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Three months after the death of Hubert Humphrey, his family has still not figured out what to do with the thousands of things that people sent him over the past 35 years. Stored in a musty basement of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul are plaster busts of Humphrey and his wife Muriel, a doll made of apples and holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when...
...LIFE. Ajemian has covered national political conventions since 1952 and is known to his colleagues as a painstaking reporter with an obsessive need to probe behind a politician's rhetoric. During the 1976 campaigns, Bob's most memorable piece, perhaps, was a sensitive portrait of the ailing Hubert Humphrey watching the action from home. "I admire politicians," Ajemian confesses. "They're the best of the survivalists. They work so hard to conceal their wounds. But when they do trust you and allow you to look behind that psychological armor, it's fascinating." Like Sidey before...
Before entering the winner's circle, Player witnessed the destruction of the bids for victory of Hubert Green, defending champion Tom Watson, and veteran Rod Funseth...
...nonetheless been remarkable. The son of an Atlanta shoe wholesaler, he was a star basketball player in high school and later studied at the University of North Carolina and Harvard Law School ('67). He wrote speeches on domestic affairs for Lyndon Johnson, then became an adviser to Hubert Humphrey during the 1968 presidential race. At that time he believed in the Great Society approach to social problems: spend more money on them...
...month-old report of the subcommittee on African affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee helps provide much-needed answers to these complex problems. The subcommittee, chaired by Sen.Dick Clark (D-Iowa) and staffed by the late Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Sen. James Pearson (R-Kans.), spent more than a year researching the topic. The subcommittee interviewed representatives of corporations and banks operating in South Africa as well as members of anti-apartheid groups. It investigated corporate labor and management policies in South Africa and analyzed the ways in which U.S. banks affect the finances of the Vorster...