Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characteristic Mixture. Then it was on to the Ambassador Hotel, near downtown Los Angeles, to wait out the vote count. Already high spirits rose with the favorable totals. In South Dakota, he won 50% of the vote, v. 30% for a slate favorable to Native Son Hubert Humphrey and 20% for Eugene McCarthy; then, in the far more crucial California contest, it was 46% for Kennedy, 42% for McCarthy and 12% for an uncommitted delegate group. The two victories gave Kennedy 198 precious delegate votes. Plans were being made for the campaign's next stages in New York and other...
...primary. Oregon Democrats allowed Eugene McCarthy to check Robert Kennedy's drive, while the Republicans gave new velocity to Richard Nixon's bid for the nomination. By so doing, Oregonians made it more likely than ever that the post-convention contest would be between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the two ostensible traditionalists in the crowd...
...Kicks. Kennedy himself inflated his overdog standing by simply ignoring McCarthy, concentrating instead on flaying Hubert Humphrey. Bobby dodged Gene's challenge to debate; he ignored taunts about his own record concerning Viet Nam; he seemed not to be listening at all as McCarthy increasingly and effectively sharpened his anti-Kennedy rhetoric...
...Hubert Humphrey bounces into the Oval Room of the White House, exuding more than his usual good spirits. "By golly, by gum, gee whillikers, don't you look wonderful, Mr. President!" Lyndon Johnson replies with his usual frankness: "All right, cut the crap, Hubie. I got somethin' to tell ya." Thus the President informs the Vice President that he does not intend to run for reelection, that the way is now open for a Humphrey candidacy. "Hello, Muriel Bird," the Veep burbles into the phone five minutes later. "Have I got good news...
During the months ahead, the polls will be more important than the primaries. While Kennedy must surge ahead in both to capture the Democratic nomination, Hubert Humphrey's best hope of braking a Kennedy bandwagon is to continue outpolling all other Democrats. In re-entering the Republican race, Rockefeller has become the first presidential candidate to base his campaign almost wholly on polls. He can win the nomination only if national surveys convince G.O.P. regulars that Nixon will lose in November. But those surveys now put both Republican contenders ahead of all Democrats-and if that reading continues...