Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimate is the bottom-line figure in the "preliminary 1972 appraisal" of Walter Heller, one of the nation's leading economists and an adviser to Democrats Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey and Edward Kennedy. He notes that it would be the largest G.N.P. dollar advance in U.S. history. Adds Republican Alan Greenspan: "I come up with $99.8 billion." Beryl Sprinkel, an advocate of conservative monetary policies who often disagrees with Heller, calculates an advance "on the order of $100 billion...
...This might be one reason, perhaps, that Americans usually favor the tall political candidate: Feldman says that since 1900 the taller of the two major presidential candidates has always been sent to the White House,* even when the margin was Richard Nixon's one-inch advantage over Hubert Humphrey...
...Feldman's reckoning, however, Nixon is soon due for a long rest in San Clemente. Except for Humphrey, all the current major Democratic contenders are taller than the President. Edmund Muskie is a Lincolnesque 6 ft. 4 in., Edward Kennedy 6 ft. 2 in., and George McGovern...
...senator for seven years, Harris was a member of the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Koerner Commission), co-chairman of the Humphrey-Muskie campaign in 1968, and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
Senator Kennedy's well-written and powerful speech and manner made him an attractive liberal candidate in comparison with the much more subdued and wishywashy manner of a Muskie or a Humphrey...