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 ...

THE man whom Richard Nixon defeated is a professor these days, and he tends to grade the world around him. Last week TIME asked Hubert Humphrey to appraise Nixon’s performance as President. He gave ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...