Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington Correspondent Lansing Lamont, who joined the Kennedy caravan last week, also found it hectic. But he had his share of anecdotes from previous travels with Hubert Humphrey. "One afternoon in a jet over Nebraska, I suffered a strange chest seizure after eating a hamburger," he remembers. "I was in agony all through an interview with the Vice President." Ex-pharmacist Humphrey rushed to his medicine chest in the tail of the plane and produced a pill. "Take this," he said. "It will relax the spasm in your esophageal tract." It did. Later, Lamont's doctor confirmed the Humphrey...
...19th parallel, and even south of that line there was a slight decrease in the number of raids. In its effort to intensify the strains be tween the U.S. and South Viet Nam, Hanoi had unexpected help. In a carelessly phrased comment during an appearance in Maine, Hubert Humphrey said that the conferees had "now" agreed to admit representatives of the Viet Cong and the Saigon regime to the negotiations. At some point, that is going to happen, if the talks are to continue; but it has not happened yet, and Humphrey's gaffe sent tremors through Saigon...
...fact that he won 51% of the vote, against 31% for Senator Eugene McCarthy, was only part of his triumph. The combined loyalist vote in conservative, rural Nebraska?8% write-ins for Vice President Hubert Humphrey and 6% for Johnson, who remained on the ballot despite his non-candidacy?showed the extent of disaffection with the Administration, which Bobby did his share to provoke. And Kennedy's support was so broad in a state with only a 2% Negro population that it crushed the argument that his appeal is restricted to city dwellers, the black and the poor...
...people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture uneasy primacy in the party...
...there is inspiration, it comes in small doses. The predominant theme is "dropping by to see how things are going." So far the players have included: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Stokely Carmichael, Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.), and New York Mayor John Lindsay. The personality types tour the camp, shake hands, smile broadly, and leave. That...