Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Hong Kong to Paris to New York, TIME correspondents filed their contributions. In London, Bureau Chief Curt Prendergast tried to track down Lord Harlech; in Dublin, a stringer searched out the remaining Kennedy relatives. Washington's Bonnie Angelo, summoned from a Detroit union hall where Hubert Humphrey was promising higher social-security pensions, hurried eastward to deal with the world of million-dollar yachts and $3,000 dresses. From San Francisco, Bureau Chief Judson Gooding filed a personal reminiscence on the Jackie he knew when they were both students at the Sorbonne...
Despite the flurry of diplomatic activity, the President found time to attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in Manhattan, where he shared the dais with Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke. Johnson was in good humor. Mimicking Nixon's farewell speech after he lost the election for Governor of California, he declared that "this is the last time you will be able to kick Lyndon Johnson around." For all his seeming relaxation, however, the President's attention was focused on any signs from Hanoi that might signal a desire for peace...
Three weeks before voting day, Richard Nixon maintained his commanding lead. A survey by TIME correspondents of the 50 states last week showed Nixon ahead-frequently far ahead-in 33 states. That is only one fewer (Florida) than he held in a survey by the correspondents one month earlier. Hubert Humphrey led in only six states and the District of Columbia, down four (Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee) from his September showing. In some of those, including New York and his home state of Minnesota, his margin was precarious. George Wallace could claim six Southern states, having picked...
Anyone who still had doubts about the legendary efficiency of Richard Nixon's campaign organization, reports TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont, would lose them after glimpsing the operation at the Willard. Compared with the one-floor warren that passes for the Democratic National Committee and Hubert Humphrey's campaign headquarters across town, the Nixon show is a lesson in the power and effectiveness of supreme organization...
Peretz, who was co-chairman of the McCarthy national finance committee, called opponents of the war in Vietnam who are supporting Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey people who "have got to be where the action is, however high the cost...