Question

Which best describes Hubert Humphrey’s candidacy in 1968?
Humphrey was hurt by his association with the adminstration’s Vietnam War policy.
Humphrey announced that he would end the Vietnam War if elected and received strong support from the counterculture.
Humphrey opposed many of Johnson’s Great Society programs and declared he would end them if elected.
Humphrey declared that the Great Society plan did not go far enough and proposed a radical social agenda for the Democratic platform.

Answer 1

Humphrey was hurt by his association with the administration’s Vietnam War policy.

He was LBJ’s vice president and initially tied to Johnson’s Vietnam stance, which cost him support—he never fully captured the antiwar vote and only late in the campaign tried to distance himself.