Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, Nixon! can boast the work of a fine Nixon mimic in the person of Glenn Stover. Although in his cockier moments he does tend to take on the accents of a Hubert Humphrey instead, for the most part Stover's impersonation of Nixon--the nervous hands, the calculated expressions, the condescending attempts at explanation--are right on target. In fact, there is almost a naivete about this caricature that would make Nixon endearing if he weren't already so incredibly appalling. One moment he's attempting to ingratiate himself with Chairman Mao by telling a few Japanese jokes...
...than a third of the 1968 delegates were chosen before the year began, when neither major issues nor possible candidates had been clearly identified. Blacks made up only 5.5% of the Chicago delegations, although they are 11% of the population and 20% of the total that eventually voted for Hubert Humphrey. Women provided 52% of the Democratic vote in '68, yet they made up only 13% of the delegations. A majority of the delegations had no more than one member under 30 years old. The convention was predominantly white, male, middle-aged and at least middle class...
...national convention of the Young Democrats in Hot Springs, Ark. You were supposed to speak at noon, but the Senate was voting on campaign financing, and you could not get away. They put you over to the evening banquet, but you could not make that, either. Here you are, Hubert Humphrey, age 60, twice a mayor, a national political figure since 1948, four times a Senator, for four years Vice President, once your party's candidate for the presidency. You have been through all this before-the long days, luncheons, dinners, chartered flights, delays, hotel rooms, limousines, taxicabs, interviews...
...bring to television an effective counterimage to Nixon, as he did on election eve last November. Of Humphrey, Muskie and Kennedy, Nixon's political advisers think Humphrey would be the easiest to defeat. "He's got all those scars," says a Republican National Committee official, "and if you get Hubert, you're likely to get a fourth party...
...make a case that a Democratic victory is possible. Don't you think that anyone who voted for Hubert Humphrey in 1968 will vote for a Democrat next time? And what if we can get 8,000,000 young voters to the polls out of the 25 million who will be eligible? But I don't underestimate the strength of the President's appeal...