From the moment Lyndon Johnson dropped out of the presidential race, there was little doubt that Hubert Humphrey would claim the right of succession. Last week the Vice President with held his ...

Arthur Kasherman was a gadfly journalist and a sometimes extortionist in 1945 Minneapolis. His murder helped make reformist ...

Kasherman's murder would boost the Minneapolis mayoral campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey, the future vice president under President Lyndon B. Johnson. A headline in the Jan. 31, 1945 edition of the ...

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted roughly 229 files containing the pages to its public website.

John Kennedy brought Lyndon Johnson closer to security affairs ... Said one with obvious approval: “As Hubert Humphrey so aptly put it. . .” Far from reflecting political expediency, Humphrey ...

Many of the files had been made public previously, but others had not been digitized and sat for decades in federal ...

Democrat Lyndon Johnson ... exposed President Johnson’s political weakness. While Kennedy’s campaign inspired hope among some Democrats, he still trailed Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey for ...

At the beginning of 1968, no one could have predicted the reception that would greet President Lyndon ... Johnson discreetly called his "peroration." Johnson told his vice president, Hubert ...