Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encourage the party's far left to consider founding an independent movement. This could take the form of either a McCarthy-like revolt within the party or an effort to form a new party. At the same time, the prospects of other possible candidates are in flux: ∙HUBERT HUMPHREY. Now that Eugene McCarthy has renounced ambition for another Senate term, Humphrey will almost surely seek his seat in Minnesota next year and enjoy a new national platform. By tradition, Humphrey should be the titular head of the party...
Remember 1988 In any event, Kennedy has undoubtedly slipped drastically in the odds counting for the 1972 nomination, even as Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern?not to mention some man yet unknown?have gained. That year is not out, of course, but the prospect last week was that 1976, when Ted will be only 44, will be more promising for him. Beyond that no one can see. It is worth noting that in 1988, another presidential year, Kennedy will be only one year older than Richard Nixon was when he finally won the crucial plurality...
McCarthy's announcement left his seat open to Hubert Humphrey, who feels a little underemployed in academe and is eager to get back into politics. Humphrey heard the political news while stopping at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, on his way back from his visit to Russia. McCarthy's decision not to run, said Hubert, "opens many possibilities." No one doubts that the former Vice President will have an easy time returning to the Senate from Minnesota...
...does not pay to jest with a Russian -at least not with Defense Minister Andrei A. Grechko. One of the highlights laid on for Hubert H. Humphrey's current 13-day tour of the Soviet Union was a wild-boar hunt, for which the old game-bird hunter quite freely admitted that he was unprepared by either instinct or experience. As Humphrey told it, he jokingly brought up the subject with Grechko in Moscow six years ago. "I was just pulling his leg," says H.H.H., but Grechko took him at his word. So off he went to the Defense...
Well Connected. Indeed, Evers brought overnight fame to the area. Messages of congratulation came from President Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, Eugene McCarthy and many other national figures. Though he could not be there himself, New York Governor Rockefeller provided a jet to carry Evers' admirers southward. Former Attorney Genera.' Ramsey Clark came. So did Civil Rights Leaders Whitney Young and Juliar, Bond, and a delegation of film and TV stars. Leontyne Price was on hand to sing The Star-Spangled Banner...