The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give Nov 21, 2009
And then there was Vice President Hubert Humphrey who -- incapable of rejecting Johnson's war policy -- lost the 1968 election to Richard Nixon, a candidate pushing a fraudulent "peace with honor" formula for downsizing the war. Still, we have no evidence about how American voters would deal with a president who didn't take the Johnson approach to a losing war. (CBS News)
Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle Nov 18, 2009
But while sitting vice presidents have often secured their parties' nominations in modern timesNixon (1960), Hubert Humphrey (1968), Walter Mondale (1984), George Bush Sr. (1988), Al Gore (2000)of defeated vice presidential nominees, only Bob Dole did so (in 1996), and it took him 20 years. Joe Lieberman, Jack Kemp, Lloyd Bentsen, Geraldine Ferraro, Sargent Shriverthough not lightweights, these politicians weren't presidential timber in most people's eyes. (Slate)
Joe the Vice President Nov 13, 2009
During that campaign, Biden was also accused of plagiarizing John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey, continuing a practice of borrowing that carried over from his law school days. His second presidential campaign ended 20 years later when he failed to garner more than 2 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses. (The American Conservative)
Tom Wassell, 84, WSB-TV anchor Nov 11, 2009
News makers who appeared included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. David Abernathy, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern and others ... It states: "What do Lester Maddox and Ralph Abernathy have in common with Hubert Humphrey, Herb Klein, George McGovern, Walter Hickel, Wilbur Mills, Winston Blount, Ramsey Clark, Averell Hammerman and Sargent Shriver?". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Pawlenty in Iowa Slams Obamacare Nov 9, 2009
You are looking at a man who got elected in the land of Hubert Humphrey, said Pawlenty, who argued for a GOP focus on pocketbook issues. Iowas Republican politics are heavily shaped by social and religious conservatives, and in describing the healthcare measure Pawlenty said sadly, it allows for taxpayer funding of abortions. (Newsmax)
On Hubert Humphrey's modest home and Lodi's debate over gated communities Nov 5, 2009
As we passed a modest red brick and white wood-sided home near Jones Mill Road, he pointed and said, "That's where Hubert Humphrey lives." These were the days before the vice president of the United States had an official residence. He was on his own to find a place to sleep. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Palin is No Nixon Nov 4, 2009
Nixon was essentially running against an incumbent with almost as little charisma as him in Hubert Humphrey and still barely won. Unless 2012 looks even more dire than 1968, Obama will almost assuredly be reelected. (The American Conservative)
The new Democrats Oct 29, 2009
Recently, the Daily American reported on the Somerset County Democratic banquet. The party faithful attending were urged to work hard in their support of Democrat candidates and to secure the county for their party. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
EXCLUSIVE: Pawlenty Defends Conservative Credentials Oct 28, 2009
-- The featured speaker at the Western Conservative Political Action Conference October 16-17 was the governor of the state that gave the nation liberal Democrats Hubert Humphrey, Paul Wellstone and now Al Franken. Republican Tim Pawlenty, who is completing his second term as governor of Minnesota, delighted a standing-room-only audience of conservative activists with his dinner address. (Human Events Online)
Nixon and Obama -- Soul Brothers? Oct 28, 2009
Between New Hampshire and November, there was the Tet Offensive, LBJ's announcement he would not run again, the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, race riots in 100 cities and Washington, D.C., the takeover of Columbia University by radicals, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, a Democratic convention in Chicago marked by rancor inside the hall and police-radical confrontations outside, and a campaign in which Hubert Humphrey was shouted down at rallies until he agreed to a bombing... (Human Events Online)
GOP's New Lightning Rod Oct 25, 2009
Born in Iowa but a Minnesotan by age 12, Bachmann acquired what she calls "her family's Hubert Humphrey knee-jerk liberalism." She and her husband danced at Jimmy Carter's inauguration. Shortly thereafter, however, she was riding on a train and reading Gore Vidal's novel "Burr," which is suffused with that author's jaundiced view of America. (Townhall.com)
Q&A: Cleland discusses war, politics Oct 19, 2009
The only cure for politics, Hubert Humphrey once observed, is embalming fluid. At 21 years of age, and released for a semester from my Army ROTC obligations, I had the time of my life in Washington. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Secret Agent Man Oct 16, 2009
