Word: humphrey
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Inevitable Changed? To assure victory, liberal leaders already are mustering their troops. Last week Republicans Jacob Javits of New York and Clifford Case of New Jersey were hard at work rounding up G.O.P. votes for the rules change. And from Democrats Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Paul Douglas of Illinois went a joint letter to 13 newly elected Democratic Senators. Rule XXII, said the letter, deprives newcomers of "the right to participate in making the rules under which they must operate." Damning the possible party consequences, the letter added: "No plea for an illusory 'party unity' which surrenders...
...Hubert Humphrey has come a long way from the damn-the-consequences liberal who first came to the Senate in 1949 after helping drive the South out of the 1948 national convention with a humdinging civil rights speech. "There is no radical movement in America today." he told a TIME correspondent last week aboard the Liberte, "and no call for one. It's a progressive party, an adventurous and international one. with vigor, not just vivacity, that is called for." Senator Humphrey might have been describing a party after his own image. But as he spoke, he realized that...
...greatest danger for Stu Symington is that someone like Jack Kennedy or Hu bert Humphrey will walk away with the nomination before anybody gets around to second choice...
...Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with a breathless, near-successful try. with heavy Southern support, at plucking the vice-presidential nomination out of Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington is the competition for President, then it's a wide-open race." Kennedy has been campaigning ever since. He has been in every state of the Union except Tennessee, has come to know and be known...
Muriel Fay Buck Humphrey, 46, as typically calm and warm as Senator Hubert Humphrey is bouncy and brash. Married in 1936 ("It was love at first waltz"), Muriel has always been politically obliging (she turned up on TV's Masquerade Party dressed as Minnehaha). In 1954 she started the Minnesota Women for Humphrey (neighborhood coffee parties, etc.). She has been mistaken at times for Mamie Eisenhower (who once told her: "How nice and well-behaved your bangs are"), puts politics second to keeping her family (four children, aged ten to 20) together, says...