Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fentress: That is one of the things that worry me about Humphrey- that he might rely too heavily on old friend ships and loyalties...
Gorey: I don't agree with that. It seems to me that Nixon could easily fall into the same traps that Lyndon Johnson fell into, even more readily than Hubert Humphrey. One reason is Nixon's insulation...
...Gorey: Humphrey has a deserved reputation of being very soft, and one of the willingness ways it shows up is in his unwillingness and inability to get rid of people who have been near him for many years...
Fentress: Can Humphrey...
Gorey: It isn't beyond the realm of dramatic possibility. But rather development -and the prospects of that are remote now- Humphrey will have to do it through a steady erosion of Nixon and Wallace strength, through the image of decency he is projecting, through a return to the fold of millions of disgruntled Democrats, and through the fact that he might very well win some key states with a very small proportion of the white vote...