Around the globe, wherever and whenever politicians and pundits gather to talk, there is a good chance for agreement on at least one thing: the 1960 U.S. presidential election is quite likely to be the year's most important event. This week, in the first cover this year on presidential hopefuls, TIME examines the life and liberalism of the candidate who was the first to throw his hat officially into the ring: Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, who first appeared on TIME'S cover the month he arrived in Washington as a freshman Senator, in January 1949.
Keeping up with fast-moving, long-talking Hubert...
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