Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Eugene McCarthy did not, contrary to wide expectation, endorse Vice-President Hubert Humphrey's candidacy at a rally for 11 Senatorial peace candidates at the Boston Gardens last night...
Republican charges about "mismanagement" of the Pentagon are misleading, but they appeal to voters for several reasons. Nixon stands in sharp contrast to Hubert Humphrey, who has emphatically stated that the United States has enough nuclear weapons. Humphrey's problem is that he seems willing to let the Russians catch up with, or possibly overtake, the United States. Such a position tends to worry most voters. And Nixon's concern about arms-control talks--that they should be negotiated "from strength and never from weakness"--seems more prudent than Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of arms negotiations...
...glib to say that the candidates have dodged the issues. George Wallace has artfully exploited white fears of black progress; in that unsavory sense, he has indeed confronted the nation's No. 1 agony-race relations. Richard Nixon rightly boasts that he has spoken on 167 issues, and Hubert Humphrey laughingly admits that he is criticized for having more solutions than there are problems. But quantity is no true gauge. The candidates have not yet spoken explicitly and specifically about scores of basic issues that go to the heart of America's future. They have not revealed...
This year's campaign, like many before it, has become a clash over personalities-and that is all to the good, as far as it goes. To vote wisely for a presidential candidate is basically to judge his strength of character. Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey have at least conveyed a clear choice between quite different styles and attitudes. All the same, both potential Presidents have been disturbingly imprecise even about the major issues of war and race, to say nothing of lesser problems. As a result, their true policies often seem equally vague to many voters. Not that...
...Hubert Humphrey's act, says the mimic, is more like "a little old lady jumping up and down with excitement." In a precise, hinged-jaw imitation of the Vice President, Frye exclaims: "When I wake up in the morning, I say 'Whoopee!' When I go to bed at night, I say 'Whoopee!' And I want to say I'm proud as Punch to be running for the presidency of the United States! Under Lyndon Johnson I ran for other things-coffee, sandwiches and cigarettes. Nobody's going to call me 'Minnesota Fats...