Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characteristic Mixture. Then it was on to the Ambassador Hotel, near downtown Los Angeles, to wait out the vote count. Already high spirits rose with the favorable totals. In South Dakota, he won 50% of the vote, v. 30% for a slate favorable to Native Son Hubert Humphrey and 20% for Eugene McCarthy; then, in the far more crucial California contest, it was 46% for Kennedy, 42% for McCarthy and 12% for an uncommitted delegate group. The two victories gave Kennedy 198 precious delegate votes. Plans were being made for the campaign's next stages in New York and other...
...President, who started his oresidency by giving condolences to the Kennedys and now, near the end of his power, came to mourn the man who had helped shorten the Johnsonian reign. There were the men pausing in their pursuit of succession: Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy. And there was Ralph Abernathy in his denims, William Fulbright, Averell Harriman, Barry Goldwater and so many others of the powerful and the prominent...
...Angeles aftermath, a stricken Eugene McCarthy pondered: "Maybe we should do it in a different way. Maybe we should have the English system of having the Cabinet choose the President. There must be some other way." But most politicians-including highly vulnerable Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Hubert Humphrey and John Lindsay-emphatically veto such suggestions. If a candidate cannot mingle with crowds, said Rockefeller, "then we've lost one of the great resources and strengths of this great land of ours-freedom of movement, freedom of expression, freedom of the individual to go and be with the people...
...weeping hasn't stopped. It probably won't for a number of years. Robert F. Kennedy's most fervent supporters seem convinced that the events of the next four years--under a Nixon or a Humphrey--will only intensify the frustration and violence which have come to typify American political and social life in the last few years. One Harvard professor said Monday night, "It's time for another Long March to Yenan...
There is no way of telling, of course, whether Bob Kennedy would have made the White House on this run. A summer of riots, the impasse in Paris, and rising Vietnam casualty rates could well have eroded Vice President Humphrey's delegate lead. And much of Senator McCarthy's liberal, affluent support might have resigned itself to the former Attorney General. Yet the importance of the Kennedy campaign--or, indeed, the post-1963 Kennedy career--doesn't lie merely in what it might have been. Grief-stricken Kennedy backers should take some solace in a contribution Kennedy has made...