On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin=
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>
> another note of possible interest: last time an incumbent president
> decided not to run for re-election and the VP stepped up, Hubert
> Humphrey described his perspective as "the politics of joy"
>
> The Specter of Hubert Humphrey Haunts Kamala Harris
> A Democratic convention in Chicago isn’t the summer’s only echo with 1968.
> by Norman Solomon, Truthdig, August 15
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-specter-of-hubert-humphrey-haunts-kamala-harris/
>   .  .  .
> Campaigning for joy while supporting horrendous warfare is nothing
> new. Fifty-six years before Vice President Harris called herself a
> “joyful warrior,” Vice President Humphrey declared that he stood for
> the “politics of joy” when announcing his run for the 1968 Democratic
> presidential nomination.
>
> At that point, the Pentagon was several years into its massive killing
> spree in Vietnam, as Humphrey kicked off his campaign by saying: “Here
> we are the spirit of dedication; here we are the way politics ought to
> be in America, the politics of happiness, politics of purpose,
> politics of joy. And that’s the way it’s going to be, all the way,
> too, from here on out.”
>
> If Harris loses to Trump after sticking with her support for arming
> the slaughter in Gaza, historians will likely echo words from Offner,
> who wrote that after the 1968 election Humphrey “asked himself
> repeatedly whether he should have distanced himself sooner from
> President Johnson on the war. The answer was all too obvious.”
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>


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