I am a Sierra Leonean on a one year Hubert Humphrey Executive Education program at SU's Maxwell School. I was in the country right through the period of the civil war and the Special Court seatings that led to the indictment of Mr. (). (Daily Orange, NY)
David Gartner, 74, key aide to Vice President Humphrey Oct 9, 2009
WASHINGTON - David Gartner, a key aide to Vice President Hubert Humphrey who became a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, died Sept. 29 at his home in suburban Arlington, Va. He had esophageal cancer and was 74. (Boston Globe)
You Have Me To Kick Around Some More Oct 4, 2009
Leaving aside that half the article is devoted to , the money quote is from the McCain adviser who insists that McCain is not going to be like Hubert Humphrey or Ed Muskie and quietly pass the scene. But the Humphrey analogy is quite apt in fact, with McCain determined beyond reason to save the Republican Party from the Palin phenomenon he was indispensable to unleashing, and at the sight of her or Mike Huckabee s nomination will be, just as Humphrey with his whole world collapsing around him at... (The American Conservative)
If Schuberts in, whos out? Oct 3, 2009
In a song lamenting how Hubert Humphrey was shoved into the political background when he became LBJ s VP, he sings We must protest this treatment, Hubert / Says each newspaper reader. As someone once remarked to Schubert, / Take us to your Lieder. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
• Wilshire & Washington: Olympic blows Oct 3, 2009
Awarded: Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the MPAA, received the Hubert Humphrey Humanitarian Award on Thursday at a Washington reception. The award was given by the National Jewish Democratic Council and is for "extraorinary leadership on issues important to our community and society.". (Variety)
Zelizer: Obama should listen to Biden Sep 30, 2009
He says Vice President Hubert Humphrey had similar role on Vietnam ... The emerging relationship between Biden and President Obama brings back memories of Vice President Hubert Humphrey and President Lyndon B. Johnson. (CNN -- US)
Kristol Ball Sep 24, 2009
Here is Nathan Glazer, co-editor with Irving Kristol of the Public Interest, in that magazine's final issue in spring 2005, recalling the origins of the journal in the 1960s: "All of us had voted for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, for Hubert Humphrey in 1968, and I would wager (?) that most of the original stalwarts of The Public Interest, editors and regular contributors, continued to vote for Democratic presidential candidates all the way to the present. Recall that the original definition of the... (The American Conservative)
Jimmy Carter's slurs Sep 24, 2009
Even liberal editorialists eviscerated Carter for his vindictive campaign and two Democratic opponents, Hubert Humphrey and Ted Kennedy, had often complained over the years about Carter s nasty brand of politics. The great Hugh Sidey of Time Magazine wrote at the time, The wrath that escapes Carter s lips about racism and hatred when he prays and poses as the epitome of Christian charity leads even his supporters to protest his meanness. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
In the muddled middle Sep 21, 2009
His steps brought him to the Washington law offices of James H. Rowe Jr., who came out of Montana and Harvard Law School to join FDR's White House staff and later became a counselor to Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and many others of that generation. As I eventually heard, Rowe -- who took the time to teach this reporter valuable political lessons -- was impressed with the young, good-looking visitor who was backed by a wealthy, well-established Montana family, and encouraged him to pursue his... (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
'South Pacific' sails into town Sep 20, 2009
"When they were writing the piece in the summer of 1948, during the Democratic convention, the news filled with stories about Hubert Humphrey introducing the first platform on racial equality, which was pushed out by Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats. So the question of race was very much on everyone's mind. It may have been that the more Rodgers and Hammerstein (and director Josh Logan, who co-wrote the book) worked on the show, the more they thought, 'Well, we're getting our point across,'... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Neoconservatism founder Norman Podhoretz explores conundrum of ‘Why are Jews Liberals’ Sep 20, 2009
briskly surveying 2,000 years of Jewish history, from the birth of Christianity in the Roman era to the defeat of Hubert Humphrey in 1968. It was that history, he explains, that forged Jewish liberalism. (Boston Globe)
