Hubert Humphrey

(noun)

The 38th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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  • Great Society
  • Voting Rights Act
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

Examples of Hubert Humphrey in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1968

    • Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the tumultuous 1968 Presidential election.
    • This group supported Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
    • Some members of this group, probably older ones remembering the New Deal's positive impact upon rural areas, supported Vice President Humphrey, but most rallied behind George C.
    • In the end, the nomination itself was anticlimactic, with Vice President Humphrey handily beating McCarthy and McGovern on the first ballot.
    • Humphrey, meanwhile, promised to continue and expand the Great Society welfare programs started by President Johnson and to continue the Johnson Administration's "War on Poverty".
  • 1968: The Year of Upheaval

    • On the night of his assassination, he had won a major victory in the California primary and seemed to have clinched a two-man race with Hubert Humphrey.
    • With Johnson's withdrawal, the Democratic Party quickly split into four factions, each of which distrusted the others: labor unions and big-city supporters of Vice President Hubert Humphrey; college students and upper-middle-class whites who actively opposed the war and rallied behind Senator Eugene McCarthy; Catholics, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other racial and ethnic minorities who were passionate supporters of Senator Robert F.
    • Although Humphrey appeared to be in the lead, he was an unpopular choice with many of the antiwar elements in the party.
    • In the end, the nomination itself was anticlimactic, with Vice President Humphrey handily beating McCarthy and McGovern on the first ballot.
    • Democratic Humphrey, meanwhile, promised to continue and expand the Great Society welfare programs started by President Johnson and to continue the Johnson Administration's "War on Poverty".
  • The Nixon Administration

    • Richard Milhous Nixon was elected president in the election of 1968, narrowly beating the incumbent vice president, Hubert Humphrey.
  • The Vice Presidency

    • Richard Nixon (36th); Everett Dirksen; Spiro Agnew, incoming vice president (39th); and the outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey (38th), January 20, 1969.
  • References

    • ., Humphreys, K. (2003).
  • The "New Negro"

    • In 1916-17, Hubert Harrison and Negro league baseball star Matthew Kotleski founded the militant "New Negro Movement," which is also known as Harlem Renaissance .
    • Describe the ideal of the "New Negro" articulated by Hubert Harrison, Matthew Kotleski and Alain Locke
  • Steps to Integrating Experiential Learning in the Classroom

    • However, with the use of different technologies such as multimedia resources, web-based discussions, online planners, and creative tasks, e-learning courses could be improved in a manner that would strengthen the entire experiential learning cycle for the learner (Frank, Reich, & Humphreys, 2003).
  • Canadian Painting in the 20th Century

    • The group's members included Alexander Bercovitch, Goodridge Roberts, Eric Goldberg, Jack Weldon Humphrey, John Goodwin Lyman, and Jori Smith.
  • The Election of 1972

    • Instead, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968, became the front runner, with South Dakota Senator George McGovern a close second place.
  • The Indus River Valley Civilization

    • This prompted an excavation campaign from 1921-1922 by Sir John Hubert Marshall, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, which resulted in the discovery of Harappa.
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