Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia's Walter George, who had called the unusual open session of the Foreign Relations Committee primarily to find out about the off-again, on-again Saudi Arabian tank shipment. But it was obvious from one look at the squall line of Democratic liberals (Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Alabama's John Sparkman, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright) at the end of the committee table-busy conferring around piles of books, maps, clippings and notes-that much more than that was coming...
Soviet Dilemma. Before long Humphrey, Sparkman and Fulbright began to bear down on the new threat implicit in the changing Soviet policies. If they expected Dulles to be on the defensive, they were surprised...
Standing up through the open roof panel of his black Chrysler Imperial, Ike enthusiastically acknowledged the cheers of the crowds that gathered at every populated spot along the 43 miles from Moultrie to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's plantation. At the Atlantic Coast Line tracks in Thomasville, a train engineer gave a long salute on his whistle, and Dwight Eisenhower, looking every inch a candidate, waved delightedly in reply...
...With the doctors' verdict in, Ike had headed off to Georgia to consult his own feelings-a process that, he warned two weeks ago, would influence his decision more than any medical report. For relaxed self-analysis it was hard to imagine a more suitable spot than George Humphrey's appropriately named plantation, "Milestone." The chief products of Milestone's 600 acres are quail and wild turkeys, and the plantation's main attraction is its hunting...
Within 15 minutes of his arrival Ike, who had brought two shotguns* with him, was out with Humphrey in a hunting wagon. Accompanied by eight pointers, the two men rolled through the piney woods to the hunting area, where the dogs soon flushed two coveys of quail. Ike fired at both-and missed. (Next day the President was sighted in; he shot a full day's bag of twelve birds, grinning: "It's a funny thing . . . All the birds started to cooperate...