Conventions rather than through these statebystate contests but in 1964 there were a bunch of statebystate primaries and about two months into them 11 primaries into it that year, by 11 primaries in six different guys had won at least one of the primaries and a bunch of them are really guys you truly have never heard of. Any of these guys look familiar . But one of the candidates who competed that year and never won a thing ended up becoming a future president. He had no luck at all that year in 1964, but he did run hard in this big field of all these unknowns with everybody winning a different one, each state being a new never heard of him before winner. This future president did run hard in 1964. In one state he ran in he went is a far as to higher and hide away a secret all female phone squad in an effort to win the primary that year in the great state of oregon. It was exposed by a news crew. Watch this. His headquarters in still another store looks the same as all the others. But the nixon people upstairs have another operation theyve tried to keep secret and until now they did. Set up on the fifth floor with about 50 telephones are about 30 girls hired from one of those places furnishing temporary office help. They spend the day phoning around asking people how they plan to vote. If they say nixon they get a kind word and thanks and if they say somebody else they get a nixon sales talk. They try to keep the phone set up secret perhaps to make it appear he was making no effort in oregon and when our cameramanman pushed his way in he was asked to get out. That was nbc news reporting in 1964 on Richard Nixons secret hideaway of 30 girls that he had hired from a temp agency to set up what i guess was a very early version of a political phone bank. He wanted to keep it secret so nobody would know he was trying in oregon when he went on to lose oregon very badly. So on that same night that the secret was exposed in oregon, that same reporter in oregon for nbc also found and exposed another stethy all girl effort for a different candidate in that primary. And this one was one where the ladies didnt have to be hired to do the work. This other one that that same reporter found those ladies were there of their own volition. The senator is on the ballot too because of a lot of oregon ladies wanted her on and got up enough at the pishs to force it and now theyre trying to get her votes and a trip to oregon. Here in eugene some of her boosters are collecting trading stamps to buy her an airplane ticket and they mailed out cards asking donations of stamps. Now they are meeting, licking stamps, pasting them in books and getting money for them or turning them in for merchandise and selling that. At this hour it is not clear whether theyll get mrs. Smith out here or not. She hasnt been here yet. If she doesnt make it it wont be for lack of stamp licking. This is a political first, a political financed with trading stamps. The first woman who ran in a major Party Primary for president in this country was Margaret Smith. Shes also the first woman ever elected to both the u. S. House and u. S. Senate. She had been married to a member of congress from maine and she was elected to his house seat in a special election after he died. But thereafter on her own terms she was elected and reelected as a zillion times in her own name, both in the house and then in the senate before she decided in 1964 that she would make a pine erring run for president. Look at this news reel. Look at what they titled this piece about her. It wasnt a man throwing his hat in the ring, its senator Margaret Smith so its her b bonnette in the ring. The senator makes the announcement she will seek the republican president ial nomination. Because of these very reasons against my running i have decided that i shall. For the first time in the nations political history a woman is actively seeking the president ial nomination of a major party. In campaigning shes an effective speaker but everywhere the key question is about a woman running for president. She was asked a question about how she as a woman president might deal with issues. I think i could outtalk him. Ive had a little experience with him as you may have read in the papers or have heard. I made a couple of major speeches on nuclear and immediately got a response from him. He said i was an amazon war monker. She was republican. She was an experienced politician. She had 24 years in washington by the time she was running for president both in the house and the senate. 24 years in washington. She got reelected over and over and over again. She was very popular. She was a bit of a specialist on National Security issues. You see from the clips she was soft spoken but she was very funny. She could hold a room. She was a good speaker. But her campaign in 1964, this idea of her a woman running for president of all things it was treated like some kind of a cross between a magic trick and some charming diversion you might asked a trained child to perform at a dinner party for adults. Where will your Washington Headquarters be or where will you begin to receive campaign contributions. The chair of the Republican National committee his office will be headquarters for the campaign contributions. Will you be willing to debate in New Hampshire . Who will be your running mate . None of the candidates have indicated any desire. What would you do as a candidate to breakdown discrimination against women . Well, if i if the people of this country dont know what i would do from what i have done i dont think that i could add any information to that. Senator, if you cant make it yourself which candidate would you support for president . Well, again i must answer that im a candidate for president and im not supporting anybody else. The joke is that she is the one running for president. Shes not supporting somebody else thats running. That itself is a spectacular punch line. Thats whats so hilarious among this crowd. This is a crowd that is for her. Theyre not laughing at her in a mean way. They are laughing at the circumstance they find themselves in. The very idea that a woman would even try this. Its like stand up. Margaret smith did not win the republican president ial nomination in 1964. The Republican Party picked Barry Goldwater who knows of the country thought was a nut and it was one of the general election performances in the history of that party but Margaret Chase smith that same year she was the first woman who made a major party try for the presidency as a declared candidate running in the primaries even if she did have to use trading stamps to try to finance her plane tickets to some of the faraway primaries. The highest profile woman to run for president after Margaret Chase smith was the africanamerican congresswoman who ran eight years later in 1972. Im going to tell you something, i dont have any advanced men or Public Relations men. You know that i am the dark horse i am the poor horse. The only thing i have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American People. I stand before you today to repud ate the notion that the American People will not vote for qualified candidate simply because he is not white or because shes not a male. I do not believe that in 1972 the great majority of americans will continue to harbor such narrow prejudices. I want to say this and its very important for all americans to recognize, the United States constitution stipulates that anyone that is 35 years of age and over and a natural born citizen can run for the presidency. The people will make the decision. This is shirley announced shes running for