“when they talk of a tough negotiating position, they are going to get a tough response.”
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Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served from 1965 to 1969 as the 38th vice president of the United States. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978. As a senator, he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president, he supported the controversial…
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politics · Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969 · politician · pharmacist · trade unionist · mayor · also Hubert Humphrey, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr., HHH, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr., Hubert H. Humphrey
Born 27 May 1911 · Died 13 January 1978 · Q209989
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2026· 12 entries
“more out of emotion and passion than reason and prudent judgment”
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“s proposal to limit schoolchildren busing was”
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“the whole situation entirely depressing.”
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“s policies in Vietnam and that he believed”
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“s economic sanctions against Cuba, and that the organization wanted to see a free Cuban government. The following day in San Antonio, Texas, Humphrey said Goldwater opposed programs favored by most Texans and Americans. During a September 27 appearance in Cleveland, Ohio, Humphrey said the Kennedy administration had led America in a prosperous direction and called for voters to issue a referendum with their vote against”
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“record of retreat and reaction”
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“who curses the darkness and never lights a candle”
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“to divide America so that they may conquer”
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“as a professional politician I was able to accept and indeed respect the efficacy of the Kennedy campaign. But underneath the beautiful exterior, there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting.”
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“To those who say, my friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years (too) late! To those who say this civil rights program is an infringement on states”
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“I want this town cleaned up and I mean I want it cleaned up now, not a year from now or a month from now, right now”
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1998· 1 entry
Was interred next to Humphrey at Lakewood Cemetery
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1981· 1 entry
Married Max Brown and took the name Muriel Humphrey Brown
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1980· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Jimmy Carter (1980).
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1978· 4 entries
Died of bladder cancer at his home in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66
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Died 1978-01-13.
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“I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college.”
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“In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”
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1977· 3 entries
Humphrey revealed he was suffering from terminal bladder cancer
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Awarded Freedom Award (1977).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1977–1978).
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1976· 2 entries
Chairman of the New Jersey Democratic Party State Senator James P
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Campaign: 1976 presidential election activities.
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1975· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1975–1977).
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1974· 2 entries
Humphrey said that he would not enter the upcoming Democratic presidential primary for the 1976 presidential election
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Humphrey concurred with Senator Mike Mansfield's assessment from the prior day that the House of Representatives had enough votes to impeach Nixon
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1973· 2 entries
Humphrey said the Middle East could possibly usher in peace following the Vietnam War ending along with American troops withdrawing from Indochina during an appearance at the New York Hilton
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Career landmark: United States senator (1973–1975).
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1972· 3 entries
Election lost: 1972 presidential election to McGovern.
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Campaign: 1972 presidential election.
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Humphrey once again ran for the Democratic nomination for president, announcing his candidacy on January 10, 1972, during a twenty-minute speech in Philadelphia
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1971· 3 entries
Humphrey accused the Nixon administration of turning its back on the impoverished in the rural U
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After the Americans for Democratic Action adopted a resolution demanding Nixon's impeachment, Humphrey said they were acting "more out of emotion and passion than reason and prudent judgment" and that the request was irr
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Career landmark: United States senator (1971–1973).
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1970· 2 entries
Shortly after being reelected to the Senate, Humphrey stated his intention to take on the role of a "harmonizer" within the Democratic Party to minimize the possibility of potential presidential candidates within the par
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Humphrey said the United States should cease tests of nuclear weapons during the continued conversations for potential strategic arms limitations between the United States and the Soviet Union while speaking to the Natio
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1969· 4 entries
Humphrey backed Nixon's peace efforts, dismissing the notion that he was not seeking an end to the war
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Humphrey met privately with Mayor Richard J
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“I have done my best. I have lost; Mr. Nixon has won. The democratic process has worked its will.”
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That "few men in American politics have achieved so much of lasting significance
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1968· 4 entries
Campaign ended: 1968 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1968 presidential election.
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“After four years as Vice-President ... I had lost some of my personal identity and personal forcefulness. ... I ought not to have let a man [Johnson] who was going to be a former President dictate my future.”
