Word: hubert
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...worked on prisoner resettlement in Europe after World War II, wrote an influential 1957 book called Ethics and United States Foreign Policy, and has taught politics at three universities. He was for 37 years a minister of the pacifist Church of the Brethren. He worked as a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1960, and was on the staff of the liberal Brookings Institution for twelve years. Since 1976 Lefever has headed his own conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "I'm a confirmed do-gooder," said Lefever at his Senate hearing. "My whole life...
...eyes roll upward as if in prayer -his hue turn magenta, his hands like homing larks fluttering to his mouth-and the mean joy of discovering his hidden base motives and critical intent. At the 1980 Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter took a lot of heat for referring to Hubert Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower because it was instantly recognized that Carter thought Humphrey a windbag. David Hartman of Good Morning America left little doubt about his feelings for a sponsor when he announced: "We'll be right back after this word from General Fools." At a conference...
...approximately 500 students in the school, a proportion that pales in comparison to the 30.6 per cent of the University of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson School, the 38 per cent of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and the 52.3 per cent of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute. WEAL charged that these startling statistics--coupled with its failure to contact minority or women's groups and to expand its employment advertising to minority and women's lackadaisical search for minority women scholars. In short, it was a powerful case...
...college, eventually founding a Nebraska radio station. She married the local soda jerk, who eventually became Vice President. Then, in 1979, shortly after the death of his wife, Max Brown, 68, decided to write a letter to his former Huron (S. Dak.) High School classmate. Muriel Humphrey, Hubert's widow, also 68, quickly responded, and Max ventured to ask her out to lunch. Eighteen months later -and a week before Valentine's Day-the two were quietly married. Her four children and ten grandchildren and his two children and five grandchildren attended the ceremony at Humphrey...
Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey, were they here today, might be nonplused at seeing their old nemesis Reagan carrying this banner, though the chances are they would enlist. It was not really a political affair about which Reagan talked on his Inaugural Day. It was, rather, about the circulatory system of liberty, with Government as the heart that nourishes and protects the body by both its actions and its self-restraints. Regenerating sympathetic and helpful Government and spreading public understanding of the partnership may be the essence of the American renewal that is the task Reagan has set for himself...