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...York by swamping television with skillfully produced spot ads, he could not spend enough to win the election against James Buckley. Rich backers usually demand a quid pro quo -or try to. In 1968, Stewart Mott, son of the largest stockholder of General Motors' directors, offered to provide Hubert Humphrey with badly needed cash if the candidate would change his policies on Viet Nam; Humphrey refused. Last August, dairy farmers contributed some $250,000 to the Republican Party-after the Agriculture Department reversed its policy and raised the support price for milk...
...astuteness on the part of our party. This is one issue the Democrats have completely captured. You've got guys like Humphrey and McGovern who are making inroads, who know the farm problem. The White House talks about rural development. But who's running with it? Hubert Humphrey. He recognizes the fact that there are no job opportunities for our young people in rural America today. I sent telegrams to the White House urging that agrobusiness be represented on either the wage or price council. I didn't even get the consideration of a reply. And there...
...agrees in substance with Richard Nixon on national security, and his rhetoric is laced heavily with law-and-order. Yet he stands foursquare with Hubert Humphrey on civil rights. He is for the ABM and the SST, and is considered by some the candidate of the military-industrial community. Yet the vain suit to stop the Amchitka blast was filed under his Environmental Policy Act. Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the junior Senator from the state of Washington, is, in sum, a bundle of divergent views, who at the same time conveys a solid image, a thoughtful integrity. This week he will...
...goal post was open from that angle and the shot just went through his arm it didn't hit anyone." Eli coach Hubert Vogelsinger explained...
...could have not voted in '68, it would have been for Hubert H. Humphry that I would have not cast a vote. Not that ideology would have had anything to do with it. (Though, to be sure, ideologies had very little to do with the election in question.) No, if I'd been forced to the choice. I'd sure as hell have made sure that the weight of my vote would have gone to the man who begged to be treated with laughter and scorn...