Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taking the offensive, MacGregor also charged that publications had a "double standard" in not pursuing acts of political sabotage against the Republicans. He claimed that McGovern workers have planted spies within the Nixon campaign and had even done so within Hubert Humphrey's staffs during the Democratic primary campaigns. He cited what he called examples of "proven facts of opposition-incited disruptions of the President's campaign." They included the discovery of a Molotov cocktail at one Nixon headquarters, fire damage at two others and window breaking at Nixon storefront campaign offices in three cities. The Post checked...
...reelection, while only 38 with 1.4 million circulation had backed George McGovern. The trend was continuing last week, and Nixon is certain of a much bigger editorial edge than in 1968, when he was favored by 634 dailies (circ. 34.5 million) to 146 (circ. 9.5 million) for Hubert Humphrey...
There is Hubert Humphrey, "a Renaissance priest of the Vatican who could not even cross a marble floor without pieties issuing from his skirt." Ed Muskie, "a gentleman of the frontier out of the 19th century," ignominiously boxed between the new politics and the press. "Nobody," adds Mailer, "forgives a favorite who loses by seven lengths...
WALTER T. DUNCAN, 45, a Texas real estate developer with an aversion to publicity and photographers. Gifts: Hubert Humphrey, $300,000; Nixon, $257,000. "McGovern goes too far," said Duncan in explaining his post-primary Republican switch...
DWAYNE O. ANDREAS, 54, Miami Beach, chairman of First Interoceanic Corp., chairman of the executive committee of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (flour and soybean products). Gifts: Humphrey, $75,000; Nixon, $25,000. His money earmarked for the Nixon campaign was later found by the FBI in the bank account of one of the original Watergate Five...