Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them after a few minutes. He ordered a Scotch and soda for his guest, a Fresca for himself. He took his cus tomary seat at the table's center, with Rostow on his left to take notes. Do brynin, across six feet of dark mahogany, settled down in Hubert Humphrey's chair. There was some more small talk, then the inevitable pause in such a meeting, signaling the transition to serious business. It was about...
...only weak part of the Democratic production may be the climax. Vice President Hubert Humphrey has long been odds-on favorite to win a first-ballot nomination, and remained so on the eve of the convention. But even there, the Democrats were contriving to provide some suspense. Thanks to Humphrey's stumbling performance in recent weeks, doubts were multiplying about him as a candidate-and as a potential President. Rumors circulated in Chicago and Washington that if deadlock developed, delegates would draft Senator Edward Kennedy, who emerged from 21 months of seclusion to deliver an impressive speech in which...
...Gallup poll bore dismal tidings. Where Richard Nixon led Humphrey by a scant 2% before his nomination as the G.O.P. presidential candidate, last week he had opened up a huge 16% margin, with 45% to Hubert's 29%. Humphrey aides pointed out, correctly, that even Barry Goldwater's polled popularity spurted dramatically immediately after his nomination, from 21% to 36%. All the same, the findings gave Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy's supporters an opportunity to proclaim that the Vice President was "not electable...
...nightclub orgies, and face the Democratic Party with its illegitimacy and criminality." Members of Students for a Democratic Society, on the other hand, are only reluctantly joining the demonstrations. Their purpose in coming to Chicago is to convert young McCarthyites to radicalism when, as they believe is inevitable, Hubert Humphrey is nominated...
...Harris Factor. Monroney and his wife this month moved back to Okla homa City for the campaign, but have found his organization in tatters. Since then, Democrats have coalesced to help. Tom Finney, a former Eugene McCarthy aide, arrived to reorganize the campaign. Junior Senator Fred Harris, a Hubert Humphrey lieutenant, became cochairman. There is even a newly formed "Minis for Monroney" to combat the "Bellmon Belles." Yet the latest polls show that Monroney has slipped behind Bellmon by as much as 6%. No Republican ever rates a shoo-in role in Oklahoma. However, unless Harris goes on the national...