Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silent on "vital foreign and domestic policies." Rather than submerge himself in the vice-presidency, he can seek to carve out his own position in the next four or eight years whether the Democrats win or lose. And he can do it without allying himself now with either Hubert Humphrey, whose policies Bobby Kennedy attacked, or Eugene McCarthy, who is disliked by the clan...
...many ways, Hubert Horatio Humphrey and Richard Milhous Nixon embody the cherished old ideals. They are "achieving Americans," men from modest Main Street beginnings who, through ambition and ability, rose to the U.S. Senate and to a place at the right hand of a President. Even when the easy life became available to them, it could not lure them from the burdens ?and ambitions?of public service...
Amidst all this, both parties are rushing ass-backwards toward the nominations of the two dullest candidates in the field--Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Party leaders on both sides, as reports from the governors' conference in Cincinnati suggest, view this prospect with something less than riotous enthusiasm. They seem to think that the screaming, grabbing, tugging, and titers may be more than discontent over rising crime rates and Vietnam...
...WHEN Hubert Humphrey took to his bed in Washington with a 101° fever, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty was unsympathetic enough to suggest that the Vice President had contracted a diplomatic malady. The reason for his sudden indisposition, suggested Yorty, was the threat-which indeed materialized-of massive anti-war demonstrations in Los Angeles, where he had been scheduled to address a Democratic Party rally...
...Humphrey, recognizing himself to be at a distinct advantage at this point made a decision to abandon his prepared statement. Speaking of himself in the third person, as is his wont, he described Hubert Humphrey in highly animated terms as the son of a small-town druggist who had graduated from high school first in his class...