Word: hubertism
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Although it is not mentioned often, there lurks in some minds an atavistic suspicion that women are not stable enough to occupy positions of leadership. Fourteen years ago, Dr. Edgar Berman, a friend of Hubert Humphrey's, produced a baroque masterpiece of sexism when he proposed that women were unfit for public office because every month they were subject to a "raging hormonal unbalance." It is a pernicious and ridiculous idea that is refuted by experience (women in positions of power do not behave any differently from men) and by logic (presumably women of mature leadership age would have passed...
...spot, allegedly paid for by an organization calling itself Americans with Hart and broadcast repeatedly in Spanish to South Texas, classed Mondale with "los enemigos" of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy, whom Hispanic voters revere. Mondale has never directly opposed a Kennedy for office, though he supported other candidates-Hubert Humphrey and Jimmy Carter-in presidential campaigns...
...with ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina (e.g., crawling naked through a nest of termites). For his pains, Tombalbaye was assassinated within a year, and his people danced in the streets. Americans bear their burdens with better humor. They show no inclination to deal nearly so decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey once questioned whether Walter Mondale had the "fire in the belly" to run for President, a charge so serious that to meet it Mr. Mondale had to submit to a three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. Mondale may have other political...
...major speech last week in Cincinnati, Mondale began sounding less like Hubert Humphrey and more like, well, Gary Hart. With stirring Kennedyesque rhetoric, Mondale intoned, "We must make history, not just watch it. We must invent the future, not just accept it." In the speech he referred to the future, a patented Hart byword, a total of 15 times...
Hart and Mondale come out of opposing foreign policy schools within the Democratic Party. Mondale was shaped by the cold war, as first waged by Harry Truman (whose 1947 Truman Doctrine sweepingly extended U.S. protection to "free peoples" everywhere) and later taught by Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey. The enemy was global Communism, which had to be contained by the threat or use of force from Europe to Korea. Under President Jimmy Carter, Mondale joined in a foreign policy that stressed human rights over anti-Communist ideology. The former Vice President says he is now a "mature internationalist...