Word: humphrey
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...California's 271 delegates. McGovern captured all of them on June 6 according to the state's winner-take-all rule-a rule curiously at variance with the spirit of reform. In the Democratic Credentials Committee late last month, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Hubert Humphrey's agents pushed through an after-the-fact change in the rules, parceling out the California delegation proportionately-a move that threatened to cost McGovern 151 delegates and prevent his victory on the first ballot...
Muskie's call netted no result. Neither McGovern nor his chief adversary, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey chose to attend. Others demurred: Alabama Governor George Wallace, displaying his old fiestiness at his first extended press conference since arriving in miami was not award of Muskie's invitation...
...Humphrey, for all his determined scuffing pointed toward blocking McGovern's nomination, has been unsettled by his inability to establish a firm anti-McGovern coalition. His aides still say privately that Muskie is the weakest link in the ad hoc movement; they have also become leary of the wavering Black Bloc votes...
...real worry over the Black Bloc, however, is that it will hold out from either camp. Humphrey released his black delegates to Chisholm at the Black Caucus yesterday morning, a reflection of the pressure being applied by black leaders hoping to create a powerful lobby on the Convention floor...
...went on the theory that for better or worse, the people who would camp in the Park would be our people and we felt an obligation to them. We can't prevent a riot if, say. Humphrey is nominated. But we planned to do what we could for the people in the Park once they got here...