Word: humphrey
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While generally known as a spokesman for the "old guard" of the Democratic Party, Humphrey acknowledged that the party was in a "distorted form" throughout the sixties. The Minnesota Senator, who became a strong advocate of party reform following his loss to Richard Nixon, and who helped found the McGovern Commission in 1969, stated his qualified support for the Commission's guidelines...
...Humphrey said that he would recommend to the Democratic Reform Commission that they do away with the "strict kind of percentage system" that was used in the selection of delegates to this year's Democratic Convention...
Though Senator Humphrey expressed his approval of the Nixon Administration's troop withdrawal program in 1969, he said that his greatest opposition to President Nixon right now comes from Nixon's handling of the war in southeast Asia...
Referring to the President for the first time as "Nixon", Humphrey stood up to show the personal hurt he felt from Richard Nixon's management of the war: "He said he wanted to be judged and held accountable for his actions in getting us out of the war. He said he'd have us out in six months. He won an election on that...
...hasn't kept that promise And I don't like it." In his own office. Humphrey showed a degree of outrage of the war, and a depth of committment against it that had never shown in his campaign It is a side of Hubert Humphrey that he seems unable to communicate on television...