He spent the next few months campaigning as much against Kennedy as he did against Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who became the choice of the party establishment after Johnson's withdrawal.

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Three years from now, that could force him into one of the trickiest political maneuvers since 1968, when Vice President Hubert Humphrey, aiming for the presidency, tried to distance himself from the Vietnam War policies of his own Administration.

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Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

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As historian Fred Siegel has noted, the Kennedy phenomena differed greatly--in both style and substance--from the "lunch pail" liberalism epitomized by President Harry Truman and, to an extent, that of both Lyndon Johnson and his vice president, Hubert Humphrey.

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The Democrats were about to nominate as their standard bearer Hubert Humphrey, LBJ's loyal, pro-war vice president, even though Humphrey had not competed in a single primary.

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And then Hubert Humphrey, who got the nomination as the sitting Vice-President in 1968 after Johnson withdrew and RFK a classic Eastern Democrat was assassinated.

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In response to the vice president, Johnson wrote "we don't need all these memos" and kicked Humphrey out of his inner circle of decision making.

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