if a presidential election was held to do a cbs news survey would show richard nixon would win hands down, and vice president humphrey would finish third in the electoral vote. the candidate owes it to the people to come out of the shadows. knock it off, will you please. by september 68, humphrey is having the worse political moment you could imagine. he s been heckled at every event he goes to. he has to beg democratic politicians to appear with him and endorse him. he has not yet in any particular instance indicated one disagreement with my of the policies in the last four years. vietnam is defining the 1968 election. and humphriey knows he has to d
how hard it is, how hard it is to accept the truth. consistent chanting by the crowd, the whole world is watching. a shot of gas. 14 votes for hubert humphrey. no, i was wrong. pennsylvania, 130 votes. vice president humphrey was in his room at the hilton when the tear gas began floating over that way, blown by the wind. he got a good whiff of it and began coughing and sneezing. he s all right. i think what was happening outside overwhelmed what happened inside. this is going to do it. and 103 is declared and vice president hubert humphrey is the nominee of the
heal the divisions in this party in terms of the november election. it s my judgment that hubert humphrey starts out an underdog. nixon could be gleeful about trumping his enemies and it gave him great joy to go to chicago to begin his campaign in the very place where the democratic party had been humiliated by a riot. stand up and let s strike the band up here comes richard nixon, the uniter, coming through the city of chicago like a roman emperor and being cheered by tens of thousands and harassed by no one. so it looks like this would be the fellow that can unite the country. humphrey s in an impossible situation. he s associated with the chaos of the anti-war movement because of what happened at the convention.
something bold. and he knows what that is. as president, i would stop the bombing of the north as an acceptable risk for peace, because i believe it could lead to success in negotiations and thereby shorten the war. a member of the hanoi delegations at the paris peace talks said today that mr. humphrey s speech contained absolutely nothing new. whatever the north vietnamese says the vice president s speech was his most serious effort of the campaign to establish his own position on vietnam. richard nixon played a subtle political game on the vietnam war. he talked about peace for his honor but never articulated that plan. when and if we win this election, i hope the war will be over. but if it is not over, i will welcome a new team to go in and that will not be tied in with the things of the past. now humphrey was articulating something that many americans felt but weren t hearing from richard nixon.
he didn t want to jeopardize his own nomination because lyndon johnson had all the levers of power in the democratic party. i am the vice president of the united states. the vice president of the united states does not make the policy. he is a puppet, so you can t tell what he will think or do in office because he s not used to thinking for himself. the final say in the delegate selection was in the hands of the party bosses and lyndon johnson. someone questioned johnson about humphrey s loyalty. he said, don t worry about hubert, i ve got his pecker in my pocket. earlier this year, top u.s. leaders vowed that the marine outpost at khe sanh would be defended at all costs but today the u.s. command in vietnam announced that the marines are pulling out of khe sanh. that s the last bunker on this base. now that the american troops have blown it up, there s nothing to protect them from enemy artillery.