Word: humphrey
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...left. There were his proposals for a $25 billion cut in income taxes and a "lean and tight" budget, which should have pleased conservatives. Yet there was also an expanded program of public service jobs for unemployed young people, and strong endorsement for "early passage of a greatly improved Humphrey-Hawkins bill." While that pronouncement cheered liberals, it was not as sharply in conflict as it seemed with Carter's view of governmental nonintervention. The "improved" Humphrey-Hawkins bill sets a five-year goal of reducing unemployment to 4% (from the current 6.4%), but no longer includes mandatory action...
...most effective when he turned more personal, toward the end, invoking the nation's flag-lowered mourning for Hubert Humphrey. The Senator's "joy and zest of living" provided an example of the "special American kind of confidence, of hope and enthusiasm," which, Carter suggested, ought to become contagious...
Bundled in parkas and ski masks, mittens and scarves, the people of Hubert Humphrey's adopted state paid him their final tributes last week. Not even subzero cold could keep them away as they waited patiently on the steps of Minnesota's capitol rotunda in St. Paul for a view of Humphrey's flag-draped casket inside. Among the mourners: a newsboy with his paper bag still slung over his shoulder and a visitor, California's Governor Jerry Brown...
Hubert had an immunity to humiliation. When Lyndon Johnson imperially summoned him to the White House to tell him that he was to be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate of 1964, L.B.J. let Humphrey just sit in the White House limousine on the drive for half an hour. Hubert did not get angry. He took a nap. When Johnson, carrying his lesson of authority further, left him waiting outside the door of the Oval Office, Hubert plucked a book from a shelf and read about Thomas Jefferson...
DIED. Hubert H. Humphrey, 66, ebullient former Vice President and longtime Senator from Minnesota, who became the Democratic Party's liberal spokesman; of cancer; in Waverly, Minn, (see NATION...