LBJ RECOMMENDS HHH FOR VP
Atlantic City, New Jersey (JFK+50) On August 26, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson spoke to the delegates of Democratic Convention and recommended Senator Hubert H. Humphrey* of Minnesota as his running mate.
The President said...
"This is simply the best man in America for the job."
LBJ went on to compliment his predecessor, John F. Kennedy...
"Four years ago one of our greatest Americans stood before this... Convention. We grieved at his loss but we carried on and...have fulfilled his program without flinching."
*Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (1911-1978) was born in Wallace, South Dakota & received his undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota & his Masters at Louisiana State University.
HHH served as 38th Vice-President (1965-1969) & lost his bid for the presidency to Richard Nixon in 1968.
SOURCE
"Remarks Before the National Convention Upon Recommending the Nomination of Hubert Humphrey as Vice-President," August 26, 1964, The American Presidency Project, by Gerhard Peters & John T. Woolley, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Hubert H. Humphrey
VPOTUS
Library of Congress Photo (1965)
