Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a happy warrior for civil rights since 1948, told the National Association of Counties that “the National Guard is no answer to the problems of the slums,” and that if conditions didn’t improve, there would be “open violence in every major city and county in America,” and, indeed, if he lived in a slum, “I think you’d have more trouble than you have had already because I’ve got enough spark left in me to lead a mighty good revolt.”
