Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the night when Bobby walked through the rainy streets of Charleston, W. Va., to the threadbare hotel room of a defeated Hubert Humphrey remains the most poignant memory in primary politics? For one thing, Theodore White was there and he turned it into literature. For another, the emotion of that evening covered the full human scale. Then, too, excellent men won -and lost...
...D.F.L. might have survived its own overambition. Though Anderson made little impact in the Senate, Humphrey wisely decided not to seek a full Senate term this year, and the colorful Perpich began emerging as an able Governor. But without Hubert's healing hand the party fell into a fatal primary fight. Robert Short, a millionaire businessman-sportsman (truck-firm operator, former owner of the Minneapolis-now Los Angeles-Lakers and the Washington Senators), challenged a Humphrey protégé, liberal Congressman Don Fraser, for the nomination to Humphrey's seat and won the primary in an upset...
While justifiably proud of their victories, the Republican winners conceded that they had been helped by their opponents. "The D.F.L. didn't know how to act without Humphrey," observed Senator-elect Durenberger. But he predicted: "It's going to take a few years for the D.F.L. to react to the loss of Hubert, and then it will be back." Republicans nonetheless had reason to savor their good fortune. One of the cheeriest of all was former Governor Harold Stassen, the boy wonder of Minnesota politics in 1938, before his party was routed by Humphrey's D.F.I Vowed...
Thomas McIntyre, 63, has been pulverizing ultra-rightist opponents in New Hampshire since his first election to the Senate in 1962. But last week, in a stunning upset, Democrat McIntyre was ousted. By 49% to 51%, he lost his Senate seat to conservative Republican Gordon Humphrey, 38, a co-pilot for Allegheny Airlines...
...most women congressional candidates, it was a dismal election week. One, Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected to the Senate, but the two women who are already there are leaving: Muriel Humphrey of Minnesota and Maryon Allen of Alabama. Forty-five women ran for Congress, but only 16 won election, two fewer than...