The enemy of freedom
has chosen to make this year the decisive one.
Something's going to happen
the change is on the way.
We can change America.
We can change the world.
What we need now
is a reconciliation in this land.
There is nothing wrong with you
that a good haircut wouldn't cure.
And rest assured, we Democrats
will stir it up out here.
This election year of 1968
has touched the emotions
and assaulted logic as never before.
I think we have a little
too much violence in this country.
Martin Luther King, Jr: We go up together
or we go down together.
If we have not found
an understanding for our fellow citizens,
we will have a new America.
And I need your help.
If you look at the whole year as theater,
as real acts of tragedy,
there's an almost poetic feeling to it.
1968 was one goddamn thing after another.
Hardly a day goes by
without a new report of another demonstration
or protest against the Vietnam War.
There is in the land
a certain restlessness.
Lyndon Johnson
whatever everyone else thinks of him
his reputation will always
have the stone of Vietnam around it.
We're living in a middle of a beast.
Lyndon Johnson is a common murderer.
Johnson did things that
no other president did,
Civil Rights, great society.
He should have been somebody that
every young person and every liberal would have
celebrated, but they didn't.
He became the Vietnam War president.
We've been told repeatedly
that we are succeeding. We're defeating them.
They can't hold out.
Johnson kept saying
there's light at the end of the tunnel.
This is a CBS News special report,
Saigon Under Fire.
The enemy in Vietnam
has demolished the myth
that allied military strength
controls that country.
The American Embassy
is under siege.
Inside are the Viet Cong terror squads
that charged in during the night.
The Tet Offensive
was an enormous game changer.
They were shooting up the American Embassy.
They had hit dozens of cities all over Vietnam.
It was a tremendous shock.
We have known for several months now
that the communist planned a massive
Winter-Spring offensive.
We do not think that our military operations
are going to be at all materially affected...
He was unable to be honest
with the American people because
of course he was unwilling to simply say,
"This is an unwinnable war."
Cronkite's Vietnam report.
Reel one, take four.
These ruins are in Saigon,
capital and largest city of South Vietnam.
When he went to Vietnam during Tet,
it was the first time
and maybe the only time that
Walter had shown
any kind of bias in his public broadcast.
It is increasingly
clear to this reporter
that the only rational way out
will be to negotiate,
not as victims but as an honorable people
who lived up to their pledge
to defend democracy
and did the best they could.
After Walter Cronkite,
Johnson's popularity sinks.
To most ordinary citizens,
it has become obvious the war is not being won.
Opposition to the war was rising.
It wasn't just Beatniks and young kids.
King, Jr: We are fighting a war
and I'm convinced that it is one of the most
unjust wars that has ever been fought
in the history of the world.
Robert F Kennedy, Jr: Martin Luther King came out
against the Vietnam War.
His own followers said,
"You shouldn't be focusing on that,
you should be focusing on our issue."
And he said, "They're intertwined.
You can't separate them."
King, Jr: President Kennedy said on one occasion,
"Mankind must put an end to war,
or war will put an end to mankind."
Do you honestly think that
if there was an election,
a vote for and against the war
that the anti-war people would win out?
Well, its really hard to tell now.
The polls are uncertain but the polls do say that
most of the country is discontent
with the manner the war is taking.
I think something ought to be done.
Senator, how are you?
When some of the anti-war activists
were looking for somebody to run for President
and a number of people turned them down
including Robert Kennedy.
There are increasing reports
out of Washington that your advisers are now telling you
that you should run against President Johnson this year.
I have no plans.
I have no plans to change the statement
that I've already made.
According to... Senator?
The assumption among
the Kennedy intimates was that LBJ
was totally unbeatable in 1968.
And Bobby would run in 1972.
The anti-war movement
needed a leader,
and it fell to Gene McCarthy.
- How do you do? - Nice meeting you.
- Nice to meet you. - Very nice appearance.
Senator, President Johnson's supporters
say you don't have a chance here
in New Hampshire and you'll be lucky if you get
ten percent of the vote.
What do you say about that?
Well, I don't know.
The people who are supporting me
say we'll do much better than that.
One Democrat,
Senator Eugene McCarthy,
defied precedent to bid for his party's nomination.
Peace.
Eugene McCarthy does something that,
you know, is taboo.
He comes out against the sitting president
from the same party.
McCarthy came in from left field.
