Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surprisingly high percentages of 24 per cent and 20 per cent were collected by Senator Kennedy and Vice-President Humphrey...
Write-ins Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey were also polling surprising percentages...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy was running up to expectations with 127,013 democratic votes. But Kennedy with 58,409 votes and Humphrey with 48,201 votes were running far ahead of predictions...
...emergence of the Kennedy iconoclasts and the McCarthy moralists, of course, was probably not possible with-race riots, or a TV in every home. Still, the iconoclasts and moralists easily outnumber the Humphrey wing of the party. This faction seems to be composed, in large part, of older people who have grown comfortable and powerful with the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ brand of liberalism: give a little to everybody at home and keep the Communists at bay abroad...
...What Humphrey and his backers, however, may not realize at this date is that the Democratic Party may pay little heed to its historical successes, fully aware at last that new techniques of political activity and new programs are required. This is not to say that Hubert Humphrey has no chance of getting nominated this August. Kennedy and McCarthy very well might cancel each other out. But even if Humphrey is nominated and elected, he is certain to be the first Democratic President in this century to face strong, incessant, radical uressure from the grass roots and from his former...