Editing Hubert Humphrey (section)

=== Civil rights ===
In February 1965, President Johnson appointed Humphrey to the chairmanship of the President's Council on Equal Opportunity.<ref name=Dallek224 /> The position and board had been proposed by Humphrey, who told Johnson that the board should consist of members of the Cabinet and federal agency leaders and serve multiple roles: assisting agency cooperation, creating federal program consistency, using advanced planning to avoid potential racial unrest, creating public policy, and meeting with local and state level leaders.<ref name=Thurber171>{{cite book|title=The Politics of Equality|pages=171–172|first=Timothy|last=Thurber|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231110471|year=1999}}</ref> During his tenure, he appointed [[Wiley A Branton]] as executive director.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/12/17/wiley-a-branton-dies/c9857b03-11ec-4494-ad34-9ce2c4dccb40/|title=Wiley A. Branton Dies|first=Joseph D.|last=Whitaker|date=December 17, 1988|newspaper=Chicago Tribune}}</ref> During the first meeting of the group on March 3, Humphrey stated the budget was US$289,000 and pledged to ensure vigorous work by the small staff.<ref name=Thurber171 /> Following the [[Watts riots]] in August of that year, Johnson downsized Humphrey's role as the administration's expert on civil rights. Dallek wrote the shift in role was in line with the change in policy the Johnson administration underwent in response to "the changing political mood in the country on aid to African Americans."<ref name=Dallek224>{{cite book|title=Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973|first=Robert|last=Dallek|page=[https://archive.org/details/flawedgiantlyndo00dall/page/224 224]|isbn=978-0195054651|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998|url=https://archive.org/details/flawedgiantlyndo00dall/page/224}}</ref> In a private meeting with Joseph Califano on September 18, 1965, President Johnson stated his intent to remove Humphrey from the post of "point man" on civil rights within the administration, believing the vice president was tasked with enough work.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965–1968|first=David C.|last=Carter|year=2012|publisher=The University of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0807832806|page=64}}</ref> Days later, Humphrey met with Johnson, Attorney General [[Nicholas Katzenbach]], and [[White House Counsel]] [[Lee C. White]]. Johnson told Humphrey he would shorten his role within the administration's civil rights policies and pass a portion to Katzenbach, Califano writing that Humphrey agreed to go along with the plan reluctantly.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years|first=Joseph A.|last=Caulifano|page=56|publisher=Touchstone|isbn=978-1476798790|year=2015}}</ref>

In an August 1967 speech at a county officials national convention in Detroit, Humphrey called for the establishment of a [[Marshall Plan]] that would curb poverty in the United States as well as address racial violence, and advocated for the creation of civil peace councils that would counter rioting. He said the councils should include representation from all minority groups and religions, state governments, the National Guard, and law enforcement agencies and that the United States would see itself out of trouble only when law and order was reestablished.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8_tS2Vw13FcC&dat=19670803&printsec=frontpage|title=Marshall Plan in U.S. Urged By Humphrey|date=August 3, 1967|newspaper=Toledo Blade}}</ref>