"(chattering)" "MAN: [music] The farmer all around is taking a shellacking [music] [music] The money in the till is the thing that is lacking [music]" "(horn honking) [music] Your troubles will cease [music] [music] Put Humphrey in the White House and use our food for peace [music]" " [music] Yes, vote for Hubert [music] - [music] Hubert [music] [music] Hubert Humphrey [music] [music] The president for you and me [music]" "MAN:" "Thanks." "Looking good." " I don't know." " I mean next time." "Next time." "Thank you very much." "CHILD:" "May I shake your hand, please?" " I got your vote?" " Yup." "Thank you." "This was a big thrill for my kids at school." " CHILD:" "Thank you!" " Now, anybody I didn't get?" " I guess we're late." " Mine!" " Whose is this?" " Mine!" "If you would write me at the Senate," "I'll send you a picture and autograph and something about the Capitol." "Nice to see you." "I'm Senator Humphrey." " Just stopping by to say hello." " Hello." "You betcha." "Okay." "And how are you today?" "I'm Senator Humphrey." "This your boy here?" "How do you do?" "Hello, son." "Good boy." "What do you got, a lot of money there?" "Say, that's just what I need for my campaign." "Can I have that?" "I'm running short." "This is really..." "If you have as good a judgment in politics as you have for your wife," "I'll get your vote." " You'll get it." " Bye." "All right, all set." "Let's go." "Yeah." "How far is Mindoro?" "WOMAN:" "Well, it'll take half an hour to get over there." "MAN:" "It makes you sleepy." "Yeah." "Then speaking right afterwards is, uh..." "WOMAN:" "Just put your head back and take a little nap." "MAN (narrating):" "It is a great dream... the dream of becoming president of the United States." "Shared by millions of American boys, and still held by a few who have grown up and are already close enough to the White House that it no longer seems a dream at all." "The process of eliminating these dreamers to select a president usually begins in the presidential primary, a battle fought across the landscape, searching out voters in every town and precinct throughout an entire state." "This is the story of the primary process, as it is fought in any important state in any election year, but seen close up as has never before been captured by the camera." "The names could be Taft, Wilkie, Kefauver." "This happens to be 1960, Wisconsin." "Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota against Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy." "Both driven to exhaustion by the dream that one of them, at least, is bound to wake up and find it was only a great illusion." "HUMPHREY:" "No different from the rest of our states, you know, in Minnesota." "WOMAN:" "Right." "One of the most beautiful parts of Wisconsin." "WOMAN:" "It's very, very beautiful." "The rolling, uh, terrain." "Wooded, yet nice fields." "(woman continues, indistinct)" "Yes." "Two weeks, this will be the end..." "It'll be green though." "Because the snow brings with it a great amount of nitrogen for the soil." "WOMAN:" "That's right." "And that fertilizes it." "WOMAN:" "Believe it or not, North Dakota and... where our farm is, 210 miles further north of it..." "(horn honking)" "MAN:" "Senator, I am the president of the village." " How do you do?" " Certainly happy to have you in town." "Glad to see you, Mr. Gilbert." " MAN:" "What is your name?" " Gunderson." "Gunderson." "Gunderson." "How do you do?" "Good to see you there." "NARRATOR:" "This is the heart of Senator Humphrey's strength... the farm areas, where there's only one subject to test the skill of an orator." "I, uh, still have my cup of coffee here." "After all, I met a couple of Norwegians over here, you see, and since I'm only half Norwegian, they only give me a half a cup." "I wanted to finish it off." "Anyway, when you're out speaking, as I have been, why, once in a while a good cup of coffee sort of braces you up for the next meeting." "Now, gentlemen," "Senator Humphrey is not out here just to please you by these comments." " (chattering)" " MAN:" "Give me a little room, please?" "So few of my clients are Democrats, but I like to kind of get a look in on." "(camera whirring)" "It's not time to smile yet." "(man laughing)" "Wrap the fingers around just a touch, Senator, just easy-like." "Kind of intertwine the fingers a little." "There." "That's it." "Fine