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governor romney yesterday in virginia. the numbers are on your screen. you can also reach out to us on social media. @cspanwj. facebook.com/cspan. and email -- journal@c-span.org. it is the lead story in the major newspapers across north america. here is "the oshkosh north western." >> the leader telegram in wisconsin -- "the leader- telelgram. "the baltimore sun." a strong voice for fiscal restraint. have other hand lens to look at as well from "the new york times," "the washington post." getting your comments and thoughts about the choice and the announcement made yesterday morning...

there can be socialism. and yet i think, again, he's a very principled, important contender. >> september the 23rd. we're back to your favorite, as you started off this program, william jennings bryan. ran in 1896 against mckin lee. 1904 against taft. lost all of those. what else can you remember? you mentioned -- why was that such a big deal? >> here's what intrigued me about william jennings bryan. he's so misunderstood. he's heard of him as matthew harrison brady. and this great play that was brought back after 9/11 and it's originally written during the mccarthy period. it's supp...

movie rights? shall we? i am just saying. >> a lot about what they learned how to do. did that cross over into bond, working at that depth? >> the work on the brooklyn bridge using essentially diving techniques that had been developed over the ages. you had people--not significant depth but working under pressure to keep the mud and the water away from them as a working environments like money to miss or something. they go down to the chamber and creative drive space to working and a pressurized space to keep the mud and water at bay. they were employing the sort of diving the compre...

social security was what? 65. what is it now? 66. it is going up to what? 67. when did that happen? i suspect nobody in this room knows when that law was changed. do you know y? why? they did it 28 years ago. they did it long before any of you were at or near retirement so you would not blame them for doing it. when they passed its bank, they said in 20 years, we will move the retirement age up and all of you folks who were 45 and younger would not care. and guess what? it worked. paul ryan and all of these folks have learned by that lesson. if you make the changes out far enough you...

[applause] >> it was 1972, 2:30 in the morning when george mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. a few months later, he would lose badly to president richard nixon. tonight, the candidacy and legacy of george mcgovern. we are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. joining us is presidential author scott farris. it was 2:30 when he delivered the acceptance speech in miami. why? >> it was emblematic of the whole mcgovern campaign, which was it was an insurgent campaign run against the establishment. what happened was, as you heard from senator mcgovern, he was ver...