Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-pity. He fought the Depression and won, gaining strength and stature from the challenge. Mondale, as a Midwest preacher's child in those years of drought and deprivation, was scarred by the suffering. Then he heard the glorious promises of Government from his mentor, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and he never looked back...
...remember the '64 convention," said Frances Humphrey Howard, who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt during the war. "Women were told to scamper. My own brother Hubert was the nominee, and I was told to get lost. Today a great partnership is occurring." Jane McMichael, legislative director for the American Federation of Government Employees, was the staff director of the National Women's Political Caucus during the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. "Remember our so-called headquarters hotel? The cockroaches were big enough to steal the typewriters. I remember crying when Shirley Chisholm was nominated for President...
...protégé of the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, Lord, 64, was appointed to the federal bench in 1966. He has been a hero to environmentalists since the mid-'70s, when he presided over a case involving charges that the Reserve Mining Co. had been polluting Lake Superior. Lord was eventually removed from that case after a higher court accused him of "gross bias" against the company. In another case that had ecologists cheering, the judge refused to permit a trapping season for Minnesota's Eastern timber wolf; the decision caused considerable upset among farmers, who maintained...
Mondale's interest-group politics makes many nontraditional Democrats cringe. "A winning party has to have a vision and a message," says Gerald Rafshoon, former media adviser to Jimmy Carter. "Mondale's message is Hubert Humphrey." The emerging neoliberal wing of the party believes that the days of Big Government are over. Says Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut: "Ronald Reagan has convinced people that the Democrats think Government is the solution. The new Democrats operate on the assumption that Government is a solution...
...content. The gallant, crippled Jacob Javits, former Republican Senator from New York, wired his blessings. Judge John Sirica, who sent the Watergate offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word. The Ambassador from China watched in fascination. Max Kampelman, who was one of Hubert Humphrey's whiz kids from Minnesota, cocked his ear for each nuance. The Senator's daughter, Anna Marie Jackson, 21, wept...