Humphrey, HH

<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></h2><div><span class="mw-headline" style=""><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here’s why </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Republicans are pushing the lie that Trump is a tough guy. Because it works</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Historian Rick Perlstein, author of a series of books on the rise of Republican conservatism, was interviewed in The New Yorker last week and said something I think the Democratic Party has forgotten over the last decade or so. “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Toughness is a core primary value</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,” Perlstein said, referring to red states that Democrats have failed to carry in recent elections. “All of us remember 2004, when George W. Bush won reelection explicitly on this rationale of saying we know people disagree with his issue positions, but we are going to position him as the guy who sticks with his gut no matter what.”</span></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hubert-Humphrey-Conscience-Arnold-Offner/dp/0300222394"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.amazon.com/Hubert-Humphrey-Conscience-Arnold-Offner/dp/0300222394</font></a></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></p><p>michael schumacher</p><p><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-27-2018/">https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-27-2018/</a></p><p>humphrey book</p><p>gene mcc sat around with bob lowell writing poems instead of prepping for debates?</p><p>lowenstein killed, drafted mcc</p><p></p></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="1968_Presidential_election">1968 Presidential election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hubert_Humphrey&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1968 Presidential election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey_presidential_campaign,1968" title="Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign, 1968" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign, 1968</a></font></div><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 3px !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg/220px-Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg" width="220" height="124" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg/330px-Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg/440px-Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="338" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; padding: 3px !important;"><div class="magnify" style="margin-left: 3px; border: none !important; float: right; background: none !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Humphrey_and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; display: block; border: none !important; background: none !important;"><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.24wmf8/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background: none !important;" /></a></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vice President Hubert Humphrey, President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" title="Lyndon Johnson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lyndon Johnson</a>, and General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creighton_Abrams" title="Creighton Abrams" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Creighton Abrams</a> in a Cabinet Room meeting in March 1968</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As 1968 began, it looked as if President Johnson, despite the rapidly decreasing approval rating of his Vietnam War policies, would easily win the Democratic nomination for a second time.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-91" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[91]</a></sup> Humphrey was widely expected to remain Johnson's running mate for reelection in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-92" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[92]</a></sup> Johnson was challenged by Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy" title="Eugene McCarthy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Eugene McCarthy</a> of Minnesota, who ran on an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_U.S.involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War" title="Opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">anti-Vietnam War</a> platform.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-93" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[93]</a></sup> With the backing of out of state anti-war college students and activists while campaigning in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_primary" title="New Hampshire primary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Hampshire primary</a>, McCarthy, who was not expected to be a serious contender for the Democratic nomination, nearly defeated Johnson, finishing with a surprising 42% of the vote to Johnson's 49%.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-94" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[94]</a></sup> A few days after the New Hampshire primary, after months of contemplation and originally intending to support Johnson's bid for reelection, Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy" title="Robert Kennedy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert Kennedy</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York</a> also entered the race on an anti-war platform.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-95" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[95]</a></sup> On March 31, 1968, a week before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wisconsin</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">primary</a>, where polls showed a strong standing for McCarthy, President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B.Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> stunned the nation by withdrawing from his race for a second full term.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-96" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[96]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following the announcement from Johnson, Humphrey announced his presidential candidacy on April 27, 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-97" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[97]</a></sup> Declaring his candidacy in a speech in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> alongside Senators <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_R.Harris" title="Fred R. Harris" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fred Harris</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oklahoma</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Walter Mondale</a> of Minnesota (who both served as the co-chairs to his campaign), Humphrey stated:</font></p><blockquote style="line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here we are, just as we ought to be, here we are, the people, here we are the spirit of dedication, here we are the way politics ought to be in America, the politics of happiness, politics of purpose, politics of joy; and that's the way it's going to be, all the way, too, from here on out. We seek an America able to preserve and nurture all the basic rights of free expression, yet able to reach across the divisions that too often separate race from race, region from region, young from old, worker from scholar, rich from poor. We seek an America able to do this in the higher knowledge that our goals and ideals are worthy of conciliation and personal sacrifice.<sup id="cite_ref-UCSB_Remarks_Declaring_Candidacy_98-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-UCSB_Remarks_Declaring_Candidacy-98" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[98]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also in his speech, Humphrey supported President Johnson's Vietnam initiative he proposed during his address to the nation four weeks earlier;<sup id="cite_ref-UCSB_Remarks_Declaring_Candidacy_98-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-UCSB_Remarks_Declaring_Candidacy-98" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[98]</a></sup>partially halting the bombings in North Vietnam, while sending an additional 13,500 troops and increasing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Department of Defense's</a> budget by 4% over the next fiscal year.