Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vindictiveness is not one of Hubert Humphrey's vices. Loquacity certainly is. During his first lecture as a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, the former Vice President got on the subject of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley. Looking back at his presidential campaign, Humphrey commented that the riots during the Chicago convention were a "tragedy" and "I was a victim." Among numerous other reflections, he observed that Mayor Daley "didn't exactly break his heart...
Reacting last week with an extraordinary public display of spleen, Daley spluttered that Humphrey had not been his personal choice for President. His preference, he said obliquely, was "the name of a former President"-though it was no secret that the mayor had held out for the unavailable Ted Kennedy at the Democratic Convention...
...Daley claimed that Humphrey lost Illinois because he campaigned only briefly downstate. "We carried Cook County for Humphrey by 220,000," he boasted. "I hope the good former Vice President would look at the figures." Humphrey may indeed have looked at the figures, which also show that Daley did substantially better by the two previous Democratic candidates. For John Kennedy he got 99,000 more votes in Cook County; for Lyndon Johnson, 421,000 more than Humphrey in Cook County...
...mayor is still miffed at Humphrey for addressing a rump group of disaffected Illinois Democrats last month. But, as Humphrey commented, "nothing I've said or done should have provoked" Daley's reaction. After all, it was only four weeks ago that Hubert called His Honor "one of the truly outstanding mayors of the nation...
...GETTING worse all the time. You look at this crazy, screwed-up world bursting out all around you, and you wonder how long it will be before you're as nuts as Mayor Daley and his cops. So what can you do? You can cancel your subscription to the Times and start reading Field and Stream. Or hide in your room and watch I Dream of Jeannie on TV. Or take drugs and forget about everything...