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...late Hubert Humphrey used to love to tell the story of the men from the Department of Agriculture in Washington who came to rescue his baked, broke and forgotten prairie town of Doland, S. Dak., in the midst of drought and Depression. Those fellows were white knights to Humphrey, they were missionaries, they were the reason Humphrey put so much faith in Big Government. Yet even H.H.H. before his death sometimes despaired at the way insensitive bureaucrats had forgotten that they existed to serve, not to threaten...
...events of Hubert Humphrey's life that drew him toward politics and Washington occurred in 1936 when some Department of Agriculture experts showed up at Doland, S. Dak., to plant scraggly pine trees that were to be part of a shelter belt from Canada to the Gulf, designed to slow down the remorseless prairie wind. As Hubert used to recall, the trees quickly died in the 100° heat but the act showed "that somebody back there cared...
...McNeese State University (enrollment: 5,500) in Lake Charles, La., the search for a new president ended with the choice of Home-Town Favorite Jack Doland, 51, the university's athletic director and football coach. Said Doland, in a meeting with a search committee: ''Let no one belittle coaching experience in preparation for a position as president...
...connection between the jobs? "As coach, you must win or leave," said Doland. "I suggest this is similar to the president's position...
...Even so, Doland was not entirely overjoyed with his promotion. "I'll miss being out there, picking a blade of grass and putting it in my mouth," he told the Lake Charles American Press. "I'd rather have coached this year. But the board of regents told me to divest myself of the sideline duties as soon as possible." While his public candor was earning sympathetic chuckles, the McNeese Cowboys obligingly went out and won the first seven games of the season...