Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Bags Full." Warming to his denunciations, Khrushchev turned on his recent guest, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "In the expectation of a noisy sensation, Humphrey, in his speeches and articles, told fairy tales, three bags full, such as the story that he had brought a special message from the Soviet government to President Eisenhower-of course no such message existed at all-and that I had imparted two important secrets...
...Senator Humphrey's wild imagination ran riot when he began to make up his inventions about the relations between the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. In this he even surpassed the well-known compiler of lies, Baron Munchausen." Without explicitly denying Humphrey's report that Khrushchev had described China's communes as "reactionary," Khrushchev said: "The idea that I could have been in any way confidential with a man who himself boasts of his 20-year struggle against Communism can only serve to raise a laugh...
...Replying that he had accurately quoted the Soviet Premier, Humphrey said: "Mr. Khrushchev appears particularly sensitive, and understandably so, to having some of his remarks about Red China's communes publicized...
...Mikoyan was not here to scout for his country. Indeed he was here for the opposite purpose. He came in the same way that Stevenson and Humphrey went to his country. He came in peace -for the purpose of promoting peaceful trade...
...suggested that Russian and Western troops each withdraw 500 miles from Berlin. Such a retreat, leaving the Russians comfortably on their own soil, the U.S. uncomfortably somewhere west of Paris, had twice before been urged by the Russians, twice before been rejected by the West. Nonetheless, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who had met Mikoyan during his headlined Kremlin visit (TIME, Dec. 15), thought Mikoyan showed "flexibility of attitude...