Hubert Humphrey was one of the brightest and most likable men in the Democratic party. Though he and John Kennedy were in broad agreement on issues, their lives could hardly have been more different. Nearly forty-nine, six years older than Kennedy, Humphrey had come of age during the depression, growing up a druggist’s son amidst the dust storms of South Dakota. He worked his way through college, taught, entered politics and flashed into national attention as the fiery champion of civil rights in the Democratic convention of 1948. He was a man of swift intelligence, immense sympathy and great
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