Reply #12: Humphrey was a hack [View All]

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He was Johnson's point man in Chicago. He was the "establishment" candidate of the Mayor Daleys and George Meanys-- the candidate of Daley's cops who were beating and tear-gassing the activists outside the convention hall.

Humphrey looks like a radical today, but he was pretty moderate for the most part. He was a backer of Joe McCarthy's HUAC in the 1950s, and was notorious for his red-baiting in Minnesota in the 30s and 40s.

However, as much as I detested certain things about HHH, he was still a great American and sure did a lot for Minnesota and the country. My grandfather's dad worked with him when Hump was mayor of Minneapolis in the 1940s, and he was a good mayor. As a matter of fact, my grandfather still got Xmas cards from HHH until Humphrey died in 1978.