I believe he was on the Senate's committee for hunger. And against the Viet Nam War Sen RFK was impressed with him.
Humphrey was the first candidate I volunteered for (would have for Bobby if he'd gotten to the NYS/C Primary).
I volunteered for McG, too.
He had one of the last big presidential candidate labor rallies in NYC. And Mayor Lindsey Liberal Republican was there. I might still have 2 b&w photos I printed up. I think I climbed up on a lamppost base to get them!
Oh, yeah, I walked into the hotel where the watch party was....barly anyone there..and you could see on the projected map already w/o polls being all closed that it was a rout. 
A story.
He never made a thing of being a WW2 bomber pilot over Germany (while being yelled at for being a "peacenick" ). At one point they accidentally bombed a German farmer's fields.
Decades later that farmer was interviewed. The farmer said that if in any way that accidental bombing somehow helped the effort against Hitler he was ok with it.
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