Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Full Stomach or Empty. Still, McCarthy has failed to capture all the anti-Humphrey Democrats, even after Kennedy's death. The failure of many Kennedy men to support him is due partly to lingering animosity from the primaries and partly to his essentially passive view of the Presidency. One prominent Kennedyite in search of a new flag had a talk with McCarthy and reported later: "From what he says, he'd turn the conduct of the office over to a committee and go off and read books. That scares the hell...
...South. He managed to draw some friendly crowds while evoking no visible hostility. Yet his stop in a black neighborhood in Atlanta, like an earlier visit to Pittsburgh's Negro Hill district, displayed again his failure to stir black enthusiasm. Asked why black Democrats should support him instead of Humphrey, McCarthy replied: "I haven't really made much of an argument that they should, except that if we pursue the war, there's not enough money to take care of poverty programs in this country." A Negro offered an explanation of why McCarthy is not more popular in ghettos...
Nixon may lose the gourmet vote with that one, but it will take something bigger to deny him, or Humphrey for that matter, the nomination. Humphrey has the implied blessing of Lyndon Johnson, which hurts in the ideological competition but helps in controlling the convention apparatus. To nobody's surprise, Nixon last week received Dwight Eisenhower's formal endorsement, which does not mean much in terms of convention procedures but serves to remind regulars where the party's center lies...
...Nixon is 55, Humphrey 57, McCarthy 52, Reagan 57, Wallace 48. *Or some other city. A communications workers' strike, still unsettled at week's end, may force the Democrats to move?perhaps to Miami Beach...
Amidst all this, both parties are rushing ass-backwards toward the nominations of the two dullest candidates in the field--Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Party leaders on both sides, as reports from the governors' conference in Cincinnati suggest, view this prospect with something less than riotous enthusiasm. They seem to think that the screaming, grabbing, tugging, and titers may be more than discontent over rising crime rates and Vietnam...