Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking Luster. The mood of the nation reflects ambiguity: craving new approaches and answers, yet responsive to a deepening conservatism; anxious to heal the blighted cities, yet apprehensive about riots and crime. There is little exuberance. Humphrey has lived to regret his "politics of joy" effusion. McCarthy's mien is often somber, and Rockefeller, despite his smiling expeditions through campaign crowds, speaks with earnest gravity about the cities...
...contradictions and uncertainties of the electorate have led Nixon and Humphrey, as their parties' frontrunners, to place unwonted emphasis upon their choices for running mate, seeking the broadest possible ideological umbrella. The old considerations of geographical balance are largely forgotten in the age of jet travel and TV. Instead, the candidates are seeking vice-presidential possibilities to bandage their political weak spots-and to add some luster to their familiar personalities. Some combinations discussed last week...
...HUMPHREY-TED KENNEDY. A Harris poll showed that a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket could easily defeat Nixon and Percy, Rockefeller and Reagan. Ted Kennedy would reconcile many of his brother's former supporters to the Vice President's cause...
...HUMPHREY-MCCARTHY. Humphrey "does not rule out" the possibility of asking McCarthy to make the run with him, despite the fact that under the Constitution, Minnesota's ten electoral votes might be jeopardized, since they could not go to two residents of the same state. McCarthy is not now considering the matter, has even refused to promise his support should Humphrey get the nomination...
...apparent inevitability of the Nixon and Humphrey nominations, one component of the New Politics, the public-opinion polls, could conceivably persuade convention delegates to change their minds if the front-runners were to suffer sudden unpopularity. Meanwhile, President Johnson last week moved to assure a wider constituency for the New Politics in elections to come. He proposed a constitutional amendment granting the vote to 18-year-olds...