A friend expressed her anguish last night on John Tierneys loss and said she would find it very difficult to work for Seth Moulton. This is how I responded to her. Let me tell you a story. In 1968 I had come to despise Hubert Humphrey. Those who lived through the 60s, from the hope of JFK, through the tragedy of his assassination, and then Malcolm, and then Martin, and then Robert, and then the 1968 Chicago Convention and its aftermath, American cities in flames, troops in the streets of America …we lived through a very, very difficult period, one which one never wants to see again. I felt, with good and sufficient reason, that Hubert could have changed the course of history in 1966 or 1967. He only had to break decisively with Lyndon Johnson. He could have led us out of LBJ’s collapsing house and reconnected with his true spirit by forcing the end of the War in Vietnam, saving countless thousands of lives, and, perhaps, he might even have been able to diminish the intensity of the firestorms that were leaping from city to city around the country. Hubert did not stand up to Lyndon Johnson and say, “No!” It would have been an unprecedented and dangerous act. We needed that audacity then and we did not get it. I resented deeply the fact that he did not grab the flag and lead us in a different direction. He could have done it but he did not. And I did not vote for him in 1968. I did not work for him in 1968. And we got Richard Nixon in 1968 I’m not going to make a similar mistake in this election. I could come up with reasons, good and sufficient, to walk away from the Moulton candidacy but I’m not going to do it. I should have worked for Hubert in 1968 and, unless something terrible and unforeseen happens in 2014, I will work for the election of Mr. Moulton.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:06:49 +0000
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