Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dares to be cautious," or as Norwegian wood. He was the first to admit that he was stuck with himself. "What you see is what you get," he said. On bread-and-butter issues, Mondale did not stray much from the oldtime Democratic religion he had learned from Hubert Humphrey. He spoke a sweet and moving message about the values of America. In Cleveland, toward the end of the campaign, he explained his political vision: "We must strengthen, defend, preserve and comfort one another." Mondale paraphrased the words of John Winthrop as he led his flock of Pilgrims...
...personify populist conservative appeal, it was the final week of his final campaign. As he coasted through a five-day, 15-city concluding tour, he touted the themes and exuded the comforting confidence that have served him so well on the political stage. For Walter Mondale, the protege of Hubert Humphrey who has nourished the flame of Democratic liberalism, it was also likely to be, for those who believe the polls, his last week stumping for the nation's highest office. He, too, culminated his campaign by calling forth the core ideals of his career, displaying the tenacity...
There is a serious age issue in the election campaign-the age of Mondale's ideas. His theories may have had merit when Hubert Humphrey proposed them years ago, but they are too outdated to be relevant today...
...government and more defense. He conceded last week that even his best shots, such as his opposition to Reagan's Star Wars proposal, did not seem to be "resonating with the voters." So he began preaching his deepest beliefs, the gospel handed down to him by his mentor, Hubert Humphrey: that government is a force for good, that society has a duty to care for its weak and poor and dispossessed. Rising at 5 a.m., hitting three or four states a day, drawing large, enthusiastic crowds (20,000 in Philadelphia, 15,000 in Ann Arbor), Mondale seemed strangely liberated...
...REAL urgency of supporting President Reagan lies in the utter incompetence of his opponent, Walter F. Mondale, whose own mentor. Hubert H. Humphrey, characterized as lacking the "fire in the belly" that a president needs. Maybe that's because Mondale has been appointed to every government post lie's ever held...