In addition , Ribicoff allied with consumer advocate Ralph Nader in creating the Motor Vehicle Highway Safety Act of 1966 , which created the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration . The agency was responsible for many new safety standards on cars . These standards were questionable because up until then , the emphasis had always been put on the driver . In response , Ribicoff stated that : " '' The driver has many faults . He is negligent ; he is careless ; he is reckless . We understand that ... I think it will be the millennium if you will ever get a situation where the millions and millions of drivers will all be perfect . They will always be making errors and making mistakes . '' " At the 1968 Democratic National Convention , during a speech nominating George McGovern , he went off-script , saying , " And with George McGovern as President of the United States , we would n't have to have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago . " Many conventioneers , having been appalled by the response of the Chicago police to the simultaneously occurring anti-war demonstrations , promptly broke into ecstatic applause . Television cameras promptly focused on the indignant reaction of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley . Ribicoff spent the remaining years of his Senate career fighting for such liberal issues as school integration , welfare and tax reform , and consumer protection
1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
Abraham Ribicoff