Hubert Humphrey Heckled

Humphrey is heckled at a campaign stop. He responds by saying he will not bow down to reactionaries.

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News & Politics

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• history
• hubert
• humphrey
• heckling
• ractionaries
• 1968
• presidential

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

God bless Humphrey... Man he was so right... hecklers taking their 1 minute in the spotlight and getting their asses handed to 'em. Arrest him? Those protesters weren't even born when Humphrey was taking on racism in the South. If ONLY Humphrey would have been pres... HHH all the way.

[damo2353]

Great speaker though. I wish I could find a video of his 1948 DNC address where apparently he was amazing. It is similar to the rise of Obama, that speech he made in 1948 catapulted him into national prominence.

[thegill666]

i heard humphrey was going to reinitiate the new deal programs of roosevelt but unlike fdr he was going to embrace minorities to be a part of his administration and be participants of the social movement/change.

we need a new deal 3

[simbad909]

one of the better men ever in usa politics. which is why he lost election.. he was too kind and too honest and dirtied by lbj

[jshalom65]

But he compromised with LBJ's unconstitutional,immoral and ungodly war that the elites wanted and Lyndon and LadyBird personally profitted from(LBJ Company's stock in GE & Bell Helicopter).With the 2 million our forces killed in Vietnam,and the1.5 million at least killed in both Iraq wars,America is just ahead of Pol Pot and just behind Adolf Hitler for mass murdering

[v19d]

@presleyj1 Ironically the Democratic Party is shrinking in some of the biggest Democratic registered state like in Maryland where I live. In 2010 the Democratic Party of Maryland lost majority control of numerous county government and in 9 of the 15 counties the dems lost those same 9 no longer are held by a single Democrat for different reasons. But the Maryland counties that are held by the GOP are reducing different fees and local taxes. The Dems have lost their ways since 1968.

[v19d]

@presleyj1 Very much true

[presleyj1]

Ironically, many of those hecklers later became the top leaders of the Democratic Party

[mickcaouette]

@damo2353 Check out the film "Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible" for the 1948 speech

[v19d]

All of Humphrey's life he didn't take the money he earned in his paychecks in Congress and VP Office to invest in business to get himself enrich. He actually along with his wife built a home next to a lake in his state.

[v19d]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones Humphrey was right about the Democratic Party going to be ruined by a few. At least Humphrey didn't live long enough to see the Democratic Party he loved once by throwing the unions under the bus after Carter. Humphrey was a liberal politican. While his wife who replaced him was more liberal then Humphrey. Rest in peace Mr VP and Senator.

[v19d]

@MANKATO311 Hubert's speech is true in 2011 about the Democratic Party devasted.