Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubert Humphrey, LL.D., Minnesota
Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey and New Jersey Republican Clifford Case sponsored a Senate measure urging "sympathetic consideration" for Israeli co-production of the F16. New York Republican Jacob Javits and Idaho Democrat Frank Church introduced another, restating U.S. pledges to maintain Israel's military strength. The White House, worried by the possibility of a rash of similar resolutions in behalf of other nations, hastily sought a compromise. The Humphrey-Case measure was withdrawn, the Javits-Church toned down. Carter in return stoutly declared at a White House press conference that Israel was entitled to arms because of its "special...
...their lives; the atmosphere is caught in a song written in the '30s, "which Side Are You On?" The enemy is the outside, the unseen menace of Duke Power. As the leader of the strikers tells the company's president, a man who bears a striking resemblance to Hubert Humphrey (D-Monn.), "KWell I tell you one thing Mr. Horn--I'm gonna be right there on that goddam picket line looking at you.... just as long as it takes...
Finally, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey lectured Carter about the Administration's generally conservative approach to the economy. Said he: "If you want to do something about inflation, you've got to do something about unemployment." Again Carter did not budge. After the meeting a House leader told TIME Correspondent Neil Mac-Neil, "In my judgment, there are the seeds of real conflict in that encounter. One has the feeling that the President is trying to set Congress up as a whipping boy on spending...
...McCarthy campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination to offer voters an alternative to the Johnson administration's prosecution of the Vietnam war, but lost to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), Johnson's vice president. He ran briefly in Democratic primaries in 1972, and as an Independent candidate in the 1976 presidential race, in which he received over a million votes...