Word: hubert
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...involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
...claims of a biased press, as in much of his book, Lasky is inconsistent. While he condemns the press as Nixon's worst enemy, he also argues that it overplayed the violence outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-thereby hurting Hubert Humphrey. "The convention coverage undoubtedly helped tilt the closely contested election to Nixon," concedes Lasky. And while the author repeatedly accuses the press of a bloodthirsty pursuit of Nixon during Watergate, he also approvingly quotes an observation in Commentary that "it was not the press which exposed Watergate; it was the agencies of Government itself...
...Hubert H. Humphrey, 66, indefatigable Minnesota Senator, former Vice President, and 1968 standard-bearer of the Democratic Party; with inoperable pelvic cancer; in Minneapolis. Doctors discovered a malignant tumor on Humphrey's pelvic bone during a four-hour operation to remedy a bowel obstruction. The Senator's cancerous bladder was removed last October. Although his condition is described as terminal because it is inoperable, doctors refused to say how long he might live. They plan to treat the tumor with chemotherapy to slow its growth, and expect that Humphrey will be able to return to the Senate...
...standard U.S. working life would not be universally applauded. Although AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, now 82, is hardly a per suasive personal advocate of early retirement, Big Labor has quietly opposed the Pepper bill. The bill could also create a policy problem for liberals like Senator Hubert Humphrey who have long called for achievement of full employment through a planned economy-a goal that would become all the more difficult and costly if a lot of elderly job seekers were to enter or stay in the labor force. At present, some 2.8 million men and women...
Watson has now won two of the four events that make up golf's grand slam, having similarly quelled Nicklaus's victory bid at the Masters. The U.S. Open champion Hubert Green finished a distant third, 11 strokes behind Watson's record low aggregate...