Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abernathy called for strong federal programming to alleviate unemployment. "The Humphrey-Hawkins bill, currently in congressional committee, is the closest thing to full employment," he said...
That Jimmy Carter will never initiate a "Marshall Plan for the cities," as Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) recently called his own vision of urban restoration, is not surprising, only frustrating. Indeed, throwing money at problems clearly has its limitations and the CD program has shown that localities are better suited to implement certain programs than is the federal government. But it does not necessarily follow that $12.4 billion is a fair level of funding for all of community development in the United States when a single program for a missile of dubious value--the MX--may cost...
...general, mellifluous names tend to have passive or negative meanings, and the macho names tend to sound like sharp, short yelps (Bart, Kent, Mac, Matt, Bill, Nate). Despite Bogart, Humphrey retains its depressing image ("terribly unpopular, sedentary"), but Sophia Loren has influenced her first name, which now means "a bombshell." Gina, Brian and Douglas are among the most dynamic and positive names...
...involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
...claims of a biased press, as in much of his book, Lasky is inconsistent. While he condemns the press as Nixon's worst enemy, he also argues that it overplayed the violence outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-thereby hurting Hubert Humphrey. "The convention coverage undoubtedly helped tilt the closely contested election to Nixon," concedes Lasky. And while the author repeatedly accuses the press of a bloodthirsty pursuit of Nixon during Watergate, he also approvingly quotes an observation in Commentary that "it was not the press which exposed Watergate; it was the agencies of Government itself...