there." "About a quarter of an inch of cuff, so..." "There." "That's it." "Eyes just above the camera." "That's it." "Fine." "Now, just one more." "Then you're all free here." "The businessmen of Wisconsin have lost hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business because of reduced foreign income, and I charge here that not a single candidate in this primary election has paid any attention to the farmer at all except Hubert Humphrey," "and I make that statement without any boast or any claim." "Instead of you reading about who you ought to have as president in Life magazine, you oughta take a good look at him in the flesh." "You oughta hear what they've got to say." "Because let me tell you something, Life, Time, Fortune, Look and Newsweek don't give a hoot about your dairy prices." "And I know they laugh at you." "I've been down at their editorial boards... some of them... and I'll tell you, they have no more appreciation of a farmer's problem than they have of what's going on on the other side of the moon." "Frankly, they don't know the difference between a corncob and a ukulele." "I can tell you that my votes aren't very popular sometimes in New York City or Boston." "When I read the editorials, The Wall Street Journal," "Boston Globe, The New York Times... they want a price support program that's lower." "They say that the farmer is being subsidized, and they look at Hubert Humphrey's record and they say," ""Well, this fellow, this Humphrey, he's just from the Midwest."" ""He's just for those farmers."" "That's what they say." "They're right." "I am." "I think Benson's farm program is insane, and I'll guarantee you one thing... if I get to be president of the United States," "I'm going to buy that man a ticket personally and send him right back to Utah, where he ought to have been all the time." "(applause)" "Now, thank you very much for letting me speak to you." "You've been a fine and a good audience." "Good luck." "Safe journey home." "We're going on to La Crosse." "By the way, tune in tonight at 7:30." "We're gonna have another one of those television shows." "And if you got a question you want to ask, just pick up the phone and call me collect." "Just pick it up and say, "I want to talk to that fellow Humphrey"" ""at the TV station at La Crosse,"" "and put that call through and ask me on the air, and you can make it tough, make it real tough." "'Cause people like it better that way." "They like to see me squirm." " (laughter)" " You make it real tough, and I'll try to give you a good answer." "Thanks very, very much." "(chattering)" "Thank you so much." "Thank you." "Thank you so much." " MAN:" "Too high." " Too high." "Well, the school..." "Here he is now." "What do you think of him?" "Mr. Humphrey, I hope you get good luck." " Thank you so much, my friend." " Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." " Thank you very, very much." " Sure." " You're very fine." " I'll see you tomorrow." "You betcha." "I'll be listening in tomorrow night." "If you ever get in, I will see you, by God." "Say, you come on down to the White House and have a cup of coffee." "Okay?" "Maybe a Schnapps." "(laughing) Yeah." "Good." "Yeah." "KENNEDY:" "The primary got very risky." "But my judgment is, I never could have been nominated if I hadn't run in the primary, so I'm taking the risk." "But I would say you have to keep coming up sevens." "Tell you what you have to do tonight is to be sure to remind these people to call person-to-person." " Person-to-person?" " Rather than collect station-to-station." "'Cause we just get all these extra calls." " Isn't that the idea, Norm?" " All right." "So that we..." "Yeah." "Well, I gave Norm, uh..." "I gave Norm, uh..." "This chart, when the..." "the way this thing works, the lieutenant governor says," ""Senator, there's been quite a lot of talk about the record." "What's this all about?" Or something." "Then I say something about that I put my campaign on the basis of the public issues and the record, and I've been trying to emphasize some of the differences that exist between the Democratic candidates." "And here, for example, are some of them." "MAN:" "All right." "Will this be early in the program?" "Right in the beginning." "And then you focus in, you phase right in on that." "Then when I say, "Now we have a call here"..." "And at that point when