Reply #201: 1968 was about the war and LBJ wouldn't let HHH run his own campaign. Wallace capitalized on that.

[Hart2008]

This from another thread by Ken Burch:

Privately, he (Humprey) was fairly dovish

but Johnson wouldn't allow him to run that way, and insisted on crushing the doves in Chicago on the war plank, when Humphrey was BEGGING LBJ to let him reach out to the "Dump Johnson" wing of the party.

And Johnson, in the fall, refused to go public with the proof he had that Nixon's campaign had intervened in the Paris Peace Talks to try to make sure there wouldn't be a peace deal before the election. All LBJ had to do was to make a nationally televised speech announcing that, and Nixon's support would have collapsed. But he wouldn't. Because LBJ was more loyal to the war than to his own party.

If Hubert Humphrey had been allowed to run as his own man in '68, Nixon would have got an ass-kicking in November.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x739102#745506

Really, you have gotten far from the OP of this thread.

My point, is that there was collusion between Nixon and Johnson in '68, and we expect to raise some serious issues about the Clintons and the Bushes in 1988, and Iran-Contra.