Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine Engineers, sponsored a $ 1,000-a-person fund-raising dinner in Washington on June 30 that raised $150,000 for Carter's primary campaign. This more than matched some direct Seafarers' donations to other recent presidential candidates: $100,000 to Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey in 1968; $100,000 to Richard Nixon in 1972. Now, in election year 1976, had some maritime union leader or industry informer brought a false charge against Ford...
...furor that surrounded Carter's initial refusal to endorse the Humphrey-Hawkins bill was a classic case of the confusion of issues with programs designed to address them--a syndrome to which any "issues-oriented" campaign is susceptible. The problem begins with candidates' reduction of the issue-program relationship to the level of a simple "if...then..." statement: if you favor a reduction in unemployment, then you should support Humphrey-Hawkins. Under the rules of logic, a statement's contrapositive must also hold true, and if Jimmy Carter did not endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, then, so the argument runs, he must...
...them is glaringly apparent. The if-then framework oversimplifies the issue: it sets up a false dichotomy and thereby excludes alternative programs from consideration. Yet in the heat of political campaigns such specious reasoning is surprisingly effective; millions of Americans who had never heard of, much less read, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill were persuaded to accept it as a litmus test of a candidate's commitment to full employment...
Once the unemployment issue was framed in this way, Carter had little choice but to endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, as he eventually did. Although he acquiesced to its inclusion in the Democratic platform, Carter evidently is still rather unenthusiastic about the bill; as President Ford pointed out during the first debate, Carter passed up the opportunity to tar Ford with the same "pro-unemployment" brush that had been used against him only a few months before. Merely addressing an issue does not necessarily serve to educate the voter or provide him with the information required to make a rational decision...
...John F. Kennedy's enumerated positions differed only slightly from Richard Nixon's. However, Kennedy's public image was that of a young, dynamic, progressive leader while Nixon's campaign persona more closely resembled that of an elder statesman. Similarly, in 1968 the "New Nixon" beat Hubert Humphrey, whose tenure as Lyndon Johnson's vice-president had so eroded his liberal credentials that many of his former supporters rejected him as a hypocrite or a fool...