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As a senator he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson 's vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election, which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon .
Nov 9, 2009 · Over the next 16 years, Humphrey was a leading liberal voice in the Senate, focusing on issues of social welfare, civil rights and fair employment. He became the Senate majority whip in 1961.
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May 27, 2011 · That biographical fact was the source for the derisive title of a 1968 biography, “The Drugstore Liberal” — that is to say, like a “drugstore cowboy,” a small-timer, not really a liberal ...
Jan 29, 2024 · Politics. Hubert Humphrey’s Liberalism for Our Time. The mayor, senator, and vice president is often forgotten, but an important new biography reminds us that the unapologetic liberal,...
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May 23, 2024 · Hubert Humphrey, 38th vice president of the United States (1965–69) in the Democratic administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Democratic presidential candidate in 1968. A liberal leader in the U.S. Senate (1949–65; 1971–78), he built his political base on a Democrat–Farmer-Labor coalition.
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Mar 23, 2018 · Hubert Humphrey arrived in the Senate in 1949 as a liberal in an illiberal institution. Southerners held the reins of power in Congress, and they hated Humphrey for his opposition to Jim Crow...
Oct 18, 2018 · Often, both his ambition and his principles led him to take positions that backed up his 1957 statement that he was “a liberal without apology.” Humphrey tried to scrap the prevailing ...
