I'm not "going Beck". (what the hell?)
I just saw Glenn Beck doing a routine comparing Obama to Hugo Chavez.
The idea actually comes from Abbie Hoffman of all people. Johnson did explore the possibility, and Mayor Daley said he would work his magic only if LBJ publicly announced it. Southern delegations spread rumours and even HHH himself was reportedly worried. Polling numbers that showed him behind Nixon and Wallace in some Southern states was apparently the clincher.
Abbie Hoffman and the yippies might have wished for US military forces to crack heads in an anti-war protest, but that doesn't make it at all possible (see my comment about the Washington marches). And I didn't know Daley wanted to invite the White House to overrule Posse Comitatus and bring the army into an urban situation that was nowhere near as violent as the Watts riots, f'rinstance.
Anyway, just what are you saying in the above para? Humphrey was concerned LBJ would jump into the convention, or he was worried that the military would come to Chicago? LBJ considered sending the Screaming Eagles to the windy city?
Forget about Beck, it strikes me that conflating the Dems' crooked national political process with Daley's vicious police
and a would-be sinister military crackdown is more a product of the Chomsky Left.