Obituaries in the news Sep 16, 2009
In 1980, Rarick won the presidential nomination of the AIP, under which George Wallace had staged a third-party presidential candidacy in 1968 against Republican Richard Nixon, the winner that year, and Democrat Hubert Humphrey. Rarick drew only about 40,000 votes. (Anchorage Daily News)
The Top Political Dynasties Sep 15, 2009
Joe's money buried Hubert Humphrey and won the presidential nomination for son Jack. Joe decreed that the president-elect make Bobby his attorney general and demanded that Jack's Senate seat be available when young Ted was constitutionally old enough to run. (Juneau Empire)
Meet the knuckleheads of the U.S. Senate Sep 8, 2009
As pundits like and have observed, when young Teddy arrived on Capitol Hill, he was breathing the same air as Scoop Jackson, Barry Goldwater, Everett Dirksen, Hubert Humphrey, William Fulbright, Ed Muskie and Birch Bayh. When he left a half-century later, his colleagues were Evan Bayh, and Mike Crapo and Mike Enzi and John Cornyn. (Salon)
Colleagues Remember Ted Kennedy Aug 31, 2009
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2009. Feinstein, McCain, Hatch, Frank Look Back on the Late Senator's Work. (CBS News)
Jacoby: ‘Kennedy’ once meant ‘tax cutter’ Aug 30, 2009
Senator Hubert Humphrey vowed that if anyone could find anything in the 1964 Civil Rights Bill that would compel hiring on the basis of race, I will start eating the pages one after another. In a 1963 press conference, President Kennedy explicitly opposed racial preferences: We are too mixed, this society of ours, to begin to divide ourselves on the basis of race or color. (Boston Globe)
DAVID S. BRODER: Kennedy tackled life head-on Aug 27, 2009
in the spring of 1960, Ted Kennedy was an impossibly handsome 28-year-old, campaigning for his big brother in the Democratic primary against Hubert Humphrey. The family, which never spoiled the youngest brother, had sent him to dauntingly tough territory. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Kennedy: Legendary orator, link to history Aug 26, 2009
At a raucous rally at the XL Center in downtown Hartford on the eve of the Connecticut primary, Kennedy told the crowd, "This election now is in your hands. I'm asking each and every one of you to do for Barack Obama what you did for John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. A figure out of historyPart of the excitement of being in those crowds in Waterloo and Hartford came, of course, from seeing a figure straight out of American history. Politics was part of Kennedy's genetic inheritance. His... (MSNBC -- Politics)
This was Brainerd Aug 24, 2009
Around 1,000 people attended an open house at the Brainerd State Hospital at which former Vice President and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey were the guest speakers. Brainerd Mayor Clyde Gorham presented Mrs. Humphrey with a gold key to the city. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Robert Novak Was a Seeker of Truth Aug 22, 2009
Every presidential campaign has sort of a wunderkind, and Bob McCandless was the wunderkind of the 1968 Hubert Humphrey campaign, Keene says ... And he began taunting Novak about the election, saying Hubert Humphrey was going to win, and the Democrats were going to have a great night. (Newsmax)
Rescue Missions Complicate U.S. Diplomacy Aug 18, 2009
Hubert Humphrey used a fact-finding trip to Russia to press for arms control in a conversation with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson went to North Korea in 1996 when he was a member of Congress, to help secure the release of an American, Evan C. Hunziker, of Tacoma, Wash. (CBS News -- World)
Sun Country serves up Caribou Jul 24, 2009
Fliers traveling today received complimentary coffee as well as pastries from Mel-O-Glaze bakery served by Sun Country CEO Stan Gadek, Caribou Coffee CEO Michael Tattersfield and Caribou s mascot Carri-Bou in a tent outside the Hubert Humphrey Terminal and at tables in the Sun Country gate area to mark the partnership. We are pleased to partner with another hometown company, Caribou Coffee, said Gadek. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
Why I Didn't Trust Walter Cronkite Jul 22, 2009
The "average senator" scored 67 percent in the survey, and President Richard Nixoneasily the least trustworthy animal ever to walk on two legsreceived 57 percent, as did Hubert Humphrey. How did Cronkite join this popularity list in the first place. (Slate)
Ted Kennedy: Forty Years after Chappaquiddick Jul 20, 2009
That year, Hubert Humphrey and his advisers in the Democratic Party worked tirelessly to get the junior senator from Massachusetts to become his vice presidential running mate. Less than two months after the assassination of his brother Robert (Humphrey s chief rival for nomination), Ted Kennedy ruled out a run on a national ticket for personal reasons -- obvious reasons. (Human Events Online)
