Word: hubertism
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...four children, denies any racism or cultural bias. "I'm defending Western culture, not white culture," he claims. "I'm not anti-anything. What I am pushing is a value system that develops economic prosperity and political freedom." A former speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson and campaign adviser to Hubert Humphrey, Wattenberg describes himself as a centrist Democrat who supports liberal immigration policies. Nevertheless, his maverick views have won him a reputation as the conservatives' favorite liberal...
...partial scholarship to Harvard and was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1932. Although a Republican, he backed Hubert H. Humphrey's campaigns. Humphrey later backed him for a seat on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which he held for 11 years...
...Durenburger's candor isn't likely to win him many points at home, where he faces a tough challenge in 1988 from State Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, the legend's son. Courting the Jewish vote could not have been a strong motivation for a senator, whose constituency of 4.1 million counts only 35,000 Jews...
...ebullient Kemp, a conservative mirror image of Hubert Humphrey, loves to talk. When he is minutes into a speech, his head bobs back and forth, as if straining against a too-tight collar and tiepin. He plants his feet far apart and unfurls his arms, flexing his fingers to pantomime an expression like "quote, unquote." He speaks so quickly, using so many facts and historical allusions, that he often fails to engage his audience. His aides have given him a digital stopwatch to remind him to keep it short...
Nary a "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, of South Carolina, or a silver-throated Robert LaFollette, of Wisconsin, or a Hubert Humphrey, from Minnesota, all men who could take a national issue down to Main Street and rekindle political hope and energy among the discouraged and dismayed. Are those $200 billion deficits not a scourge? Isn't the trade deficit a demon? Aren't corporate mergers a scandal? Don't those nuclear arsenals mock common sense...