Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubert Humphrey, a giant...
...Hubert Humphrey...
...politics, an endeavor where egos regularly outpace dedication, Hubert Humphrey [Jan. 23] seems never to have forgotten the people; he never abandoned his dedication to their needs; he never lost faith with the dream of what America might be. In my lifetime, a handful of political leaders have made me proud to be an American. Hubert H. Humphrey alone among them made me proud to be a human being...
...often Hubert Humphrey was seen only as the ebullient eternal optimist, a Don Quixote verbally tilting at windmills and dreaming the impossible dream. But his idealism lifted us to share in that dream and, in so doing, his idealism conquered our skepticism...
...airborne truth squad got off to a false start. Stops in Nashville and Atlanta were scratched because of Hubert Humphrey's death. A storm that dumped 13 inches of snow on Cincinnati forced bypassing that city too. The first stop in the truncated, four-city "citizens' briefing" was Miami, where shoddy advance work produced a turnout of 250 people, including a number of Legionnaires and members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in full uniform. Most of those in the audience were elderly, conservative and already dead set against the canal pacts. Then...