Hubert Humphrey

Deliberate extension of it in two ways.

First, the attempt by the Nixon team, which involved Mr. Kissinger in 1968, to undermine the peace negotiations of President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey in Paris by going to the South Vietnamese side and urging them to boycott the negotiations on the promise of a better deal from the Republicans.

This is a story you've probably heard in one version or another around the town over the years, but it's become a much harder and firmer story with successive evolutions.

And I think I could claim that it's told here all in one piece, at any rate, for the first time, though I've used the work of many other hands to do so.

They were looking for a way out.

They had a way out in Paris in 68.

And Mr. Johnson and Mr. Humphrey, who had both been very hawkish, were willing to take it.

At that point, the South Vietnamese pull out at the last, very, very last minute, the day before the election, ruining the talks, collapsing the re-election of the Democratic ticket.

Well, if that were true, there would have been a knock down, drag out fight.

You know, remember, we went through this at the beginning of the Vietnam War and we had Hubert Humphrey, who wrote a brilliant memorandum outlining everything that was wrong with the idea of going into Vietnam with conventional ground forces.

And you can still find it online and read it.

And he presented that to Lyndon Johnson, and LBJ went crazy, brought him back in the Oval Office and did everything but shoot him through the chest and said, either you get on board or you get out.

Well, I'll give you an example.

And I wish I kept the clip, but I saw Hubert Humphrey run for president when LBJ said he wouldn't in the middle of the Vietnam War.

And they kept asking him about what would you do different? He goes, well, my job is to back the president.

But me as a candidate, you'll hear that when I begin to run.

That's different than this, because he's not running.

He's still vice president, and it's not the final lap.

He's not on stage where he's being pressed by DeSantis or Ted Cruz to say, where do you separate from? You might warn the president, hey, listen, I'm going to let everybody know that I was not for this, but there's two jobs I have, like Hubert Humphrey had, like Nixon had with Eisenhower, like Bush 41 had with Reagan.

There might be areas in which you separate.

He's still vice president, and it's not the final lap.

He's not on stage where he's being pressed by DeSantis or Ted Cruz to say, where do you separate from? You might warn the president, hey, listen, I'm going to let everybody know that I was not for this, but there's two jobs I have, like Hubert Humphrey had, like Nixon had with Eisenhower, like Bush 41 had with Reagan.

There might be areas in which you separate.

You're not the president.

I mean, we all don't.

we don't remember pure president Hubert Humphrey because he, he couldn't get out

from under that.

Yeah.

In 1940, Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term as president, defeating Republican challenger Wendell L. Wilkie.

In 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Democratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.

In 1994, George Foreman became the oldest heavyweight boxing champion at age 45, knocking out Michael Moore in the 10th round of their title bout.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton won a second term in the White House, defeating Republican Bob Dole.

Seven weeks later, they hanged him.

And as we look back on election history, 58 years ago today, it was 1968, Richard Nixon in a squeaker over Hubert Humphrey.

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Seven weeks later, they hanged him.

And as we look back on election history 58 years ago today, it was 1968, Richard Nixon in a squeaker over Hubert Humphrey.

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