Word: hubertism
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...REAL urgency of supporting President Reagan lies in the utter incompetence of his opponent, Walter F. Mondale, whose own mentor. Hubert H. Humphrey, characterized as lacking the "fire in the belly" that a president needs. Maybe that's because Mondale has been appointed to every government post lie's ever held...
They're No. 2s-and they're trying hard No one much cared what William Miller said about Hubert Humphrey in 1964, or what charges Sargent Shriver leveled against Spiro Agnew in 1972. The truth is, no one has much cared what any vice-presidential candidate said or did-until this year. By selecting a woman, the Democrats made the 1984 contest for Vice President more intriguing than it has ever been. Indeed, the sideshow is regularly getting as much focus as the main event, partly because the electoral outcome seems predictable...
...shortly after Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. became mayor of Minneapolis, he got a call from his father. Hubert Sr. was shocked: his son had been seen dining with bankers. The small-town druggist delivered a warning against the lures of wealth, power and compromise...
...prairie-bred conviction that folks don't have to be mean and nasty to get what they want. That naiveté was his undoing but also his strength. Early in his career, the politician asserted, wide-eyed, "The proof that God exists is that all men are brothers." Hubert Horatio Humphrey never learned any different, or any better...
Walter Mondale does not play the trombone. The rhetorical music that issues from him on the stage sometimes sounds like the comedian Pat Paulsen playing a candidate, or like Hubert Humphrey on the verge of tears. Even the delegates who cheered Mondale most ardently at Moscone Center would admit that, whatever his strengths, he is not entirely the candidate of their dreams. But who would be? Jimmy Carter? George McGovern? Lyndon Johnson? John Kennedy? There may be something in the last. The Democrats' model of the perfect candidate, a Platonic form buried somewhere in the subconscious of the party...