Word: humphrey
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Carter last week spoke to his largest crowd of the entire campaign season: 70,000 farmers attending a "farm fest" on a muddy field in Minnesota's rural Lake Crystal. Introduced rousingly by Senator Hubert Humphrey, who accused the Ford Administration of "violating the law" in imposing embargoes on foreign grain sales, Carter assailed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and used a subtle "we" to identify with his attentive audience. "I never met a farmer who wanted a handout," Peanut Processor Carter said. "I never met a farmer who wanted the Government to guarantee him a profit...
...zingers of his own. Sample: "President Ford says he wants more national parks. Well, I've checked his record, and the only park he has supported is the President of South Korea." Throughout the week, Mondale struggled to blend the liberalism that he learned at Hubert Humphrey's knee with Carter's politics of moral leadership. At times Mondale seemed to forget that inflation now comes first in Carter's list of problems to be solved. In city after city he stressed unemployment, claiming that "counting discouraged workers, there are now more people out of work...
...even screen the ads that began appearing on CBS last week. The second biggest outlay will be $4.5 million for the field staff, which already has selected its 50 state coordinators, including former partisans of men whom Carter left dazed in his wake: Scoop Jackson, Mo Udall, Hubert Humphrey...
...Like a jeweler who inspects a gem for the subtlest flaw, New York Democrats quickly spot the slightest deviation from accepted liberal doctrine. For the most part, the candidates give the purists little to worry about. All five call for more jobs in the public sector, passage of the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, national health insurance, a U.S. takeover of welfare, and federal assistance to New York City-all multibillion-dollar programs that would sharply increase budget deficits or taxes or both. In heavily Jewish New York City, moreover, the candidates cannot do enough for Israel...
...going to be playing hardball pretty soon, and he's going to have to learn how to catch as well as pitch. He said that I was being very personal-I can't remember saying anything except that he was sort of a Southern-fried McGovern or Humphrey. Both Hubert and McGovern thought that was fine, as long as I mentioned their names. We don't intend to be personal; we'll keep this campaign on a lofty level. Jimmy Carter is afraid we're going to talk about the issues, and he doesn...