European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Hilr Roal Roal prominence by lending a Tattoo civil rights tank the a Tattoo report by the Humphrey made one of us memorable speeches of his career and won Insull Fame As a orator and As a new mar in the democratic to this civil he told the i Ray we if11 re those Hothi m states hot own erase party to get out of the Shadow of slates rights and walk Forth rightly into the the respect of his col actions was an affront to the inner Circle g that the Senate save Money by abolishing the Senate on reduction of Federal thai committee happened to be a pet project of sen Harry the Virginia patriarch Stu outta the inner Dre Lethe Newcom men who ran the u that obstacle and by the end of u s w1 establishment he achieved the Zenith of his Power in the Senate during us Early becoming assistant majority or in a shift of leadership after the i960 presidential ills old Lyndon Johnson of became vice president under another old Friend and president John Johnsons former lob Asma Jority Leader of the Senate went to Mike Mansfield of and Humphrey filled mansfields former Post of Many of the programs that Humphrey had Espousal since the 1940s Law during the years when he wielded Power in the civil rights Champion Humphrey first began to be mentioned As a possible candidate for president or vice president in 1992 after he had emerged As a Senate Champion of civil rights and social he made a serious attempt to get his party vice presidential nomination in but lost to a fellow Liberal in the est Kefauver of he first became a serious contender for the presidential nomination in that was fated to be John Humphrey turned his ample energies la the Senate once again in the Early As assistant majority he emerged As a Shaker and mover in the style of his Lyndon probably his greatest work As a legislator came in working behind the scenes As floor he Shep herded to passage the most far reaching civil rights Bill of the u banned racial discrimination in Public accommodations and in Dale and local government facile established an equal employment opportunities withheld Federal funds from discriminatory programs and authorized the attorney general to inter Vene to enforce equal Protection of the the Bill passed in Humphreys tenacity and his Long Friendship with Johnson were rewarded in when the president selected him to be his running in the Johnson Humphrey ticket captured 61 per a Man of Hie vice president with cent of the vote to defeat the Republican ticket of Barry Goldwater and William Humphrey was on a diplomatic trip to Mexico City for Johnson in March 1968 when Johnson announced that he would not seek that gave Humphrey another and unexpected Chance for the Humphrey had to scramble to get the nomination in two other Strong Robert Kennedy of new Vork and Eugene Mccarthy of were already running hard on an anti let Nam War while Humphrey concentrated on gathering Delegate Voles from the party is two opponents dominated the headlines with a series of primary election the race was dramatically altered in june with the assassination of Humphrey picked up some of the delegates who would have voted for he won the nomination at the convention in but the violence Between police and Antiwar demonstrators much of it on the part of the police damaged Humphreys candidacy before it really got under he Al ready carried us Burden of being closely identified with Johnsons unpopular War the polls snowed Humphrey gaining steadily through out the but he did not gain enough to Humphrey Tost to Richard Ninon by perhaps the main Quality that Humphrey inn some younger liberals of the Goia Notts was his lifelong distrust of he was a founder of the americans for Bem Coralic action in its Constitution barred membership by fascists and one of his hardest struggles in Minnesota politics was against who infiltrated the democratic Farmers afar he led a fight to throw them out in through the Early during the time when Joseph Mccarthy of Wisconsin came to symbolize for some the excesses of Humphrey was uncharacteristically he spoke against Mccarthy occasionally on radio and but not in the in spite of his distrust of Humphrey eventually became a Leader in the move for agreements with the communist nations on disarmament and the limiting of nuclear As chairman of the Senate disarmament he led the fight to suspend nuclear testing the same remade a famous trip to Moscow and spent eight consecutive hours talking with Premier Nikita s Many people were fascinated by this mar athon by two of the worlds most famous nonstop weakness for talk Humphrey was urging contacts with communist China years before Richard As Fili ally accomplished in he advocated a relaxation of the slate departments passport and visa policies to permit exchanges of medical but he never let his listeners forget that most of the worlds communist governments were totalitarian and that the United states government was engaged in a grave Competition with of All his perhaps his Best known was his weak Ness for Kis speeches were notorious for their january 1978 so were his Humphrey was not especially when he said he was a Public he meant it quite virtually All his thoughts seemed to be open 10 anyone who would in he had had to have several Pinhead sized tutors removed from his the tutors recurred and in 19173 his physician noticed that one had penetrated the bladders it had signs of Humphrey told and the physicians treated it with heat the treatment caused great pain and threw his system out of he told one old Friend during the Winter of 1974 that he had wished for death at one Point during the aftermath of the Humphrey had other problems in one of the of us watergate scandal was that Preil Dent Nixon bad received illegal Campaign contributions in ui2 from Dairy As part of the fallout from that it was revealed that Humphrey had received contributions from the same milk lobby Over years and that some of the con especially some made during his 1961 presiden tial were made from corporate funds and therefore were he freely acknowledged that he had received milk contribution for but said he had known of no illegal another troublesome allegation was made during a libel suit against the corporate interests of Howard the suit was brought by a former pm Robert who said that he delivered a secret Cash contribution to Humphrey from Hughes during the 968 Humphrey said he might have received a contribution from the Hughes but he denied that the had received it personally and in an attache As Maheu Humphreys interests in the Senate alter his last presidential bid in 1972 continued to be varied and weighted toward helping the one of his major legislative efforts in 1977 was the Spon Soring of a with August Hawkins of that would have promised a at government expense if to All americans who wanted to work and that would have set a National goal of reducing the National adult unemployment rate to 1 percent within four Humphrey and his Muriel n soft spoken woman who seemed to command intense Devotion from him returned to Minnesota after the 1968 he taught political science at the University of Minnesota and at Maclac Star College for a then won reelection to the Senate in ins return to University life seemed partly to re store his tattered relations with Young one of the worst of the personal agonies for urn during the Vietnam War was enduring the taunts and insults of thousands of Young demonstrators As he poured the nation defending us War policy of us Johnson and it tormented him to know that the Young he so loved had turned against by there was evidence that he had regained much of the Confidence of the Humphrey cried often in which some said was a sign of weakness and others said was a measure of his he he cried us Day he bowed out of the contest for the presidential nomination in 1972 As he read his state ment in Miami Beach before the television camera this has been a Good weve waged a Good weve done it within the rules of the and we Bow out now with the spirit of Friendship and of As a Good but above As a Good Citi zen and a Good ebullient wife in october the stars and stripes Page 11
