Word: hubertism
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...Hubert Humphrey, who has been looking and sounding more like a candidate every day, it was just like the good old times. Before him, in the grand ballroom of Pittsburgh's Hilton Hotel, nearly 2,000 delegates to the annual Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention exuberantly chanted: "We want Humphrey! We want Humphrey!" Four times during his speech he brought the crowd to its feet to cheer and applaud. The din even briefly drowned out his spirited attack on both the Ford Administration and on Democratic presidential candidates who have tried to make Washington an election issue. Said...
...much as $250,000 a year to politicians. After moving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 1966, he contributed heavily to the campaign fund of Republican Governor Paul Laxalt, whom Hughes for a time considered pushing for the presidency. Then he became a backer of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, contributing $50,000 to his 1968 presidential campaign...
...while these remarks may be the most obvious indication of a racist current in the Carter campaign, this current has in fact been consistently present. Indeed as Senator Hubert Humphrey has said, heavily anti-Washington and anti-urban rhetoric is nothing more than the newest form of disguised racism. And although Humphrey, in nothing this phenomenon, did not point specifically to any candidate, it is Carter who has decried federal aid to the cities, Carter who has spoken of the "burden" of welfare, and Carter who has posed himself as the anti-Washington force...
...months he had been studiously neutral and quietly hoping, but last week Hubert Humphrey started making some moves to help his own chances in the Democratic race. TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian traveled with Humphrey and sent this report...
...Hubert Humphrey, a man whose future plans have a lot of people guessing, walked jauntily into Manhattan's 21 Club one night last week and had a hard time making his way toward a table. People stopped him along the way, shaking his hand, wishing him well. He was the center of attention and, as always, it pleased him. When he finally sat down, his host, Publisher Jerry Finkelstein, an influential local Democrat, leaned over and commented on this impromptu reception, telling Humphrey that he is by far the most popular Democrat in the state. "I made one mistake...