He was not thought of in the front rank
of presidential contenders.
But there was a great deal of frustration
and even despair among the young.
Eugene McCarthy gave them hope.
We're volunteers
for Senator McCarthy.
- Yeah. - We're reminding everybody
to vote in the primary.
From NBC News
Election Central in Manchester, New Hampshire,
this is the news.
If McCarthy gets as much as 30 percent of the vote
or more against an incumbent President
he can legitimately claim an important victory.
Kennedy, Jr: McCarthy didn't win
the New Hampshire primary
but he took enough votes
that it scared Lyndon.
He got 42 percent of the vote.
But McCarthy was a nothing, an upstart.
If McCarthy could draw blood,
Johnson was vulnerable.
They said that '68 was the year,
I think that March the 12th was the day.
How does this strike you,
you're not disappointed that he didn't actually win?
Oh, no. Oh, he did win though.
This is exactly what he wanted.
He said you shouldn't have dissent that...
that breaks down our system.
You should work through the Democratic process
to get what you want.
You can hope
and I mean, you've got to base it on a dream,
and this is coming true.
Whatever happened to Robert Kennedy?
I think...
Who's he?
Perhaps the most important result
out of all these from McCarthy's viewpoint
is that he will, from now on,
be treated as a serious presidential candidate.
All of a sudden, after New Hampshire,
there's a new political reality
and Bobby very rapidly starts recalculating.
Would you welcome his entrance?
Well, I don't know.
It's a little crowded now, but...
Let me tell you the issue of '68.
The issue of 1968
is not the Johnson personality
but the Johnson policies,
and I happen to believe that this country
can't afford four more years of Lyndon Johnson.
That is the issue of 1968.
For 16 years now
in the shadow play of American politics
there has always been Richard Nixon.
He's not coming back, he never left.
Most political observers
thought Nixon was finished.
He'd been counted out so many times.
So, Nixon wanted to show the leaders
of the Republican Party that he was a winner.
We'll inaugurate
a Republican president next January. Thank you.
Media consultants worked with him
so he wouldn't be the sweaty Nixon of 1960.
I'm really the most difficult man in the world
when it comes to a so-called public relations firm.
Nobody's going to package me.
Nobody's going to make me
put on an act for television.
If people looking at me say,
"That's a new Nixon,"
then all that I can say is,
"Well, maybe you didn't know the old Nixon."
I wrote a diary
of being on the Nixon campaign plane.
And I came out just saying,
"What does he believe in?
What does he care about?
How can we trust him?"
I realized that the person I felt most
related to was Robert Kennedy.
I have traveled and I have listened
to the young people of our nation
and felt their anger
about the war that they are sent to fight,
about the world they are about to inherit.
I'm announcing today my candidacy
for the Presidency of the United States.
Eugene McCarthy clears the way
and tests the water, but he wasn't the guy
who was going to get there.
Bobby was going to get there.
This nation must adopt a foreign policy
which says clearly and distinctly "No more Vietnams".
You have the declaration of another
rival candidate from within his own party.
Currents of anti-war sentiment are building up.
And the same time, the war is getting worse.
I think if you are Lyndon Johnson,
you feel you're being surrounded by a stampede.
Good evening, my fellow Americans.
Tonight, I want to speak to you
of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
This is the moment for LBJ
where the pressures of Vietnam
are becoming almost overwhelming.
It is true,
that a house divided against itself
is a house that can not stand.
Accordingly,
I shall not seek,
and I will not accept,
the nomination of my party
for another term as your President.
You have just heard the President
of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson
in an address from his office at the White House.
The advance text of his address
did not contain those last remarks
saying and I quote from President Johnson,
"I shall not seek, and will not accept,
the nomination of my party for the Presidency."
Roger, no question about it.
This was a bombshell politically.
Well, you really don't know where to begin.
Our guest today on Meet The Press
is the Vice President Hubert H Humphrey.
Who yesterday announced his candidacy
for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Hubert Humphrey was
LBJ's Vice President
and now he's running for President.
Humphrey has doubts about Vietnam
but has been a good soldier. He has stood by Johnson.
Your President made a supreme political sacrifice
to promote this cause of peace.
He was one of the casualties of this war.
I don't think there was ever
an overwhelming enthusiasm for Hubert.
The drama of McCarthy and Kennedy
had captured everyone's attention.
