[nightdriver]

"There were plenty of implacable anti-communists among Democrats of the era: Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey and John Kennedy, to name three contemporaries."

How can the nitwits at the Arizona Republic say this? I heard Hubert Humphrey say, one time, that he was a proud, card-carrying member of CPUSA. Doesn't sound much like an anti-communist to me.

Now, he was all pissy about some other issue at the time he said it, but he said it none the less.

[Leisler]

Sources? HH was a socialist and lefty and would of and did pave the way, but I doubt it. Anyways..

" COMMUNIST CONTROL ACT (1954)—An attempt to exclude the Communist Party from the ballot and deny it access to the courts to enforce contracts. While not directly outlawing the Party, this act (sponsored by Hubert Humphrey) stripped it of “all rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies.” It also forbade any member of a “Communist-action” or “Communist-infiltrated” organization from holding office or employment with any labor organization."