Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chided the Negro Mayor. "Who is this man by my side?" A few uncertain voices replied: "Humphrey." "All right," repeated Stokes. "Now who's gonna be the next President of the United States?" Chorus: "Humphrey." Stokes: "I can't hear you." Chorus: "Humphrey...
Eventually Stokes got the volume he wanted, but for Hubert Humphrey, looking ahead more to November than to August, the cajolery in Cleveland was all too typical of the reception he has been getting across the country. Crowds have been slim nearly everywhere, and sometimes hecklers and protesters seem to outnumber supporters. Philadelphia police estimated that 20,000 people heard Humphrey's Fourth of July speech in front of Independence Hall, but newsmen reckoned that the true figure was closer...
...Democratic campaign enters its final weeks, Humphrey has a superabundance of delegate votes but a surprising lack of popular support. Robert Kennedy would have been mobbed in Hough; Humphrey was scarcely noticed. Eugene McCarthy attracts the young and active; Humphrey's audiences tend to be middle-aged and lethargic. The only ones who greet the Democratic front runner with anything like real friendliness and enthusiasm are Democratic politicians...
...cracked jokes and lobster in Maine, clanged through the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, in a fireman's hat, was greeted on the green in New Haven, Conn., by Sybil, a seven-year-old elephant with a Rockefeller sticker on her trunk, and dropped in at the famous Humphrey drugstore in Huron, S. Dak., to pick up gifts for Happy and the two boys; when the $21.08 bill was rung up, he had to borrow $1 from an aide and 8? from a LIFE reporter...
...Difference. Despite Richard Nixon's long lead in the delegate count (see box), Rocky was drawing big and often enthusiastic crowds. Encouraged by last week's Gallup poll showing him trailing Democrat Eugene McCarthy but leading both Hubert Humphrey and Nixon, the Governor told a Boston press conference: "I was just flying over your race track and I saw the horses coming into the stretch. If I could get into the lead in the stretch, believe me, that would be tremendously helpful." In Maine, he reminded audiences that he had been born in Bar Harbor and cried...