Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were several thousand of Lyndon Johnson's friends and not a few of his old enemies, along with Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and dozens of the other men who took over Washington when L.B.J. went home. There, in Johnson's considerable embrace, were Barry Goldwater and Hubert Humphrey, Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, Abe Fortas, Billy Graham, Luci and Lynda, Edmund Muskie, Walt Rostow, secretaries, plumbers, Congressmen, phone operators and, perhaps fittingly, a few hundred antiwar demonstrators near...
There is the obligatory Love Story put-down, complete with stale jokes, and the author's defensive bid for us to accept him as a hip sophisticate. ( His stories, he quickly points out, are Humphrey Bogart and Dennis Hopper... whoopee-do!). There's a biography of Nathan Pusey, which explains the "bitter man" as an evangelical rationalist; it is followed by a rogue's gallery of Pusey's administrators that includes some very outdated photographs and uncritical thumbnail biographies (MacGeorge Bundy's "academic speciality was American foreign policy," we are told...
Connally, of course, denies any deal with Nixon during the 1968 campaign. But when he and President Johnson returned to Texas from the 1968 Democratic Convention, they admittedly faced an uncertain dilemma. Neither man-especially the more conservative Connally-was particularly enthusiastic about Hubert Humphrey's candidacy. Johnson, unable to set aside his devotion to the Democratic party, chose to sit back and give only taken support to Humphrey's campaign. But Connally was more disillusioned with the party as a whole, and he perhaps found more advantages for himself, as well as Texas' powerful oil and banking interests...
...Humphrey's backing increased in the last two months of the campaign, Texas was swept up in the tide of his resurgence. The polls swung to Humphrey and Connally found himself stranded. In an effort to steady his political base, he appeared with Johnson and Humphrey at a huge, last-ditch rally in Houston the week before the elections. Shortly beforehand. Connally had publicly reaffirmed his support of Humphrey. It proved to be an expedient move: Humphrey did carry Texas on election day, and Connally lost the Cabinet post that may have accompanied a Nixon victory in Texas...
...Then Humphrey is talking and pacing and lecturing and preaching and laughing. "I give these young people on my staff hell. I say, 'Here I am, an old fuddy-duddy, and I have more ideas than you do.' This Administration is not only apathetic. It is questionable if it is alive." Each new thought, each fresh phrase lights him up as he beholds himself. "It's not a Silent Majority; it's a deaf Administration. There is no spirit." Old Father Humphrey ("Daddy") is up on the wall, the man who read him Woodrow Wilson...