Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who rejected the old politics to join the McCarthy movement can not rejoin the parties of Humphrey and Nixon, and instead of joining the Chamber of Commerce or the Young Dems, they are working for progressive issue-oriented groups like the Citizens for Participation Politics," said David R. Williams '72, president of the CPP and a member of the Young Dems...
...HUMPHREY did the same sort of thing at the same time with a lot more success. He let the men and women on the telephone ask their question in their own voices instead of filtering them through an oily moderator, he decorated the proceedings with celebrities, and kept big Ed Muskie at his side to check bouts of verbal diarrhea...
...schedule several early evening showings of a remarkable half-hour campaign biography, filmed by a firm that has sent hordes of congressmen and senators into office with similar production. The art of it all is not impenetrable and contrivances cloy a bitr, like the ending, which shows a barefoot Humphrey pushing sand on a deserted beach like a pudgy reincarnation of John Kennedy...
...half-hour opens with Humphrey getting ready to a film a TV-speech, shifting position, worrying out loud whether he would look better behind a podium. Peek behind the scenes and there is a real Humphrey, the opening says, and the apparent frankness of what follows is indeed disarming...
...Humphrey, the family man, is shown talking affectionately of his retarded granddughter. Humphrey, the Vice-President, jokes about the unknowns who have held the office. He, Muskie, and their wives go bowling and the pinsetter jams--it is a joke to show just how bad the first month of the campaign...