But at the beginning, Humphrey vaulted into national prominence at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, where he delivered a powerful speech advocating a robust civil rights plank for the party’s ...

Several days after Nazi Germany launched its blitzkrieg against Poland on September 1, 1939, plunging all of Western Europe into conflict, a recent college graduate named Hubert Humphrey rode the ...

The election was a landslide, with Humphrey earning more than 60% of the votes. He was elected at 34, making him the youngest ...

Kamala Harris greets staff at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., on July 22, 2024. Erin Schaff/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Staring straight at the camera, with a grave expression on his face ...

Most students of American history remember the Minnesota statesman for his biggest political error — his dogged support for the Vietnam War, which turned his allies ...

2024 Joe Biden is 1968 Hubert Humphrey. Like Humphrey in 1968, Biden is running for president at a time of unrest on college campuses. Like Humphrey in 1968, he will be the default nominee of his ...

If you have any impression of LBJ Vice President Hubert Humphrey, it might be that of an establishment politician who defended an unpopular war in Vietnam and led the Democratic Party to defeat in ...

Hubert Humphrey has been gone for some 45 years. One can still remember hearing him, though, spouting his pet phrase "I'm as pleased as punch." How pleased, though, would Humphrey be with Sam Freedman ...

It is true that history is not generally kind to presidential losers, but the reputation of Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey endured an especially precipitous fall with his loss to Richard Nixon in ...

I enjoyed Robert Merry’s review of “True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America” by James Traub (“A Liberal of His Time,” Bookshelf, Feb. 14). A little known story about Humphrey is ...

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