Is the key Vietnam?
Yes, in a large way.
In a large measure, not totally, but...
there's a certain degree of general protest amongst youth,
which I think is, on balance, a healthy thing.
There was a long frustration
on the part of students
that the war was not drawing to a close
despite our demonstrations.
So, the students began to become more militant.
At Columbia University,
students barricade themselves
into University buildings.
Their leader is a 20-year old ex-Boy Scout, Mark Rudd.
I would say that we now have
more support than any group
had about any political issue
has ever held on any... At anytime.
Columbia became the symbol of students in revolt.
Activists like Tom Hayden
went to Columbia and said,
"Lets have more Columbias."
There's nothing like feeling that
you're fighting the power or somebody is listening to you
at least to draw more people in.
We started shouting a phrase,
and it's a phrase that's been used in other words,
and by action
of people all around the world
when they face troops.
And that phrase is "Up against the wall ♪♪♪♪!"
We had an idea that this was the beginning
of something very important.
We took it as the beginning of revolution.
What's happening to America,
conversation three.
Tonight, "Our young people, what's bothering them?"
ls there really a generation gap?
Generation gap is a way that whites
in this country, and the structure in this country,
the system in this country, rationalizes its
lack of responsibility in teaching this generation
how to solve the problems which we are faced with.
1968 was the year
that you could point to and say,
"Here is where the separation began
between past generations
and generations going forward."
I think all of us have a role to play.
And I think all of us
have a great stake in the future,
you more than anybody else.
As President Kennedy once said,
"You have the least ties to the past
and the greatest stake in the future."
Kennedy, Jr: You will always find idealism in youth
and I think that's something my father
and my uncle recognized
and why they always visited the universities.
I remember my father talking about
how the founders of the American Revolution,
you know, they were young people.
Well, you fellows don't even
vote over here, you're not older than my son.
You don't even vote.
Come up here and I'll autograph your sandals for you.
That'll make you feel better.
There was a third party candidate
in this election, George Wallace.
But Wallace was not affected by the Vietnam issue.
He was going to have a certain amount of
support in the South, come what may.
There's not a dime's worth of difference
in either one of the two parties.
And if they don't give the people a choice,
we're going to give them a choice
by having a new party.
It was just a plain, ordinary,
anti-government streak in him.
It was his act,
"You bastards in Washington
are not going to tell me what to do."
And you anarchists had better have your day now,
because I'll tell you again,
you're through after November 5th in this country.
Do they know about Martin Luther King?
Ladies and gentlemen...
Could you lower those signs, please?
I have some very sad news for all of you,
and, I think, sad news
for all of our fellow citizens,
and people who love peace all over the world.
And that is, that
Martin Luther King
was shot and was killed tonight
in Memphis, Tennessee.
When King was killed,
Bobby was on his way to a campaign stop
in Indianapolis, going into the ghetto.
And the cops said "Don't go."
They were fearful of a riot.
Bobby went anyways.
For those of you who are
black and are tempted to fill with...
Be filled with hatred and mistrust
of the injustice of such an act,
I would only say that I can also
feel in my own heart
the same kind of feeling.
I had a member of my family killed,
but he was killed by a white man.
He gives this spontaneous speech
to an absolutely devastated crowd.
This wasn't just politics, he made it personal.
Let us say a prayer for our country,
and for our people.
Thank you very much.
This country and every person in it
suffered a terrible loss tonight
with the assassination of this man.
The perpetrator of this deed
brings down upon all of us the painful charge,
that we Americans are prisoners of violence
and destruction and death.
That is the tragedy of it.
Restraint, gentleness, charity...
virtues we so desperately need
have had a dark day.
King was the only
rational voice that was left in America.
He stood against the war in Vietnam.
He stood against violence, period.
So, when you killed him, you killed everything.
You killed the only rational voice that's left.
It became absolutely clear,
you don't want Dr. King,
you assassinated nonviolent direct action,
you tried to kill the dream.
Okay, here's a taste of the nightmare.
The outrage could not be contained.
Fires burned in the cities of America.
Washington, Chicago, Detroit,
Boston, New York, these are just a few of the cities
in which the Negro anguish over Dr. King's murder,
expressed itself in violent destruction.
I remember coming back Washington,
two or three days after King had been killed.
I was thinking "What am I seeing here?
