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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...
...Humphrey never achieved his goal of becoming President, but in the nation's capital as well as in the heartland, he was honored as if he had. Not only was his body flown to Washington on the plane that had carried the bodies of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, but it also lay in state beneath the dome of the Capitol Rotunda on the same bier that had held Abraham Lincoln and J.F.K...
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...