Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter, "Do you think the funding question is an important issue?" Muskie drily responded, "Does it really matter? You guys make up the issues anyway." It was, in fact, the press which catapulted the issue of campaign funding to a position of national prominance to such a degree that Hubert Humphrey announced his campaign contributors last Tuesday and Muskie agreed to follow suit...
...easier than assessing the cosmic issues raised by the Wallace vote. Muskie's disappointing showing in New Hampshire, and his disastrous nine per cent in Florida, indicates that he is no longer the front-runner in the Democratic race. The winner, other than George Wallace, appears to be Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey got twice the vote of Muskie and received heavy support from those groups which have been good to him before including old people, blacks, and Jews...
...Hubert Mathews, Dept. of Linguistics M.I.T. (These names were collected in less than twenty four hours. We intend to continue soliciting signatures...
...election night, Muskie seemed happy with the results, but his showing wasn't enough to shake off the blues and the exhaustion which hampered him in the final days of the race in the Granite State. In Florida, while Hubert Humphrey was working twelve-to-sixteen hour days in an effort to shake every hand he could find. Maskie was taking long rest breaks between stops to try to recover the life which seemed to have been sucked out of him by the prospect of having to face 22 more primaries...
...irony of the defeat is that it will make him what we all wanted him to be a year ago--a liberal alternative to Hubert Humphrey," one of his aides told the New York Times Wednesday...