Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Vice President Humphrey has to do to ensure his election is to make all his appearances jointly with Senator Muskie. The public reconsideration that this would evoke could cause a Democratic landslide...
...hopes of building a Great Society for the U.S. in its cities, countryside and classrooms. The war's ugliness, and the often misunderstood reasons behind U.S. participation in it, greatly contributed to the rebelliousness of America's young. More than anything else, it has been Hubert Humphrey's identification with the President's war policy that has cost him Democratic and independent support throughout the election campaign. Thus it came as the supreme irony of the Johnson Administration that, as Americans prepared to go to the polls this week to vote for another President, the agony...
...hecklers make their way into the film, shouting "Dump the Hump," as the candidate tries to speak. A younger man encountered the same problem, the sound track says, and there is Teddy Kennedy facing a sea of angry chanting faces at the Common. There's a quick cut to Humphrey who has just the right expression--not angry, but troubled, determined to set communications aright if only given the chance...
...course every time the narrator tells how hard it was for Humphrey to get his message across during those early months we're given the message--the old Humphrey record--once again. There's some idle chatter about the year 2000 so we won't mind looking back so often, and all the self-deprecation helps build the ethos of an underdog, gaining momentum all the time, winning this damn election against the longest of odds...
...doesn't really know for sure of course, that the real Hubert Humphrey is the real Hubert Humphrey of this film, just as one cannot be certain that the present bombing halt is an end to the bombing. Driving a Mustang doesn't necessarily make you potent either, but that's no reflection on the quality...