all of climate change was in his bailiwick, and he had basically where the president said this is yours and i will not second-guess you. it remains to be seen not just what jobs harris gets but what kind of a tommy she has -- autonomy she has. a friend of mine talks about how people were always trying to run around al gore to go to bill clinton only to find out bill clinton say to them, ask al. they thoug

humphrey who was asked by lyndon johnson to chair the american beauty and tourism, that was hubert humphrey's job not a top priority. and since then presidents have given their vice-presidents some pretty big tasks. this is the first one, the immigration is the first one. vp harris has got a tough job. nobody has really done this well before deal withing-- dealing with three countries, the northern triangle in terrible trouble, after all, that's why people, you know, get up on foot and leave their countries is things are pretty bad in those countries. so, we'll see what she can do there. this is a first big test. the other question will be, will she get some kind of ongoing job from the president? al gore had reinventing government and he had all of this, all of the climate change was in his baliwick and he has a relationship, as did cheney, basically the president said, you do it, this is yours and i won't second guess you. so it remains to be seen not just what jobs harris gets, but what kind of autonomy she has in those jobs. one of my old colleagues from the -- from the clinton gore admin

a guy named hubert humphrey, a guy who was ambivalent about the war in vietnam but went on to carry on the policies went on to win the nomination. opposing him as a republican who had been around the political bush more than a few times named richard mill house nixon. nixon who lost kennedy in 1960, he lost his bid to become governor of california 1966 but richard nixon is not an easy got to make disappear. he comes back from the political dead. he wins the republican nomination, and he does something tricky. i'm not gonna be able to say much more today but he does something very interesting. now nixon had made his bones politically as a fierce anti communist. as a guy who would always stand up to the threat of soviet communism by 1968 the war in vietnam was wearing thin with again not just radicals, not just young people, more and more americans. they don't want to betrayed the troops. they don't want to give up on their vision of what the united states stood for. they certainly did not have a radical critique of american foreign policy but my gosh, the war had been going on now for m

he rate in 1968 against hubert humphrey, the democrat on a platform that had two parts. one was to restore law and order because there had been riots and uprisings in the cities, antiwar demonstrations. students occupying college campuses. that was one part of his vision. the other part of his campaign was to end the war, and the disorder that it was causing in the country. he managed to win an extremely narrow victory over humphrey. if you go by popular vote, the margin of victory that nixon had over humphrey was less than the 2016 election. if you were trying to gauge the division in the country, that is a good measure. nixon, instead of ending the war, he expanded it geographically. in 1970, he sent troops over the border of vietnam into cambodia, and that had engendered a huge national student uprising against the war which ended in this tragic shooting at a university campus in ohio where national guardsmen killed four students. in 1971, in the spring, nixon decided to expand the war into laos, and that spawned another uprising in the antiwar movement, which led to

there wasn't a vice president until hubert humphrey was inaugurated in 1965. so what you hear there is lady bird stepping in and and listening not just on delivery but on substance and content and picking up his contradictions and and that is sort of to me essence of their partnership. so let me back up and spend a little bit of time on the 1960 campaign and the vice president see to talk about how involved she was in that campaign and and really what her contributions were to the ultimate success of that ticket. well in 1960. lyndon johnson, he did run in the balloting process at the at the convention in los angeles, but he lost in the first round of ballots. and there's a very well documented painful story about the process by which john f. kennedy asks lyndon johnson to join his vp. so the power dynamic flips right away. when as lady bird talked about how difficult it was. it was like a nettle in their throat that they didn't see a way not to accept becoming subordinate as vice president on the the kennedy ticket. once that happened by the summer of 1960. l

humphrey, a dear friend of the jewish community. but the jewish community in this country is feeling awfully uncomfortable now for many reasons as you can imagine based on just the litany of the attacks you referenced on your show. >> what you're saying is pretty serious. you're putting colleagues of yours in the hot seat, basically saying how come some progressive members are quick to criticize israel and slow to show concern about anti-semitism? i mean, those are serious accusations. have you gotten any response? >> sure. you can imagine the response i've gotten. a lot of it positive. i've gotten a lot of condemnation, which frankly validates my whole point. i want to refer to ritchie torres, a wonderful new member from congress, progressive, gay man for new york city who has a great fondness for israel because he recognizes it's the most progressive nation in the middle east. he knows only in israel can gay man not only survive but thrive. only israel. the population afford rights including arabs -- in fact, arab citizens have mo

and increasingly, as we went into the modern era, these chores have been meaningful, unlike hubert humphrey given to him from lyndon johnson. not exactly a top priority. since then, presidents have given their vice presidents some pretty big tasks. this is the first one. the immigration is the first one. vp harris has got a tough job. nobody has really done this well before, dealing with three countries, the northern triangle that are just in terrible trouble, any way you look at it. after all, that's why people, you know, get up on foot and leave their countries, things are pretty bad in those countries. so, we'll see what she can do there. this is a first big test. the other question will be, will she get some kind of ongoing job from the president? i'll gore at reinvented government and he had almost all of climate change was in his -- he had the relationship as they cheney were basically the president said, you do it. this is yours. and i won't second guess you. so, it remains to be seen, not just what jobs harris gets but what kind of autonomy she has in those jobs. one of my old colle

and my fellow americans, my name is hubert h. humphrey. my name is ed sulaymaniyah. sullivan. >> reporter: but by the 1970s, he had become pretty much a fixture on tv, especially game shows. >> di does it take physical dexterity to do what you're doing? >> reporter: he says he can actually do about 100 voices really well. can you do voices for everybody on this wall? >> well, first of all, there is katherine hepburn. you know, you old poop. and then there is clark gable. atlanta is not burning, that's the braves. they're playing a night game. and sean connery. and bob hope right here. and bing crosby, oh, ho. i'm w.c. fields, oh, yes, yes. my fellow americans... >> reporter: of course, he has also done just about every president, from richard ni nixon to gerald ford, jimmy carter to george bush and george bush. this summer who will be in an underbroadway off broadway p. >> reporter: do you have a favorite person. >> i would say will. i was up in the quarters in the white house for lunch. >> reporter: when the reagans left hollyw washington and flew home to california