Posted on 09/11/2004 2:27:50 PM PDT by nwrep
Javits says Peace is Election Issue; Addresses Political Scientists in Chicago - Humphrey Calls Red Curb a Good Law
Chicago, Sep 10: Rep. Jacob Javits said today that the foreign policy of the United States and the free world was "at the moment in a slump." He predicted that the overriding issues of the Congressional campaign of 1954 will be peace.
Senator Hubert Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota, was the speaker at the association's luncheon. His address was devoted to a defense of his recent amendment of a Senate bill outlawing the Communist Party.
Senator Humphrey, a candidate for re-election in November, said his amendment outlawing the Communist Party was "a long forward stride on behalf of American freedoms and civil liberties."
Weird. Wasn't Hubert Humphrey a leftist though?
He voted for it before he voted against it.
He was a left-wing anticommunist in the vain of Helmut Schmidt of Germany or the journalists Sidney Hook and Dwight Mcdonald. Our generation (I'm 28) may find it hard to believe that such men once existed but they did.
Yeah I think many of the leftists were for this legislation. It was actually many of the strident anti-communists who sometimes did not favor this legislation because they felt they could defeat them in the public arena of ideas.
Plus the even some of far left rats back then were ripping off some of the commie platform.
HHH ... an old party democrat and my boyhood into manhood senator.
I wonder what he would have to say about a lot of things that the new democRats are up to?
If he had beaten Nixon, he might have surprised a few folks on both sides is my guess.
I come from a whole family of "Cold War Liberals" - pretty common back then.
Now the dem/socialists hide behind that term.
That's rather interesting.
Tell your friends they can tell who the Communist Party of the USA is for in this election by visiting www.cpusa.org
I question the timing...
I remember hearing Hunphrey saying, in his own words and voice, along about 1968 or 1969, that he was a card-carrying member of CPUSA.
WTF?
Same reason why the current rats are trying to ban Nader...they don't want anyone to the left of them to siphon votes.
My how times have change is an understatement.
Are you sure you heard right? HHH was running for prez in '68.
The biggest thing with old-line liberals like Humphrey is, while they may have been wrong on a lot of economic/social/etc., issues, in their heart of hearts they loved this country and wanted this country to be strong and powerful. Can that be said about today's liberals? I'd probably have never voted for Hubert Humphrey in a million years, but at the same time, I don't think Tom Daschle, Tom Harkin, etc., would be fit to carry Hubert Humphrey's briefcase.
* Courtesy of Pat Paulsen
WOW, theres a name I haven't heard in a long,long time.
Yes, and as I remember it, it was right after he lost the election and in the middle of his bitching and moaning about it, he said he was a proud, card-carrying communist.
It seems strange now to have all these stories coming out about him being anti-communist. I DID hear him saying it, not in a speach, but like in an impromptu comment to some news reporters.
It may be true that he was not one. He said a lot of things that weren't true.
Make no mistake about it, if Humphrey was alive today he would be as partisan a Democrat as George McGovern and other of his comtemporaries that are still around. He was on the left wing of his party in the 1960's (remember, privately he broke with Johnson on the war even though he was VP)so there is no reason to believe he wouldn't be on the left wing in today's Democrat Party.
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