You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

He was the uncle of software engineer Watts Humphrey. He fought to have a balanced budget tight money limits on welfare and foreign aid as well as "trickle down" tax cuts. Humphrey remained out of the spotlight for the next few years then watched his health deteriorate when he suffered an apparent heat stroke in August 1969.

He made zero profit from the deal. Following Dwight Eisenhower's election to the Presidency in 1952 Humphrey was recommended by close adviser Gen. As Secretary of the Treasury in the first Republican Administration in 20 years Humphrey was without question one of the most influential of President Eisenhower's Cabinet members.