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...helicopter bearing Hubert Humphrey eased deliberately through the chill twilight so as not to reach the White House lawn ahead of the TV cameras. It was the only leisurely part of his homecoming. The Vice President stepped from the chopper into Lyndon Johnson's capacious abrazo, then plunged into a hectic round of briefings and appearances. Having stumped nine Far Eastern countries to solicit support for the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy, his task last week was to convert the critics back home...
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, then a senator from Minnesota, had given the idea an early boost by submitting a Peace Corps bill in the summer of 1960. But it was not until a speech in San Francisco during the waning days of the presidential campaign -- November 2, 1960 -- that John F. Kennedy sounded the note that reverberated through the American mind...
...Vietnam paper, which was distributed yesterday with the YD newsletter, places the club squarely behind Kennedy in his dispute with Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey over which groups should be represented in any Vietnam negotiations...
Weariness could not wither nor repetition stale Hubert's infinite exuberance. Whether addressing U.S. combat units in Viet Nam or discussing the merits of U.S. tractors with Laotian officials, handing out Senate gallery passes to giggling Pakistani nurses or teaching Thai children to say "O.K." and "Goodbye," Humphrey was on center stage every minute of his trip. His only moment of humiliation came in, of all places, friendly Saigon, where, despite his blandishments and some rafter-ringing hooo-ees, the black Berkshire hogs at an agricultural-experiment station haughtily ignored the Vice President-evidence, no doubt, that the Viet...
...history books, but Niebuhr's Christianity and Crisis found enough troubling issues to keep right on publishing. This week the magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary by sponsoring a colloquium on mankind's present crisis and a banquet at which the main speaker will be Longtime Reader Hubert Humphrey...