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-99" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[99]</a></sup> Later in the campaign, Humphrey opposed a proposal by Senators McCarthy and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George McGovern</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">South Dakota</a> to the Democratic Convention's Policy Committee, calling for an immediate end to the bombings in Vietnam, an early withdrawal of troops and setting talks for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_government" title="Coalition government" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">coalition government</a> with the Viet Cong.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-100" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[100]</a></sup></font></p><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 232px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 3px !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg/230px-Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg" width="230" height="164" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg/345px-Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg/460px-Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg 2x" data-file-width="2186" data-file-height="1561" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; padding: 3px !important;"><div class="magnify" style="margin-left: 3px; border: none !important; float: right; background: none !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_H.Humphrey_1968_presidential_campaign..jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; display: block; border: none !important; background: none !important;"><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.24wmf8/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background: none !important;" /></a></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hubert Humphrey campaigning for President in 1968</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many people saw Humphrey as Johnson's stand-in; he won major backing from the nation's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions" title="Labor unions" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">labor unions</a> and other Democratic groups that were troubled by young antiwar protesters and the social unrest around the nation.<sup id="cite_ref-HHH_Papers_101-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-HHH_Papers-101" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[101]</a></sup> Humphrey entered the race too late to participate in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,1968" title="Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1968" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic primaries</a><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-102" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[102]</a></sup> and concentrated on winning delegates in non-primary states by gaining the support from democratic officeholders who were elected delegates for the Democratic Convention.<sup id="cite_ref-HHH_Papers_101-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-HHH_Papers-101" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[101]</a></sup> By June, McCarthy won in Oregon and Pennsylvania, while Kennedy had won in Indiana and Nebraska, though Humphrey was the front runner as he led the delegate count.<sup id="cite_ref-HHH_Papers_101-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-HHH_Papers-101" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[101]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OMCA_103-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-OMCA-103" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[103]</a></sup> The California primary was crucial for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Kennedy_presidential_campaign,1968" title="Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign, 1968" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kennedy's campaign</a>, as a McCarthy victory would've prevented Kennedy from reaching the amount of delegates required to secure the nomination.<sup id="cite_ref-OMCA_103-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-OMCA-103" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[103]</a></sup> On June 4, 1968, Kennedy defeated McCarthy by less than 4% in the California primary.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-104" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[104]</a></sup> But the nation was shocked yet again when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Kennedy_assassination" title="Robert F. Kennedy assassination" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Senator Kennedy was assassinated</a> after his victory speech at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Hotel(Los_Angeles)" title="Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ambassador Hotel</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,California" title="Los Angeles, California" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Los Angeles, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-105" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[105]</a></sup> After the assassination of Kennedy, Humphrey suspended his campaign for two weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-106" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[106]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Humphrey and his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_mate" title="Running mate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">running mate</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Muskie" title="Ed Muskie" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ed Muskie</a>, went on to easily win the Democratic nomination at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1968 Democratic National Convention" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">party convention</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Illinois</a>. Unfortunately for Humphrey and his campaign, outside the convention hall there were riots and protests by thousands of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Vietnam_War" title="Opposition to the Vietnam War" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">antiwar demonstrators</a>, many of whom favored McCarthy, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George McGovern</a>, or other "anti-war" candidates. These protesters – most of them young college students – were attacked and beaten on live television by Chicago police, which merely amplified the growing feelings of unrest in the general public. Humphrey's inaction during the riots, as well as public backlash from securing the presidential nomination without entering a single primary, highlighted turmoil in the Democratic party's base that proved to be too much for Humphrey to overcome in time for the general election. The combination of the unpopularity of Johnson, the Chicago riots, and the discouragement of liberals and African-Americans when both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert F. Kennedy</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." title="Martin Luther King, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> were assassinated during the election year, were all contributing factors that caused him to eventually lose the election to former Vice President Nixon. Although he lost the election by less than 1% of the popular vote, (43.4% for Nixon (31,783,783 votes) to 42.7% (31,271,839 votes) for Humphrey, with 13.5% (9,901,118 votes) for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George Wallace</a>), Humphrey only carried 13 states with 191 electoral college votes. Richard Nixon carried 32 states and 301 electoral votes, and Wallace carried 5 states in the South and 46 electoral votes (270 were needed to win).</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his concession speech, Humphrey said: "I have done my best. I have lost, Mr. Nixon has won. The democratic process has worked its will."<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey#cite_note-107" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[107]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">===</font></p>