Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...damask-hung walls of the Senate chamber reverberated with the longest, most heartfelt outpouring of affection and admiration that anyone could remember. Hubert Humphrey had returned to the place he loves "with blind devotion." Eleven weeks after doctors discovered that his pelvic cancer had spread and was beyond surgery, the "Happy Warrior" of the Democratic Party was back at the desk he has occupied for 21 years. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela reports...
...standing ovation from his colleagues and from the overflowing galleries continued while Hubert Humphrey moved vigorously around the chamber, greeting friends, among them a number of onetime adversaries, with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship...
Byrd spoke for all when he said, "Nothing that life has dealt him has ever dimmed his optimism or quenched his unquenchable spirit." Even in his present struggle, Humphrey seemed buoyant; his cheeks were sunken, but his famous smile was bigger than ever; gaunt shoulders, even though they failed to fill his tweed jacket, were defiantly straight...
...committees, only one survived the reorganization. The Special Committee on Aging was made a permanent Senate special committee by a unanimous vote on the Senate floor (a few Senators, however, abstained). Encouraged by this vote, Nutrition Committee Chairman George McGovern (D.-S. Dak.), Sens. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.), Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.), Henry Bellmon (R.-Okla.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and others fought to extend the Nutrition Committee on a year-by-year basis, as had been done in the past. Nutritions ranking minority member Charles Percy (R.-Ill.) made the impassioned plea...
...Nutrition and Human Needs from September, 1976 through August, 1977. Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Congress recognized the critical role of nutrition in the safe delivery and healthy development of children. WIC was established in 1972 on a pilot basis, and made a national program in 1975. (Humphrey and the committee created the WIC legislation.) Only after pressure by the committee and subsequent court decisions did the Department of Agriculture begin to implement the program properly; the program still does not nearly reach all potential recipients. Next year, WIC's authorization expires, and input by the Nutrition Committee...