Are you sure you heard right? HHH was running for prez in '68.
Yes, and as I remember it, it was right after he lost the election and in the middle of his bitching and moaning about it, he said he was a proud, card-carrying communist.
It seems strange now to have all these stories coming out about him being anti-communist. I DID hear him saying it, not in a speach, but like in an impromptu comment to some news reporters.
It may be true that he was not one. He said a lot of things that weren't true.