Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would recommend that the Federal Government go in and take care of the financial situation that the city of New York has?" Inevitably, only a few hands were tentatively raised, which the President obviously regarded as evidence that the people support his position. But top Democrats, including Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson and Party Chairman Robert Strauss, charged that Ford was trying to punish overwhelmingly Democratic New York and play on the anti-New York sentiments in the country...
...Means Chairman Ullman fumes that the very idea is "totally preposterous." Congress, he points out, can scarcely be expected to deal with "a mythical budget that doesn't exist. Now if the President really wants a $395 billion budget, he ought to send it up." Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey dismissed Ford's proposal as "a subtle ploy but not hard for people to figure out: give 'em a tax cut in January and hack the budget after the elections...
...Humphrey urged that any people who give "any indication that they might commit an act of personal injury" to a President should be followed "like a shadow-like a private...
...candidates and Presidents do it? "Most of it is done to accommodate the photographers," Democrat Hubert Humphrey frankly told the committee. "We want the pictures showing all those hands reaching out." But, he said, "it is not necessary." Democratic Senator George McGovern saw three reasons why such touring is so popular...
...them have ever run anything larger than their office staffs. Hubert Humphrey was a mayor and Edmund Muskie was a Governor, but so long ago that the experience is not much more than the faded clippings in their scrapbooks. In almost every city and hamlet, Americans can see that the politicians who went to Washington now talk and act like men in a different nation from their fellow politicians who stayed back home. They see that their Governors-Lucey, Brown, Ray, Longley, Dukakis, Walker, Thomson, Evans-are true executives and make real decisions. Senators talk and shake hands...