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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Lyndon Johnson, left, bullied and disrespected his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, right, who was the 1968 Democratic ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the documentary flick. Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible starring Mary Easter, Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Humphrey, Everett Dirksen ...

It was drizzling when Hubert Humphrey awoke in Minneapolis on Election Day morning, but nothing could dampen his spirits. “When we get to Waverly,” he told his wife Muriel during the 40-mile drive to ...

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 ...

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 ...