Hubert Humphrey/presidential and Vice-presidential Ambitions 1952-1964

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    “Liberalism, above all, means emancipation—emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination ... from poverty.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “The Republican Vice Presidential Candidate ... asks you to place him a heartbeat from the Presidency.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitions ... he has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover’s sense of the moment of crisis, and he knew ... how costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)