Answer Girl: Stationery and stations Jul 17, 2009
No one knows exactly who started this tradition, but no president was more fond of pens than President Harry S. Truman, who had a habit of passing out pens that said "I swiped this from Harry S. Truman." And Lyndon B. Johnson definitely used multiple pens to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of which he gave to Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Hey, Answer Girl. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Rich lessons in North Korea's playbook Jul 16, 2009
Hubert Humphrey lauded the president's restraint; Senator Barry Goldwater reluctantly went along, saying he personally favored taking "an eye for an eye", but conceding that the US cannot afford to fight wars simultaneously in Vietnam and Korea. The third standoff with North Korea was over the August 18, 1976, Poplar Tree incident at Panmunjom, a village on the de facto border between North and South Korea. (Asia Times Online)
Sarah Palin (gulp!) still could become GOP 2012 nominee Jul 16, 2009
In the Democratic Party, primogeniture sometimes applies, as with Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and incumbent or former vice presidents Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Walter Mondale in 1984 and Al Gore in 2000. But, just as often, a candidate will come from relative, or not-so-relative, obscurity and seize the nomination, such as John F. Kennedy in 1960, George McGovern in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976, Michael Dukakis in 1988, Bill Clinton in 1992 and in 2008. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Wenzel ready for the third act of his professional life Jul 11, 2009
Hubert H. Humphrey: "There are only two people I really miss in politics. Hubert Humphrey and Rudy Perpich.". Arne Carlson: "Arne Carlson was also a great governor. A great steward of state agencies.". (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Wilshire and Washington Jul 5, 2009
Fritz Hollings, who told him, "Young man, you remind me of Hubert Humphrey." Then Hollings added, "You talk too much.". The times that I have met Franken, the first thing that comes to mind is that he has neither the ebullience of Wellstone or Humphrey. (Variety)
THEY SENT IN THE CLOWN Jul 3, 2009
From Henry Clay and Daniel Webster to Hubert Humphrey and Daniel Pat rick Moynihan to. Sen. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Letters to the editor (7/2/09) Jul 2, 2009
Red Boucher always reminded me of LBJ's good-natured, persuasive vice president, Hubert Humphrey. Both mastered what Humphrey called the "politics of joy," which consisted of happily pursuing political solutions to help solve society's and individuals' most vexing problems. (Anchorage Daily News)
Horazdovsky: Long-Term Care Is a Vital Aspect of Health Care Reform Jun 24, 2009
As Hubert Humphrey once said, how we treat those individuals is a true moral test of our government. The long-term care profession has many sensible, cost-effective suggestions to address the problems faced by our elders who require care. (Roll Call)
LETTER: It's amazing to see letters critical of Obama Jun 5, 2009
Harry Potter wrote on May 28, 2009 11:08 AM:" Agh, Harry, you got me so upset with that last comment that I posted this one on the wrong website. Here's a copy of what I posted (in error - forgot to switch back to this letter) on the Bauer string: That's OK Tom, I'll forgive you this time, especially since I made a similar error this morning.Your comments about partisanship reminded me of a situation that happened to me many long years ago. I was working in a drug store and going to EIU, and the... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Stephen Kemp: No Humphreys here Jun 3, 2009
One of Minnesota s most respected leaders, Hubert Humphrey, once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, the handicapped ... Pawlenty and Davids, you are no Hubert Humphrey. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Why Jack Kemp was truly special May 16, 2009
Like Democrat Hubert Humphrey, also a fountain of ideas and an endless source of hopefulness, Jack had no political enemies just converts in waiting. To disagree on an issue with him was to guarantee you would get the Jack Kemp treatment a friendly arm around your shoulder, a customized reading list, and specific emphasis on where you and he already agreed. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
This, Too, Shall Pass May 13, 2009
That noonday moment ended four years later, when Richard Nixon slid past Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace. Then there was Watergate. (Townhall.com)
Robert Choate Jr.; helped change eating habits in US May 11, 2009