president today. Would you vote for a woman for president. I think president is a mans job. I dont think theyre as level headed as the men are. I think its about time. I think its about time for shirley because things are bad as it is. They cant do worse. I dont think they could handle the job. Would you vote for a woman as president. Not as yet. I dont think women are ready for presidency. They need a little time. Excuse me, sir. Sir. Hi, shirley said shes going to run for president of the United States. Would you vote for her . Would you vote for a woman . Would you vote for a woman for president . Would you vote for a woman for president. Yeah, yeah. I cant talk. See, the whole concept is hilarious. That was a year before i was born. That was 1972. Margaret chase smith had been the first in 1964 and shirley was eight years later but in both cases the concept of a women making a run for president was hilarious. In august this summer the summer olympics are going to start in rio, theres always drama around the olympics. The olympics are dramatic. This year theres extra drama because of the doping scandals and specifically because of where the olympics are being held as well. Theres worries about the facilities that brazil has built for the olympics and Water Pollution where they will be swimming be and sailing and the drama and threat of the zika virus which is a huge problem in brazil and threatens to become a problem in every country of the world in which literally every county in the world sends people into brazil amid zika infected mosquitos for these games. On top of all that drama around the olympics this year, theres also the drama right now of whats going on in the nation of brazil because three days before the olympics open up in rio in august, brazil is scheduled to impeach their president. This is the president of brazil right now. You see her there in the center. Shes suspended from office right now as president pending that dramatic Impeachment Vote before the olympics start. She is the first woman ever elected president of brazil. Brazil cross in had that particular bridge five years ago when she was elected. This first female presidency of brazil turns out its likely to be ending in an unbelievably fashion under the very hot glare of International Attention as the world converges on her country for the olympic games. You know what, it is not her gender that makes what brazil going through the sort of show stopping political and international drama. Yes, the president of brazil is a woman, but the rest of the world looks at that and thinks what else you got for me . There are female president s and Prime Ministers and chancellors all over the world. In south korea, in germany, in lie beereea, in nappal, in the marshal islands which is a country that may disappear if sea levels rise any further. In norway, in malta. These are countries that are led by a woman president or Prime Minister or chancellor right now and thats not an exhaustive list but in terms of the Glass Ceiling being broken for National Leadership by women, it has happened everywhere from turkey to sri lanka to the philippines to pakistan, to ireland, to panama. Why does no one have as big a problem with this as we do . Were not the only country in the world thats never had a woman president but when you think about america among the community of nations, you think about us and the world. You think about countries that we think were like, countries that we think of as peers, we really stand out on this front. Its quaint to look back in this country as shirley and margaret were being laughed at as woman who were adorable enough to think of themselves as somebody who might run for president. Imagine her picking a running mate. Pause for applause. Its quaint to look back at that old blackandwhite super dated footage from our countrys past to see how wouldbe Women Leaders were dismissed and mocked but at that same time in the world that was happening here with that huge joke in the United States, in 1966 theres india electing a woman to lead a nation of 150 Million People. In 1969 and in 1965 sri lanka picking a female Prime Minister and in 1988 theres pakistan, and in 1986 theres the philippines. What is our problem exactly . Why has our country been so particularly resistant over all these years when not just our closest allies in the world were choosing female leaders but so were the countries that we look down on as backward in the way they treat their women. All these other countries, all these other continents our allies and our enemies, progressive countries, conservative countries, they have gotten there years, decades before the United States has even meaningfully tried and were still not on the board. The leap we have just taken as president obama called Hillary Clinton last night to congratulate her for clinching the democratic nomination, the leap we have just now in this moment taken, is only to the point where we now have a major Party Candidate for president who is a woman and thats a necessary but not sufficient step to getting our first woman leader. So theres a lot to get to tonight. Theres a lot of news to cover tonight. Specifically about how and whether Hillary Clinton may end up becoming president if she can win this election. But last night on the last major night of competition in this years democratic primary she won new jersey by 26 points and california by 13 points which is a bigger margin than anybody expected or any poll predicted. She clinched the majority of pledged delegates to get the delegates she needs to clinch the nomination. That is still not the United States getting its first woman president. But it is in our own meager way, it is history. It is further than we have ever gone before. We just havent gone very far before. It says a lot about Hillary Clinton, it says a lot about her, that shes the one who has been able to do it. That shes been able to go further than any other woman has gone in American History but it says a lot about American History it has taken us to 2016 to even hit this milestone. As to whether or not shes going to hit the next one, whether shes going to go all the way, news is coming in fast and furious and tonight we have new details tonight about president obamas planned meeting with senator Bernie Sanders. Weve got a live interview in a moment with a high Ranking Member of the Sanders Campaign about how they will finish their primary. The Sanders Campaign may be dropping a key part of its effort to lobby super delegates to switch support to Bernie Sanders. On the republican side the car crash of Donald Trumps candidacy continued wreaking havoc among other elected republicans. Theres a lot to get to. That is coming up tonight and in coming days and more. But Margaret Chase smith died in 1995. Shirley died new years day 20 a. Neither neither got to see where we are now. When Hillary Clinton got this tonight the thing that struck me most looking back on history, the thing that struck me most about Hillary Clinton finally getting there last night is that it may have taken 52 years since Margaret Chase smith but this time nobodys laughing. On the very day my mother was born in chicago, congress was passing the 19th amendment to the constitution. That amendment finally gave women the right to vote and i really wish my mother could be here tonight. I wish she could see what a wonderful mother chelsea has become and could meet our beautiful granddaughter charlotte. And of course i wish she could see her daughter become the Democratic Partys nominee. To buy a new gym bag. 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