Humphrey Goes Camping: The Adventures of Humphrey the Moose: 1

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His delegate strategy succeeded in clinching the nomination, and he chose Senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate. On October 10, Humphrey stated his support for Nixon's policies in Vietnam and that he believed "the worst thing that we can do is to try to undermine the efforts of the President. With a small group of liberals he supported the Kilgore substitute that would allow the president to lock up subversives, without trial, in a time of national emergency. Roosevelt told audiences, "I don't know where he [Humphrey] was in World War Two," and handed out flyers charging that Humphrey was a draft dodger.

In March 1968, Johnson made his surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection, and Humphrey launched his campaign for the presidency. Despite Truman's aides' aggressive pressure to avoid forcing the issue on the Convention floor, Humphrey spoke for the minority plank. It was bad enough, in Johnson's view, that Bobby Kennedy, who had once served as his Attorney General, was now threatening to run against him; he didn't want another member of the Kennedy family, one who was still working in his Administration, to join an opposing campaign. In June, Humphrey delivered the commencement address at the University of Bridgeport [213] and days later said that he believed Nixon was interested in seeing a peaceful end to the Vietnam War "as badly as any senator or anybody else.One biographer noted, "For much of his life he was short of money to live on, and his relentless drive to attain the White House seemed at times like one long, losing struggle to raise enough campaign funds to get there. We seek an America able to do this in the higher knowledge that our goals and ideals are worthy of conciliation and personal sacrifice. In late January of 1968 the Tet Offensive destroyed any remaining credibility LBJ had with liberal Democrats and lost him the support of the American people generally.

After the war, Humphrey again ran for mayor of Minneapolis; this time, he won the election with 61% of the vote. Some traditional diplomats quaked at the thought of thousands of young Americans scattered across their world. But he refused to be intimidated and stood his ground; his integrity, passion and eloquence eventually earned him the respect of even most of the Southerners.Humphrey and his publicists were proud that the Council on Human Relations brought together individuals of varying ideologies.

In March, Humphrey declined answering questions on the Johnson administration being either involved or privy to the cessation of bombing of the north in Vietnam during an interview on Issues and Answers. At 8:05 on Wednesday night Theodore White jotted this sentence in his notebook: "The Democrats are finished.

During this time, he was the lead author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, introduced the first initiative to create the Peace Corps, and chaired the Select Committee on Disarmament. But when night falls Humphrey hears a spooky howling noise – could there be creepy-crawly creatures outside his tent? I said frankly I had never asked him or Steve or anyone else in the family for anything—which is true—Now all I suggested was that it brought no credit to anyone for Steve or others to attack me.