European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nion Hubert Humphrey 19111978 by Hoy Reed new York times Public Hubert Humphrey said thai was a rare example of understatement in the record of this exuberant Man who died Friday night in he was a relentless pursuer d the presidency for nearly two he was one of the most Active and visible vice presidents in the nations he was a master legislator in the United states Senate during the turbulent aftermath of world War ii and of Franklin Roosevelt new above he was a teacher and an advocate who Rit added the entire nation As Hist he was involved in almost every postwar achievement of Ameri can liberalism from medicare to arms control As a Politi Cal As a legislative and As an incessant talker and persuader whenever he could get an audience of one or a Democrat blended from the agrarian populists and Small town bourgeoisie of the Middle be was no Early and annl advocate of Ine policy of american intervention in along with his president Lyndon he argued dial communism bad o be mapped in Vietnam to keen the menace from As the democratic nominee for president in when Vietnam had become an Albatross around the party Humphrey noticeably modified his position and began to Call for More efforts to Settle the War Politi Cally rather than some saw the shift As a Compromise Between loyalty to Johnson and the political requirements of the his Campaign was marked by Savage and in the end be narrowly lost the election to Richard a Man who was less easily identified with the conduct of the in Spile of the Clear theme of Humphreys advocacy during the Middle years of the 20th Century was he sided with the poor against the the Small against the the family drugstore against the Yourg Humphrey in family Page 10 the stars and stripes the perennial pharmaceutical i know rum personal experience what it Means to be the victim of distress and natural he said years later As he recalled the great drought and economic depression that struck South Dakota while he was growing i also know that it is precisely these americans who Lack he the Power or the influence to fully control their own destiny who most need and yet lock a voice in the conduct of  Humphrey was often called Man of the he was one of the giants of that Listl Sutlon during Tali and yet he was restless from the mid 19sos until be had Hli Eye almost continuously on the having made it As High As vice he in came so close to being president that his friends feared the very narrowness of his defeat would break his his spirit and after nurturing it for a year in the cites and Plains of Minnesota he went Back to the he made another try Tor the presidency in but it was an abortive Effort that died before the party nominating convention was lie teetered on the Brink of a presidential declaration in the Spring of 1978 but stuck by his resolve to slay out of the there was Consolation in Jimmy Carters selection of his Walter a fellow Minne Sota As the vice presidential basking in nominated is younger colleague at the democratic National convention in despite increasingly visible signs of physical Wear Humphrey was Carters breakfast guest each tues Day with other congressional for the express purpose of giving the president advice on matters ranging from foreign and Domestic issues to More person Al strategies for winning friends and gaining influence in the according to those who watched the ailing ravaged by pain and there was always the irrepressible enthusiasm for a certain fluorescent style and personality that made him sparkle with younger up coming party Humphrey was said to have played a decisive role even in his final Days in Washington just before sources close to the administration said that his advice to Carter not to rename Arthur bums As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board was a crucial element in the presi dents decision to replace the senators return to Washington after undergoing surgery in August was a Carter had stopped in on his Way Back from to give the ailing senator a ride Back to Washington on air Force and once he arrived in his return was celebrated in both the Senate and the at dinners and even when he was too ill to a building was named for him the Headquarters of the department of education and welfare and it was reflective of he Washington mood that this proposal came not from democratic allies but from a partisan re Robert Dole of who was the gop vice presidential nominee last born above drugstore i Lubers Horatio Humphrey was bom on May in a room above the drugstore that his Hubert Horatio Humphrey ran in his fathers family had been his Christine Larnies was the daughter of a norwegian seafarer who had migrated with his family to a farm in the Ameri can Young Humphrey grew up in where his father established another drugstore when the boy was 4 years he was graduated from Doland High school in 1929 As class for two years he attended the january 1978 University of until a shortage of Money forced him to return to work in the family he received a degree from the Denver College of pharmacy in the Humphreys by then had moved to another drug store in another South Dakota there Hubert Humphrey met and married Muriel Buck in with his wife working to help support he resumed to the University of Minnesota and took a degree in political science in then they went to Baton Rouge and he earned a masters degree in political science from Louisiana state University in As the family grew the couple eventually had three sons and a daughter Humphrey held a succession of jobs in Humphrey had entered elective politics in 1943 with an unsuccessful race for mayor of after that he helped put together the democratic Farmer labor party that was to become a major in fluence la that states politics for Many run Ning on its ticket to be was elected mayor and soon became nationally known Tor his crackdown on crime and for initiating the nations first municipal fair employment practices commission for racial Equality in he entered the United states Senate in 1mb after defeat ing a Republican Joseph during that in he went with the Minnesota delegation to the democratic National convention in and withdrawing in 72 the prize he never Wolf of