[Ptarmigan]

Weird. Wasn't Hubert Humphrey a leftist though?

[Clemenza]

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.

[Reagan79]

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.

[cynicom]

Humphrey was a liberal when the term meant exactly that.

Now the dem/socialists hide behind that term.

[nightdriver]

"Wasn't Hubert Humphrey a leftist though?"

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?

[Mike Fieschko]

Weird. Wasn't Hubert Humphrey a leftist though?

Herbert Humphreys*, (mayor of Mpls-StP in 1948) ran in Minnesota on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket. (The name of the Dems in that State.)

The year he was first elected to the Senate, 1948, there was a major struggle in the DFL, when Truman was running for re-election, and the Communists in the DFL bolted and supported Henry Wallace for President.

From 1945 - 1950, there were a lot of times known Communists were kicked out (mostly) of unions and political parties.

* Courtesy of Pat Paulsen