Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gallup's survey showed Richard Nixon defeating both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy for the presidency. If the election took place at the time of the poll, Nixon would win, Gallup said, by two points over Humphrey and by five points over McCarthy. The sampling suggested that Nelson Rockefeller would merely tie Humphrey and defeat McCarthy by one percentage point of the vote...
...problem is acute for Hubert Humphrey, odds-on favorite for nomination. Try as he might, the Vice President so far has not been able to shake the Johnson legacy or stake out his own position. Speaking in Los Angeles' south central ghetto last week, Humphrey was greeted with such deafening boos and shouts of "Honky, go home!" that he was forced off the stage. Though aides claimed that hecklers had been hired for the occasion, the truth still was that no more than 300 or 400 Los Angeles Negroes even bothered to come in the first place...
While the Republicans were gathering in Miami Beach and Hubert Humphrey was campaigning in the Midwest, Eugene McCarthy was incommunicado at week's end on an island off Maine, relaxing and visiting with his good friend, Poet Robert Lowell. An odd combination? Not exactly, for if Eugene McCarthy is a very cool politician, he is also an ardent versifier. If elected, he would be the first dedicated President-poet since John Quincy Adams-and one of the few rhymemakers in the contemporary world to double as head of government...
...Pulitzer prizewinning poet who wrote about McCarthy's poetry in this week's New York Times Book Review, that they would almost lick out of the President's hand. Then they would be shot, their heads mounted for famous guests, such as John F. Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey...
Just one day after the Gallup poll showed Richard Nixon to be stronger against either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy than is Nelson Rockefeller, the Harris poll published the opposite results. Later, in a joint statement, the two pollsters defended themselves and each other, and suggested that Rockefeller was ahead and gaining steadily with the people...