European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Hubert Humphrey the democrats Choice vice president Hubert h. Humphrey has been called a voice of his has been called a super guru to Middle aged liberals and a betrayer of the Liberal cause. He has been called a cheerleader forthe Vietnam War and a private Doubter a Happy Warrior and a will the real Hubert Humphrey please stand up asked the master of Cere monies in introducing him at the nation ill press club. The usual Humphrey image is that Ofa fast talking super Salesman with a Sample Case crammed with exclamation Marks. A political evangelist who sprouts slogans like politics of but there is More substance than Stylet Hubert Horatio Humphrey 57, a Man of burning ambition kindled in the populism depression and dust storms of his South Dakota youth when the de pression Sale of his boyhood Home meant the end of childhood. Thirty three years ago Humphrey took his Huron s.d., boy scout troop to see Washington. From the capital the Youn scoutmaster wrote his wife to be Muriel Buck i need to do More Reading handwriting More thinking if Ever i want to fulfil my dream of being someone Inthis world. I can see How someday if you Andi just apply ourselves to make up our minds to work for bigger things we can live Here in Washington and probably be by Harry Kelly a staff writer in government politics or intend to set my aim at Congress. Don t laugh at me Muriel. Maybe i does sound rather egotistical and beyond reason but Muriel i do know other shave Humphrey was born May 27,1911, in a room Over his father s drugstore i Wallace s.d., a town of 100 or so in the Prairie country. He was the second of four children with an older brother Ralph and two Sisters Frances an Fern. The Humphrey family moved to near by Doland a town of almost 500, when Hubert was 5, and now he recalls twas a wonderful town. When a baby was born everybody was Happy about stand when somebody was Hurt or sick everybody offered to help. These the major influence in Humphrey Slife was his father dad was a wonder Ful Man. He was my hero. He love people and he loved politics. He was virtually the Only Democrat in a Republican town. But they elected him mayor sent him to the state legislature an almost ran him for governor. He used to buy time on the radio station just to read poetry and play Good music. He had one of the finest libraries in town and used to read to us from Tom Paine and Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson. He was t just my dad he was my teacher and my pal the Doland High school had Only 13 in Humphrey s graduating class. Thus he recalls i got into everything played in the band acted in the school plays played on the basketball and foot Ball teams did a lot of boxing ran the half mile was a member of the debating team. I had a lot of ambition then i was going to be a great chemist and inventor. Then i was going to be lawyer and before that i was going to be a but Humphrey in his bittersweet memories also remembers the closing of the Banks in the late 1920s cause economic havoc and one Day i came Home from school and there were Momand dad in the Orchard with team. My dad said son i had to sell our House my childhood ended when we sold our the dark Days of depression had struck when Humphrey entered the University of Minnesota. People were trading Chick ens eggs and meat for drugs at the Humphrey Corner drugstore. He had to drop out of College and his father started anew in nearby Huron a bigger town of 6,000. When his father was elected to Testate legislature Hubert took a seeded up pharmacy course at the University of Denver so he could run the drugstore. In 1936 he married Muriel and re turned to the University of Minnesota. In two years he was graduated Nianna cum laude. Just before graduation the first Humphrey child Nancy was got a master of arts in political. The main thing i Learned info Tate was the need for patience and persistence. You need both up science on a teaching Fellowship a Louisiana state University. There were some tight Days during that period at College Muriel made sandwiches and i sold them for 10 cents piece. I got a spa Job in charge of adult education. Later i Koi a Job teach ing political science at macalester col lege in St. Paul and worked us a radio newscaster at then came the first step to being somebody in the world. Two labor leaders asked Humphrey to run for May or of Minneapolis he lost the first time ran again two years later and won. At54, he was the youngest mayor of any major american City. But it was a City As Humphrey recalls it beset with prob lems of crime and bigotry. The first thing i did was hire a new and Tough police chief increase the policemen s salaries and told them i was ton the take and that they weren t going to be on the take either and then isaid we Are going to have a clean town. Let s clean out the rackets.1 and so we Jar destiny gave him a shove toward the Center of the National stage in 1948. Hent Only was running for the , sen ate but he was selected to head Testate delegation to the democratic convention in Philadelphia where hurry s nomination was automatic but where a Battle crackled Over civil rights. Humphrey named to the platform committee recalls they had a civil rights Plank but it skirted the Tough issues. We wanted a simple Strong plan that supported president Truman s full civil rights program with the stress unequal employment and equal treatment in the armed rising before the convention Humphrey urged a tougher Plank and declared Fowe place our Faith in the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of god. I do not believe there can be any Compromise on the guarantee of civil rights. There can be no hedging no watering Down. Those who say to you we Are Rushing this Issue of civil rights 1 say we Are a heckler retorted derisively Bronx cheer summed up critics tit that Humphrey s Vintage year years ago and the Humphreys soured in the bottle with the Abel. I the other hand. Humphrey prob would t be where he is today it elected to the Senate the i year. Johnson moved quickly to the inner Circle and leadership. Humphrey blew in like a Prairie assaulting the doors of traditional p. He got an icy cold shoulder. I painful time. It was learning d Way. Says Humphrey of the big things i Learned in Enate and i Learned it quickly hat it s not necessary to sacrifice actions for Good manners but Yout operate on those convictions with manners. But the main things was the need for patience existence. You need had watched Humphrey and he was named Senate democratic 1953, he brought Humphrey club tolling the Senate elders Ray was my link with the bomb Humphrey ambitions were owing. 1956 he expected that Adlai , the democratic presidential a would name him As his running instead Stevenson threw the demo the convention which chose pcs Kefauver and Humphrey Aid to have been found by a Friend Corner of the convention Hall Wro found Humphrey under a and under financed taking on Arjes Kennedy in the presidential Rode to defeat in a battered later Humphrey rides in a jew says Humphrey i knew the Cotta coed Afi inst me. Iltha,1 a few 0 my so called 1 us