they're saying, "Now we have a call,"" "you get off that and get back on to me." "The answer must end about one minute." "Now, uh, when it comes down, before you come to me..." "CAMERAMAN:" "All right, thank you." "We're four seconds down." "Uh, five minutes down." "Yeah." "HUMPHREY:" "Just joke about your husbands been wondering all day long where you have been and so on." "I could say that I've come here to meet you." "On the TV." "Well, but you're on this show now." "Just take about 30 seconds to tell us where you've been." "Then you gotta come right back to me and say," ""Now, Senator, I want to come on this record,"" "'cause we want to get on those questions." "You want Muriel to have 30 seconds to tell where she's been, what's she's been doing." "HUMPHREY:" "Yes, sir." "Moment of suspense." "Senator Humphrey." "MAN (on telephone):" "Sir, you're advocating the family farm..." "Well, I don't think the family farm is impractical at all." "In fact, I would say it's highly desirable, both economically and, more so, socially." "The family farm has social and spiritual values to it that are of immense..." "You should realize that you are voting for the most important individual in the entire free world, and that the welfare of our country is heavily involved in his good judgment, his sense, his responsibility, his confidence, his integrity," "his ability to meet the problems head on." "CROWD: [music] Kennedy, he just keeps rollin' along [music] ...Fire Department to ask all of you not to smoke cigarettes or cigars for the next 20 minutes." "The senator is ready to arrive in, I'd say, a minute and a half or so, and there has been some complaint by the women that one of their dresses has been burned by a man smoking a cigar in back of her." "So if you will just please... (chattering, chuckling)" "NARRATOR:" "This is the heart of Senator Kennedy's strength... the heavily populated city areas, particularly the Polish Catholic Fourth District in Milwaukee." "(cheering)" "(man shouts)" "WOMAN:" "I can't wash my hand for a year!" "WOMAN:" "Right up through here." "Right down here." "CROWD: [music] Everybody's voting for Jack [music] [music] 'Cause he's got what all the rest lack [music] [music] Everyone wants to back Jack [music] [music] Jack is on the right track [music]" "[music] 'Cause he's got high hopes [music] [music] He's got high hopes [music] [music] 1960's the year [music] [music] For his high hopes [music]" "[music] Come on and vote for Kennedy [music] [music] Vote for Kennedy [music] [music] And we'll come out on top [music] [music] Oops, there goes the opposition, ker... [music]" "[music] Oops, there goes the opposition, ker... [music] [music] Oops, there goes the opposition, kerplop [music]" "(cheering, whistling, applauding)" "I just wanted to tell you that my sister's married to a Pole." "His name is Stanislaw Radziwill." "(crowd laughing)" "And he taught me one sentence." "(speaking Polish)" "(cheering, applauding)" "MAN:" "I give to you Senator Jack Kennedy." "(loud cheering, applauding)" "Chairman, ladies and gentlemen," "I first of all want to express my appreciation to all of you." "I know you've been standing for quite a few minutes." "(laughter, chattering)" "I've been standing for three months, so I..." "I know how tough it is." "I also want to express my appreciation to my old and valued friend, Clem Zablocki." "He took on the honorary chairmanship... the honorary chairmanship of this campaign all over the state of Wisconsin six months ago." "(cheering, whistling)" "Clem Zablocki and I sponsored a bill together... the Zablocki-Kennedy Bill, as he calls it, the Kennedy-Zablocki Bill, as I sometimes refer to it." "(laughing)" "But that bill, which you may not have ever heard about, provides that the Battle Act shall be amended." "And it shall be possible for surplus foods and surplus things that we have in this country to be made available to the people behind the Iron Curtain." " The people of Poland." " (applauding)" "We would have passed that bill two years ago..." "We would have passed that bill two years ago, but it failed by one vote in the Senate when the president withdrew his support on the day the bill was coming up to vote." "That's how important the office of the presidency is." "He shall determine what shall be our policy on Berlin." "He shall determine whether we shall be at war or