Shortly after noon on Monday, March 30, 1964, U.S. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) stood at his polished mahogany desk in the Senate chamber and launched what would be an 83-day debate over the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris today is Hubert Humphrey of yesteryear. Like Humphrey, who was President Lyndon Johnson’s vice president, Harris will win the Democrat Party nomination for president the ...

Hubert Humphrey: the idealistic firebrand who electrified the 1948 Democratic convention and relentlessly championed civil rights for more than twenty years. Lyndon Johnson: the wily, pragmatic Senate ...

Though the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition in the 1950s and 1960s, one can arguably trace its roots to Hubert Humphrey's speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, advocating for ...

The helicopter bearing Hubert Humphrey eased deliberately through the chill twilight so as not to reach the White House lawn ahead of the TV cameras. It was the only leisurely part of his homecoming.

Just before Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey left for his post-election vacation in the Virgin Islands, he taped a television interview during which he discussed the exhausting length of the U.S.

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When Hubert Humphrey arrived in the U.S. Senate in January 1949, the 37-year-old didn’t exactly take the place by storm. As James Traub relates in his compelling biography, “True Believer: Hubert ...

As a United States senator from Minnesota since 1949, Hubert Humphrey was well known to residents of southern Minnesota. He had visited their towns and farms, answered their letters and requests, and ...

Kamala Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, would become the third vice president from the state in the past 60 years if Democrats win the White House, joining iconic Democratic politicians ...

After the Democrat in the White House decided not to run for reelection, the vice president got the party’s presidential nod — and continued to back the administration’s policies for an unpopular war.

With Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate last week, the North Star state has now produced three Democratic VP candidates in the past 60 years. Like ...