Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategy was to offer a fresh face and funds just when the other candidates would presumably be starting to wear out. He has adhered to that strategy, but at this stage he finds Jimmy Carter still looking remarkably bushy-tailed and shrewd old Br'er Rabbit Hubert Humphrey poised to jump into the brier patch of presidential politics...
...virtues of Ronald Reagan is that every few days he says to hell with campaigning and goes back to his ranch to ride his horses and reminisce about his old movies. (His problems have to do with what he does when he is on the political job.) Hubert Humphrey, by many measures, is at his best when he is in Waverly, Minn., reading and musing about the country's past or trolling for bass in the evening calm. If he could bring himself to announce to the world he loved Waverly so much that he was going to stay...
...mortifying those aspirants who hoped to win the pot in California's 280-delegate June 8 primary. The California Poll last week found 47% of the state's Democrats leaning to Brown, v. only 15% for his closest active opponent, Jimmy Carter. The results pleased Hubert Humphrey's strategists, who count on dispersion of delegates. But the numbers did little for the Senator's ego. Brown swamped...
...choose what they want or what they believe will sell. Frequently economists will advise more than one candidate-indeed, sometimes just about anybody who asks. For example, Robert Nathan, a private Washington consultant and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, considers himself a regular adviser to Hubert Humphrey, who might well emerge from a brokered convention with the Democratic nomination. But Nathan also has sent papers to at least two of Humphrey's actively campaigning rivals, Henry Jackson and Morris Udall. Says Nathan: "You help as many...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY is co-author of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, a measure aimed at cutting unemployment among adults to 3% within four years of enactment. It calls for, among other things, greater Government planning, increased revenue sharing for states and cities and expanded public service employment. Humphrey has a close and longstanding association with Walter Heller, head of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists. Says Heller: "Hubert is still the quickest study in the business." Humphrey, whose thirst for new ideas is almost as insatiable...