Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only Hubert Humphrey could hope to stall the stampede to Carter. But just before an 8 a.m. speech on Wednesday, Humphrey made clear to reporters that he would be a nogo. Said he: "I've never been a spoiler in my life." Still, he was urged to hold out by the two leaders of the latest Humphrey-for-President movement, Erie County (Buffalo) Democratic Chief Joseph Crangle and Illinois Congressman Paul Simon. At 1:30 p.m., Humphrey showed them a withdrawal statement. Crangle and Simon asked him to tone it down, to keep the door open a crack...
...going to respond to him has been of concern for Carter campaign strategists. They are troubled by the specter of 1972, when Jews-like other traditional Democrats-deserted Democratic Presidential Nominee George McGovern in droves. Instead of polling over 80% of the Jewish vote, as John Kennedy (1960) and Hubert Humphrey (1968) did, and 90%, as Lyndon Johnson (1964) did, McGovern cornered only around...
...HUBERT H.HUMPHREY
Over a period of nearly three decades, the highly chronicled career of Hubert Humphrey must have used up an ocean of ink and enough film to jam the hold of Queen Elizabeth 2. Beyond that, the former vice president is one of the most garrulous men in history. Is an autobiography necessary? Has anything been left unsaid? In truth, not a great deal. Humphrey's autobiography lays bare few secrets. It is an inside story only in the sense that it gets inside the subject in a manner no biographer could do. Predictably, it authenticates much of the best...
...Johnson's Vice President, the Oval Office was only a step-and a heartbeat-away. But Johnson made immediately clear what their relationship would be: master and vassal. Shortly after the 1964 convention that nominated them, L.B.J. drove Humphrey around his Texas ranch. Spotting a deer, Johnson shouted: "Hubert, there's one for you. Get it!" The very thought of shooting a living creature repelled him, but Humphrey obeyed. Then, as he tells it: "I turned to Johnson with a mixture of satisfaction at having done so well what he wanted and revulsion at having killed the deer...