Hubert H. Humphrey

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1980. He is of Manx descent, as evidenced by his surname. His body was interred in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He particularly enjoys watching his children as they participate in team sports. Capitol and the Minnesota State Capitol. Quayle enjoys golf, tennis, basketball, skiing, horseback riding, fly fishing, and reading. After Humphrey's death at home in Waverly, Minnesota, he lay in state in the rotundas of both the U.S. They are the parents of three children: Tucker, Benjamin, and Corinne.

One of Humphrey's speeches contained the lines "It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped," which is sometimes described as the "liberals' mantra.". In November 1972, Quayle married the former Marilyn Tucker of Indianapolis. President Carter honored him by giving him command of Air Force One for his final trip to Washington on October 23. He is the son of Jim and Corinne Quayle of Huntington, Indiana. On October 25, 1977, he addressed the Senate, and on November 3, 1977, Humphrey became the first person other than a Member or the President to address the House of Representatives in session. Quayle, the oldest of four children, has two brothers and a sister: Chris, Mike, and Martha. On August 16, 1977, Humphrey revealed that he had terminal cancer. The former vice president also writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.

The Senate honored Humphrey by creating the post of Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate for him. His second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong, came out in the spring of 1996 and Worth Fighting For came out in 1999. Humphrey ran for Majority Leader after the 1976 election but lost to Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Dan Quayle is the author of Standing Firm, a vice-presidential memoir that became a nationwide bestseller. Humphrey also briefly considered mounting a campaign for the Democratic nomination from the Convention once again in 1976, when the primaries seemed likely to result in a deadlock, but ultimately decided against it. He is an Honorary Trustee Emeriti of the Hudson Institute. The effort failed, as several votes on delegate credentials went McGovern's way, guaranteeing his victory. Former Vice President Dan Quayle is an advisor to the firm Cerberus Capital Management and president of Quayle and Associates.

For example, the Humphrey forces argued that the winner-take-all rule for the California primary violated procedural reforms intended to produce a better reflection of the popular vote. He is sometimes mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008. His hopes rested on challenges to the credentials of some of the McGovern delegates. He withdrew from the race the following month. He was defeated by Senator George McGovern in several primaries, and was trailing in delegates at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Iowa straw poll of August 1999, he finished 8th. In 1972, Humphrey once again ran for the Democratic nomination for president. In April 1999 he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2000 Presidential Election.

He was re-elected in 1976, and remained in office until his death. However, it was ultimately a minor factor in the election, which Bush and Quayle went on to lose. Senate on January 3, 1971. Republicans were largely relieved and pleased, and Quayle's camp hailed his performance as an upset triumph against a veteran debater. Humphrey won the DFL nomination and the election, and returned to the U.S. Quayle faced off against Gore in the vice-presidential debate, and, due in part to exceeding low expectations and staying on the offensive by tactics such as criticizing passages in Gore's book Earth in the Balance [During planning negotiations for the upcoming televised debates, Vice-President Quayle's team insisted that he be able to hold a copy of Gore's book for dramatic effect- the Gore team retorted that Gore ought to be able to hold up a potato.] Quayle was generally seen to have at least tied Gore, faring much better than he had against Bentsen four years earlier. Senator from Minnesota who was up for re-election in 1970, realized that he had only a slim chance of winning even re-nomination (he had angered his party by opposing Johnson and Humphrey for the 1968 presidential nomination), and declined to run. Al Gore.

Eugene McCarthy, a DFL U.S. Bill Clinton and Sen. Initially he had not planned to return to political life, but an unexpected opportunity changed his mind. During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by Democrats Gov. After leaving the Vice-Presidency, Humphrey kept busy by teaching at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota, and by serving as chairman of board of consultants of the Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation. In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress, made the comment, "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.". ...". In the 1992-93 season premiere of Murphy Brown, Brown, the character, watched Quayle's comments on television and responded on the show.

Once a fiery liberal spirit, ah, but now when he speaks he must clear it. The "Murphy Brown speech" and the resulting media coverage damaged the Republican ticket in the 1992 presidential election and became one of the most memorable incidents of the 1992 campaign. The song goes "Whatever became of Hubert? Has anyone heard a thing? Once he shone on his own, now he sits home alone and waits for the phone to ring. In an aside, he specifically cited the fictional title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this "poverty of values", saying: "[i]t doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown—a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman—mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'" Quayle drew a firestorm of criticism from feminist and liberal organizations and was widely ridiculed by late night talk show hosts for this remark. The song addressed how some liberals and progressives felt let down by how Humphrey, who had become a much more mute figure as Vice President than he had been as a senator. on a decay of moral values and family structure in American society. He used to be a senator..."). In this speech Quayle blamed the violence in L.A.