peace." "This is the key office, and I run for the presidency because, like you," "I have strong ideas about what this country must do." "I have strong ideas about the United States playing a great role in a historic moment when the cause of freedom is endangered all over the world, when the United States stands as the only sentry at the gate," "when we can see the campfires of the enemy burning on distant hills." "That's what's at issue today." "That's what we are attempting to determine." "In the coming months and years, all of us, as Americans, are going to be called out of the ranks." "Our courage is going to be tested, and I am confident that we are going to give the same affirmative answer." "That's what I think this election is about." "That's what we're going to begin to do on next Tuesday." " Thank you." " (cheering, applauding)" "(chanting) We want Kennedy!" "We want Kennedy!" "We want Kennedy!" "We want Kennedy!" "We want Kennedy!" "We want Kennedy!" "MAN:" "Now I understand also that we will be pleased to have the privilege of seeing Bob Kennedy," "Senator Kennedy's son." " KENNEDY:" "Son?" " Brother!" "(crowd laughing)" "(whistling)" "Uh, thank you very much." "I'm sorry that my mother couldn't be here tonight." "(crowd laughing)" "And I'm sorry that my sister Pat couldn't come, and my sister Eunice, and my sister Jean, my brother-in-law Peter Lawford, or my brother Teddy, or my cousin Joe Gargan." "(laughing)" "So you're going to have to settle with me." "Thank you very much." "MAN:" "Thank you, Bob." "WOMAN:" "He looked much better last night than he did tonight." "He has lost weight." "And he was on that panel this afternoon." "He was good on that panel." "When he talked, he never talked about anybody or anything." " MAN:" "The issues." " He works on his own records." "That's right." "If you can't run on your own record, you haven't got any business running." " That's right." " KENNEDY:" "Thanks for coming." "Thank you very much." "Thanks very much." "Oh, thanks a lot." "My best to you." " MAN:" "My pleasure." " Thank you very much indeed." "Thank you." "Very glad to see you." "Thank you." " Thanks for coming through that long line." " WOMAN:" "I just know you'll make it." " Thank you." " (woman chattering)" "You'll have the senator all worn out." "Please don't crowd the senator, please." "No visiting." "Let's keep moving there." "NARRATOR:" "Election day." "The voices of the campaign begin to turn into votes." "MAN:" "Senator Humphrey, and that's who I voted for today." "I believe in the man and with his civil rights program and his progressive... instinct that I think that he has." "WOMAN:" "I feel very... quite strongly on the religious angle of it, so I-I, uh, probably would not vote for Kennedy." "WOMAN 2:" "I feel I'm in favor of Kennedy very much." "WOMAN 3:" "I suppose I shouldn't say this, but being that he is Catholic and we are Catholic also, I think that has a lot to do with it." "REPORTER (on radio):" "Each side says it will win the popular vote." "And each side says it will stage a victory celebration sometime tonight." "REPORTER (on TV):" "Senator Humphrey is leading Senator Kennedy by a margin of two to one and he's outdrawing Vice President Nixon three to two." "These, however, are very early returns." "That isn't an exact quote." "Just said I would find it difficult to be nominated." "If I lost here, I'd find it extremely difficult to be nominated." "(whispering) Hi, Jerry." "How good to see you." "KENNEDY:" "What about the second?" "Yeah." "I suppose what's happened, of course, is that these Republicans are leaving Nixon and voting for Humphrey." "Is that a..." "The, uh, ninth is gone." "The, uh, third we have a chance in." "The, uh..." "But just a chance." "It really depends on La Crosse." "The 10th we have a chance in." "HUMPHREY:" "Listen, don't let these guys get you congratulating too early." "Then afterwards they say, "He thought he was in, but he wasn't."" "(Humphrey laughs)" "I've been through this before." " They seem so friendly." " They are." "But their copy desk boys are not always." "(people chattering)" "They're all right." "When I first ran for mayor, I was ahead till 6:00 in the morning" " and I..." "I ended up losing." " Oh, my God." "REPORTER (on TV):" "Waukesha is in the second district." "Kennedy, of course, is a Roman Catholic," "Humphrey a Congregational/st