Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swamping television with skillfully produced spot ads, he could not spend enough to win the election against James Buckley. Rich backers usually demand a quid pro quo -or try to. In 1968, Stewart Mott, son of the largest stockholder of General Motors' directors, offered to provide Hubert Humphrey with badly needed cash if the candidate would change his policies on Viet Nam; Humphrey refused. Last August, dairy farmers contributed some $250,000 to the Republican Party-after the Agriculture Department reversed its policy and raised the support price for milk...
...difficult for me to comprehend the lack of astuteness on the part of our party. This is one issue the Democrats have completely captured. You've got guys like Humphrey and McGovern who are making inroads, who know the farm problem. The White House talks about rural development. But who's running with it? Hubert Humphrey. He recognizes the fact that there are no job opportunities for our young people in rural America today. I sent telegrams to the White House urging that agrobusiness be represented on either the wage or price council. I didn't even...
...agrees in substance with Richard Nixon on national security, and his rhetoric is laced heavily with law-and-order. Yet he stands foursquare with Hubert Humphrey on civil rights. He is for the ABM and the SST, and is considered by some the candidate of the military-industrial community. Yet the vain suit to stop the Amchitka blast was filed under his Environmental Policy Act. Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the junior Senator from the state of Washington, is, in sum, a bundle of divergent views, who at the same time conveys a solid image, a thoughtful integrity. This week he will...
...students aren't bitter or hostile, but their questions imply criticism. Does McCarthy wish he had supported Humphrey earlier and more actively when he sees the caliber of Nixon Supreme Court nominees...
...haven't found anybody who voted for Humphrey because I told them to," he says, "or said they would have voted for him if I'd endorsed him a week earlier or if I had been more enthusiastic about it. How could I have been...