Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, he endorsed the Humphrey-Hawkins bill [making the Federal Government an employer of last resort], and he's a co-sponsor of the Kennedy health program...
History will note that it was Hunter Thompson's viciousness that kept Hubert Humphrey out of the 1976 race--too many liberals out there had been rolling in the aisles for years over Thompson's description of Hubie as "writhing like three iguanas in a feeding frenzy" over the prospect of nomination. But Thompson was a sucker for Bob Dylan. Carter courted and Carter quoted--remember the acceptance speech: "I believe in the words of Bob Dylan, that our country can be busy being born, not busy dying." And Thompson joined the ranks of the born-again...
...that he is the man who can defeat Carter. Reagan is eager to debate the Georgian; he believes he can expose Carter as a straddler on the issues. "Carter is brilliantly clever at obscuring," says Reagan. "When you really pin him down, he is not much different from Hubert Humphrey, just a quieter version. Carter has told us he's going to balance the budget. I want to price out that Democratic platform and see what all those promises are going to cost. I'll uncover...
...this, the Republicans thought they caught the scent of a likely victim. Said Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who will act as temporary chairman of the G.O.P. convention: "Carter is a Southern-fried McGovern or a Southern-fried Humphrey." Reagan Strategist Lyn Nofzinger beamed at the choice of Mondale. "We were very happy," he said...
...votes are usually liberal, of course. But as a member of the Senate Budget Committee, he has opposed meat-ax cuts in the defense budget. He did not support George McGovern in his fight to kill the B-1 bomber. He has had misgivings about both busing and the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill. Like Carter, he has moral reservations about abortion, though he accepts the Supreme Court decision legalizing it. On the overriding liberal litmus test of Viet Nam, Mondale was late (1968) in swinging over to the antiwar side. Carter obviously feels politically compatible with Mondale. In many...