Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked to comment on the confrontation between police and protesters during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, he, too, is regarded by millions of voters as a strong law-and-order man who, as President, would "do something" about rising crime rates, unsafe streets, noisy demonstrators and restless blacks. Hubert Humphrey is desperately attempting to straddle the issue, though in the text of his campaign kick-off speech in Washington this week he accused Nixon and the G.O.P. of "openly competing with Mr. Wallace for the votes of people who, at very best, want to put the brakes on our progress...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY has just two months to overcome his image as Lyndon Johnson's servitor and re-establish his own individuality. Yet, instead of staking out a creative and specific program of his own that would help him to do so, the Vice President seems prepared to wage his campaign on another man's record: Richard Nixon...
Starting with John Kennedy's race for the Senate in 1952, Lawrence Francis O'Brien's string of major political successes has included J.F.K.'s 1958 reelection, the presidential victory in 1960 and then Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964. As Hubert Humphrey knew when he persuaded the veteran tactician to serve as his campaign manager and as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, O'Brien's impact in any campaign is not merely talismanic. In the art of political organization, Larry O'Brien is a dry-land Nelson. In J.F.K...
Beatific Smiles. Voices in Congress grew shrill. Ohio's Senator Stephen Young thundered: "Chicago, under Mayor Daley, is a police state." Louisiana's Russell Long was as extravagant in the other direction, suggesting that the Democrats should have nominated Richard Daley instead of Hubert Humphrey. For the most part, Republicans smiled beatifically and watched the Democrats' dogfight in silence...
...some of the wilder fighting, the demonstrators hurled bricks, bottles and nail-studded golf balls at the police lines. During the first three days, the cops generally reacted only with tear gas and occasional beatings. But on Wednesday night, as the convention gathered to nominate Hubert Humphrey, the police had a cathartic bloodletting. Outraged when the protesters lowered a U.S. flag during a rally in Grant Park beside Lake Michigan, the cops hurled tear gas into the crowd...