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Humphrey's 1968 DNC Acceptance Speech (Original Post) Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 OP
What a flash back, Wellstone ruled Sep 2012 #1
Speechmaking has come a long way bucolic_frolic Sep 2012 #2
A speech for a difficult time.. to think of how the respond to the violence..not easy... tokenlib Sep 2012 #3
"the right to a job"..Romney and the teabaggers would foam at the mouth to hear those words.. tokenlib Sep 2012 #4
"Let me speak first about Vietnam. rug Sep 2012 #5

bucolic_frolic

(42,666 posts)
2. Speechmaking has come a long way
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:41 PM
Sep 2012

Political Satirist Mark Russell once said that Walter Mondale had
"that Norwegian Charisma".

Guess he learned from Hubert Humphrey.

Not exactly rabble rousers, were they?

tokenlib

(4,186 posts)
4. "the right to a job"..Romney and the teabaggers would foam at the mouth to hear those words..
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:10 PM
Sep 2012

He was a great man. I met him at the Minnesota State Fair one time--I can't remember what year it was--- He was a "Happy Warrior" indeed...

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
5. "Let me speak first about Vietnam.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:46 PM
Sep 2012

There are differences, of course, serious differences, within our Party on this vexing, painful issue of Vietnam. And these differences are found even within the ranks of all the Democratic Presidential candidates.

Once you have examined the differences, I hope you will recognize the much larger area of agreement.

Let those who believe that our cause in Vietnam has been right -- and those who believe it has been wrong -- agree here and now: Neither vindication nor repudiation will bring peace or be worthy of our country.

The question is: What do we do now?

No one knows what the situation in Vietnam will be on January 20, 1969.

Every heart in America prays that, by then, we shall have reached a cease-fire in all Vietnam, and be in serious negotiation toward a durable peace.

Meanwhile, as a citizen, a candidate, and Vice President, I pledge to you and to my fellow Americans, that I shall do everything within my power to aid the negotiations and to bring a prompt end to this war.

May I remind you of the words of a truly great citizen of the world, Winston Churchill -- it was he who said –- and we would heed his words well: “Those who use today and the present to stand in judgment of the past, may well lose the future.”

And if there is one lesson we should have learned, it is that the policies of tomorrow need not be limited by the policies of yesterday.

And my fellow Americans, if it becomes my high honor to serve as President of these States and people, I shall apply that lesson to the search for peace in Vietnam, as to all areas of national policy.

Now, let me ask you, do you remember these words, at another time, in a different place: “Peace and freedom do not come cheap. And we are destined -- All of us here today -- to live out most, if not all of our lives, in uncertainty and challenge and peril.”

The words of a prophet? Yes.

The words of a President? Yes.

The words of the challenge of today? Yes.

And the words of John Kennedy to you and to me and to me and to posterity."

http://www.4president.org/speeches/hhh1968acceptance.htm

The war went on for nearly seven years.

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