Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audiences nearly everywhere are as big as or even bigger than Richard Nixon's or Hubert Humphrey's, and usually twice as enthusiastic. Often they are downright fanatical. Even in such relatively tranquil and liberal states as Connecticut, Kansas and Washington, Wallace support is abundantly in evidence. "We have no racial issues," says Washington's Republican Representative Catherine May. "Who are these people in a liberal state who will spend a buck for a Wallace sticker...
Almost every parlor pundit in the country has his own theory about how-if at all-Hubert Horatio Humphrey can manage to save the day for the Democrats. The armchair strategy, which could be called Operation Resuscitation, would commit the Vice President to one of three more or less clearly defined alternatives...
...such conversation has been precisely recorded, but the dialogue is close to the truth. For if anyone can talk to Hubert Humphrey, it is Dr. Edgar Berman, 53, an ex-surgeon from Baltimore who is not only the candidate's physician without pay but also his close friend, campaign adviser and omnipresent critic. If a Humphrey administration were to have a Colonel House, a Harry Hopkins-or even a Svengali-some jealous campaign aides suggest it would be Edgar Berman...
...they came very close last spring. Twentyfive year-old former SDS official Vance Opperman, chairman of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis) party, is a man to be watched. Many consider Opperman--the epitome of the New Politics-style--the next "boy mayor" of Minneapolis, a title once held by one Hubert H. Humphrey...
...While Hubert campaigns, his convention enemies write him off. He has lost; they know it and he reportedly knows it. 1972 is the only goal worth fighting for. Ted Kennedy will probably be the nominee--at least that is the only relevant fact on which "practical pols" can base a discussion. The only question is what kind of people will nominate...