Word: humphrey
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...committee staff, whose Republican members did most of the investigating of Democrats, uncovered several apparent violations of laws in the 1972 presidential campaigns of Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills. The staff found that among the illegal contributors to the Democrats were the milk cooperatives that had pledged $2 million to Nixon's campaign in what seemed to be a direct exchange for an increase in federal milk-price supports in 1971. Humphrey and Mills also backed an increase. According to the staff report, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., illegally gave $25,000 in corporate funds...
While supporting Kissinger, a minority were more than a little skeptical about his threat to resign. "I think he is tired and has been working too hard," said Hubert Humphrey. "I would say to him as a friend: 'Cool it, stay with it. You'll get a fair hearing.' " In saltier fashion, 81-year-old George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, commented: "The goddam fool. Can't he take it? Why that's part of the business -being criticized." Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, advised "everyone...
...Among those hurriedly delivering diamonds, rubies and emeralds to the gifts office were Betty Fulbright, wife of Senator J. William, whose Foreign Relations Committee drafted the 1966 law that does not permit officials or their families to accept gifts worth more than $50. The greatest surprise came when Hubert Humphrey turned in a 7.9 carat diamond estimated to be worth more than $100,000. Presented to Muriel Humphrey in 1968 by Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, along with ten leopard skins from a Somalia official, the diamond has been resting in a Minneapolis safe-deposit box. The skins...
...read the transcripts; now see the movie. So goes the current parlor game, "Watergate, Soon to Be Made into a Major Motion Picture." Most casting choices tend to be inspired but impractical - President Nixon played by the shade of a Captain Queeg-ish Humphrey Bogart (they were all "dishloyal officersh"), or Jeb Magruder impersonated by the late Montgomery Clift. Properly, the ground rules should exclude all but those actors available for two months of work, plus a renewable option for the TV-series spinoff. Let those who are without guilt stone the first cast...
...evening began with Missouri Congressman James Symington quipping, "We have been brought together by the big enchilada of the Democratic Party." Some 750 Democrats, including Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and "Scoop" Jackson, paid $125 for dinner at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to honor Elder Statesman Averell Harriman, 82, and raise money for party candidates. There was also a Republican maverick. Describing herself as "just an old, broken-down Bull Moose," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, said the dinner was. her first-ever Democratic bash. Marking Harriman's 40-year career as a politician...