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Broder won the 1973 Pulitzer Prizefor commentary. In this column from his winning entry, he focused not on a president but on a politician who wanted to be president as much as anyone. The date was June 6, 1972, and Hubert H. Humphrey, a former vice president, was about to lose Democratic presidential nominating events in four states, including ...
Hubert H. Humphrey, (born May 27, 1911, Wallace, S.D., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 1978, Waverly, Minn.), U.S. politician. He worked as a pharmacist and a teacher before becoming Minnesota campaign manager for Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. During this period he was instrumental in merging the state’s Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties.
Humphrey won 13 states and Washington, D.C., with 191 electoral votes. Wallace carried 5 states, with 45 electoral votes. Overall, Nixon won 43.4 percent of the vote to Humphrey’s 42.7 percent, and Wallace captured 13.5 percent. Nixon’s margin nearly quadrupled that by which John Kennedy had defeated Nixon in 1960, but it was still the ...
7. Dez. 2023 · BEEN THERE. I Opposed Humphrey in ’68. All I Did Was Help Prolong the Vietnam War. When I was young, the left I was a part of helped elect Nixon. Please don’t make a similar mistake today ...
30. März 2023 · [4] For further analysis of Humphrey’s February 1965 memorandum, see for example: Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 346-347; Hubert Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man: My Life in Politics (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976), 236-242; Robert Mann, A Grand Delusion: America’s ...
Although initially expressing misgivings about U.S. involvement in the War in Vietnam, Humphrey also became a leading spokesman for the Johnson administration’s policies there. In 1968, after Johnson decided not to seek re-election, Humphrey ran and was nominated as the Democratic Party's candidate for president. He was defeated by Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon.
9. Mai 1976 · Washington (DC) rept, confirmed by aides to Sen Hubert H Humphrey, says he warned then-US Pres Lyndon B Johnson, in Feb 17 '65 memo, of fears that escalating US involvement in Vietnam would be ...
