The Value of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Battle (Vietnam: America within the Warfare Years)

This e-book explores how and why Vietnam loomed so giant for Humphrey as vp from 1964 by way of the 1968 election marketing campaign towards Richard Nixon. It assesses how Humphrey’s loyalty to Lyndon B. Johnson, who emerges because the villain of the story in some ways, would negatively have an effect on his political ambitions. And it engages the disconnect between Humphrey’s rules and the intricate politics of his convoluted relationship with the president and his unsuccessful presidential marketing campaign. It’s a complicated and irritating narrative, the outcomes of which might be tragic, not just for Humphrey’s presidential aspirations, but in addition for the warfare in Southeast Asia and the way forward for the US.