Hubert Humphrey

Pragmatic Snowe's Departure From Senate a Shock but Not a Surprise

Jim DiPeso | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Founding Fathers, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe Retiring, Olympia Snowe Senate, Olympia Snowe Interview, Politics News

Olympia Snowe's ethic of reaching across the aisle to solve the nation's problems seems a relic of a bygone time, when politics was the art of the possible rather than trench warfare.

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'Don't Shoot: We Are Your Children'

www.salon.com | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: 1968 Democratic National Convention, Occupy Wall Street Protest, 1968, Occupy Wall Street Protesters, President Barack Obama, 1968-Chicago, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Elections 2012, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Fifty News

Conventional wisdom guru John Heileman suggested yesterday in New York magazine that the next phase of the Occupy Wall Street movement might be "about...

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Former Pawlenty Colleagues, Mentors Don't Recognize The Man Running For President

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.04.2011

WASHINGTON – Those who have known Tim Pawlenty for a long time are stumped by a simple question: What happened to him? It's not just his presiden...

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Medicare: 45 Years and Going Strong -- We Must Protect It

Rep. John D. Dingell | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Medicare, Elderly, Medicare Cuts, Disabled, Aging, Lyndon Johnson, Congressional Budget Office, Hubert Humphrey, Republicans, Politics News

For the Republicans to say they are reforming Medicare, not ending it, is like putting feathers on a fish and trying to say it is a duck; you aren't fooling this poor Polish lawyer into believing it is the same program.

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Sins of Commission: The 40th Anniversary of the Illustrated Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography

Robert Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pornography, Pat Buchanan, Presidential Commission, John Mitchell, Sex, Charles Keating, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Greenleaf Classics, Obscenity, William Hamling, Earl Kemp, Warren Burger, Earl Warren, Hubert Humphrey, Bobby Kennedy, Books News

I used to housesit for this hippie couple when I was a teenager. While they were away, I searched their home for porn. This was the early 1970s; you c...

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Confessions of a Yellow Dog Democrat

Mira Schor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eleanor Roosevelt, Yellow Dog Democrats, Rfk, Jfk, Democratic Party, The Daily Show, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Fdr, Mid-Term Elections, Arts News

These are not the most positive feeling days, as we contemplate the possibility of an imminent Republican/Tea Party take-over of Congress. But I can ...

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Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although our lives have turned out different, I learned in my friend Charles "Chic" Dambach's exciting new book, Exhaust the Limits, that we have much...

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After Zakaria, What About Other ADL Humphrey Prize Recipients?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Rutten, Jon Meacham, Marvin Kalb, Charles Krauthammer, Adl, Lesley Stahl, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Clarence Page, Floyd Abrams, Bernard Lewis, Hubert Humphrey, Cordoba Mosque, Larry King, Muslims, George Will, Mortimer Zuckerman, Arabs, Bernard Shaw, C-Span, World Trade Center, Discrimination, Daniel Pearl. Bob Schieffer, Dan Rather, Ground Zero, Bill Moyers, Martin Peretz, Anti-Defamation League, Nat Hentoff, Media News

I don't necessarily believe in follow-the-leader, but knowing how other recipients feel about the ADL controversy and the Cordoba mosque could be instructive and important.

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Is This Any Way to Run a Pop Stand?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Imagine an organization of two warring factions. The two spend most of their time vilifying each other, and defeating their opponents' plans. This nightmare is none other than the US Congress.

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Understanding Dick Cheney: The Power of the Undefeated Ex-VP

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dick Cheney occupies a historically unique position: He is an ex-VP who left office electorally undefeated and has not sought the Presidency. As a result, he retains some of the trappings of an undefeated elder statesman.

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The Time The President Didn't Intervene

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy. Landmark bills on education, health care and civil rights were flying through Congress. But he stayed out of New York politics.

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Applying Historical Lessons to Health Care Reform

Bill Cunningham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Neustadt, Bob Dole, Pat Moynihan, Robert Caro, President Obama, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, James Carville, Analogies, Tom Johnson, Clinton Health Reform, Hubert Humphrey, Politics News

In the health care fight, perhaps Rahm Emmanuel and Company might have benefited from looking at President Lyndon Baines Johnson's approach to the various Civil Rights bills that passed on his watch.

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Why Can't Obama Be More Like LBJ?

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Stanton Peele, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Coke Stevenson, Dwight Eisnhower, Vietnam War, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Cronkite, Robert Caro, Politics News

We are unlikely to ever again see the likes of LBJ -- or of the huge changes he crafted in our society -- and we are just now starting to understand what we have lost.

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News: Anarchist to Vote!

Dale Pendell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hope, Richard Nixon, Anarchist, 1968 Election, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Rfk, Hubert Humphrey, Politics News

I had been dreaming politics -- action committees, meetings, proposals. I too have succumbed to the Great Hope.

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How McGovern Picked his VP after Ted Kennedy and Many Senators said No Thanks

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice President, Tom Eagleton, Ed Muskie, Walter Mondal Turned Him Down. Abe Ribicoff Would Have Said Yes but Couldn't Skip His Honeymoon, Electroshock Therapy, Walter Cronkite Would Have Said Yes, George McGovern Picked His Running Mate in a Few Hours, Ted Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Politics News

It's been a bit less than two years since I interviewed George McGovern for my book, Clinton in Exile, on Bill Clinton's post presidency. McGovern a...

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A Historical Perspective On Divided Democratic Conventions

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.

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Hunter Thompson Would Have Been for Obama

Darrell Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Wolfe, Gonzo Journalism, Barack Obama, Hunter Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson, Hubert Humphrey, George Mcgovern, Movies, Entertainment News

Documentarian Alex Gibney, who, after making a film about Thompson for the last two and a half years, says he feels pretty confident declaring Obama would have been Thompson's man.

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How Tim Russert Got His Start

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Brolin, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Hugh Carey, NBC News, Tim Russert, Mario Cuomo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Woodrow Wilson, Chris Matthews, Patrick Buchanan, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Dick Cheney, Buffalo, Maureen Orth, Boston College, The West Wing, Lawrence O'Donnell, George Stephanopoulos, William S. WhiteWilliam Safire, Adali Stevens Joseph Kraft, David Brinley, Walter Lippmann, Jimmy Carter, Al Smith, Lyndon Johnson, Larry Grossman, Clayton Fritchey, David Burke, Media News

For more than 30 years, my friendship with Tim was rooted in a shared Irish heritage and similar education, with minimal emphasis on self-expression and more on what Tom Brokaw calls "accountability."

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McCain as Peacenik: 1968 All Over Again

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Political Ads, John McCain, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Politics News

McCain's speech the other night was brilliant, frightening and 100% Nixon. But successful Nixon. How do you beat a Nixon? Be like Kennedy

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