Letters, Feb. 6, 1978

Hubert Humphrey

To the Editors:

In politics, an endeavor where egos regularly outpace dedication, Hubert Humphrey [Jan. 23] seems never to have forgotten the people; he never abandoned his dedication to their needs; he never lost faith with the dream of what America might be. In my lifetime, a handful of political leaders have made me proud to be an American. Hubert H. Humphrey alone among them made me proud to be a human being.

John J. Mollick Bowie, Md.

Too often Hubert Humphrey was seen only as the ebullient eternal optimist, a Don Quixote...

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