Word: hubertism
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...family and then as a member of the Kerner commission on civil disorders. He was a principal author, along with New York Mayor John Lindsay, of the report's conclusion that America was heading toward two nations-one black, one white. Hoping to be on the ticket with Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Harris was given the consolation prize of Democratic National Committee chairman. He played a key role in making the procedural changes that brought more women, youths and minorities into the nominating process...
...upstate New York, a snip of Pennsylvania near Erie, Cleveland and Ohio, Indiana to Gary, where it runs next to the U.S. Steel Works, on past Chicago, veering north-west to the enclave of Madison, Wisconsin, crossing the Mississippi near Dubuque into the boring farmland of southern Minnesota, where Hubert Humphrey was born among grain elevators seen from miles away and welcoming like a pleasure ship to life-raft drifters (not like lush Iowa to the south) into South Dakota, the Badlands and Wall Drug and the Black Hills, a bit of Wyoming and up into shy-range country...
...mediocre, it comes down at any one time to a list of maybe 50 who have a real shot at the presidency. Perhaps half of these would not be interested, so the list shrinks to 25. Considering that twelve men have already announced for the job and several more (Hubert Humphrey, John Connally, Frank Church, Charles Mathias) are clearly interested, roughly half the "eligibles" are already in the race...
...also has been an adviser to the State Department on tariff policy. Willard Wirtz, 63, originally of Chicago, now a Washington lawyer, is a first-rate intellect, a rousing speechmaker, and did well as Secretary of Labor in the '60s and as adviser to both Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...
...Nixon urged her husband to burn the Watergate tapes. Muriel Humphrey, who heard secondhand that Hubert had decided to run for President in 1968, sent him a sarcastic telegram: "Let me know if I can be of help." And a woman overnight guest at the L.B.J. ranch was awakened in bed by a familiar drawl, "Move over−this is yore President...