State legislators have proposed spending $300,000 to make a statue of the late Minnesota politician — who pushed the Democratic Party to embrace desegregation, helped pass the Civil Rights Act and ...
The election was a landslide, with Humphrey earning more than 60% of the votes. He was elected at 34, making him the youngest ...
Though I know it dates me, I am forever proud to boast that I cut my political teeth handing out Humphrey campaign posters at the Union Hall in Highland Village. From the first Union member’s positive ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. has 23 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1953 Broadcast. The year with the most videos was 1964 with nine videos. The year ...
"Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country," by part-time Becket resident Arnold A. Offner, is an insightful and revelatory biography of "one of the great liberal leaders of post-war American ...
In 1972, North American Rockwell built a full-scale wooden mockup of the proposed space shuttle. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey toured the plant and mockup during a campaign stop. Humphrey, running for the ...
For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. As a soldier of the ...
Fifty years ago today, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey delivered a stump speech at the state Democratic Party convention in Utah. Although not particularly newsworthy, even at the time, reading it ...