Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubert Humphrey for Man of the Year! Because he is the American spirit: indomitable, enthusiastic, always sure that something interesting lies ahead...
Last week, after months of negotiations between the White House and liberal Congressmen, the President endorsed a compromise bill that would establish a national goal of cutting joblessness from its present 7% rate to 4% by 1983. Yet the bill, sponsored by Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, requires no specific steps to attain the 4% goal...
Carter tepidly supported the original Humphrey-Hawkins bill during his campaign but later backed away from it as too inflationary. The bill then called for bringing unemployment down to 3% by 1981, and would have required the Government to use any means available-including job programs and tax and monetary levers-to meet that numerical goal...
...proposal is far less ambitious than the original bill by Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, which would have fixed 1981 as the target date for a 3% unemployment rate and guaranteed a Government-paid job to anyone who could not find work. Carter lukewarmly endorsed this idea during the campaign-after intense pressure from black leaders-but later backed away from it as inflationary. Unable to talk him into supporting a stronger bill, liberal Democrats and labor leaders finally agreed to the present compromise for two reasons: 1) it might enable Congress to pass an employment bill...
...keeper of the campaign promises," as another member described him, constantly reminding colleagues of the positions that Carter took before election. Eizenstat rarely raises his voice during discussions of where business is heading, but he injects a strong liberal viewpoint when talk turns to issues like the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill, which the President promised last week to support...