Editing Hubert Humphrey (section)

=== 1972 presidential campaign ===
[[File:Humphrey1972.gif|thumb|1972 campaign logo]]
On November 4, 1970, shortly after being reelected to the Senate, Humphrey stated his intention to take on the role of a "harmonizer" within the Democratic Party to minimize the possibility of potential presidential candidates within the party lambasting each other prior to deciding to run in the then-upcoming election, dismissing that he was an active candidate at that time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/05/archives/humphrey-adopts-harmonizers-role.html|title=Humphrey Adopts Harmonizer's Role|first=Seth S.|last=King|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 5, 1970}}</ref> In December 1971, Humphrey made his second trip to New Jersey in under a month, talking with a plurality of county leaders at the [[Robert Treat Hotel]]: "I told them I wanted their support. I said I'd rather work with them than against them."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/18/archives/humphrey-talks-to-jersey-chiefs-tells-them-announcement-is-coming.html|title=HUMPHREY TALKS TO JERSEY CHIEFS|first=Joseph|last=Sullivan|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 18, 1971}}</ref>

In 1972, Humphrey once again ran for the Democratic nomination for president, announcing his candidacy on January 10, 1972, during a twenty-minute speech in Philadelphia. At the time of the announcement, Humphrey said he was running on a platform of the removal of troops from Vietnam and a revitalization of the United States economy.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1972/01/11/page/7/article/humphrey-enters-presidential-race-raps-nixons-policies|title=Humphrey Enters Presidential Race, Raps Nixon's Policies|date=January 11, 1972|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=May 6, 2017|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604014032/https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He drew upon continuing support from organized labor and the African-American and Jewish communities, but remained unpopular with college students because of his association with the Vietnam War, even though he had altered his position in the years since his 1968 defeat. Humphrey initially planned to skip the primaries, as he had in 1968. Even after he revised this strategy he still stayed out of New Hampshire, a decision that allowed McGovern to emerge as the leading challenger to Muskie in that state. Humphrey did win some primaries, including those in Ohio,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1972/11/02/page/3/article/mcgovern-gets-big-crowd-for-n-y-appearance|title=McGovern Gets Big Crowd for N.Y. Appearance|date=November 2, 1972|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=May 6, 2017|archive-date=May 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522092028/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1972/11/02/page/3/article/mcgovern-gets-big-crowd-for-n-y-appearance/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Indiana and Pennsylvania, but was defeated by McGovern in several others, including the crucial California primary. Humphrey also was out-organized by McGovern in caucus states and was trailing in delegates at the [[1972 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]]. His hopes rested on challenges to the credentials of some of the McGovern delegates. For example, the Humphrey forces argued that the winner-take-all rule for the California primary violated procedural reforms intended to produce a better reflection of the popular vote, the reason that the Illinois delegation was bounced. The effort failed, as several votes on delegate credentials went McGovern's way, guaranteeing his victory. After his primary win, McGovern asked Humphrey to be his running mate, but Humphrey declined.<ref name="Nixonland"/> After the election, Humphrey called Nixon and the two had an amicable conversation in which Humphrey implied that he preferred Nixon to McGovern, and had tried to keep McGovern from winning.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlstein |first1=Rick |title=Nixonland |date=29 July 2010 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=9780743243032 |page=745 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dM_enWzoghoC |access-date=22 June 2022 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>