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Before his conversion to the Republican party in the early 1970s, and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey
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1967· 4 entries
Humphrey cited Malaysia as an example of what Vietnam could resemble post a Viet Cong defeat while in Jakarta, Indonesia
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Vice President Humphrey met with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Wilson
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23-year-old Giulio Stocchi threw eggs at the Vice President and missed
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“We are making a decision not only to defend Vietnam, we are defending the United States of America.”
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1966· 1 entry
“either friendship or gratitude”
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1965· 6 entries
President Johnson stated his intent to remove Humphrey from the post of "point man" on civil rights within the administration, believing the vice president was tasked with enough work
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Humphrey delivered an address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, pledging the incumbent session of Congress would "do more for the lasting long-term health of this nation" since the initial session in office a
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(where 7 Americans were killed and 109 wounded), Humphrey returned from Georgia to Washington D
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Ending the 14-month vacancy of the vice president of the United States, which had remained empty when then-Vice President Lyndon B
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The day before the inauguration, Humphrey told the Democratic National Committee that the party had unified because of the national consensus established by the presidential election
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1965–1969).
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1964· 5 entries
Humphrey met with Johnson in the Oval Office, the latter charging the vice president-elect with "developing a publicity machine extraordinaire and of always wanting to get his name in the paper
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Humphrey traveled to the Virgin Islands for a two-week vacation
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Humphrey said the labor movement had "more at stake in this election than almost any other segment of society"
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“more at stake in this election than almost any other segment of society”
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Humphrey was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act that year
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1963· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1963–1964).
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1961· 2 entries
A position he held until he left the Senate on December 29, 1964, to assume the vice presidency
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Career landmark: United States senator (1961–1963).
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1960· 4 entries
Humphrey told journalist Theodore H
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Humphrey ran for the nomination against fellow Senator John F
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Had a profound influence on his thinking; after the primaries he told friends that, as a relatively poor man in politics, he was unlikely to ever become president unless he served as vice president first
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“I was mayor once, in Minneapolis ... a mayor is a fine job, it”
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1959· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1959–1961).
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“s comments calling him a purveyor of fairy tales. In a September address to the National Stationery and Office Equipment Association, Humphrey called for further inspection of Khrushchev”
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1958· 1 entry
The Humphreys used their savings and his speaking fees to build a lakefront home in Waverly, Minnesota, about 40 miles west of Minneapolis
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1957· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1957–1959).
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1955· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1955–1957).
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1954· 1 entry
Proposed to make membership in the Communist Party a felony
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1953· 2 entries
Humphrey introduced a resolution calling for the US to urge free elections in East Germany in response to the recent anti-communist uprising there
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Career landmark: United States senator (1953–1955).
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1951· 2 entries
Humphrey joined Senator Paul Douglas in calling for an $80 billion federal budget to combat Communist aggression along with a stiff tax increase to prevent borrowing
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Career landmark: United States senator (1951–1953).
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1950· 1 entry
Humphrey predicted that President Truman would sign a $4 billion housing bill and charge Republicans with having removed the bill's main middle-income benefits during Truman's tours of the Midwest and Northwest the follo
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1949· 2 entries
Becoming the first Democrat elected senator from Minnesota since before the Civil War
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Career landmark: United States senator (1949–1951).
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1947· 1 entry
By the largest margin in the city's history to that time
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1945· 2 entries
Humphrey became an engaged anticommunist and led the successful fight to oust the Communists from the DFL
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Career landmark: Mayor of Minneapolis (1945–1948).
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1944· 1 entry
Humphrey was one of the key players in the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties of Minnesota to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL)
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1943· 3 entries
Became a professor of political science at Macalester College and ran a failed campaign for mayor of Minneapolis
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Humphrey made his first run for elective office, for mayor of Minneapolis
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Was the assistant director of the War Manpower Commission
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1942· 1 entry
Was the state director of new production training and reemployment and chief of the Minnesota war service program
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1940· 1 entry
Serving as an assistant instructor of political science there
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1934· 1 entry
Humphrey began dating Muriel Buck, a bookkeeper and graduate of local Huron College
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1933· 1 entry
And predicting 13 major measures of President Johnson's administration would be passed ahead of the session's conclusion
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1931· 1 entry
Hubert found a way in the worst of that summer's dust-storm grit, grasshoppers, and depression to lead an overnight [outing]
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-05-27.
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