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. >> the anti-war convention legates would be led by eugene mccarthy and senator george mcgovern of southo win the general election, humphrey needed their support. mcgovern was onboard but mccarthy hesitated. >> mccarthy told me in early august, prior to the convention, that he would be able to come out for me someere around the middle of september after eugene an myself had a rather long friendship and we were hoping that friendship could survive. >> time was running out and the only way that humphrey could avoid violence in chicago was to bring together johnson and the anti-war democrats. with only days remaining until the convention, humphrey and nixon were invited to the l.b.j. ranch. while nixon's visit was well publicized, johnson forbid humphrey to tell the press humphrey took the opportunity to present johnson with his own proposal to end the war and unite the party. >> i discussed with him the necessity of phasing out, reducing our commitments, reducing our forces, reducing our bombing, and leaving the struggle to the people of vietnam themselves and trying to negotiate our way o