Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atomic Workers Union. This will be his first national convention, but Watson has been a political activist since 1952, when he lost a bitter factional fight in his local precinct. "The issue then-as now-was whether liberals or conservatives would control the Texas Democratic Party." Watson favors Humphrey, and thus finds himself for once on the same side as his longtime conservative opponents...
...Once the literal Big Daddy of California's Democratic machine, Unruh has shed 90 lbs. since he fell in love with dissent; he now chairs the 172-member delegation that won a three-cornered primary contest in support of Robert Kennedy against groups committed to McCarthy and to Humphrey. Unruh is uncommitted and angry. Through cigar smoke: "The gap between political leadership and the people is widening at the very time it ought to be narrowing . . . We're not going to the convention simply to validate decisions someone else has made in some back room in Washington...
...silent on "vital foreign and domestic policies." Rather than submerge himself in the vice-presidency, he can seek to carve out his own position in the next four or eight years whether the Democrats win or lose. And he can do it without allying himself now with either Hubert Humphrey, whose policies Bobby Kennedy attacked, or Eugene McCarthy, who is disliked by the clan...
Post-Pepsi. For the short run, Kennedy's decision had the heaviest impact on Humphrey. Teddy on the ticket would conciliate many R.F.K. and McCarthy dissidents. More than ever, Humphrey's campaign badly needs a transfusion of that younger blood. McCarthy last week japed that Humphrey "may have been under house arrest for the past four years," and the Veep is indeed having more and more trouble shedding the stigma of the Johnson Administration's policies while simultaneously preserving the image of a faithful Vice President...
...polls he is scrambling to stay close to McCarthy-and often winding up embarrassingly distant. Audiences do not always warm to the Vice President's old-fashioned style, and his campaign forays of late have fallen flat. Last week in Manhattan when Diana Ross & the Supremes endorsed Humphrey, aides called a special press conference to announce the event. A reception for "Youthful Volunteers for Humphrey" drew a sparse crowd of political veterans well past the Pepsi generation...