Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minneapolis: Albert Hofstede, 37, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and Charles Stenvig, 49, an independent conservative, are playing a game of musical mayors. Hofstede defeated Stenvig in 1973, then Stenvig ousted Hofstede in 1975, and now Hofstede has won again. A liberal who managed Hubert Humphrey's last Senate bid, he outcampaigned Stenvig-and outspent him 5 to 1. Stenvig's parting shot in a game that may not have ended: "I have only one last word of advice to the taxpayers of Minneapolis: Watch your wallets...
...There's no easy answer, of course, to I the unemployment question," said Jimmy Carter at his press conference last week. Then aides disclosed that the President is supporting a watered-down version of the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill that is no answer at all. The legislation would set a national goal of reducing unemployment, which has been stuck at around 7% for six months, to 4% by 1983. But the measure does not require the Administration to take any specific steps to get there; nor does it include any specific programs to create jobs...
...more respectable winners in Boston all follow this pattern. Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara '71, also swept into office with high hopes and clean garments a few years ago, quickly sold his innocence to the mayor and has played Hubert H. Humphrey to White's corrupt Lyndon B. Johnson. DiCara would like to be State Treasurer and he needs someone's help...
...jokes did little to dry the eyes in his audience. CBS's Roger Mudd, who has covered Humphrey through many of his ups and downs, had to start over three times before he could deliver his report for the evening news without choking up; New York Times Photographer George Tames, who has focused on Humphrey for 20 years, found the image blurred by tears...
Some had said Humphrey would never return to Washington, but he came back in style. Walter Mondale, who was Humphrey's protege long before he ever heard of Jimmy Carter, suggested that the President stop off on his way back to Washington from a fund-raising dinner in California to pick up Humphrey and his wife Muriel in Minneapolis. Joshed Humphrey: "I waited, because I am a frugal man, until I could get a free ride. For at least 20 years I have been trying to get on Air Force One. Just the thought of it, the vibrations, gave...