He started a variety of social and welfare programs in Phoenix and hosted a Southwest conference on poverty that brought in speakers including Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Peace Corps leader Sargent Shriver. In Washington, he became a force in what was called the "hunger lobby," working with such organizations as Citizens Crusade Against Poverty. (Boston Globe)
Past Picks: Chicago 10’ rates a solid 8 Apr 28, 2009
The events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago became a seminal moment in American history another in a cascade of turbulent events of that year including the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, both of which preceded the election-year gathering of Democrats (who would go on to nominate Vice President Hubert Humphrey to head their ticket). By now everyone knows the general outline of what happened on the streets of Chicago when anti-war... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
The Presidential Election of 1964 Apr 10, 2009
Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota would be the Vice President. The Republican Convention in San Francisco. (Suite101.com)
Without balance, we turn polarized Mar 17, 2009
Under the Fairness Doctrine we had William F. Buckley Jr. and Hubert Humphrey cordially airing their differences like gentlemen on "Firing Line." Opinions were actually exchanged, and each side was inevitably brought into closer contact with the other. Today, freed from the onerous drag of having to listen to anyone who disagrees with us, Americans have Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Beyond The Sports Huddle by Dave Mo... Mar 6, 2009
Lest anyone think this book is of local interest only, however, how about this list for a cast of characters: Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Harmon Killebrew, Billy Martin, Bud Grant, Molly Ivins, the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Hubert Humphrey, Kirby Puckett, Mark McGwire, Harvey MacKay, Tony Oliva, John Wooden, Oscar Robertson, and Garrison Keillor to name just some of those Mona covers personally in his book. Dave Mona is the author of two other books: Twenty-Five Seasons: The First Quarter... (Suite101.com)
Vice President Joe Biden to deliver commencement address Mar 6, 2009
Since 1965, no sitting vice president has given the commencement speech at SU. Hubert Humphrey spoke at commencement that year. No active president has ever delivered an SU commencement speech. (Daily Orange, NY)
Sen. Ted Kennedys Wife May Succeed Him Feb 28, 2009
Hubert Humphrey also succeeded their husbands. 2009 Newsmax. (Newsmax)
Remembering the Space Race Feb 21, 2009
Today there are, indeed, some men with passion in their speech, convincing passion too, whether it stems from the liberalism of Hubert Humphrey or from the conservatism of Robert Kerr. But there is no debate on Capitol Hill worth recording. (The Atlantic Online)
'Preserving the Legacy': James Brown exhibit opens Feb. 20 at Stanback Feb 19, 2009
Brown sponsored programs for underprivileged youth, spoke at high schools, invested in black businesses, performed for troops in Vietnam and went on television after the April 4, 1968, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to plead for calm, a service for which he was ceremoniously thanked by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Politicians recruited him to help calm cities struck by civil insurrection and avidly courted his endorsement. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Battle for the state's top job Feb 18, 2009
In 1968, Napolitan had helped Hubert Humphrey erase a 17-point deficit, only to lose to Richard Nixon in the closest presidential election in American history. My win over Eileen Anderson in 1986 gave me a firsthand look at Seigle's political skills. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Turbulence and tragedies eclipse early triumphs Feb 16, 2009
They decided the divided Democrats were doomed to lose the presidency under presumptive nominee Hubert Humphrey. Only a Kennedy could unite them. (Boston Globe)
Entertainment Feb 8, 2009
However, Obama was not the first black candidate to run for president: In the 1972 primary season, political heavyweights Democratic Senators George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey found themselves squaring off in a nationally televised debate against Shirley Chisholm, a little-known black congresswoman from Brooklyn. by. (The Villanovan, PA)
From Politico Feb 8, 2009
" We are living in Germany circa 1933. Obama SUCKS BTW. Yeah, reporting a conservative's shady finances = Nazi practices. Um, ok. I am sure you were outraged over Daschle getting the axe after reading about it in some brown shirt newspaper, weren't you? Wingnuts bringing the funny day in and day out. Party: Independent Reply #4 Date: Feb. 5, 2009 - 11:09 AM EST Sodopop, you are missing the point of my post. You don't find it odd that Politico writes this story the day after Coleman catches a... (Harper's Magazine)
