The Watergate Cookbook: Humphrey's Blushing Chicken

This little gem of a cookbook was published in 1973. Most of the names and inside references I don't get or remember. but others I do. Wow, ancient history. And weird recipes. And way, way too many Jell-O salads involving coleslaw. The Hubert Humphrey-themed chicken was too sweet, but overall ok.

And as far as Humphrey's connection to Watergate -- turns out he could have prevented it, and the entire Nixon presidency. LBJ gave him some kind of "smoking gun" info in 1968 that would probably have tanked Nixon's campaign and gotten him elected instead, but oh well, that didn't happen. Makes me like Humphrey even more. For one thing, he didn't want to use the info because he didn't want to be a jerk. For another, it kind of makes him the secular patron saint of making what turn out in retrospect to have been very poor decisions, which is something I specialize in myself (although usually for less altruistic reasons).