Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-way race, he reasons, Wal lace might pick up 13% or 14% of the vote. Nixon might expect 38% or 39%, while McCarthy and Humphrey would divide the remainder. Since no one would get more than 40%, there would have to be a runoff; McCarthy would have as good a chance as Humphrey to emerge as the man to oppose Nixon. The final race thus might very well be not Nixon-Humphrey but Nixon-McCarthy. The complications, however, do not end there...
...second major objection to the Bayh plan is that, in theory, a President could be elected without a broad geographical mandate. With the Bayh amendment, votes would still be counted state by state. If Hubert Humphrey in 1968 had lost 49 states by narrow margins (an average of, say, 50,000 votes each) but car ried New York by 2,500,000 votes, he could still have won the election under the Bayh plan. He would have had the support of the numerical majority of the nation's voters, but he would also have had the uncomfortable knowledge that...
Caesar's-wife attitude on conflict of interest, why had it not bothered to fire Station Chairman Max Kampelman, who is an adviser to Hubert Humphrey? Perhaps the unkindest cut of all was in the Woestendiek family's income. Kay isn't sure yet what she'll be earning from Martha, but it hardly will make up for Bill's lost salary...
BLACKS have shown the same disdain for the hypocrisy of the "custodian liberals" of the Hubert Humphrey variety, who have promised so much and done so little. By 1964, when SNCC disavowed the Democratic Party, "the Negro South was coming to discount for the most part American democratic idealism and white liberal ideology because there was so little evidence of either's working." Linking this similar feeling among both blacks and poor whites. Watters sees some hope for an old dream-the kind of populist alliance Tom Watson-and later Huev Long-tried to forge. He is not so naive...
...said Dr. Humphrey Osmond, director of New Jersey's Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, at the Kennedy School's 14th seminar on "Hallucinogic Drugs and Society" last night...