SIGNED A Man For All People A Pictorial Biography of (Senator) Hubert H Humphrey

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A Man For All People:
A Pictorial Biography of Hubert H. Humphrey
By Ralph G. Martin
- SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY HUMPHREY -
[SIGNED] New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by Humphrey to Robert Fleming (of ABC news?) on front blank page. Measures 11x 8-1/2 inches; unpaginated (about 160 pages).
Protected jacket price-clipped and a bit edge-worn, else very good overall condition. No owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1945 to 1948.
Humphrey was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election but lost to the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon. While President John F. Kennedy gets credit for creating the Peace Corps, the first initiative came from Humphrey when he introduced the first bill to create the Peace Corps in 1957—three years prior to JFK and his University of Michigan speech. In his autobiography, The Education of a Public Man, Humphrey wrote: "There were three bills of particular emotional importance to me: the Peace Corps, a disarmament agency, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The President, knowing how I felt, asked me to introduce legislation for all three. I introduced the first Peace Corps bill in 1957. It did not meet with much enthusiasm.
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