Humphrey Quotes

After the Korean War there was a complex web of economic controls in place. Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey led the cabinet faction urging rapid removal of the controls while others argued the opposite position. The President went along with his Treasury Secretary:

Referring to then Senator Hubert H. Humphrey who was popular with the left wing of the Democratic party when Johnson was Majority Leader.

This is how she began one of her daily columns. She did not grow up in a political world and whenever she made an error or mistake, she simply said so and corrected it. Many politicians—American and Foreign—didn’t know what to make of this. Even today, where politicians exaggerate and are called on their errors rarely admit it. Most feel if they ever admit to being wrong, no one will trust what they day in the future. And that their political enemies will repeat their admission over and over to destroy their image with the public. Actiually that happened to Mrs. Roosevelt and even today opponents and enemies quote her errors which she corrected. However, she was not only one of America’s most popular politicians, but was one of the few that people would trust. Her words were trusted more so than even her husband’s, and he was the most popular President since George Washington.

Commenting on his Vice President Hubert H. Humphery:

Hubert H. Humphrey, the Vice President-elect, departed from his presidentially cleared text in giving a speech on education. The President was not happy with this independence:

The Volstead Act was a law passed by Congress to enforce Prohibition in 1919. Very few people obeyed the law.

When reporters asked him why Hubert Humphrey did not carry Illinois in the 1968 presidential election, His Honor replied: