Word: hubertism
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...young men and women of the "movement," the antiwar and anti- Establishment young, had lost their voice in the political process. After Kennedy's death, Eugene McCarthy seemed to vanish from the moral horizon, even though he remained in the race. Hubert Humphrey had endured his long humiliation as Johnson's Vice President, and was the anointed...
...antiwar Democrats' distaste for Hubert Humphrey seemed somehow more virulent than their feelings about Richard Nixon, possibly because Humphrey for so long had served the hated warmaker Lyndon Johnson. Nixon, who had been nominated in Miami three weeks before Chicago, somehow did not figure in the demonology just then. He was off the radar. Miami was sedate compared with Chicago, but almost anything this side of a combat zone would have been. Nixon surprised the convention by choosing a vice-presidential running mate named Spiro Agnew, the Governor of Maryland who had drawn some attention in the spring...
More than ever in the age of Ronald Reagan, television smarts are required job skills for presidential candidates. The Republicans, like the Democratic candidates a few weeks earlier, were articulate, amiable, pat, well coached and sincere as all get-out. It should have been more impressive. Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot. When performance on television is the chief criterion, two preachers such as Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, who have never drafted legislation...
...else. And someone seems to open the hatch to the broadcast booth whenever the organist strikes up again. After three days of shouting over an uninterrupted commercial, ABC's Al Michaels, Tim McCarver and Jim Palmer must have been glad to get back to the relative quiet of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome...
Everyone should empathize with our problematic Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. I remember the arguments against building the dome years ago--mainly that spectating in the dome would be like sitting in an inflated hefty bag, that could pop any time. (They were right, and under the weight of a heavy snow cover, the roof has caved...