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...Malley, 42, has mastered that kind of retail politicking as a lifelong political buff. His parents met while working at the Democratic National Committee, and he was doing cheers for Hubert Humphrey by age 3. Gary Hart bought him his first legal beer at 21. O'Malley grew up in Washington's tony Maryland suburbs but fell hard for blue-collar Baltimore while attending the University of Maryland's law school there...
...euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee hearings can listen stonily to most congressional critics, recently admonished Humphrey, "Come off it, Senator.") As NBC Correspondent John Cochran explained...
...when Lyndon Johnson went to the Bethesda National Naval Hospital for repair of an abdominal hernia, he summoned reporters to his bedside three hours after he left surgery to let them know he was very much in control. Under an informal agreement with Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey had been given permission to exercise the power of the Chief Executive if the President was unable...
DIED. BART ROSS, 57, out-of-work electrician who admitted in a suicide note found in his minivan that he was responsible for the murders of the mother and husband of U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow two weeks ago; by a self-inflicted gunshot after police pulled him over for a broken taillight; in West Allis, Wis. Lefkow last year dismissed Ross's rambling lawsuit seeking damages from the government for his pain and disfigurement from cancer treatments. His murder confession was corroborated by DNA evidence...
...evening last week, Joan Lefkow came home to find blood seeping out from under a door to the basement office. Inside, she saw her husband, 64, and her mother Donna Humphrey, 89, lying on the floor. Both had been shot in the chest and head with...