Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kentucky venture was Richard Nixon's latest tentative and gingerly stage of reemergence, certainly not into public life but at least, for brief moments, into the view finders of public attention. A year ago he sat for the David Frost television interviews. Last winter he went to Hubert Humphrey's funeral. He and Pat flew to New York and the Bahamas, making small banter with photographers at stops along the way. They threw a party back at Casa Pacifica for some 300 returned Viet Nam P.O.W.s. Nixon also gave a party to celebrate the publication of his memoirs...
...hire Viet Nam veterans and train unemployed blacks. That won him a justified reputation for social concern. Though his dedicated inflation fighting satisfies the most conservative Republicans, Miller is a registered Democrat who worries greatly about unemployment; in the past he supported the abortive presidential bid of Liberal Hubert Humphrey. So it was not surprising that when Carter had had enough of Arthur Burns' professorial nagging, a search team headed by Vice President Walter Mondale put Miller on a short list of potential successors at the Fed. Carter, aware that dumping the conservative Burns might frighten bankers and industrialists...
...Virginia, David Truong and Roland Humphrey were sentenced to 15 years in prison, five weeks after they were convicted of espionage, stealing government documents and feeding them to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The two men admitted to stealing the documents, but maintained that their goal was to help normalize relations between the U.S. and the nation we bombed, defoliated and depopulated during the '60s and early '70s. True, they could have gotten life sentences--but the fact that they were convicted at all demonstrates that there are serious problems in the federal government...
Briefly, it was revealed during the trial that President Carter had, without a court order, authorized wiretaps on Truong and Humphrey after Justice Department officials persuaded him that the pair was dangerous to national security and had to be caught. In the course of the trial, several government officials testified that the documents in question were neither sensitive nor fraught with national security matters--the crux of the government prosecutor's case. Yet Truong and Humphrey were singled out, as if to demonstrate Washington's contempt for Vietnam. While the pair clearly deserves some sentence--pilfering government documents, after...
...cast as Detective. Most important, the two movies share the notion that a charming pastiche of a beloved popular cultural form can turn a tidy profit in the nostalgia market. Murder aped the murderer-among-the-house-guests mystery story; The Cheap Detective jokes around with ... with ... well, the Humphrey Bogart movie...