Samuel G. Freedman: What a Young Hubert Humphrey Can Teach Us

Samuel G. Freedman: What a Young Hubert Humphrey Can Teach Us
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“Humphrey’s insurgency at the convention basically lashed Truman to the mast of [Humphrey’s] own civil rights agenda. And desegregating the armed forces was arguably the single most important civil rights cause of that moment in time.”

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