This is the United States of America
and there are machine guns
on the steps of the Capitol?"
One hundred cities rage with riot,
20,000 are arrested.
People were in open revolt.
Sirens wailing, people screaming
and it shook everyone, black and white, to the core.
Nothing could be more desecrating
to the memory of Martin Luther King
and to use his death as an excuse to engage in violence.
There was a faith and spirit vacuum,
and when you find people
who have lost that hope,
fear tends to fill that vacuum.
People were increasingly afraid
and "Mister law and order", stepped up
on the Republican side.
This is a nation of laws.
No one is above the law,
no one is below the law
and we're going to enforce the law
and Americans should remember that
if we're going to have law and order.
Ending those divisions
that exist between black and white,
I want us to work together
and I run on that basis
for President of the United States.
Kennedy, Jr: My father's appeal was to
really the most disenfranchised classes.
He felt like nobody else was
speaking for them and that's where
his space was rather than with the liberals,
because the liberals were for McCarthy.
I want to reassure you that
I'm not yielding to anybody along the way,
either the Vice President or Senator Kennedy.
Indiana, Bobby wins.
Nebraska, Bobby wins. And then on May 28th, Oregon.
McCarthy's crowds
in recent days have been good,
larger than Kennedy's in many places
although without the frenzy
that accompanies a Kennedy appearance.
I can't afford to lose
if I'm going to remain a very active
and viable candidate,
it would... adversely affect me in a very serious way.
The actual final figures yet to come in
but apparently Senator McCarthy has
won a major victory in Oregon.
Senator Kennedy has suffered a severe setback.
They move on now to California
and the primary there, a week from tonight.
And this result, tonight,
does not prove of course,
that Kennedy is politically dead this year,
it does prove that he is politically mortal,
it establishes that he is Robert Kennedy after all,
not John F Kennedy.
I think what will happen now is that
McCarthy gets a new life.
He's still a long shot, but he has a chance now.
I think that, however, you don't
write off Robert Kennedy
because he can come off the floor
and win big in California. That's what he has to do.
But if he doesn't win big in California, he's had it.
We want Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy having lost Oregon
knew that he had to win California,
and that would be his ticket to the convention.
It will take a very big win,
a spectacular win in California,
to repair the badly shattered Kennedy image.
Bobby's going to do it.
You know, it's just the way everybody felt.
Final totals will be
Kennedy, 48 percent,
Senator McCarthy 41 percent.
He won.
All of us are involved in this great effort.
And it's a great effort
not on behalf of the Democratic Party,
it's a great effort on behalf of the United States,
on behalf of our own people,
on behalf of mankind and all around the globe
and the next generation of Americans.
My thanks to all of you, and now it's on to Chicago,
and let's win there.
I was upstairs in the Ambassador Hotel.
We were getting ready for a victory party,
and somebody called.
I picked up the phone in the suite
and this colleague said,
"Something's happened to the Senator."
Senator Kennedy has been shot...
Is that possible?
In this bedlam I couldn't find Kennedy,
finally found him, he's lying on the floor.
No!
Bob!
Somebody shot him
in this corridor behind the kitchen,
behind the kitchen here.
Everybody please stay back.
Please stay back. We need a doctor here.
Please, it's very important. We need a doctor.
Will you please clear this room?
If you will not leave the room,
we cannot give medical aid for the Senator.
Now, would please...
I can't say that people thought,
"How this could happen?" Because we'd seen it happen.
The truth is this had been at the back of
everybody's mind and one of the reasons why,
you know, some people said, "Don't do this, don't run."
Robert Kennedy is in the most grave condition
and hope is difficult to find.
Senator Robert Francis Kennedy
died at 1:44 a.m. today,
June 6th, 1968.
He was 42 years old.
Thank you.
As you all know that
no words can really fully convey
the feeling that one must have
for the nation in the face of this tragedy,
this new tragedy.
People say, well, it was inevitable.
His brother was murdered and so was he.
Nothing's inevitable. It just happened.
This plane will take back
the body of Robert Francis Kennedy
to New York.
Also on board this plane today
will be Mrs. John F Kennedy.
Also on board will be another widow,
Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr.
Somehow and in some way,
we seemed to be sending a great many
of our young leaders to their early graves.
It's been a very emotional period
for all of us who have worked for the Senator.
