Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Despite numerous visits and pep talks by Mondale, despite two trips to the state by the President, the voters turned the Democrats out of the governorship and both Senate seats. In a rueful postmortem, a shellshocked Mondale concluded: "I shouldn't have told them to do it for Hubert Humphrey and me, but to do it for themselves...
...philosophy that sustains the creatures throughout is mildly liberal and humane (somewhere between Bertrand Russell and Hubert Humphrey), and there are moments when one feels that perhaps the whole thing is just another cleverly put ecological tract. What sustains the viewer, however, besides the sound plotting, is the stylishness of the piece. Except for an unfortunate arty prologue with featureless backgrounds and stylized bunnies, Watership Down is made in the classic manner of the old, excellent Disney films. The background painting is rich and highly detailed, and this allows the multiplane camera to exploit its ability to create the illusion...
...Garth and Deardourff best typify this frenetic business. Deardourff spent one recent week racing to Florida for an anti-casino campaign; then to Venezuela for the presidential race, where he is opposed not only by Garth but also by the legendary Joe Napolitan, onetime seer for Hubert Humphrey; then to Detroit, where he is handling the re-election campaign of Governor William Milliken; then to Ohio to write some TV spots for Governor Rhodes; then to Pennsylvania for a conference with Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Thornburgh. Says Deardourff: "You either win or you lose, and people who lose fall...
...apologized in a series of TV ads. At the same time, Anderson's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has been badly split by conservative Businessman Robert Short's upset primary victory over liberal Congressman Donald Fraser in the race for the Senate seat formerly held by Hubert Humphrey...
...this, jokes Sperling, Questions come. Carter answers all. Does not reveal much new. What's new is the feeling, the hope. So much nicer to meet in respect. Reporters reflect concerns, prejudices of publications. Oklahoma asks about Sunbelt. Washington Post asks about secret documents. Detroit asks about Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill. New York asks if Carter might help out in newspaper strike...