DEMOCRATS NOMINATE HUMPHREY
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On August 29, 1968, Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey
was nominated by the delegates of the Democratic National
Convention meeting here in the Windy City.
The convention, as well as the Democratic Party, was divided on the Vietnam War. The Vice-President supported President Lyndon B. Johnson's policy in Vietnam while others in the party opposed it.
Student protesters let their voices be heard on the streets outside the Convention hall, while Mayor Richard Daley, a Humphrey supporter, used the Chicago police force to attempt to control them.
Before
becoming LBJs Vice-President in 1965, Humphrey had been a senator from
Minnesota since 1948. Senator Humphrey was an advocate of civil rights,
arms control, a nuclear test ban and foreign aid.
JFK+50 NOTE:
Hubert Humphrey paid a campaign visit to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1968. As a student, I attended his speech at Stokley Athletic Center on campus. The speech was broadcast live by WUOT-FM. I recall Mr. Humphrey as very positive and upbeat despite trailing Nixon in the polls. He made remarks critical of third party candidate George Wallace and thanked the University for buying new artificial turf for our football field from Minnesota Mining Company.
JFK+50 NOTE:
Hubert Humphrey paid a campaign visit to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1968. As a student, I attended his speech at Stokley Athletic Center on campus. The speech was broadcast live by WUOT-FM. I recall Mr. Humphrey as very positive and upbeat despite trailing Nixon in the polls. He made remarks critical of third party candidate George Wallace and thanked the University for buying new artificial turf for our football field from Minnesota Mining Company.
Hubert Humphrey Quotes:
"Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
"It
was once said that the moral test of government is how government
treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in
the twilight of life, the elderly, and those who are in the shadows of
life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"The Happy Warrior"
