Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flurry of Meetings. Apart from Thieu, Johnson has yet another problem: if he does not get public concessions from Hanoi in response to a bombing halt, he risks the accusation that he is endangering the lives of U.S. servicemen solely to give Hubert Humphrey a political advantage...
WITH one week to go in the presidential campaign, Hubert Humphrey's late surge has whittled Republican leads in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington to almost nothing and placed several more states in the tossup category. Still, the Democrats cannot claim to have won any new states, and a nationwide survey by TIME correspondents shows that Richard Nixon is likely to carry 29 states commanding 278 Electoral College votes (needed for election: 270 votes...
...thirds of the students voting in a college-wide straw poll conducted yesterday indicated that, given the chance, they would vote for Hubert Humphrey if they were old enough. Students who said that they would not vote edged out those indicating a preference for Richard Nixon, with about ten per cent of the vote in each category. Nearly 3000 students--about 50 per cent of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--responded to the poll. Eldridge Cleaver, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate, came in fourth with five per cent of the vote, followed by Eugene McCarthy, who received about four per cent...
Harvard's McCarthy supporters have accepted the senator's last minute endorsement of Hubert Humphrey with surprise and disappointment, but no anger...
This is one reason many anti-war Democrats are swallowing their pride, abusing their sensibilities, and planning reluctantly to back Hubert. It is probably the main ideological reason McCarthy will soon endorse the Vice President. But to some McCarthy backers, noisily evident Friday, not even the arms control controversy is sufficient reason to back Lyndon's boy, especially after Chicago. Not surprisingly, the loudest cheers at the rally came after McCarthy stuck a satiric rapier in Hubert's invisible back...