It is true that history is not generally kind to presidential losers, but the reputation of Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey endured an especially precipitous fall with his loss to Richard Nixon in ...

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Early in his long-shot run for president, Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips evoked one of Minnesota's most historically well-known politicians. "I believe deeply in the Democratic Party of today," ...

But at the beginning, Humphrey vaulted into national prominence at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, where he delivered a powerful speech advocating a robust civil rights plank for the party’s ...

The time has come to speak out on behalf of America—not a nation that has lost its way, but a restless people striving to find a better way. ON that characteristically upbeat note, Hubert Horatio ...

With Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate last week, the North Star state has now produced three Democratic VP candidates in the past 60 years. Like ...

WASHINGTON - If Kamala Harris has her way, Minnesota may become known as the cradle of Democratic vice presidents. Gov. Tim Walz would be the third Minnesotan of the last six Democratic veeps, should ...

Hubert Humphrey has been gone for some 45 years. One can still remember hearing him, though, spouting his pet phrase "I'm as pleased as punch." How pleased, though, would Humphrey be with Sam Freedman ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the documentary flick. Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible starring Mary Easter, Hubert H. Humphrey, Muriel Humphrey, Everett Dirksen ...

It was drizzling when Hubert Humphrey awoke in Minneapolis on Election Day morning, but nothing could dampen his spirits. “When we get to Waverly,” he told his wife Muriel during the 40-mile drive to ...