Hubert Humphrey

 Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Humphrey was the Vice President of Johnson in the 1964 election. Humphrey was not a racist being a part of helping the Civil Rights Movement. Humphrey was actually anti-segregation and in favor of the Civil Rights Movement.

Humphrey would decide to be the Presidential candidate in 1968 and competed against Nixon. Despite Nixon having substantial help from the establishment in 1965-1968 to make it seem that he was the ideal candidate to end the Vietnam war and riots, Humphrey made an attempt to defeat Nixon. Nixon may have helped escalate the Vietnam war, been involved in causing riots and looting through Hoover and the FBI, helped create marxist groups and/or funded them, and may have also intimidated Johnson to make illogical legislation and decisions concerning Vietnam and Community Action Programs. 

This was while marxists protested the Vietnam War in order to decrease Johnson's popularity due to the 1964's Civil Rights Movement legislation having passed and 1965 Voter Registration Act. The media also attacked Johnson and Humphrey while giving time in the news for H. Rap Brown to foment conflict. Despite having so much opposition in the idolatrous establishment of his time, Humphrey was close to beating Nixon by less than 1%. 43.4 to 42.7 percent. Nixon used Wallace to be an alternative to Humphrey being pro-union, anti-bureaucracy, and appearing to be protestant in order to take votes from Humphrey. Because Wallace was a third party candidate, Wallace had 13.5 percent of the vote or close to 10 million votes that would have gone to Humphrey. (This was to give Nixon the election and not to give an alternative to voters.)

Humphrey decided to differ from Johnson concerning the Vietnam war and said that there was the need to prevent warfare. Humphrey had seen that Johnson had decided to not run for presidency yet had bravery to take the challenge (Johnson was probably intimidated by Hoover seeing how Civil Rights Leaders were being removed.) Johnson also attacked and discouraged Humphrey while Humphrey was campaigning to keep fighting for democracy (Johnson actually discouraged his Vice President instead of encouraging him.) Humphrey also had 250 marxists shouting over him at his speeches. (Nixon?) Even against all of that, Humphrey almost beat Nixon. The silver lining is that Humphrey was able to keep being Senator for more than a decade after the election, and Nixon would be caught with the FBI in Watergate. Nixon knew that the 1972 Democratic nominee was probably going to beat him again. Watergate was Nixon's attempt to create a one party system in the US because the Democrats were probably going to win in 1972. Nixon told the FBI to break into the Democrat Headquarters, steal information, bug the installations, and lie. Nixon and the FBI were found out. Humphrey like Spiro Agnew may not have been president but at least they were able to survive. Agnew also was prevented from being President because he was a decent, non-racist, and good person who was not a part of Watergate. Humphrey was a decent and humble individual who took it to the establishment and did not falter. Humphrey may have been a reason Nixon feared the 1972 elections and decided for Watergate. Despite Humphrey not winning the election, Nixon resigned in 1974. (Humphrey did not fear and fought for Democracy. We can see that fighting for good does make a difference. Humphrey instead of allowing Nixon an easy election in 1968, knowing that the odds were not favorable, and most likely was tempted or intimidated to take it easy on the campaign trail, decided to fight against the machine or establishment. Humphrey accomplished so much for fighting against the marxist socialist non-compete mafia.)