Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debates and voting on the early challenges moved unhindered, as Humphrey strategists laid is wait for the California challenge--what amounted to a one-shot bid to stop McGoverns. But Humphrey's managers, rocked by O'Brien's decision, were saying privately that they doubted a victory on the California question was still possible, and a loss, most observers agree, would almost surely lead to McGovern's nomination Wednesday night...
Throughout the weekend, McGovern workers and their counterparts in the Humphrey, Muskie, Chisholm and Wallace camps maneuvered for positions in anticipation of last night's challenges. O'Brien's decision was viewed as a significant victory for increasingly competent McGovern advisers; his delegate counter, Rick Steams, maintained that the Senator has 1470 firm delegate votes, which would almost assure him the California victory under O'Brien's rules...
...Humphrey and Muskie delegates are frequently more traditional Democrats, often with past party experience. Some of the other delegates are a fascinatingly assorted breed who display varying degrees of political sophistication and naivete. A sampling...
Tennis, anyone? The now famous drawing-room comedy line was delivered back in the '20s by a young actor named Humphrey Bogart. He projected an image of white-flanneled, upper-crust tennis player that lingers to this day. Yet in the last few years millions of Americans of every age, class and color have taken up the game. The number of outdoor courts is increasing at the rate of 4,600 a year, and indoor facilities have doubled since 1969 to more than 500. By all accounts, tennis is the fastest growing participant sport of the 1970s...
...example, McPherson agrees with the conventional wisdom that Hubert Humphrey is warm, open, self-amused, bursting with affirmation of life. But he also sees Humphrey as a man not ruthless enough to carry through with the consequences of his judgments. Elsewhere, McPherson gets William Fulbright just right: "Bored by the kind of things with which most Senators were agreeably concerned, he was skeptical of man's ability to choose a reasonable course. He sometimes seemed to have a stake in losing, in being isolated and right...