While he was Vice President, Hubert Humphrey was the subject of a satirical song by songwriter/musician Tom Lehrer entitled "Whatever Became of Hubert?" ("I wonder how many people here tonight remember Hubert Humphrey. On May 19, 1992 Quayle gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California on the subject of the Los Angeles riots. (In later years, changes in party rules made such an outcome virtually impossible.). The misspelling remains a source of intense criticism of Quayle's leadership abilities. His campaign was hurt because Humphrey had secured the Presidential nomination without winning a single primary. It was widely lambasted by comedians and commentators, and purportedly demonstrated defective execution of official duties. Nixon. The event became the single most memorable and lasting part of Quayle's career.

Humphrey lost the 1968 election to Richard M. Quayle was allegedly relying on a spelling-bee card on which the word had been misspelled by the teacher. However, after he announced that he would not run for a second term, Humphrey ran for President of the United States winning the United States Democratic Party nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, amid riots and protests by antiwar demonstrators, some of whom favored Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, or other protest candidates. Most famous was his correcting a student's spelling of potato as potatoe at an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey on June 15, 1992. In 1968, the 22nd amendment did not disqualify LBJ from running for a second term, even though he succeeded into the presidency, because there were only 14 months remaining in Kennedy's term. Other critics facetiously remarked that he was a good reason for even Bush's critics to pray for his health and that he was only Vice President to make Bush "impeachment-proof". This "pudding assassination" thus became an early defining moment of the German part of the May 1968 movement, many of whose leaders moved into national politics later. He received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for "demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education" in 1991.

The would-be vandals were dubbed "assassins" and "ten little Oswalds" in some widely-read right-leaning German newspapers; this characterization sparked riots by left-wing student activists. Bush. In Germany, Humphrey indirectly earned fame during an April 1967 visit when a plan of some Hippies to make a mess of a place where Humphrey was to speak with chocolate pudding was foiled by the police. [1] Some of the comments he actually did make have been attributed to other politicians, such as George W. The nickname referred not to hawkishness but to Humphrey's crusading for social programs. One reason was that he sometimes made confused or garbled statements, although this tendency led to his being "credited" with apocryphal quotations. Even Humphrey's nickname, the Happy Warrior, was used against him. Throughout his time as Vice President, Quayle was widely ridiculed in the media and by some of the general public as a mental lightweight.

As Vice President, Humphrey was controversial for his complete and vocal loyalty to Johnson and the policies of the Johnson Administration, even as many of Humphrey's liberal admirers opposed Johnson with increasing fervor about the Vietnam War. On February 9, 1989, President Bush named Quayle head of the Council on Competitiveness. He was elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and served from January 20, 1965, until January 20, 1969. As Vice President, Quayle was the first chairman of the National Space Council, a space policy body reestablished by statute in 1988. Kennedy. Quayle was the 44th Vice President of the United States from January 20, 1989, to January 20, 1993. Humphrey ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, but lost to Massachusetts Senator John F. Although Republicans were trailing by up to 15 points in public opinion polls taken prior to the convention, the Bush/Quayle ticket went on to win the November election by a convincing 54-46 margin, sweeping 40 states and capturing 426 electoral votes.

As Democratic whip in the Senate in 1964, Humphrey was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of that year. The ads, however, seemed to have little effect. He was chairman on the Select Committee on Disarmament (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth Congresses). Ads supporting Michael Dukakis and Bentsen showed a beeping heart monitor and an announcer saying, "Quayle: just a heartbeat away," with the implication that Quayle was not up to the job of the presidency should he have to assume it. In 1954 Humphrey proposed to make mere membership in the Communist Party a felony. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Quayle sheepishly responded, "That was uncalled for, Senator," in one of the defining moments of the 1988 campaign. In the Senate, Humphrey became known for his advocacy of liberal causes (such as civil rights, arms control, a nuclear test ban, food stamps, and humanitarian foreign aid), and for his long and witty speeches. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.

His colleagues selected him as majority whip in 1961, a position he held until he left the Senate on December 29, 1964. I knew Jack Kennedy. Humphrey's father died that year, and Humphrey stopped using "Jr." He was reelected in 1954 and 1960. Democratic candidate Lloyd Bentsen said in rebuttal, "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. Minnesota elected Humphrey to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, and he took office on January 3, 1949. This came to a head in the 1988 vice-presidential debate, in which Quayle compared his experience to that of John Kennedy when he became president. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough has written that Humphrey probably did more to get Truman elected in 1948 than anyone other than Truman himself. Many in the media also portrayed him as a lightweight unable to handle the job.

