Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hubert Humphrey first proposed or was largely responsible for the passage of important progressive programs that are now part of our way of life. They include Medicare, Food for Peace, the Peace Corps, the Disarmament Agency, the Job Corps, aid to college students, and key advances in civil rights. Kennedy has pioneered no single successful advance. He now tells us we must "move this nation in a different direction." But exhortations do not make change. Although these two candidates have essentially similar progressive views, only one has shown the ingenuity and political competence to bring about positive change. Humphrey will...
...Humphrey's giddy "happy" politics is superficial and disgusting. Eugene McCarthy's attempt is gallant but impractical. Kennedy seems to be the only Democratic candidate who has heard the nation's heartbeat, eloquently expressed its melancholy, and injected a note of hope tempered with pragmatic realism...
Kennedy tried unsuccessfully to goad Hubert Humphrey into fighting directly in embattled Oregon and California, and the Vice President accused "some men"-meaning Kennedy-of "exploiting" the nation's problems to advance their own cause. "I do believe," Humphrey said, "there is such a thing as too much ambition...
...Press. Piqued by Kennedy's persistent refusal to debate or even recognize him, McCarthy ironically underlined the point Bobby is seeking to make: that Gene has become a stand-in for Hubert. If he dropped out of the race, McCarthy told a TV interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people...
President Johnson, who bowed out of the race too late to have his name removed from the Oregon ballot, had 17,759 votes or 13 per cent, and Vice-President Humphrey, who entered too late to have his name added, had 9,722 write-ins or 7 per cent...