And personally, the most horrifying thing,
in these last few days, was this morning
when I tacked this black ribbon on to my campaign button
because now I'm lost. I'm desperate.
And I don't know where we're going from here.
When Senator Kennedy went down,
he was trying to speak for those Americans
including the young who feel the need to change
many aspects of American life.
Well, that cause has not been stilled forever
because even without him that changes will be made
because they have to be.
But nobody knows when nor how
nor whether the changes will be made
peacefully or violently.
In the meantime,
this country has lost another leader.
As far as I'm concerned, it has lost the only leader
that I feel gives us any hope for the future.
I mean, what happens to the country?
I mean, you wonder if it's worth saving, you know.
What is it? What's left of this country?
I know what my own feelings were
and I think they were widely shared.
We have to question ourselves,
is our country coming apart?
What are we becoming?
This is Walter Cronkite
in Miami Beach at this first session
of the Republican National Convention.
Richard Nixon was the leader
but he walked in to the Republican convention,
not positive that he would be the candidate.
The new fashioned Nixon
runs an old fashioned campaign,
and that's what the country seems to want.
There were challengers.
There was Nelson Rockefeller in New York, for starters,
and George Romney of Michigan.
There was some talk of Reagan.
But Nixon had a lock on the delegates.
We are a nation in crisis.
Right now change rules America.
It's time for America to rule change.
It is my privilege to place a nomination,
the man for 1968,
the honorable Richard M Nixon!
There are 30 votes in Wisconsin
and this should put him across.
Richard M Nixon.
Sit down, get to work.
Well, it looks like Nixon,
nobody is really surprised
and no committed Republican feels cheated.
What was the fuss all about?
The Republicans understand
that Nixon in this time of tumultuousness,
he gives people the sense of continuity.
What is most important now
is for us to think how we can get this war ended.
Mr. Nixon talks of an honorable peace
but says nothing about how he would attain it.
At this point, the war is
continuing at as a hot a pace as it's ever been.
More troops are being killed every week
than in any time in the course of the war.
This weekend, the enemy
stepped up attacks throughout South Vietnam.
We knew that we would not be able to
influence the Republicans on Vietnam,
so we wanted to put massive pressure
on the Democrats.
I didn't think anything could happen
with Vietnam without that challenge.
This is a CBS news
Campaign '68 Convention Special.
What's going to happen in Chicago?
On this eve of the beginning
of the 35th Democratic National Convention,
Chicago is nearly security tight.
Perhaps the heaviest security
ever provided for a political gathering
in the free world.
The police,
several thousand of them, are now deployed.
Soldiers have arrived in Chicago and are standing by.
For the convention,
the plan was to have a mass anti-war demonstration
and a mass counter culture festival.
We gathered in the parks.
We are going to march
because we have a right to
because that's what we came here to Chicago to do
and no one is going to stop us. Thank you.
There were many factions.
They were united only by feeling that this is
our moment.
This is Carnegie Hall.
No more war. No more war.
We are concerned about
the build up of the force because we think
that anything that's built up like this
is liable to be used.
A Democratic Convention
is about to begin in a police state.
There just doesn't seem to be any other way to say it.
The people of Chicago
and its Mayor are proud to welcome
a great political gathering of Americans
who come here to shape the future of a nation.
And as long as I'm Mayor of this town
there will be law and order in Chicago.
The two men
who most still believe this is all about
arrived in Chicago today to begin their final drive
for delegate votes.
Most of us were saying
it just wasn't politically possible
for McCarthy to overcome
those who were pledged to Humphrey.
So, there clearly needed to be another force.
Arriving now,
Senator George McGovern of South Dakota.
McGovern got into the race because
there was a big hole in the anti-war side
and, you know, Bobby Kennedy had a lot of delegates
McCarthy said
he didn't believe McGovern had enough strength
to make any difference.
And so McCarthy said
he'll continue the fight for the nomination
although it was clearly implied
that his chances are very slim.
Mayor Daley setup all of the conditions
for a conflict in Chicago.
He didn't give them permits to march
but he knew that they were coming anyway.
Over 10,000
demonstrators were gathered in Chicago's Grant Park.
The demonstrators are determined to march
on Convention Hall tonight in protest.
The police are at the park in force.
You can count on it
that the police and the authorities
will always unify
what you can't unify by yourself.
The tumultuousness of
violence that was happening outside the hall
became reflected inside the hall.
