Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (1911-1978), the pharmacist turned politician, served different constituencies as mayor of Minneapolis, United States senator from Minnesota, and vice-president of the Uni...
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Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 p...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Minnesota holds a
presidential caucus on Feb. 5, one of 24 states that hold
nominating contests on "Super Tuesday."
Following are some facts about the North Star State:
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Quotations from Lady Bird Johnson's 1970 book, "A White House Diary."(On being in the plane heading back to Washington after John F. Kennedy was assassinated.)"We all sat around the plane. The cask...
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Iraq: After months of vacillating, the Democrats finally have a "plan" for Iraq: Get the troops out next year. Unfortunately, this puts them at odds with the people who know better -- the generals....
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Thick smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday in Vice President Dick Cheney's suite of offices in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.Cheney's office, known for its histor...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE POLITICS OF PIGMENTATION (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
It wouldn't be Martin Luther King Day without some kind of
racial dialog...
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The arguments have already begun over which party's White House hopes will be destroyed by Mike Bloomberg. And on one level, it's a debate worth having, since third party efforts tend to appeal l...
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After 19 books and thousands of articles and other writings spanning 70-plus years, the question is how many undiscovered nuggets of insight researchers may yet find in the private papers of Arthur...
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Washington (dpa) - The Iowa caucuses are an exercise in democracy
that has more in common with the Roman Senate of antiquity than a
modern election.
In the fi...
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For more than three decades, the Reverend Jerry Falwell guided the white evangelical masses of the South into the Republican Party, culminating in the most outwardly pious Presidency in modern Amer...
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.
Early Attitudes Glance
