CBS Evening News - 1968-08-29
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[0:02] direct from CBS News convention
[0:05] headquarters in Chicago this is the CBS
[0:08] Evening News with Walter KRON kite and
[0:10] Charles kuralt in the CBS Newsroom in
[0:13] New York Eric seide in Chicago John
[0:16] Lawrence in Chicago Peter kaliser in
[0:18] Prague and Tony sergant in fooy South
[0:22] Vietnam good evening for the last time
[0:25] from our CBS News convention anchor
[0:27] booth in Chicago's International
[0:29] Amphitheater Hubert Humphrey today began
[0:32] trying to put the Democratic party back
[0:34] together or at least Patch It Up
[0:36] following a series of convention floor
[0:38] fights and Chicago street fights which
[0:41] clouded his easy first ballot nomination
[0:43] last night late this afternoon he called
[0:46] a news conference to announce his vice
[0:48] presidential
[0:49] choice ladies and gentlemen and my
[0:51] fellow
[0:53] Americans I come to this uh platform to
[0:57] uh tell you that I shall recommend to
[1:02] the National Convention Democratic party
[1:06] for the office of uh vice
[1:10] president very distinguished United
[1:12] States
[1:14] Senator and I think one of the most uh
[1:18] capable experienced and able men in
[1:20] government
[1:21] today he is the United State senator
[1:24] from Maine Mr Edmund musky
[1:30] musky 54 has been in the Senate since
[1:33] 1959 he's regarded as one of the
[1:35] Senate's most skillful lawmakers a Roman
[1:38] Catholic of Polish descent musky got put
[1:41] Humphrey's name in nomination before the
[1:43] convention last night and showed
[1:45] something of his speaking style and his
[1:47] public
[1:50] personality sometimes in the emotion of
[1:52] the
[1:54] debate on
[1:57] Vietnam we overemphasize our
[2:01] differences and ignore our wide areas of
[2:06] agreement no responsible
[2:10] lea