Clinton following in Humphrey’s footsteps?

Does the evolution of Sen. Hillary Clinton from McGovern staffer to presidential candidate mirror that of the late Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, a Minnesota icon?

That is the argument made by Bruce Schulman, professor of history at Boston University and author of “The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics” and “Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism,” in an article featured in Minnesota Monitor’s sister publication, the Washington Independent.

Humphrey had once been the Democrats’ young Turk whose passionate speech in favor of civil rights threw the 1948 convention into an uproar. He would eventually steer the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through the Senate. But by 1972, the “happy warrior” represented the party establishment that youthful activists like Hillary Rodham Clinton were determined to push aside.