Prompted seven Southern States to secede and form the confederacy and the second in 2020 with donald trump. In the modern era the transition would begin with a Concession Speech on election night, often characterized as gracious. A stark difference from what happened three years ago. One of the great features of america is that we have political contests, that they are very hard fought, as this one is hard fought, and once the decision is made we unite behind the man who was elected. This is a fraud on the american public. This is an embarrassment to our country. I have no bitterness, no rancor at all. I say to the president as a thorough politician that he did a wonderful job. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. I have lost. Mr. Nixon has won. The Democratic Process has worked its will, so now lets get on with the urgent path of uniting our country. And this is a very big moment. This is a major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used if a proper manner. Congratulations on your victory. I hope that in the next four years you will lead us to a time of peace abroad and justice at home. You have my full support in such efforts. We will be going to the u. S. Supreme court. We want all voting to stop. We dont want them to find any ballots at 4 00 in the morning and add them to the list. The president asked me to tell you that he telephoned President Elect Carter a short time ago and congratulated him on his victory. It is a very sad moment. To me it is a very sad moment, and we will win this. As far as im concerned, we already have won it from the people of the United States have made their choice and, of course, i accept that decision. If you count the legal votes i easily win. He has won. We are all americans. He is our president and we honor him tonight. If you count the illegal votes they can try to steal the election from us. He will be our president and we will work with him. This nation faces major challenges ahead and we must work together. As Everybody Saw we won by historic numbers. There is important work to be done and america must always come first, so we will get behind this new president and wish him well. Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly. I really believe that. Thats why they did the mailin ballot it where theres tremendous corruption and fraud. I have said repeatedly in this campaign that the president was my opponent, not my enemy, and i wish him well and i pledge my support. And i have had two elections. I won both of them. It is amazing. And i actually did much better on the second one. This is america. Just as we fight hard when the stakes are high, we close ranks and come together when the contest is done. That was a rigged election but we are still fighting it and you will see what is going to happen. But in an American Election there are no losers because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as americans. We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesnt happen. You dont concede where theres theft involved. Whatever our differences we are fellow americans, and please believe me when i say no association has ever meant more to me than that. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal. I so wish that i had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction but the nation chose another leader. So ann and i join with you to earnestly pray for him and for this great nation. When you catch somebody in a fraud you are allowed to go by very different rules. So i hope mike has the courage to do what he has to do. Donald trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power, and we dont just respect that we cherish it. And we fight. We fight like hell, and if you dont fight like hell youre not going to have a country anymore. You know, were reminded of what a dark chapter of American History donald trump is taking us through still and were reminded of that because we see such extraordinary grace. Goodness. Goodness, decency. Love of country. Patriotism, love of country from all of those other candidates. Lets bring in Pulitzer Prize winner author, doris goodwin. And that was free speech on Donald Trumps part. Early on it was. Not as he was whipping people into a frenzy on january 6th. Doris, you and i have had the honor of knowing a lot of people that we saw there. I just want to underline one point, you know, for people that might go, oh, that was then, they were all a Good Old Boys club. No, no, no. I look at goldwater who couldnt have disagreed more with lbj and being graceful. Mcgovern couldnt are been more horrified of the prospect of four more years of vietnam and nixon. Hubert humphries who couldnt have been more horrified that nixon was winning in 68. Gerald ford, voice stripped, raw. All of these races close. Bob dole. I was flying with him during the campaign and he just kept whispering what he said through the entire campaign, i cant believe this guy is beating me. This world war ii veteran against somebody that he thought was a draft dodger. He never said it, but he couldnt believe it. Gorge h. W. Bush thinking the same thing. Wait, they reject i cant believe it. And then the two most i think extreme examples, Richard Nixon who conceded a race when, oh, a lot of people around him in 1960 were saying they stole illinois from you. He said it didnt matter. And then al gore in one of the few good moments of his 2000 campaign where we saw into the heart the best of al gore, was for him tragically his Concession Speech. But a Concession Speech, one of the most patriotic Concession Speeches when al gore knew that five republican appointees to nominees to the Supreme Court voted against him and four democratic appointees voted for him, still went out, gave an extraordinarily gracious Concession Speech that helped bring the country together. My god, my god, the contrast with this man, this thriceindicted man, could not be greater, could it, doris . You know, joe, i think everybody should show again what you just showed, that conjunction of what has happened in every other time in our history except 1860 and what happened now. I mean it just shows you the grace of those people. You can imagine how hard it is for them. They lost an election. I looked at the Concession Speeches the other day, maybe a nerdy thing to do, but it made me so emotional to realize what you are saying. They come out there, they know they disappointed their followers, they feel really sad yet they know that the peaceful transition of power is a bed rock for our country. The reason showing those two things together as you did this morning, people may think it is just words, the peaceful transition of power, but in democrat, the simplest terms is a democracy where you can vote your leaders in or throw them out. If theyre thrown out they have to have the grace and humanity to accept that. The only other time, 1860, one of the things lincoln said, our democracy will not exist, thats why the simp war partly had to be fought. If you can decide you are the minority in the south, you are the democratic party, you lost the election, you decide, okay, im not accepting the loss, im seceding from the union. He said if we cant prove that cant happen democracy will be an absurdity. We have to go over the Concession Speeches again and again. Look at al gores speech. My husband luckily was partly able to help him on the speech. It was the way he delivered it, such a conversational style, with such emotion when he was able to say, i dont agree with the decision but the Supreme Court has spoken. It is the law of the land. Then he talked about what is over harvard law school, not under man but under god and under the law. So the rule of law is at issue right now, and i think if we could just play those over and over again to show the American People this has been our tradition. You know, it started, the