Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that matter, the Democratic Party is hardly a monolith either. Last week 17 of the nation's 24 Democratic Governors gathered in St. Louis to discuss the candidates-and decided nothing. Awaiting Hubert Humphrey's announcement, the Governors resisted Kennedy pressures for an endorsement and concluded, as New Jersey's Richard Hughes put it, that "a pause is clearly in order...
...announce it right here," Hubert Humphrey cracked at a State Department ceremony last week, "except that I think you've got enough trouble." His formal announcement is hardly even necessary, since the Vice President has been a hyperactive undeclared candidate almost from the moment that Lyndon Johnson bowed out of the presidential race...
...three weeks since then, Humphrey has made little secret of his intentions as he sewed together an improbable coalition of big labor and industry, Northern liberals and Southern Governors. Last week, having secured the endorsements of Louisiana's moderate Governor John McKeithen-a possible running mate-and New York City's former Mayor Robert Wagner, the United Democrats for Humphrey, led by Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris and Minnesota's Walter Mondale, with Harry Truman as honorary chairman, opened up shop in Washington...
This week, when the U.D.H. holds its first major strategy meeting at the Washington Hilton, Humphrey is likely to announce officially what everyone already knows...
...anti-war movement is dying now because of its successes. John Lindsay will speak tomorrow at a big peace parade in New York, and for some that is a bit too much. Even Hubert Humphrey is sounding puddle-peaceful. We are being lulled to sleep by all of this...