Word: deweyitis
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...phrase first used by a Negro vaudeville veteran, Dewey ("Pigmeat") Markham, to introduce a series of blackouts (Judge: "Have you ever been up before me?" Defendant: "I don't know-what time do you get up?"). Pig-meat himself is now on Laugh...
Humphrey's tone is calculated to evoke memories of Harry Truman's bruising 1948 campaign against Thomas E. Dewey. Whatever ground Humphrey may have gained with it last week, however, was not quite enough to endanger his underdog status. The Vice President remained an astonishingly inconsistent campaigner. At times on the stump he could be inspiring and almost pithy-a quality at odds with his loquacious nature. Then, in the next paragraph, he could sound again like a political calliope, cliches ablast. "Government of the people, for the people and by the people," he told one audience...
...consolation, however, in the 1948 Truman victory he is trying to emulate. According to a Gallup poll released this week, Humphrey trails Nixon by 15 points, 43 to 28. At roughly the same stage in 1948, a Roper poll showed Truman only 13 points behind the aloof and confident Dewey. Humphrey should know better than to trust the 1948 analogy anyhow. As an incumbent President, Truman commanded immense resources, as well as a strong and widespread, if quarrelsome, following. Humphrey has neither the resources nor a broad constituency that is truly...
...least to campaign so timidly, in the hope of avoiding errors, that he will fail to generate sufficient enthusiasm to win. Thus, after Nixon carefully avoided comment on a number of touchy issues during a televised interview in Chicago last week, Humphrey happily said: "I remember when Tom Dewey thought he could glide through a campaign full of love and kisses. All he thought he had to do was smile. He was wrong...
...Marine veteran of Iwo Jima who does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor, Bellmon proved so popular that in 1966 he was able to pull in a Republican successor, Governor Dewey Bartlett, a Princeton-educated, Roman Catholic Tulsan in a traditionally rural-oriented, Protestant state. Democratic hegemony has been shattered, and now Bellmon is after Monroney's Senate seat...