Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate future is support the Democratic candidate against Ford or Reagan. "There's a lot of support in DSOC for Bayh, Udall and Harris," he says. I ask him how far to the middle of the spectrum DSOC is ready to go...would it support Humphrey? "I can't speak for the Committee as a whole, but I personally would find Humphrey very acceptable. Hubert's always been a favorite of mine." "And how about Jackson?" Harrington doesn't flinch: "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." A DSOC member next to me offers, hopefully, "I hope...
...Harrington agitate for a state welfare apparatus which would be controlled from the bottom by those it serves. Calling for such a restructuring of the system would thrust him into a politically suicidal conflict with the same advocates of New Deal state capitalism--people like Humphrey and Meany...
...mail of many people not on the list was also scrutinized. Among them: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Edward Kennedy, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Martin Luther King, his widow Coretta and Jay Rockefeller, a likely Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia. Church had a personal quarrel with the CIA because it had opened a letter that he wrote to his mother-in-law in Boise, Idaho, while he was touring Russia in 1971. Also routinely monitored was mail to or from Harvard University and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations...
Most of the Congressmen present sided strongly with the mayors. Committee Chairman Hubert Humphrey, onetime (1945-48) mayor of Minneapolis, shouted at Treasury Secretary William Simon, a witness: "You can't stand there day after day and say that all they [New York] can do is go bankrupt. I'm an internationalist, but I'm damn sick and tired of thinking you can save everybody else in the world but the 8 million people in New York City...
...Atlanta Defensive End Claude Humphrey, out for the season with torn knee ligaments...