"I'm constantly struck at how people get forgotten," Walter F. Mondale recently said of Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson's Vice President from 1965-1969. Like Humphrey, Mondale had served as a senator, as an outspoken orator and as a VP (years later).
"Hubert's generation has largely disappeared. But for thoughtful scholars he has to be marked as one of the greatest and most gifted forces of his time. Our lives today, and our Democratic nominee, would be absolutely inconceivable without what Hubert and Martin Luther King and many others did."
Here's an interesting article about Humphrey's stirring speeches and bold legacy.
