• Senator Ted Kennedy (Democratic Presidential Candidate 1980)• Senator Gene McCarthy (Democratic Presidential Candidate 1968)• Senator Hubert Humphrey (Democratic Presidential Candidate: 1952 • 1960 • 1968)• Senator George McGovern (Democratic Presidential Candidate 1972)• Senator Walter Mondale (VP 1976-1980 • Democratic Presidential Candidate 1984)• Senator William Fulbright (Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1959-1975) • Senator Edmund Muskie (Democratic Presidential Candidate 1972)• Senator Mike Mansfield (Majority Leader US Senate 1961-1977)• Representative Mo Udall (Democratic Presidential Candidate 1976)• Representative Tip O'Neill (Speaker US House 1977-1987)
Just as well for the above ten respected leaders of the Democratic Party that they never found themselves running for President in the present-day Democratic Party.
They would have all been condemned for having voted in 1964 FOR the Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution that authorized the use of force in Vietnam.
And - by today's holier-than-thou standards - all of their considerable experience, wisdom and virtues for leadership would have been rendered inoperative - because of that one vote.
Fortunately - none of those ten Democrats had anything important to contribute to the party or nation...