Word: hubertism
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...under FDR--"isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit." Walter Mondale, conscious of Garner's feelings, insisted in 1976 that Jimmy Carter let him be an "activist" vice president. "Activist" meant he didn't want to be treated like another former vice president and Mondale's political mentor, Hubert Humphrey, who found his way into the Oval Office as often as a lost tourist who had strayed from the morning tour of the White House...
...THAT QUALITY, Mondale was sharply contrasted with his fellow Minnesotan and erst-while mentor, Hubert Humphrey. Mondale entered politics at the grassroots in the sometimes powerful, often self-destructive Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) in Minnesota. It was in the DFL that Mondale first linked up with Humphrey. His awkward, sometimes competitive relationship with the fiery liberal was one of the most complicated aspects of his complicated personality...
Looking for somebody to help heal his savagely divided party, Hubert Humphrey chose Muskie as his running mate in 1968. That decision almost saved the election for Humphrey. Muskie emerged as the star of the campaign because of his Lincolnesque calm and restraint. In 1972 he was considered the Democratic front runner, but he stumbled fatally while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary. Outraged by a charge in the arch-conservative Manchester, N.H., Union Leader that his wife Jane had a penchant for cocktails, Muskie stood in front of the newspaper office in a snowstorm to denounce Publisher William Loeb...
...That year, Carter won with 28% of the vote, followed by Morris Udall (23%), Birch Bayh (15%), Fred Harris (11%), Sargent Shriver (8%), Hubert Humphrey (6%) and Henry Jackson...
...newsmen were treated to a burst of semiautomatic rifle fire at their feet when they tried to film Soviet soldiers near the Salang Pass. A Kabul-based stringer for Germany's Der Spiegel had her car tires shot flat. TIME'S David DeVoss, traveling with Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, was stopped by Soviets northwest of Kabul when Van Es tried to photograph some newly widened artillery pits. The pair was held in a snow-filled ditch and guarded by four Kalashnikov-toting Soviets...