Hubert Humphrey

Nixon won about 4 times the margin he lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960. The craziness that occurred during the election went hand in hand with the chaos of 1968. In this election, there were three candidates: Richard Nixon of the Republican Party, Hubert Humphrey of the Democratic Party, and George Wallace of the American Independent Party. The candidates did not know it at the time, but they would become part of the Presidential Election that would help shape American Politics to what they are today.

“The Impact: Vietnam and the 1968 Democratic Primary” It was the late Beatle, John Lennon who once said that “We live in a world where people must hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.” This refers of course to his distain of the Vietnam War and frankly when you ask someone who was a citizen in America at that time, you will most likely get the same melancholy response. For the better part of 15 years, the Vietnam War was at the forefront of American society in ways that

Voting for president of the United States is a very big concern. Americans vote for their president elect on several different categories, campaign platform, personal beliefs, Democrat or Republican Party, and in the earlier years, whether they were from the North or the South. One such person was George C. Wallace. Wallace campaigned in favor of segregation, but was he really for segregation, or did he just believe that the government was stepping on state’s rights? Wallace attended the University

The 1960 presidential campaign showed to be historic in the invention of television for advertisements, news interviews and policy debates, something that would occupy Kennedy's youthful hands. Four debates were created between Nixon and Kennedy, and Nixon had his tactics helping him from the beginning of it. During them, he was slowly getting better from the flu and looked exhausted, and then when he came to the TV studio, Nixon decided to not wear much TV makeup, scared that the press would accuse

John F. Kennedy was the first president to dance with a black woman at his inaugural ball (abc.com). In the 1960s segregation in the south was a progressing problem, schools and workplaces were still segregated even though there were laws. Civil rights activists wanted stand, but they simply didn’t have enough power. JFK took a stand by setting the groundwork for a bill and integrating schools in the south. Before JFK was elected in 1960, segregation was a huge problem. In most southern states;

Four people sit in a room, one directly behind the other. In front is the victim, behind is the perpetrator, behind them is the witness, and in the very back is the authority. The victim turns their back to the 3 people behind. On top of the victim's head is temptation. The authority, gets up from their chair, says to the bystander, “Let me know if you need anything”, and steps outside of the room. The perpetrator with a lack of authority, has a chance. The perpetrator grabs the temptation and the

With the 2016 election in full throttle, Kennedy and Nixon’s presidential debates of 1960 are still very much a part of American democracy. Televised presidential debates have become a backbone in an American election. Although these debates are now considered a norm in American politics, this has not always the case. Even after the first time a presidential debate was held between presidential candidates from across the aisle, it took another 16 years for another debate to occur. It is highly doubtful

In the history of the United States, few years could be viewed as being more important than 1968. While there were years in American history of great significance, 1968 has the distinction of being a year in which civil unrest, social progress, and the state of change were the norm, and featured events that affected not only America, but the world as a whole. With the condition of America at the time, society was going through changes that would go on to have massive impact on how the world would

Two years before the long and hard fought senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, President John F. Kennedy declared, “Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves, but in this century, our Negro citizens have emancipated themselves”1. With this simple statement President John F. Kennedy addressed one of the oldest and most current issues of our nation, the blatant line between the Caucasian population and the other minorities that reside

“We live by hope. We do not always get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way,it will be better and that we can make it so.” Hubert H. Humphrey. I am a true believer that as humans we interpret things completely different from one another no matter how ¨simple¨ a phrase or something may be. I interpret this quote as tomorrow will be better. I guess you can say I am one who tends to live in the future rather than the present. I am Rajveer Sahota and this