Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Open-Minded. Next day Carter made a similarly low-keyed pitch to Jerry Wurf, president of the 700,000-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Many other labor leaders are backing Carter's rivals, Henry Jackson and Morris Udall, or prefer Hubert Humphrey, or are staying neutral. But Wurf, like the top people at the United Auto Workers, is open-minded about Carter, and is favorably impressed...
That afternoon Carter wooed the congressional Black Caucus, which was turned off by Jackson's tough "I am against busing" stand and has doubts about Udall's staying power. The black Congressmen pointed out that they strongly favor the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, which Carter opposes. He told them that he still has trouble with the idea that Government should guarantee a job to every willing American, but he promised to reconsider the recently modified version of the bill and report soon...
...chairman of the Joint Economic Committee wasted no time stating the issue as he saw it. "We stand today at a historic crossroad," said Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. "We can accept the policies that have brought stagflation. Or we can . . . replace them with a new economics." He was referring to the "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1976," which he has co-authored with California Representative Augustus Hawkins and which is rapidly becoming a kind of election manifesto for liberal Democrats. The true purpose of last week's hearings was to give national exposure to the legislation...
...Humphrey's grandiose proposal would set a national goal of 3% unemployment for adults, to be reached within four years of enactment. The Government would be ordered to create jobs in public service and launch public works programs to achieve that end. The goal is noble, and drew support from such witnesses as Bishop James Rausch of the U.S. Catholic Conference; Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, speaking for the urban poor...
...successor. This has never been done successfully in modern politics. Such elections have been the only ones in modern times when the White House shifted to the other party. Truman could not pass the keys of office to Stevenson, nor Eisenhower to Nixon, nor L.B.J. to Hubert Humphrey...