Concession Speeches started in 1896. The first one on the radio was al smith conceding to herbert hoover. The next was a newsreel when wilke conceded to fdr. So there was a sense of a family tree of all of these people knowing how important it was. Only donald trump, one man, has not done that. You know, at the end of al gores speech he reprised something at the Democratic Convention for clinton and gore. They had a rant at the end, a chant, it is time for them to go, it is time for them to go. Finally at the end of al gores speech he brought it back up in another way, it is time for me to go. He said it peacefully and he wished with gods stewardship of bushs election. Where are these people now . It is such a maybe that should be the chant, it is time for him to go. Doris, i couldnt agree anymore. That should be mandatory viewing to sit and watch that clip. I was thinking george mentioned george h. W. Bush, bush 41, and how devastating that loss was for a man who was so proud that he was going to be a oneterm president. He couldnt believe he had lost to bill clinton, and yet famously the note he left in the oval office for bill clinton on january 20th, 1993, on the day of president clintons inauguration. He gets in the oval office and finds a note, incredibly gracious note. Part is you will be our president when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. Your success now is our countrys success. I am rooting hard for you. Good luck. Signed george. That is a reminder and those clips we watched amazing, right . A reminder of who we are and who we are supposed to be and how it is supposed to go and donald trump represents a deviation from history. But, doris, it seems to me we have to confront the fact still all of these news on theres a large segment of the population who is saying we want that and we want it again. And thats the reason why the real battle to be fought here, and this is what you were talking about a little earlier, is the battle of public sentiment. I mean the law cases are going to be absolutely critical, but Beyond The Law cases the country has to be persuaded that what has been done by President Trump, former President Trump is wrong. You know, one of the things that lincoln said is more important than laws of congress, even more important than judicial decisions is public sentiment. As long as public sentiment is educated as it was in the 1850s and the 1860s, finally with organizing with movements, the Antislavery Movement was able to make sort of a Majority View in the north that this was wrong. It was against the ideals of the country. That allowed the whole thing to happen, and thats what has to happen now. It is very important that i think this is why it is so important that the trial be publicized, that it be essentially on television. It is the most important thing thats going to happen to us, is how are we going to feel about somebody who violated the ideals of the country, who was wrong. One of the things to go back to george bush sr. , theres a great story he tells, that he came home one day after scoring three goals in soccer. He was so happy. He said to his mother, he said, i scored three goals. And his mother who loved ambition said, yes, but how did the team do . Thats the thing, you need people in office to run for office who feel something is more important than their victory, it is the country and the team. If you cant accept that then democracy doesnt work. Thats what has to be ridden home to the American People. If they could see the clip over and over they will see how far it goes from the grace and dignity of all of the other people who ran for the office, lost and took it and the country moved on. Doris, it is the grace of the individual to accept that defeat, to put the country first, but also they have their parties with them, other leaders, whether it is democratic or republican alike saying, look, the election is over, it is time to move on. We went through the example of nix beyond and watergate, but sometimes at the end of these bitter fights the party said, okay, it is time to turn the page. In 2016 by the next morning the democrats were doing so. Have you seen anything here that would suggest there were other republicans, real ones that matter, not just the occasional lonely voice pushing the party and donald trump to move past this in the next election . Yeah, it is still so hard to accept that. I thought after january 6th when you saw mcconnell speak, when you saw mccarthy speak that it would be the beginning of the leadership turning against him. Somehow, somehow it has not happened. It cant just be a few of them. We have to figure out when is that going to happen, when is it going to break. Maybe the more this thing becomes clear what was done you have to believe rational thought will come back in the minds of some of these people. If not, it is going to take the overwhelming organization just as you were talking about earlier, organizing the country at all of the levels so that he cannot win that election. If the party will not depart from him, then he has to be defeated and the party has to be defeated. The one Concession Speech we havent looked at, doris, is hilary clintons. Im just curious if you could talk about that, especially given what we heard Kevin Mccarthy saying about her behavior, about the peaceful transition of power, versus what she said that day . On the contrary, she comes out that next day. She talked about the disappointment she knows that people have felt. She feels it too. She talks about what it was meant to be a Woman Running for the election, and then she talks about the peaceful transition of power. She says as was said in that clip with really motion in her voice, it is not just it is part of our system, not just it is the rule of law, it is not just we respect it, we cherish it. We cherish it and therefore we wish him well, hope he can have an open mind. That was a hard thing to do and she knew what she had to do and she did it, the opposite of what he is saying. So too the opposite of al gore. The operates of what he was saying. He comes out and he talks about the fact how hard it is, too. He doesnt like the Supreme Court decision but it is the rule of the land. They both deserve i think pantheons and those are great acceptance Concession Speeches. One of my favorites actually was mccain. What an extraordinarily one he gave. Yeah. He not only said he accepted what had happened but he said that obama had inspired the nation and that he felt it was a wonderful moment in our history that the first Black American had been elected. Wow. I mean thats what you want. Yeah. Thats character. In fact, you learn about the character of the person who loses more by their losing than by their winning. Those people you saw this morning on that clip, they showed character. They were americans. Im so glad you brought up john mccain, because for those of us honored to have known senator mccain, for anybody who thinks it is weak to concede an election, a democratic election that you lost, lets show that clip while we show doris, lets just show john mccain. John mccain, one of the toughest guys i ever met in congress. When he came at you, he came at you hard, knock your head off. Then he would sit down with you later and he would say, okay, lets figure this out. He was a standup man, a tough man. The man we are looking at right there, all of these phony, all of these phony shows of masculinity and machoism, all of these phony Trump Snowflakes who claim to be real men, were looking at a real man here who was imprisoned, who was beaten, beaten so badly he could never raise his arms over his head again. Doris, you know the story like so many of us know the story about john mccain. They offered, the vietcong offered to let him out of his living hell and he refused. 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