Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missiles (which the President had already slated for the dustbin) so that the Russians could withdraw from Cuba and save a little face, the other government officials jumped on him and the proposal never received serious consideration. When the Vietcong attacked the American barracks at Pleiku in February. 1965, Hubert Humphrey opposed retaliators bombing against North Vietnam for the next several months he was shut out of meetings and cut off the memo circuit until in early 1906 the President subjected him to a humiliating trip to Vietnam and then let him rejoin the fraternity...
...script had been the same for six years. Since Hubert Vogelsinger came to New Haven from his Vienna home to coach soccer, the Harvard-Yale, games have unfolded in a predictable fashion, Yale relying on a solid right defense and an offense which hoped for a lucky break or a Crimson defensive error, while Harvard constantly carried the play with penetrating drives that usually netted two or three goals but never enough to blow the Elis off the field and back to Naples Pizza House...
...Democratic Administrations, survived the virtually unbeatable heroic appeal and victories of Dwight Eisenhower, and regrouped to elect John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Severely split by the riotous Chicago convention in 1968, it began to reunite in the last weeks of that campaign and fell just short of putting Hubert Humphrey in the White House. But in 1972, while the coalition held much of its strength in electing Democrats to Congress and the statehouses, it came completely apart at the seams in the presidential election...
...early as the Nebraska primary, Issues Director Ted Van Dyk says now, when McGovern's Democratic opponents "went after him on the triple-A issues" ?abortion, amnesty and acid. McGovern was soon trying to disengage himself. Even his defense programs were "clarified." Then in the California debates with Hubert Humphrey, McGovern was forced to admit that he did not know exactly what his ill-starred $1,000-grant-to-every-citizen would cost. When he later came up with a more cogent program, he dismissed the "Demogrant" idea as something he had never really supported. Instead of shaking...
...groups the McGovernites had antagonized: labor, white ethnics, the South. "Nixon would have been beaten by someone who could have held the grand coalition together," said Henry Jackson in a postmortem. "How could any one candidate alienate labor, the religious groups, the South and others in one election?" Adds Hubert Humphrey: "We don't need to indulge in a massive purge in the party, but the leadership must be closely related by word and deed to the working people, to the small town, Main Street people and the man in the shops. Unless we become acceptable to this middle...