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Video: A Tribute to Huell Howser and California's Gold

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)1/07/2013 9:20:59 pm PST

You know who the left doesn’t give enough credit and I am not saying this because my username is his nickname but Hubert Humphrey. He was the first national Democrat to be really strong and open about his support for civil rights. It was his 1948 DNC speech that pissed off Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats. The other Happy Warrior, Al Smith despite his later opposition to the New Deal was cool in my book too because anyone who stood up to the intolerant dries during Prohibition has my respect. Plus, he was the first really prominent Irish-American politician to run for president. Not the first, Charles O’Conor who is forgotten today was technically but Smith laid the groundwork for JFK later.