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Humphrey war bekannt als ein Befürworter des Vietnamkrieges. Berühmtheit in Deutschland erlangte er auch, als die Presse, im Vorfeld seines Besuches in Deutschland im April 1967, die Kommunarden der Kommune I zu Attentätern hochstilisierte, als diese Tüten, gefüllt mit Pudding, Mehl und Farbstoff, gegen Bäume warfen.
9. Nov. 2009 · As Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president, Humphrey lost the support of many liberal Americans as the voice of the administration’s Vietnam War policy. When Johnson stepped aside in 1968,...
On February 18, 1973, Humphrey said the Middle East could possibly usher in peace following the Vietnam War ending along with American troops withdrawing from Indochina during an appearance at the New York Hilton.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Humphrey also narrowly won the party plank in support of the Vietnam War, although his officials pleaded with Johnson to accept a compromise with the doves, which he refused. The results caused the protests to intensify, prompting the use of tear gas , which Humphrey could smell in his hotel room. [64]
- Some People Talk Change, Others Cause It, Humphrey-Muskie, Two You Can Trust
- Democratic Party
- Announced: April 27, 1968, Official nominee: August 29, 1968, Lost election: November 5, 1968
For two years, Humphrey seemed to genuinely believe that Vietnam was a necessary war, that it represented a fight against global poverty and Communist tyranny. Humphrey convinced Johnson he...
Tom O’Connell. Hubert Humphrey, c.1968. Hubert H. Humphrey, a giant of Minnesota politics, was one of the most influential liberal leaders of the twentieth century. His political rise was meteoric, his impact on public policy historic. His support for the Vietnam War, however, cost him the office he most sought: president of the United States.
Humphrey then would have been another senator from 1965 to 1968, free to make his own judgments about the Vietnam War and to join McCarthy, Kennedy and McGovern, if he wished, in their gradual shift to a position of vocal criticism of the President’s policies.
