We Need Humphrey Muskie

Button is divided into three horizontal stripes, two red and one white.  Blue tinted photographs of Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie inside white stripe.  White text on red stripes.

Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie ran in the 1968 presidential election. Humphrey had previously served as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson and was encouraged to run when Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. Humphrey won the official nomination from the Democratic party and ran on a liberal platform that focused on civil rights and nuclear disarmament, although neither issues were popular at the time. They were ultimately defeated by Republicans Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, who won 301 to 191 in the electoral college.