He also found time to write a syndicated column and earned dozens of $2,500 speaking fees on the lecture circuit. Unlike the current Wall Street-occupied White House, one couldn’t possibly imagine a Humphrey Administration conceiving of the idea of a sequester or seriously contemplating - even for a nanosecond - the idea of giving the maniacally mean-spirited, Tea Party-fueled austerity peddlers in Congress precisely what they want by agreeing to put Social Security and Medicare on the table.įollowing his narrow defeat in 1968, the former Vice President returned to Minnesota and accepted teaching jobs at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota, his alma mater. While he had his faults, Humphrey was a Democrat’s Democrat. Nixon in 1968, a lack of campaign cash is probably the only thing that prevented Humphrey - one of the last Democratic presidential nominees molded in the tradition of FDR - from staging one of the most remarkable political feats in the annals of American politics. Given up for dead in the wake of his loss to Richard M. Humphrey of Minnesota was catapulted into serious contention for the Democratic presidential nomination by scoring a pair of victories in Indiana and Ohio on this day in 1972. Following closely on the heels of a decisive win in Pennsylvania a week earlier, Sen.
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