Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wisely controlled to minimize any new internal squabbles over procedures or credentials, the gathering was nevertheless a kind of public confessional as speakers talked frankly about the campaign's bad start, its lack of funds and party disunity. "Come home to your party where you belong," pleaded Hubert Humphrey to disaffected Democrats, adding with a touch of personal bitterness: "Richard Nixon is in the White House because too many Democrats didn't come home in 1968." Now some of them seemed to be returning. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley congratulated Shriver, and one of Daley's close associates...
...Eagleton affair had sent McGovern to a miserable 34% rating behind Nixon's 57% in voter preference, a Gallup poll disclosed that 53% of Americans believe that the Democratic Party can handle the problems that most concern them better than the Republicans. The reverse was true when Humphrey began his campaign against Nixon in 1968; yet Humphrey very nearly won as Nixon's once commanding lead evaporated down the home stretch...
...Republicans are making the most of it. The tears were hardly dry after the Miami Democratic Convention before they approached Jewish supporters of Humphrey and Jackson and urged them to switch to the President. While George McGovern neglected these contributors in their defeat, the President showed that he cared...
...vote; in a close election, a slight switch among these voters could mean the difference between victory and defeat. In 14 states, "Jewish Youth for Nixon" are scheduled to make a door-to-door canvas. Rabbi David Luchins, who traveled 65,000 miles as director of "Jewish Youth for Humphrey," plans to trudge with equal energy for Nixon...
...ever think you'd live to see Richard Nixon having dinner with Chou En-lai?" asks Lawrence Goldberg, director of the Jewish division of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. "This isn't the Nixon of the '50s. Jews have heard Hubert Humphrey talking about arms reductions for 20 years. But who gets the SALT talks going? Richard Nixon." If Richard Nixon can also win a solid chunk of the Jewish vote, it will be a feat scarcely less audacious-or less significant for American politics-than meeting Chou for dinner...