Humphrey = the last non-asshole Democrat nominee for President.
I would have to agree with your assessment.
It seems like we’re talking about what happened in a different country. Certainly not in the USA we now know.
Back then, even the political jousting was on the whole far more gentle and nuanced, at least it was on TV.
I know behind the scenes, people like LBJ and Nixon played Hardball to get what they wanted done. Sometimes a President has to force their will. FDR did it. Kennedy must have as well, but that was all ignored by the big three channels back then. Even if a paper like PRAVDA had reported about the JFK sex scandals, most Americans would not have believed it, so deep was our faith in the Camelot Fantasy.
Doing the drunk thing just doesn’t seem funny anymore. Dudley Moore movies are painful watch.
HHH wasn’t an a-hole?
What about McGovern. I thought he was a “nice guy”.