Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Humphrey and his backers, however, may not realize at this date is that the Democratic Party may pay little heed to its historical successes, fully aware at last that new techniques of political activity and new programs are required. This is not to say that Hubert Humphrey has no chance of getting nominated this August. Kennedy and McCarthy very well might cancel each other out. But even if Humphrey is nominated and elected, he is certain to be the first Democratic President in this century to face strong, incessant, radical uressure from the grass roots and from his former...
...announce it right here," Hubert Humphrey cracked at a State Department ceremony last week, "except that I think you've got enough trouble." His formal announcement is hardly even necessary, since the Vice President has been a hyperactive undeclared candidate almost from the moment that Lyndon Johnson bowed out of the presidential race...
...will remain "at one and the same time the affluent society and the afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next day, he warned that such spending would only feed inflation and thus starve the slum dweller. Nixon turned with greater vivacity to the Democrats. "McCarthy has the intellectuals, Hubert has Lyndon and Bobby has the World Bank," he quipped vis-a-vis Robert McNamara's fulsome endorsement of Kennedy. Nixon had just had a haircut, and he noted that R.F.K. had got one too. "I've known Bobby Kennedy for 14 years, and he gets a haircut about this...
...anti-war movement is dying now because of its successes. John Lindsay will speak tomorrow at a big peace parade in New York, and for some that is a bit too much. Even Hubert Humphrey is sounding puddle-peaceful. We are being lulled to sleep by all of this...
...want the Resistance, or any other whites. That unsuccessful draft card turn-in was supposed to be in honor of King, and it was pathetic. The same day on the Boston Common--with Kevin White and Cardinal Cushing getting into the act like Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey--everyone was passing out leaf-lets. End the War. End Racism. End Racism and the War. No one recognizes it, but the blacks do not want the whites. It is too late now for that. And the movement is dying...