Too old, too familiar, too talkative, too scarred, too compromised, just too much of everythingall of these terms have been applied to Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Then what is this? When a reporter last week asked President Ford whom he considered his likeliest opponent in the 1976 race, he replied, "Humphrey probably is as good a guess as any."
Humphrey demonstrates the risk of writing the political obituary of any politician who still walks the earth. After his loss to Richard Nixon in the presidential election of 1968, and then his defeat by George...
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