and Nixon a Quaker." "Some observers think that the election has resolved into a religious struggle." "KENNEDY:" "Boy, that religious thing." "The primary is what breaks it wide apart." "It makes religion to be of disproportionate importance." "Imagine it being a front-page story when under ordinary conditions it wouldn't even be printed in the paper." "It's endemic." "I see it every..." "I see it every week." "After all, listen, when Jack came out here, this place was locked up for Humphrey." "MAN (on TV) But it's now clear that the chances of a Kennedy sweep have almost slipped away, that it could be a long night for newspaper and radio men covering the election, and that one of the most elaborate and intense campaigns in the state's history" "could wind up meaning almost nothing." " (people chattering)" " Now, get the, uh..." "Hi." "Hi." " How are you?" "Nice to see you." " (woman, indistinct)" "Well, we'll see what happens." " (phone rings)" " MAN:" "Appleton, the 11th ward." "327 for Jack." "Ninety-two for Humphrey." "Thirty-five for Nixon?" " That's the greatest... (laughs) - (chattering continues)" " Well, I don't know..." " (chattering)" "How you can eat is more than I know." "Here's where we go ahead." "The worst we can get tonight is six to four with the popular vote, so, actually the 20 and a half to 10 and a half would be a two-to-one victory for Jack on delegates." " Did you try coming on the other..." " Yeah." "We'll never make CBS unless he really rings it." "NARRATOR:" "The trend is becoming clear." "Senator Humphrey's early lead from the rural areas is being wiped out as the big city vote comes in." "MAN:" "Kennedy first." "The senator will come over here." "Not yet, Senator, not yet." " Watch from right here?" " Yeah." "FLOOR DIRECTOR:" "Stand by." " Senator, good evening." " Good evening, Sandy." "How does the evening look to you?" "Well, as all these election nights are, it's a very interesting evening." "How has the vote, as it's been thus far, shaped up according to your expectations?" "Well, I was hopeful we could take six districts." "I think we have a good chance to do that, which would give us..." "And I hope then the majority of the popular vote, which will give us, I think, a very good result." "REPORTER:" "What are your plans after tonight?" "KENNEDY:" "Well, we, uh, continue on." "The next primary, of course, is Indiana." "Then I hit West Virginia, Maryland, Oregon and Nebraska are all in the short space of two and a half weeks." " Good." " MAN:" "Don't smile yet." "You wait a little while." "I may smile even more." "(all laughing)" " We're going right into the interview." " Oh, sure." "You bet." "MAN:" "I wish you'd give me..." "Well, my goodness!" "The Voice of America." "I'm always glad to say something for them." "This has been a great election." "And the people of Wisconsin are to be congratulated on their genuine interest in this election." "I say, I've been in politics too long to make any predictions at one-third of the precincts in." "Only reckless people do that, and radicals, and I'm a conservative, prudent man." "You look awfully satisfied right now, Senator." "I'm pleased." "I'm pleased." "You see, if you're..." "if somebody relegates you to what you call a hard bread and cold water diet and you come up with bouillon and biscuits, it seems pretty good." "NARRATOR:" "Senator Kennedy is headed for a two-to-one victory." "But this is short of the margin he needs to get his bandwagon rolling." "Neither man has been knocked out, and in national standing they remain about where they stood before the primary." "CROWD: [music] Kennedy for the president of USA [music]" "HUMPHREY:" "I feel that we've done well." "I truly feel that we've done as well or maybe better then we had a right to expect." "(crowd cheering, applauding)" "You know, just imagine if we'd have won how much noise there'd have been here." "MAN:" "We won, we won." "We won." " MAN:" "Congratulations." " Good to see you." "Good to see you." "And how are you?" "HUMPHREY:" "You know, West Virginia is a very interesting and beautiful state." "Just hills and valleys." "You just work the valleys." "[music] Without any doubt [music]" " [music] So vote for Hubert [music] - [music] Hubert [music] [music] Hubert Humphrey [music] [music] The president for you and me [music] [music] (brass band)" "[music] (ends)"