Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator added that it would be "very difficult" for him to support the nomination of Vice President Humphrey if Humphrey continues to hold to his present views...
...times. He just would come to the park and walk around and talk to us--about school, our jobs, anything. I last saw him in late April. He seemed tired but we talked a bit. Mr. Kennedy was the only politician I knew. Those other guys--Nixon, McCarthy, Rockefeller, Humphrey--I don't know them from nothing. --a black youth from Bedford-Stuyvesant outside St. Patrick's Cathedral last week...
Part of the normalcy which the country returns to is the prospect of a Humphrey-Nixon presidential race, a contest between experienced and conventional apostles of order--tepid progressives on racial problems, unimaginative hawks on the Vietnam...
...alternate view of these questions. From the start, there was little substantive difference between Kennedy and his rival in the primaries, Eugene McCarthy, and their agreement was driven home by the televised debate a week ago. Together, as Kennedy pointed out after his defeat in Oregon, they swamped Humphrey-Johnson stand-in tickets in every primary. McCarthy workers who have shocked the pundits twice already this year should redouble their efforts to win the nomination. Kennedy's supporters now should join in that effort...
...catalyst and referee. A onetime Chicago Tribune reporter and soap-opera scriptwriter, Virginia, 55, describes herself as the one "who looks like two June Allysons," the one with "the perfect face for radio." She is also the one who gushes too much, as in her introduction of Guest Muriel Humphrey: "You're so beautiful it's ridiculous! It looks like you were hired by central casting!" She can be alternately flip and flibbertigibbet but generally plays angel's advocate...