Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bogging Down. Both Nixon and Humphrey are bedeviled by the third-party candidacy of George Wallace, who has read the polls every bit as carefully as they have but has gone considerably further in tailoring his campaign to suit the fears and angers of a disturbed country. Both men are apprehensive about what Wallace might do to them on election day. Yet neither has had the political courage to take on the pugnacious little Alabamian by condemning him for what he is?a demagogue who has touched a nerve with his "law and order" theme...
...first full week of campaigning, Humphrey managed to summon up every demon that has beset him this year: his inability to focus on the essential, his failure to re-establish his independence of Lyndon Johnson, his lack of an efficient campaign organization, his troubles with the dissident Democratic left. Though not really prepared to mount a major campaign swing?Larry O'Brien had barely taken over as manager of a badly disorganized Democratic machine?Humphrey was dispatched willy-nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine...
Eventually, Humphrey may be compelled to take that risk. As things stand, the Democratic Party is in its worst shape since 1952. Edmund Muskie, between sensible speeches to generally small crowds, has shrugged a number of times: "If we lose, I'll still be the Democratic Senator from Maine." A Gallup poll that was released last week reported that the public has far more confidence in the G.O.P. than in the Democrats, when it comes to the ability to cope with major problems. The split was 56% v. 44%. Four years ago, the Democrats led in a similar survey...
Fearless Fosdick. Humphrey knows that a major element in this reversal is a conservative reaction to racial tension, crime, high taxes and the anti-poverty program. "I won't pander to it," he declares. "We're not going to out-Nixon Nixon, and we're not going to out-Wallace Wallace. We're going to say it like it is." To blunt Nixon's attacks on the crime issue, Humphrey argues that police and the courts must receive more material assistance in doing their jobs. He also argues that the problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction...
...wreck the treaty's chances for passage. He approves of the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision but opposes stringent federal dictation to local school authorities to make integration work. He acknowledges repeatedly that civil order cannot be achieved without social justice but last week called Humphrey "naive" about crime. "Doubling the conviction rate in this country," said Nixon, "would do far more to cure crime in America than quadrupling the funds for Mr. Humphrey's war on poverty." He is in favor of "order with progress" when he speaks in Westchester but for "law and order" when...