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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING - 1968 Chicago Convention and Election

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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From 2011 where I discussed the 1968 Chicago Convention, with an added note about today's events and the 2024 election and a bit about Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley's broadcast during the '68 convention. We are part of Airwave Media Network Check out 'Bro History,' Ben Franklin's World and For the Love of History. Check it out. Music by Lee Rosevere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Humphrey was puzzled to ask why protesters didn't pick in Nixon. He was more hawkish.

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But these protests weren't that nuanced. The Democratic Party was the governing agent. We were in Vietnam and these protests went

0:54.3

after them without regard for Humphrey's liberal background. When he arrived in Chicago,

1:00.3

first thing, a protest sign said, we used to be with you. Oh, From Sweet 2525C of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago,

1:29.2

Hubert Humphrey Plant his nomination for president.

1:32.6

Kajoling delegates promising favors lining up previously unfriendly bosses and

1:37.3

keeping on the right side of the incumbent president Lyndon Johnson.

1:41.1

Demanding work.

1:42.4

And enough, according to AIDS and reporters present in the

1:44.7

Candidates Suite, to keep him oblivious to the riot that was going on below.

1:48.9

Yet for anyone seeking to pretend that 1968 was just a normal Democratic Party convention, there was one clue something was wrong.

1:57.1

Even in the top floors, the ventilation system at the Hilton began drawing in tear gas.

2:03.2

And that tear gas was irritating but not as crippling as it was for those below.

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