Word: hubertism
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...desk and rang up Anwar Sadat over in Cairo just as if he were on the phone to Plains. Carter filled in the Egyptian President on what he and Begin had discussed. Begin went off to visit his old friend Kissinger, then dropped in on the ailing Senator Hubert Humphrey. When Zbig rose at lunch at the Israeli embassy to toast the mutual commitment to a noble ideal, to "the birth of peace," the emotional response in the room startled almost everyone. And a little later Henry Kissinger, the enduring wit, could chortle, "We may be doomed to peace...
...Hubert Humphrey for Man of the Year! Because he is the American spirit: indomitable, enthusiastic, always sure that something interesting lies ahead...
Last week, after months of negotiations between the White House and liberal Congressmen, the President endorsed a compromise bill that would establish a national goal of cutting joblessness from its present 7% rate to 4% by 1983. Yet the bill, sponsored by Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, requires no specific steps to attain the 4% goal...
Minneapolis: Albert Hofstede, 37, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and Charles Stenvig, 49, an independent conservative, are playing a game of musical mayors. Hofstede defeated Stenvig in 1973, then Stenvig ousted Hofstede in 1975, and now Hofstede has won again. A liberal who managed Hubert Humphrey's last Senate bid, he outcampaigned Stenvig-and outspent him 5 to 1. Stenvig's parting shot in a game that may not have ended: "I have only one last word of advice to the taxpayers of Minneapolis: Watch your wallets...
...proposal is far less ambitious than the original bill by Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, which would have fixed 1981 as the target date for a 3% unemployment rate and guaranteed a Government-paid job to anyone who could not find work. Carter lukewarmly endorsed this idea during the campaign-after intense pressure from black leaders-but later backed away from it as inflationary. Unable to talk him into supporting a stronger bill, liberal Democrats and labor leaders finally agreed to the present compromise for two reasons: 1) it might enable Congress to pass an employment bill...