Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who are closest to him. "Jimmy's a hard person to get to know," admits Top Aide Hamilton Jordan. Says another: "His insides are made of twisted steel cable." He is notorious for not thanking staffers for their 18-hour days, and a harsh streak occasionally surfaces. When Hubert Humphrey was thinking of jumping into the primaries, Carter said that the Senator, then 64, was too old to be President, and, besides, he was a "loser." Later Carter apologized for that tasteless crack...
South Carolina's aggressive, articulate "new" Southerner, Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings, 54, is thought to trail with 15 or so votes. Currently bringing up the rear with perhaps a dozen votes is Hubert Humphrey, 65, who used to preside over the Senate as Vice President. All three would be Carter loyalists, though Byrd and Hollings would probably be less assertive in dealing with the White House than Humphrey. Partly because of concern about his health, partly because his opponents have worked hard to store up lOUs for this vote, Humphrey, still recovering from a recent cancer operation, is given relatively...
Despite his self-confident assertiveness, it was clear back on the Talmadge estate that the President-elect was soliciting help and advice. Among those present were the men vying for the job of majority leader of the Senate-Favorite Robert Byrd and Hubert Humphrey -and the retiring leader, Mike Mansfield, plus the influential Edmund Muskie. Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, certain to be House Speaker, was there with four key chairmen: Appropriations' George H. Mahon, Ways and Means' Al Ullman, Budget's Brock Adams and James J. Delaney, probable new Rules head...
...balance of presidential impact has tipped and the measure of Carter will lie in how he focuses national thought and attention. Some good men who have done a lot of legislating in the past have had similar thoughts as they have become frustrated in the legislative underbrush. Hubert Humphrey once mused about the White House task: "New laws? Laws? We have got too many of them now in some areas. We need leadership. A President can do a lot if he wants to just by using the power...
...Pollster Louis Harris gave him 87.3%, the Joint Center is considered more reliable since it compiled statistics from 1,165 precincts where blacks account for 87% or more of the population. Carter's showing compares well with George McGovern's 87% of the black vote in 1972, Hubert Humphrey's 85% in 1968 and Lyndon Johnson's 94% in 1964. When a large group votes with such near unanimity, it puts a burden on a two-party system. Ultimately, the group could continually deprive one party of victory and wield excessive influence on the other...