Although the strong civil rights plank adopted at the Convention cost Truman the support of the Dixiecrats, it gained him important votes from blacks, especially in Northern cities. Questions were raised about Quayle's apparent use of family connections to get into the Indiana National Guard and thus avoid possible combat service in the Vietnam War. Many Southern Democrats were so enraged that they formed the "Dixiecrat" party and nominated their own presidential candidate, Strom Thurmond. This decision was criticized by many who felt that Quayle did not have enough experience to be president should something happen to Bush. As a result of the Convention's vote, several Southern and conservative Northern delegations walked out of the hall. Bush called on Quayle to be his running mate in the general election. In one of the most renowned speeches in American political history, Humphrey told the Convention: "To those who say that this civil rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this, that the time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." Humphrey and his allies succeeded; the pro-civil-rights plank was narrowly adopted. W.

Humphrey and other liberals sought to substitute a strong civil rights plank. In August 1988, at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, George H. Truman and the Democratic Party leadership. The nomination was later withdrawn. At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, the draft platform reflected this policy, and was supported by the incumbent President Harry S. It was later revealed that Manion was a member of the John Birch Society and that the American Bar Association had evaluated him as unqualified. The Democratic Party at the national level had been accommodating racial discrimination in the South, under the rubric of "states' rights". In 1986, Quayle received much criticism from his fellow Senators for championing the cause of Daniel Manion, who was a candidate to be a federal judge.

His mayoralty would be famous for his efforts to fight bigotry in all its forms. This was the only major legislation that ever bore Quayle's name the entire time he served in both the House and the Senate. Previously, the city had been declared the Anti-Semitism capital of the country and the small African-American population of the city encountered numerous instances of racism. In 1982, working with Senator Edward Kennedy, Quayle authored the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Humphrey gained national fame during these years by being among the founders of the liberal anti-communist Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and for reforming the Minneapolis police force. With his service on the Armed Services Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Labor and Human Resources Committee, he became an effective Senator, respected by colleagues on both sides of the aisle. He was re-elected in 1947 by the largest margin in the city's history, to that time. Senate, Quayle became widely known for his legislative work in the areas of defense, arms control, labor, and human resources.

After the war, he ran for and became mayor of Minneapolis 1945–1948. During his tenure in the U.S. When in 1945 Minnesota Communists attempted to strengthen their position in the DFL Party, Humphrey Jr backed away from his big tent policies and became an energetic anti-Communist. Making Indiana political history again, Quayle was reelected to the Senate in 1986 with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate in a statewide Indiana race. In 1944, Humphrey was the one of the key players in the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties of Minnesota to form the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). Senate from the State of Indiana, defeating three-term incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh. In 1943, he made his first run at elective office, for mayor of Minneapolis, but he lost. In 1980, at age 33, Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the U.S.

Paul 1943–1944; radio news commentator 1944–1945. He won reelection in 1978 by the greatest percentage margin ever achieved to that date in the northeast Indiana district. During World War II, he became state director of war production training and reemployment and State chief of Minnesota war service program 1942; assistant director, War Manpower Commission 1943; professor in political science at Macalester College in St. Congress from Indiana's Fourth Congressional District, defeating an eight-term incumbent Democrat. Humphrey never finished his Ph.D., and for this reason he was not allowed to teach in the political science department when he returned to the university after losing the 1968 presidential election to Richard Nixon. In 1976, Quayle was elected to the U.S. He then became an instructor and graduate student at the University of Minnesota from 1940–1941. Upon receiving his law degree, Quayle worked as associate publisher of his family's newspaper, the Huntington Herald-Press, and practiced law with his wife in Huntington.

He also earned a graduate degree from Louisiana State University in 1940, serving as an assistant instructor of political science there. From 1973-1974, he was the Director of the Inheritance Tax Division of the Indiana Department of Revenue. Humphrey then returned to school, receiving a degree from the University of Minnesota in 1939. Later that year, he became an administrative assistant to Governor Edgar Whitcomb. in Huron, South Dakota, from 1933 to 1937. Quayle's public service began in July 1971 when he became an investigator for the Consumer Protection Division of the Indiana Attorney General's Office. He then became a pharmacist with the Humphrey Drug Co. While serving in the Guard, he earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1974 at Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis through an experimental program intended to offer "equal opportunity" to minorities, the economically disadvantaged and other students of different viewpoints and backgrounds.

After public school, he graduated from Capitol College of Pharmacy, Denver in 1933. After receiving his degree, Quayle joined the Indiana National Guard and served from 1969-1975. He attended the public schools of Doland, South Dakota, where his family had moved. degree in political science in 1969, and where he was a member of the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon. was born in Wallace, South Dakota (Codington County). He then matriculated at DePauw University, where he received his B.A. This son of Hubert Humphrey Sr. After spending much of his youth in Arizona, he graduated from Huntington High School in Huntington, Indiana in 1965.

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Humphrey Terminal at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) was the 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. The Hubert H. hardcover, ISBN 0060177586; mass market paperback, May, 1995; ISBN 0061093904; Limited edition, 1994, ISBN 0060176016. Dan Quayle, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, Harper Collins, May 1994.