Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while these remarks may be the most obvious indication of a racist current in the Carter campaign, this current has in fact been consistently present. Indeed as Senator Hubert Humphrey has said, heavily anti-Washington and anti-urban rhetoric is nothing more than the newest form of disguised racism. And although Humphrey, in nothing this phenomenon, did not point specifically to any candidate, it is Carter who has decried federal aid to the cities, Carter who has spoken of the "burden" of welfare, and Carter who has posed himself as the anti-Washington force...
Jimmy Carter changed all that. As he began winning primaries, Humphrey's serene life became turbulent. After Carter took New Hampshire, labor leaders started urging Humphrey to enter the race. After the Massachusetts primary, the liberals began calling. After Carter won Florida, Illinois and North Carolina, everybody called: Governors, Congressmen, party leaders. When the polls showed Carter pulling even with Humphrey, the phone almost rang off the hook. Says Dave Gartner, Humphrey's top aide: "We've got a thousand campaign managers out there...
...Humphrey watched the Carter gains with increasing discomfort. It didn't help when Carter had a press conference and called the Senator too old and a loser and even untruthful. So last week Humphrey began to edge out from behind his "non-candidacy...
...flew into Wisconsin, where Mo Udall's campaign against Carter seemed to be lagging and close friends report Humphrey agreed they should support the Arizonan. He was unable to resist flying into New York where he gave an exhilarating speech to a conference of U.S. mayors, overshadowing earlier appearances by Carter, Udall and Scoop Jackson...
Then he made two moves, one abortive, the other surprisingly bold. Viewed together they illuminate his dilemma. The first began when he got a call from a key ally in New York. In the Buffalo area, powerful Erie County Chairman Joseph Crangle had entered three uncommitted "pro-Humphrey" slates in the primary. Crangle warned Humphrey that they were in danger of losing to Carter slates and asked the Senator to make a trip to Buffalo to whip up local enthusiasm. After thinking it over carefully, Humphrey decided...