When Hubert Humphrey Attended LSU

[CajunFun]

For all of you Louisiana history buffs.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...ights-00103191

[BeauCajun]

Great read Fun. Thanks.

[R1Letterman]

Thank you so much!

[R1Letterman]

He needed to take a bus from Hammond to baton Rouge, so no train station in baton Rouge by 1939? Or was he on a different line? Some flagship....

This says Lafayette had one already:

The Lafayette train station is a brick structure originally constructed by the Texas & New Orleans Railroad. A plaque in the station states that this historic depot was built in 1911, although some contend it was built in 1912

[R1Letterman]

“I was dismayed by what I saw,” Humphrey wrote...

Not much has changed, many still say that when arriving there

[CajunEXPRESS]

I like the older city of Baton Rouge. That’s the city he’d have seen.

[Membertou]

By far the most deserving of the Presidency without getting there in my lifetime.

Among other accomplishments, he successfully purged the Minnesota Democratic Party of its dominant Communist faction in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party in the 1940s.

[Louisiana84]

By far the most deserving of the Presidency without getting there in my lifetime.

Among other accomplishments, he successfully purged the Minnesota Democratic Party of its dominant Communist faction in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party in the 1940s.

When Democrats were democrats...

[ZoomZoom]

No north/south passenger train connection in BR. Still that way today; have a cousin that likes riding to Chicago via train, has to go to Hammond.

[Turbine]

I love riding trains.

Favorite form of travel.

[VObserver]

No north/south passenger train connection in BR. Still that way today; have a cousin that likes riding to Chicago via train, has to go to Hammond.

"The City of New Orleans" immortalized by Arlo Guthrie in the song of the same name written by Steve Goodman runs every day from New Orleans to Chicago..

Established as a daytime run to complement the overnight run on the same route by the "Panama Limited".