It is true that history is not generally kind to presidential losers, but the reputation of Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey endured an especially precipitous fall with his loss to Richard Nixon in ...

Hubert Humphrey has been gone for some 45 years. One can still remember hearing him, though, spouting his pet phrase "I'm as pleased as punch." How pleased, though, would Humphrey be with Sam Freedman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Lyndon Johnson, left, bullied and disrespected his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, right, who was the 1968 Democratic ...

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But at the beginning, Humphrey vaulted into national prominence at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, where he delivered a powerful speech advocating a robust civil rights plank for the party’s ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: Last week marked a significant milestone in US political history, and it probably went unnoticed. It was 75 years ago on July 14, 1948 that a ...

It was drizzling when Hubert Humphrey awoke in Minneapolis on Election Day morning, but nothing could dampen his spirits. “When we get to Waverly,” he told his wife Muriel during the 40-mile drive to ...

At a family breakfast in Atlantic City last Wednesday morning, Hubert Humphrey turned to his 16-year-old son Doug and asked: “How would you like your Dad to be Vice President?” “That would be swell,” ...

I enjoyed Robert Merry’s review of “True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America” by James Traub (“A Liberal of His Time,” Bookshelf, Feb. 14). A little known story about Humphrey is ...

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Students have chowed down, picked up groceries, sat for haircuts and run other errands for more than a century at the corner of Washington Avenue SE. and Harvard Street. But the wrecking ball is ...