There seems to be
some kind of battle going on over there.
Yes, directly
under our booth here. They're carrying a man out.
I got into a melee
in the convention hall myself.
Don't push me. Take your hands off of me
unless you plan to arrest me.
Wait a minute.
Well, Walter as you can see...
I don't know what's going on,
but I think we got a bunch of thugs here, Dan.
Mind you, Walter, I'm all right.
It's all in a day's work.
It reflected for all the world to see
the repression inside the hall
in what was supposed to be a
Democratic Society of free people
nominating someone to be President.
Downtown. Downtown Chicago
across from Grant Park beside the Hilton Hotel,
there has been in progress for some time,
a peace demonstration.
The police have come to put it down.
The National Guard has been called to help.
You create disorder,
if you try to impose too much order with force.
That's what happened.
They were suppressing our Democratic rights
in order to continue an undemocratic war.
People screaming,
being dragged to the paddy wagons,
a scene of wild disorder on this,
the night, of the Presidential nomination
at this Democratic convention.
It was a police riot.
And I had never seen that before in my life.
I had never seen groups of
uniformed policemen going after civilians,
there were pools of blood on Michigan Avenue.
The whole world's watching
"The whole world is watching"
chants the crowd on this day.
When George McGovern is
President of the United States,
we wouldn't have to have Gestapo style tactics
in the streets of Chicago.
Did you see
what was happening downtown?
Yes, I saw it with this television set.
Do you think this is going
to cost the Democrats the election this...
What's happening here in Chicago this evening?
I don't think there's any question.
I think not only the party but the country has split in half.
And I think they'll veer away from this dissension.
Thank you very much
Shirley MacLaine and Roosevelt Grier
watching the television set in the back of the hall
about what's going on downtown.
It is my high honor
to present the new leader of our party,
the next President of the United States,
the honorable Hubert H. Humphrey.
♪
I proudly accept the nomination of our party.
We got Hubert Humphrey
as the candidate.
Humphrey was an example of what we were fighting.
He was a liberal
who was going to betray our hopes.
I see an HHH on your lapel.
Does that mean you're for Humphrey all the way?
Well, I wouldn't say all the way.
I'm a Democrat and he's the nominee.
Now, it's true what George Wallace said,
if the first job at hand is to end this war,
there isn't a dime of difference there
between Humphrey and Nixon.
Vice President Humphrey
remains by any basis of measurement available
a complete underdog.
My feeling is that
if he could cut himself off from the President,
be his own man,
then he has a chance of winning this election
and it would make it very easy for all of us
to support him.
Humphrey desperately needed to separate himself
from the administration, and he did.
Well, I think the greatest task
of statesmanship is to find a way
to conclude and bring that war in Southeast Asia
to an end and to do it...
The public was so happy
that there was some movement towards peace in Vietnam.
Humphrey was back in the game
and it was neck and neck.
From NBC News election central.
Nixon is the one.
That's the natural banner
for any sprightly front page tonight.
94 percent of the popular vote is counted.
There are the numbers.
It was one of the closest elections
in American history,
closer even than when Nixon lost to Kennedy
eight years ago.
I have done my best.
I have lost. Mr. Nixon has won.
The Democratic process has worked its will.
George Wallace carried five states,
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
In our judgment,
the people who supported us
had an impact on orienting the two parties
in a different direction.
And I do wish for Mr. Nixon the most success
of any President in the history of our country.
Having lost a close one eight years ago
and having won a close one this year, I can say this:
Winning is a lot more fun.
With Nixon's election,
even though many people felt a sense
of disappointment, there was a sense that
that there maybe some normality on the horizon.
People were exhausted,
so it was, in part, a sense of relief...
maybe, thank God it's over.
I planned to spend Christmas
in the States, but I can't stand violence.
1968 certainly has been
one of the unhappiest years in American history.
In the end, it always comes down to
what the people do, and this year the people,
like the events of 1968, are largely unpredictable.
Our country was put to
some enormous tests in 1968.
It was a bend but there was no break.
The issues that were thrown open in 1968...
Who has authority? Who deserves authority?
What the limits of power are.
Those are profound questions that continue to matter.
This will be an open administration,
open to new ideas,
open to men and women of both parties,
open to the critics
as well as those who support us,
and I am confident that
this task is one that we can undertake
and one in which we will be successful.