Word: humphrey
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Another possibility is that Nixon or Humphrey might win the presidency in the House - and then find himself with a Vice President of the opposite party after the Senate has acted. One scenario now current in Washington...
...Nixon emerges with the most votes, popular and electoral, in the three-man race. Humphrey follows, but Wallace has amassed enough electoral strength to deny both men the presidency. Nixon and Humphrey refuse to bargain for Wallace's electoral votes. The election therefore goes to the House, where the Democrats have retained control of 27 state delegations. At the same time, the Senate meets to name a Vice President. There, the Democrats have retained control, 53 to 47. The rules eliminate the No. 3 candidate: out goes Curtis LeMay, the Wallace running mate. And enough Southern Democrats follow party...
...refuse to bolt to Nixon. The Senate, meantime, bows to the nation's angry mood and by two votes names Curtis LeMay to be Vice President. With the House still deadlocked on Jan. 20, LeMay becomes Acting President. (If the Senate tied before Jan. 20, Vice President Humphrey's vote would be decisive...
...York lawyer argues that even Nelson Rockefeller could wind up in the White House. This theory has a bizarre plausibility. Assume that Wallace carries only four Deep South states with a combined total of less than 43 electoral votes. As one result, both Nixon and Humphrey fail to gain the needed 270 majority in the Electoral College. As another, New York's 43 electors-chosen under Nixon's G.O.P. banner but not constitutionally bound to vote for him-revive old loyalties, cast their ballots for Rockefeller. Heeding the Constitution, the Electoral College sends the names of Nixon, Humphrey...
...flesh and in the massacre of flesh-one breathed the last agonies of beasts." In this setting, in fact, Mailer engages in a bit of butchery of his own. His account seethes with contempt for conventional liberalism and the man who embodies it: the Democratic nominee. "Humphrey simply could not attach the language of his rhetoric to any reality; he was perfectly capable of using the same word, 'Freedom,' let us say, to describe a ward fix in Minneapolis and a gathering of Quakers. He was a politician; he could kiss babies, rouge, rubber, velvet, blubber and glass...