Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, in a record turnout of more than 72 million, Nixon's victory was painfully narrow-though a triumph in personal terms. With 93% of the unofficial count in, Nixon had 29,565,052 (43%); Hubert Humphrey, 29,539,500 (43%); and George Wallace, 9,181,466 (13%). The indicated electoral vote was 290 for Nixon, 203 for Humphrey and 45 for Wallace. Contrary to many predictions, the voters showed no inclination to boycott the election. Nor were they so angry or disillusioned as to waste inordinate numbers of votes on splinter parties...
...their low point, and that Nixon had to play it safe. His aides certainly take this view. They insisted even after Nixon's narrow electoral escape that if they had to do it again, they would change nothing-including the surely damaging decision not to debate Democratic Candidate Hubert Humphrey...
...final week, the enameled confidence that had marked Nixon's staff from the first began to crack. In the final hours, it all but collapsed. From a virtually unassailable lead of 16 points over Hubert Humphrey in the mid-August Gallup poll, Nixon had declined to a scant two-point edge in both the Gallup and Harris surveys on the last week-end of the race. On Election Eve, Harris weighed in with a final poll that took into account the impact of the Viet Nam bombing pause proclaimed by Lyndon Johnson last week. In it-astonishingly-Humphrey...
...hopes of building a Great Society for the U.S. in its cities, countryside and classrooms. The war's ugliness, and the often misunderstood reasons behind U.S. participation in it, greatly contributed to the rebelliousness of America's young. More than anything else, it has been Hubert Humphrey's identification with the President's war policy that has cost him Democratic and independent support throughout the election campaign. Thus it came as the supreme irony of the Johnson Administration that, as Americans prepared to go to the polls this week to vote for another President, the agony...
Answers: 1) George Wallace. 2) and 9) Spiro Agnew. 3) and 11) Curtis LeMay. 4), 7) and 10) Richard Nixon. 5) and 8) Hubert Humphrey. 6) Edmund Muskie...