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...read the latest Marmaduke as a Marxist critique of suburban angst”).When the real TF does show up, make sure you size him up quickly, and remark, (“Well, well, well…if it isn’t ol’ Hubert Humphrey”/“You can’t spell ‘grad student’ without ‘RAD student’!” [INSERT HIGH FIVE]/“You are surprisingly attractive. I will politely yield”.)If the TF angrily demands...
...Huntington’s work also took him beyond academia. In 1968, he advised then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his bid for the presidency. And in 1970, he co-founded Foreign Policy magazine...
...year veteran of Harvard, Huntington held one of 21 prestigious University professorships. In his long and distinguished career, Huntington also advised then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his 1968 bid for the presidency, co-founded the magazine Foreign Policy, and twice served as chair of Harvard's government department...
...death and rebirth of American liberalism both began with flags in Grant Park. On Aug. 28, 1968, 10,000 people gathered there to protest the Democratic Convention taking place a few blocks away, which was about to nominate Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, thus implicitly ratifying the hated Vietnam War. Chicago mayor Richard Daley had warned the protesters not to disrupt his city and denied them permits to assemble, but they came anyway. All afternoon, the protesters chanted and the police hovered, until about 3:30, when someone climbed a flagpole and began lowering the American flag...
...Ventura's triumph in Minnesota was a stunning political upset with unforeseen causes and unpredictable consequences. He was the first candidate of Ross Perot's Reform Party to win statewide office. He defeated two respected, if not beloved, career politicians--Republican Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul, and Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, state attorney general and son of the late Vice President. Ventura's slogan, "Retaliate in '98," seemed an off-key way to appeal to voters in a prosperous and well-governed state with 2.4% unemployment. Retaliate for what...