It's the Brian Layer Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

100 years of 100 things.

It's thing number 14, 100 years of memorable speech clips from Democratic conventions.

We did the same thing with Republican Convention speeches, you may remember during their week

last month, and if you were listening yesterday, you heard a sample from one of those

most memorable speeches the one at the 1948 Democratic Convention by the

mayor of Minneapolis at the time Hubert Humphrey to make a segue into today's

hundred things episode let's hear one more clip from that time that Humphrey tried to

wake his party up about civil rights. The old audio on this is very

scratchy, but worth putting up with it. It runs 30 seconds.

My good friend, I asked my party

the Democratic Party to march down the high road of progressive democracy. I asked this convention, I asked this convention to say an unmistakable term that we proudly hail and we courageously support our president and leader Harry Truman and his great fight for civil rights in America.

Hubert Humphrey in 1948, 20 years before he was the nominee for president, and that'll be one of our themes of this

hundred year segments today, Memorial Convention speeches by people other than the nominee.

With us as our guide through history for this

is David Greenberg, Journalism, Media Studies and History

Professor at Rutgers,

an author of the book, Republic of Spin,

an Inside History of the American presidency, published in 2016, which

traces a hundred years of presidents trying to spin the press.

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