Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems a long time ago-except perhaps for Hubert Humphrey. Had it not been for the chaos in Chicago, which convinced many TV watchers that the Democratic Party was run by a bunch of radicals, H.H.H. just might have edged out Richard Nixon for the presidency...
...favorite son. He dodged questions about whether he will enter other primaries. Asked if he really wants to be President, he said, "Yes." What about Vice President? "Premature," said Brown. His entry further scrambled the Democratic race and increased the chances for a deadlocked convention-which would then give Hubert Humphrey the best shot at the nomination...
What is needed now is a bipartisan congressional committee headed by individuals whose honesty is unquestioned, like Senators Hugh Scott and Hubert Humphrey, to ferret out those in Congress whose campaigns have received illegal corporate financing...
...battle over who would succeed Mansfield was already joined last week. The Democratic whip, West Virginian Robert C. Byrd, has expressed interest in the leadership post, and Maine's Edmund Muskie has announced that he will seek it. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey might also land the job next January, should something more important down Pennsylvania Avenue not come his way. Ironically, Humphrey was the man whom the modest Mansfield had proposed for the post when it became vacant...
...here is Benito's problem: There is a fellow conspirator on board the San Dominick. It was all right in 1972 to lead insurgencies against Hubert, Ed, Scoop and the entire army of crooked-bicycle-parkers that campaigned in Florida. But Jimmy Carter, the Cheshire cat media mirage says he has only been to Washington to get on the tour bus and wants to wipe out the bureaucrats as badly as Wallace...