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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Lots of jokes about Harold Stassen came my way when I was at the U of MN Law School mainly from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs people who I knew from dorm life in Middlebrook Hall.
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I remember the jokes too, but Stassen was the Governor of Minnesota for four years and the President of the University of Pennsylvania for four years. Hardly a joking matter. I just don't think he ever received the respect to which he was entitled.
He was a true patriot who left the Navy as a Captain and he always placed the state/country above himself. He was smart too. He graduated from high school when he was 14 and was a champion debater.
While he was off serving our country in the Pacific, other folks took over the Republican Party and he was pretty much left out once the war was over. I think he was a little too liberal for the new Republicans.
He campaigned for President 10 times without ever receiving many delegate votes. I would call him the champion of lost causes.