Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before swinging into the last lap of his campaign, Hubert Humphrey paused to reflect on what had gone wrong, what part his own personality had played in his troubles and how he still hopes to govern the U.S. During an interview with Humphrey in Washington, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey found him newly self-confident, by turns introspective and expansive, self-pitying and resolutely cheery. Humphrey naturally stressed his role as the underdog, tended to blame outside factors for his difficulties, and spoke with such unwarranted optimism that his words occasionally took on an aura of unreality. Nonetheless, they mirror Humphrey...
...more intriguing questions of the election: Where did Hubert Humphrey's dough go? Last spring it seemed that for once in his political life the Vice President could campaign in affluence. But things did not turn out that way. The Democrats figure that by Election Day they will have spent only about $10 million, less than half as much as the Republicans have budgeted. After Nov. 5, the Democrats expect to face a deficit of perhaps $5 million. This relative penury has deprived Humphrey of the prime air time that Richard Nixon has been able to employ with marked...
Kingsley Hopkins Murphy climbed off a plane in Hartford and wearily wondered what perils awaited his boss, Hubert Humphrey, in Connecticut. Murphy had a week to "run the traps," as every advance man should, and his brain was abuzz with the axioms of his craft: "Make them come to you; get typists and a legman quick; be anonymous; don't spill news-dribble it out; stress unity; keep calm; avoid nonunion bands; don't make cameras shoot into the sun; be ready to pick up strays; beware of national committeewomen...
Late in every presidential campaign there comes a time for Cabinet making, the traditional guessing game about the candidate's preferences for the top posts in his Administration. In Hubert Humphrey's camp last week, the speculation went beyond that stage. The word was that Humphrey, if elected, might create two additional Cabinet posts: one for youth, the other for consumers. Still, most of the guessing ranges around the men who might fill traditional Cabinet posts in the next Administration. Some possibilities...
...ambition to swap the job of minority leader for the Speaker's gavel. Whoever is President, moreover, will be in for serious trouble. A Democratic Congress, even a conservatively oriented one, would probably be hostile to Nixon; a conservative Congress, even one controlled by Democrats, would probably thwart Hubert Humphrey regularly...