Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the mayor, the local Congressman and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who donated $250 to the trip, all stayed away from the welcome-home ceremonies. Nonetheless, more than 5,000 Wasecans were on hand as Kunst, clutching his blue rucksack, strode up to his starting point, the Waseca Cinema on State Street. There he swigged champagne, toasted the U.S. as "the best damn country I've ever been in," and ended his improbable odyssey...
...when hectored by his father, he finally shot a rabbit between the eyes, dropped the carcass at his father's feet, then went to the bathroom and threw up. Later. Kearns points out, L.B.J. would mercilessly badger such visitors to the ranch as John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey to go out hunting...
...wives are striking out on independent courses of their own. Betty Talmadge, wife of Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, manages a meat business, Talmadge Farms, which grosses $3.5 million a year. "I have shaken hands," she says, "but I have never made a campaign speech in my life." Even Muriel Humphrey, a notably docile political wife, recently declared a measure of independence from the indefatigable Hubert. She now spends most of her time at their lakeside house in Waverly, Minn. "What is the life of a Senator's wife anyway?" she muses. "I find more satisfaction in doing the things...
...Largo [1948]. Edward G. Robinson holds Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart prisoner in a Florida hotel during a hurricane...
September 23: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 promises not to run for president in 1976. That leaves the Democrats with Jackson, Bentsen, Mondale, Muskie, McGovern. And of course Humphrey...