Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems a long time ago-except perhaps for Hubert Humphrey. Had it not been for the chaos in Chicago, which convinced many TV watchers that the Democratic Party was run by a bunch of radicals, H.H.H. just might have edged out Richard Nixon for the presidency...
...dodged questions about whether he will enter other primaries. Asked if he really wants to be President, he said, "Yes." What about Vice President? "Premature," said Brown. His entry further scrambled the Democratic race and increased the chances for a deadlocked convention-which would then give Hubert Humphrey the best shot at the nomination...
...Carter, the percentage who feel he has a good chance of becoming the Democratic candidate has increased from 18% to 45%. Of all the Democratic contenders, Carter has the most favorable acceptability ratio: 42% of the voters find him acceptable as the next President while only 23% do not. Humphrey, by comparison, is acceptable to 45% but unacceptable to 47% of the voters. Jackson is acceptable to 29% and unacceptable to 32%. The comparable figures for Udall are 20% and 31%. Wallace runs worst by this measure: acceptable to 29%, unacceptable...
...Humphrey still carries some familiar scars. Of the people who say he is unacceptable as a candidate, 20% consider him too wishy-washy, 28% do not like his views, 7% think he talks too much and another 7% think he is too old. His running sore over Viet Nam seems to be healing; only 2% are critical about his support...
...District Court Judge William B. Bryant on grounds of "massive vote fraud and financial manipulation." In the 1972 election, reform candidate Arnold Miller easily swamped incumbent W.A. (Tony) Boyle by 14,000 votes. Boyle was subsequently convicted of embezzling union money, illegally contributing union funds to the 1968 Humphrey presidential campaign, but most seriously, of ordering the murders of Margaret, Charlotte and Jock Yablonski, Boyle's nine-year reign was over...