Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California, McGovern was taken in tow by Hubert Humphrey, who did his ebullient best to make the nominee palatable to labor. Humphrey told union members in Los Angeles: "McGovern will make some mistakes, but they'll be mistakes, may I say, that are on your side. He may want to help the children more than someone who wants to watch those pennies. But, oh, may I say how fortunate we are to have a man that will make, possibly somewhere, a few of those mistakes." At a $250-a-plate dinner in keeping with his more modestly financed campaign...
...black candidates fared poorly in the race. Newton resident Hubert H. Jones, the most liberal of the candidates, placed fourth with 8068 votes, largely outdistancing Melvin Miller, publisher of the Bay State Banner, who received 1592 votes...
...ideas. Then coverage focused on the organizational wonders of his nomination drive. During that period, observed the Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey Sperling, McGovern was getting a "free ride" from a largely uncritical press. Finally, the fare went up during the California primary, when journalists joined Hubert Humphrey in picking at McGovern's specific proposals and finding fault with them...
...Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) dialed his scheduler. Ursula Culver, and told her to make sure that he called Joe Beirne. President of the Communications Workers of America, the next morning; that, it at all possible, he wanted to make an appearance on behalf of Senator George S. McGovern (D.S.D.) at the AFL-CIO dinner that evening...
...hasn't kept that promise And I don't like it." In his own office. Humphrey showed a degree of outrage of the war, and a depth of committment against it that had never shown in his campaign It is a side of Hubert Humphrey that he seems unable to communicate on television...