Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steele, who has attended no fewer than 14 conventions, and Simmons Fentress, veteran of four, used their vast expertise to report and analyze the differences between this and past political conclaves. Correspondent Bonnie Angelo kept in touch with the women's caucus. Hays Gorey, who had covered Hubert Humphrey all through his 1968 presidential campaign, was with the Senator during the credentials fight on the floor. Dean Fischer, assigned months ago to follow McGovern's fortunes, was the only reporter in the candidate's room when the Illinois delegation cast its votes to put McGovern over...
...nonpartisan group trying to mobilize young voters, claims that if only half of the 25 million vote and just 60% of them choose McGovern, this would swing to McGovern six states (Tennessee, Alaska, California, Missouri, New Jersey and Ohio) that went Republican in 1968. If he held the Humphrey states, a shaky assumption, and added the six's 118 electoral votes, he would defeat Nixon...
There are, of course, multiple possibilities of error in such calculations. At the moment, for example, Illinois seems beyond McGovern's grasp without cooperation from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Texas, which went for Humphrey, looks ripe for Nixon because of McGovern's liberalism and the blunt opposition of John Connally, the Texas Democrat who has defected to the Republican Administration...
...starting point for the strategy of concentration is the states that Hubert Humphrey won or narrowly lost in 1968, such as California and Pennsylvania. Then there are "second-and third-level states," as Hart describes them, where he believes Nixon is vulnerable and where McGovern could reverse Republican victories of 1968. Among them: Wisconsin and Oregon and possibly a couple of states in the South and in the Rocky Mountains. Hart professes to see hope for McGovern even in South Carolina. "I talked to Governor John West a couple of weeks ago, and he said that if we came...
...setting for a collection of political bedfellows unparalleled in its diversity. Richard Daley fumed in Chicago while Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffmann galloped over the convention floor as fully accredited representatives of Mad and Popular Mechanics. Marlo Thomas pushed very hard in order to get a picture of Hubert Humphrey. Jesse Jackson walked the corridors with Wallace delegates. Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Jimmy Breslin. Germaine Greer, Robert (UNCLE) Vaughan, all these as well as unprecedented numbers of blacks, women, and young delegates converged in the same hall. The gathering prompted incredulity, like that experienced by the peach-slacked Miami matron...