Word: solberg
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...clerical duties, will appeal to a regional Lutheran convention in June, but that body is expected to confirm the defrocking. This week he faces another appearance in secular court. Meanwhile, Lutheran investigations have begun of parishioners' complaints against two other D.M.S. clergy: William Rex Jr. of Trafford and Daniel Solberg of Allison Park. D.M.S. backers are considering further church protests...
HUBERT HUMPHREY: A BIOGRAPHY by Carl Solberg...
...good fight for civil rights, full employment and the whole postwar liberal agenda. But as Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, he became a cheerleader for the Viet Nam War, alienating many of his supporters, splitting the Democratic Party and losing his own 1968 presidential run. As Author Carl Solberg sadly but honestly notes, Humphrey had many liabilities: he talked too much, he thought too little, he let Johnson humiliate him. But perhaps his biggest mistake was to ignore his father's warning. Humphrey's life was a peculiarly American tragedy of a good man who made...
Politics, after all, is the art of compromise, and Humphrey was merely practicing the trade. The problem, says Solberg, a former TIME writer and visiting lecturer in history at Columbia University, is that Humphrey was still compromising as the tide of liberalism swept past him. Having failed to gain the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1956 and the presidential spot in 1960, he saw Johnson's 1964 invitation to join him on the ticket as his last hope. Humphrey wanted to be President so badly that he buried his aversion to the Viet Nam conflict. Johnson abused Humphrey shamelessly...
...three Republican Administrations. In a 1977 poll of 1,000 leading Capitol Hill figures, he was named the top Senator of the past 75 years. (Humphrey, then fatally ill with cancer, responded to the news: "Jesus Christ, Lyndon Johnson's going to be sore as hell about this.") Solberg, whose biography is the first to benefit from Humphrey's papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, recounts his subject's career in impressive detail, but stumbles when he tries to explain Humphrey's self-defeating diffidence. The answer may lie in the other legacy Humphrey left behind...