Word: hubertism
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...your Nov. 29 review of political campaign contributions, you cite three examples of quid pro quo: 1) dairy farmers' self-interested donations linked to an increase in milk-support prices; 2) a bribery attempt to dismiss fraud charges; and 3) my proposed 1968 donation (never given) to Hubert Humphrey if he could promise an early end to the war in Viet...
...youngsters have their way. Senator Edmund Muskie will win the presidency. Pitted against Nixon and Governor George Wallace of Alabama in a sample ballot, Muskie garnered 57% of the vote compared with 28% for Nixon and 2% for Wallace. In fact, Nixon was defeated by every Democratic hopeful except Hubert Humphrey...
When it comes to politics, Li'I Abner and Pogo, which have satirized it for years, are at least as up to date as the men in Washington. Two characters that bear a remarkable resemblance to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l Abner's Dogpatch to learn why it is the one pollution-free spot in the U.S. Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes...
...other hand, Nixon! can boast the work of a fine Nixon mimic in the person of Glenn Stover. Although in his cockier moments he does tend to take on the accents of a Hubert Humphrey instead, for the most part Stover's impersonation of Nixon--the nervous hands, the calculated expressions, the condescending attempts at explanation--are right on target. In fact, there is almost a naivete about this caricature that would make Nixon endearing if he weren't already so incredibly appalling. One moment he's attempting to ingratiate himself with Chairman Mao by telling a few Japanese jokes...
...national convention of the Young Democrats in Hot Springs, Ark. You were supposed to speak at noon, but the Senate was voting on campaign financing, and you could not get away. They put you over to the evening banquet, but you could not make that, either. Here you are, Hubert Humphrey, age 60, twice a mayor, a national political figure since 1948, four times a Senator, for four years Vice President, once your party's candidate for the presidency. You have been through all this before-the long days, luncheons, dinners, chartered flights, delays, hotel rooms, limousines, taxicabs, interviews...